Zested.Writes By Jun Xian

 Date: 21 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Wed 22:20 Dear Rabbit,  This whole week is all about waiting for time to pass.  There is nothing to be cooked and I really enjoy the process.  When there is nothing to be done, what I can do is to do my own stuff, which I did goal setting, what I thought was creating a vision for myself but ended up creating a 5-year goal.  That is good, but I need to refine it, 5-year goal to annual goal, to bi-monthly goal, and then to daily habits.  It's top to bottom, not bottom-up.  And it's a good opportunity, I make use of the 3 hours.  What I will do tomorrow is to finish reading up my book on advertising solutions.  And create 1 mth (or 2) content around it, and I'm sure I can.  After seeing how UJ teach M how to create content, I sure I can too, and I can focus my content creation on other areas.  Content creation currently is daily written, what I need to do is to write more efficiently.  Create in ...

 Date: 20 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Tue 23:39 Dear Rabbit, Guess what I did for today, its pretty chill and I like it a lot.  How I wish it is like this everyday, every single day.  Wash up galley, rest and DONE.  DONE and DONE.  No Cooking!  And it's my favorite!  I spent my time reading advertising solutions and it like how it was going, one thing I could reduce is to not sleep too much, hahhaha, nap twice.  But you know what? This is the lifestyle I enjoy, study and focus on my learning.  After secure, went back home and started round 2 of learning.  Learning from people who are better than I am in terms of copywriting and marketing.  It's such a bless.  Till tomorrow,  SECURE! 

 Date: 19 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Mon 18:47 Dear Rabbit,  Today I took off, so there is no recepie, that said this whole week have no cooking!  Hahaha Today I hit 80% of what I have to do, but... I feel that im still I'm unproductive.  You see, most of my work are listening and thinking. The only 'physival' work I done was 1h of writing.  That is my only work done.  The rest of the list is exercise, e-lesson, and meeting.  And the lesson is not me sitting down and listen, it is me listening while cooking. How interesting is that? And this made me think, y am I so lazy?  And I thought of James, what he will do?  He will study copywriting.  That's for sure.  So now the question here for myself is:  What do I need to do to study copywriting?  And the answer is very simple  Read the books that I already have.  Go through YouTube ads breakdown Attend webinar and courses. I have the answer, yet I don't take action. An...

 Date: 16 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Fri 22:52 Dear Rabbit,  Wanna take a guess for today's menu?  It's a one dish meal, no sides, just one dish.  And it's my comfort food when I cant think of what to eat for supper, that's what I will order and eat.  Carrot?  Hell no, thats for you.  Ok, let me share with you.  Hor Fun.  Yes, its my 2nd time cooking Hor Fun.  Tho im no involeved in the cooking process, but I do my part for the preping.  And you know what? The most interesting actvity is hand streadding the chicken breast.  I thought of Taiwan lady boss back in 2019 when I was in Taiwan. Thinking of cooking a Singapore dish for her when I have the opportunity to go over to Taiwan.  And this thought gave me goosebumps.  I don't know why, but I'm sure Taiwan has indeed gave me an unforgettable memory and friendship forged.  Overall, today was rather quick, secure earlier than usual.  It also gives me a good chan...

 Date: 18 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Sun 23:04 Dear Rabbit,  I actually need to be honest here, and here is my honesty.  Im super lazy when im at mum place.  All the drive I had in tampines, are in non exesistance.  I become super lazy, procastinate and just waste my time away.  Its is my own doing that I done during the lock down period, I spent my time away.  Instead of building my vrand and credibility, I build lazyness, I build a program of poor instead of rich.  This alone speaks a lot about me.  I have the DNA of poor people, lazy people.  I want and need the DNA of rich, smart and hardworking individuals.  I have lots of work to do, specifically internal rewiring of my brain.  It's gonna be lots of work, but that is my goal, by the end of 2021 (Dec 31) I will have the internal drive of creating my own economy.  Independent, self reliant and zested indivitual.  That's it for today,  SECURE! 

 Date: 17 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Sat 20:10 Dear Rabbit,  What will you do when you don't know what to do?  I don't have a solution today, but I think having a time off, a break of not doing anything.  A walk maybe? Exercise?  Haveing a time to think on what to do is so important, especially when every second there is simuli of something thats making us 'addicted' and it's the 'time off' that makes the difference.  Maybe meditation will help too. And I like to bring to a point, planning for the day.  Planning for the day is like your timetable, knoing what to to for the day, makes us expect what to do after completing one task after another. And at the end of the day, it's all ticks.  A sense of accomplishment. And this is the importance of planning,  Today im so clueless of what to do for the day, very clueless.  And it's the realisation from today made me think twice of my daily routine, mind, health and wealth.  That's it for to...

