Hanging onto what you no longer need can really slow you down.

Galaxy Trio stumbled upon this interesting article. We can all take a lesson on how cleaning up our past gets us ready for a brighter future

For the past 30 years, through six different homes, I kept two large boxes. Inside was an unimaginably huge set of Limoges china dishes, white with royal blue and gilt edging. It had belonged to my wealthy aunt and uncle, who used them when they hosted their elegant dinner parties.

There was just one problem: My husband and I never hosted parties like that. Ours were informal, open-ended events where we put out food and drink and let people help themselves. When it came to dishware, we tended toward the disposable and the dishwasher-safe. Still, for 30 years, in the back of my head, I'd clung to the belief that someday I would grow up and have "proper" parties with fine china.

That worked, more or less, until a few weeks ago. My husband and I are moving from our former home in Woodstock, New York, to a new home in the Seattle area (I'm writing this from Ellensburg, Washington, on the last leg of our journey). That meant everything we owned had to either be packed into a container for cross-country shipping, given away, thrown away, or sold. It was past time to let go, not only of the dishes themselves but of outdated beliefs about who we were and what we needed to be happy.

But it wasn't easy. It wasn't just the fine china, it was the nice clothes I kept thinking I'd wear someday, and the broken items my husband had been planning to fix. It was the identities we'd built in a place we'd both lived in or near for most of our lives.

All of that, though, was standing in the way of our dreams. Bill is a musician, and it's clear that there's more opportunity for him in the Seattle area than there was in our former home. He needed to move in order to be happy, and his happiness is necessary to mine.

We struggled to let go of the items and ideas that were holding us back. We finally did it, but our departure was delayed by more than a month, and we still wound up leaving our house filled with stuff that needs sorting, storing, and in large part, throwing out. But at least the Limoges dishes have gone to a friend who specializes in selling vintage items. I've finally faced the fact that I'm as grown up as I'll ever be, and our parties will forever be too informal for fine china.

We spent too much time and way too much emotional struggle getting rid of what was weighing us down. Here are some questions I wish we'd asked ourselves sooner:

1. What purpose is this item serving?

If you can't easily say how your life is better--right now--with this item than without it, you probably don't need it.

2. What belief does this item support?

I could try all I wanted to believe I was the sort of person who would serve my friends dinner on fine china. Or use that pizza stone stored in the back of a kitchen cabinet. Or learn to play squash someday. It was my beliefs about who I should be, who I wanted to be, who I thought I ought to be in direct conflict with who I actually was. Before I could move on toward the life I wanted, I had to give up that struggle. I had to admit defeat. I really never am going to learn to play squash, so there's no reason for me to have squash rackets.

3. What's the worst that can happen if I give this item up?

All pack rats know the answer to that question: "I'll wind up needing it later!" And that's true. It's always possible that you'll wind up needing an item six months from now that you disposed of today. Who knows, maybe someday I really will start baking pizza.

But if I do, I can buy another stone then. Because hanging on to things against the possibility that I might need them someday isn't worth the cost. What cost? This fall it cost us the nice, relaxed, trip we meant to have a month ago. If we'd been traveling then, we would have had the time to take a few tourist detours. We'd have had better weather for camping. It would have been much more fun.

It's also cost us in work on our house, in storage, in use of our garage, and in general anxiety. Hanging on to stuff just isn't free.

4. What's the best that can happen if I give this item up?

Getting rid of outdated items, outdated notions, and outdated attachments is never easy, but it almost always comes with a payoff. You get more space, more time, more freedom. Removing something old that isn't serving you anymore is the necessary first step to finding something new and better.

So here we are, having sold or given away so much of what we had. Our reward is that we get to start a new life in a new place, and create a new home with new friendships and new traditions and much, much less clutter.

What would you gain if you gave up whatever is weighing you down?

The Sim Lim Saga - Scam + Digital Sentiment = Fall of a Brand

Never has there been a perfect example of how real world scams can translate to a complete breakdown and destruction of a brand online. Whether we like it or not Galaxy Trio and any other brand operates in in the digital sphere, and this is something we have no control over. It goes to show that transparency and honesty in operating any business has become even more important now, especially when a brand can be demolished at a click of a button.

All it took was an audacious move by a mobile shop in the middle of Sim Lim square to throw a bag of coins to a lady claiming a refund, and the internet was on fire. Of course, it did not help that just a little while later, the same shop came under scrutiny for “cheating” a Vietnamese factory worker of his hard earned cash, and laughing at him. Add in a few ridiculous news articles and interviews, and the reputation of a man who we did not know about was utterly destroyed. Not only was all trust completely removed from his brand, but Sim Lim Square itself  - guilty by association­ and a long held truth that it houses within it errant shop owners who are just there to make a quick buck.

Maximize profits by cheating. It seemed to be a perfect way for the shop and the owner to earn a steady amount of income – as long as he did it under the radar. Once the internet found about him, the digital sphere became an enraged forum that took no mercy on him. Vigilante groups like SMRT Feedback and the Bastard Movement took social justice in their hands and exposed them for the scammers that they were, and then some. While some would disagree with these tactics, that is not the point of this article.

We here at Galaxy Trio pride ourselves in our honest business dealings. We always have to accept that what we do and the sector that we operate in will always be under scrutiny and allegations are part and parcel of the business. It has been one and a half years, and our core team has become larger, our family stronger and our figures have only been going up. This longevity comes from years of experience, a system that is unlike another, and just plain and simple straightforward transparency. Documentation, explanation and accountability. We do not take your money and make pipedream promises of mega riches. We underline that you need to work hard to earn the money back. We have hundreds of testimonials of