 Date: 15 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Thur 21:21  Dear Rabbit,  Wanna guess today's lunch menu?  I will save you the time, here you go.  Sambal Sotong ball, Stwed pork, stir-fried spinich and Ha chong kai.  And for dinner,  Tomato egg, minced pork with onion, garlic soy fried chicken, and stir-fried cabbage.  8 dishes in one day, at the harbor I'm so done.  But you know what, it's my personal development, patience.  I dont have patience, I can get angsty very quickly and you know I want to do things quickly, get it done.  But many times, there are things that cannot be rushed, like entrepreneurship.  When rushed, the foundation is not well built, in the long run, it will crumble.  So being patient is so important.  That's it for today,  SECURE!

 Date: 14 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Wed 22:55 Dear Rabbit, Today was a day where I told myself to be positive and be responsible to whatever I do.  Confused? Simply, do what I need to do and be responsible with my action.  So today's menu was teriyaki chicken, and I like the combination of thai fried bean curd.  Got to find the recipe and put it into my own brain. LOL For Dinner, its stir-fried bean sprout, thai chicken wing, and black pepper pork. All taste great, especially with rice.  Yea, this ship practice 2 meal, and I secured late, knowing me, I don't like to be released late, not because of the cooking but the ship, sad.  Nonetheless, got back and did my copywriting learning and writing.  And it's been 3 weeks since I had a conversation with my friend, Jonah, where I told him I need to start writing. And I did write many copies now, tho not the best, but always achieving.  You see, in life as long as there is one step is taken, the next ste...

 Date: 13 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Tue 21:32  Dear Rabbit, When was the last time you regretted making a decision? Today I just realised I made a big fat wrong move.  And this move may cause lots of inconvenience for the next one and a half year. You see, everytime we make decisions, we tend to think of 'now' and not the future, especially at a young age like me.  'Now' is like instant gratification, and 'Future' is delayed gratification. Most of us prefer instant as we can get what we want immediately but it may not help in the long run, and delayed gratification is what we can't have now but will give lots of benificial rewards in the future.  Is like drinking coke or herbal tea for quenching thirst. Most would prefer coke some would prefer tea.  Another example is if you are given a choice of 1 million dollars Vs $0.01 (multiply twice each day) which one would you choose? Most would choose the million-dollar, I would choose the latter.  Now for my a...

 Date: 12 Apr 2021  Day & Time: Mon 21:37 Dear Rabbit,  Today was doing better when it comes to adapting to the new environment, RSS Endurance.  There are still some things that bothers me, the size of the cabin, the galley, the people.  Not to say that the people are bad, but it's not the kind of people I would hang out with, they are more on the casual lifestyle, but I'm more on the future-oriented lifestyle.  It's just about adapting to it, and see how things goes. Can't really say much now, but it's better than the 1st day.  Better.  Speaking of the cabin, oh no, im so so so so want to cry. No more 4 men cabin, but 16 men cabin. I sure need some time to adapt to it. Oh, Geeze.  The galley practice to so different from my previous ship, and all I can do it, adapt.  You see, today's letter is so much of 'adapt' and yea, let time tell how much I have adapted to my new ship. Till tomorrow,  Jun Xian  Signing Off. 

 Date: 11 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Sat 22:08 Dear Rabbit,  Today was rather productive, did most of the work I assigned myself to.  And I want to bring out one thing, and nope its not the 'why' of going back and reminding back to my own 'why'. But is people who believe in me, and not letting them down.  Yesterday after our Clubhouse meeting at Dragon Den Tiger Caves, I had a short conversation with my mentor along with my friend, and my mentor said that I dont have time for people who reach out to me and ask if I can teach them ABC, XYZ. There is no valueable exchange, I have other things to do.  And I did not think much then, but when I woke up today, I realised that my mentor sees something in me that I dont, be believe in me that I dont.  Im sure he sees something in me that make him do such an investment on me, the time he could use for other reasons, he choose to use it on me.  So if I dont believe in myself, why not borrow my mentor's believe and...

 Date: 10 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Sat 23:52 Dear Rabbit,  You know what? I feel that today I have rested enough and im ready to fight the wrold.  STOP. If this is what you are thinking everyday, be wary. Can you guess why?  You guessed it right, there is emotion imbalance. You see when we feel sad and  suddently feel happy, its not something to be celebrated rather to be aware that the emotion is not equal.  When this happens long enough, it can cause confusion in the mind, and my result in a never ending emotional loop in our brain. Possibily causing depression or anexity.  What can you do to prevent this kind of thinking, you may ask, have your 'why' as your motivation to go forward each day and not thinking today is a good day, so you will do good, and feeling bad the next day.  Just a  thought on this,  SECURE!

 Date: 9 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Fri 21:06 Dear Rabbit,  You know what?  I am a Air bender, the last air bender.  My name is Aang, the last air bender, the fire nation attacked, all nations lost... blah blah blah.  K  Jokes aside, today was tiring.  Adapting to new ship environment is so tough, my team is mostly made up of water, and they have no system, its everywhere.  And I can't stand the chaos in the kitchen. I want to explode every minute I stand in the galley.  Enough said, but im really tired today, after yesterday's jab today im super tired, super unmotivated to continue to do my shit.  But one to bring a point out, that is, when im really doing something I love I will eliminate all my worries and fears. Yesterday's speaking on clubhouse is a good example.  Thats it for today,  Tomorrow I will cover more with you.  HEhE

 Date: 7 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Wed 20:14 Dear Rabbit,  Today ends the chapter of Steadfast, and tomorrow I will go to Endurance to start my new Navy chapter.  Since I can't avoid it, I can only embrace it.  Have likewise for life, there are a lot of things in life that we cannot control nor avoid, and they just come to us with or without notice.  But I have the habit of thinking of how to solve the problem, that manytimes I dont have an answer for,  The only way out is to EMBRACE.  Sounds simple, but its not easy.  Right now I do have one main worry, how am I able to juggle with my personal work and NS. Since LST have a heavier workload (longer working time and more physically demanding). This is a question mark, and this is my worry. That being said, today cooked aglio olio and spicy chicken, and it's spicy!  A last farewell to Steadfast by cooking our last meal onboard Steadfast.  Gary Halbert baron letter, is really my bible of cop...

 Date: 6 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Tue 21:08 Dear Rabbit,  How are you today? Really want to have a conversation with you, but you still wouldnt come out. Oh well, I will continue sharing with you whats going on out there in the world and I beleave one day you will come out from your comfy hole.  Take a guess, where am I posted to?  Did you guess it right? Im permanantly posted to RSS Endurance, pennant number 207.  The worst of it happend, I dont want to go to LST as the workload is heaiver and longer working time, and this means, I have less time for my own learnign.  But oh well, 1 year and 4 months left.  New environment, new crew, new habits, new routine. All new, so much pivot.  And thats just the start, at least thats what I expect, currently im with the Navy, on top of that I have my own personal branding and family situation to handle.  So much to carry, and this is just the beginning.  Really want to press the button of res...

 Date: 5/4/21 Day & Time: Mon 21:44 Dear Rabbit,  Have you noticed I changed (or removed) the salutation?  Take a guess why I took it out... You guessed it right! Too formal, after writing to you for so long, I dont think we need to be so formal in this letter since its between you and me.  Today, smabal fried rice, simple meal accopanied with chicken nuggets and meatballs.  And while I was doing my own learning, I came to thought of the the word 'husstle'.  Do I really need to hustle so hard until I cant enjoy the small little things in life?  After yesterday's watch on the movie summary of 'Soul', it made me think, am I too focused on that ONE thing?  Copywriting. And losing out the other detials of life. And watch lost leblanc video on finding purpose.  "money and future is greatly related"  Its like there is so many thing going in my mind that make me super confused yet leading to only one path, finding my own tempo in life....

 Date: 4 Apr 2021 Day & Time: Sun 21:54 Dear Rabbit,  Today is a rather long day, after yesterday's CH meeting had an impromtu speaking coaching session with my mentor.  And its crucifying,  Its quite uncomfortable to go through the process of speaking especially when my family is sleeping, and they can hear every word I say.  *Goosebumb* I dont like the felling of being cornered and having no way to escape, it's horiffying.  And I got to prepare myself on Thur to speak, higher energy with a topic to speak.  Laugh die me. That was in the wee hours of the day,  Let me share with you about what went through my mind today,  "Giving Up" Giving up on entrepretureship, giving up on copywriting is so strong that I really dont want to do it, like right NOW.  Im tired, thou I dont have any clients, but accuriing clients make me feel drained out and tired.  But reading this letter, you know that I choose to bite on the painful process....

 Date: 3/4/21 Day & Time: Sun 20:28 Dear Mr. Rabbit. Today was rather 'on-track' day,  You know, I was ready for a meeting call with a business owner, but he could't make it, and the call was cancleed, I am angry cus I woke up early just for that call,  So if you really could not make it for a call, inform the other person beforehand and not leave him hanging for more than 30mins.  Thats rather rude.  And went to listen some audio on affiramation, and fall asleep while listenign to it, guess im tired?  Back to where I was, the day was rather 'on-track' cus most of my planned stuff was excuted. And im happy with the performanec today.  Just need one thing to make the picture even more colourful, an actual copywriting experience for me to build up my portfolio from a business ownere or influencer,  Speaking of that, I have yet to create my list of potential collab partners, please remind me cus when I forget, I really forget.  Went to go th...

 Date: 2/4/21 Day & Time: Fri 21:58 Dear Mr. Rabbit. Today is a rather special day, and nope, its not good friday. Its good resting day.  I slept for a total of 4 hours 'nap' And I was shocked but the amount of sleep I took today.  4 freaking hours.  I planned to have a 20min sleep, but nope, it went to 4 hours of sleep.  But right after seeing the time, I know I have not really done anything productive,  So I get up and went for a run, I planned for a short 15min run just to perk myself up, and you know what?  I ran for 30mins and did some muscle exercise at the exercise coner, totaled of 1 hour exercise.  And on hindsight, im rather inconsistent with my sechudule, over slept and over run.  Hmmm... Back to some real work, I got approached on Linkedin by a founder of a fintec company and goanna have a zoom meeting with him tmr and see how I can help his company, which I dont really have much intrest right now.  Gonna see how's things...

 Date: 1/4/21 Day & Time: Thur 22:29 Dear Mr. Rabbit. Today is a win day,  Back on ship, we cooked curry rice today. Curry chicken, Braised Pork Belly, Stir fry cabbage and Sunny side egg.  And we did it without any assistance from ship instructors, today task was to cut 12kg of pork belly, 10kg of chicken wing and roughly 4kg of cabbage.  All is an easy task, but was not so when I first started. When we first started, I was shocked by the shere amount of food to cut, but as time progresses I get used to the amount and the able to be more effecient with my time.  Multitasking. And we served lunch on time. All setting up done, all wash up cleaned. And the rest of the day was as usual, clean up the galley (kitchen) and cold room. And make use of the time left for napping and reading of books. And so far, im enjoying the process.  Hated at the start, but getting used to it after finding the ingredients to survive onboard ship, the rest is easy.  Fastf...

 Date: 31/3/21 Day & Time: Wed 20:08 Dear Mr. Rabbit. I got to go early, without even finishing my words with you, sry about that.  So as promised, I'm here to finish what I shared about the 3m jump. As mentioned yesterday, looking others' fear from their jump is a lesson for me, a big lesson.  Why? Cus there is always that 'something' that hold us back, and that is called the little voice,  Its pretty interesting that the little voice is always there speaking about why we should not do,  And I can understand, you know, little voice is there to protect us, and it was our previous programming that creates the little voice,  3m jump can be really fearful for some, especially for those who fear heights but still need to jump in order to pass the test.  Same goes to business, and I may say it like I've went through, especially the fear of getting seen, or the fear of finding clients, or the fear of am I good enough,  It's there, just like how shy ...

 Date: 30 March 2021 Day & Time: Tue 18:47 Dear Rabbit. How are you doing rabbit?  You know today is a tiring day,  Cooking make me mentally tired Swimming ytest make me physically tired. I'm exhausted now, want to go and rest.  But you (know what? I'm gonna write finish this letter because I made the promise to do so.  Today, on boardship we cooked mee hoon kuea, all hand made, from the dough to soup, all made from scratch. Fairly easy making the dough, water, flour, salt and oil. Knead to combine.  A lot of meat was used today, sliced pork to minced pork, to soft boil egg, very protein-lyeous.  All was going as per normal, but u know what?  Swimming was the thing that made me wear out.  Now I'm left dead hanging.  3m Jump, total of 5 times, and it was... SCARY.  Completed mine, and was standing watching others doing their jump,  And you know what? They chickened out,  Im not laughing at them or anything, I know how s...

 Date: 29 March 2021 Day & Time: Monday 20:43 Dear Mr Rabbit, I know you are shy to come out from your cosy little home, to explore the world,  But let me share with you what I have learned today, and its pretty interesting.  Help prep for lunch meal, seafood bee hoon, and it taste great, one of the sweetest bee hoon I eaten, cus I dont have much palate memory.  You know, prep-ing today is pretty easy, defrosting of prawn and sotong, cut away the wisker and horn from the prawn. Cutting about 2kg of veg, onion and spring onion. Simple task.  All done within 2h, 1hour before lunch. Snacked more seaweed than any of the crew on board, I think so, don't tell anyone.  Thats all for cooking, jumping over to knowledge learning.  You know I learned something useful from Gary Halbert, The Baron Letter since I cant use phone on board, only to resort to paper and pen for leasure.  Back to basic. When writing a letter (or email in post covid situation), it...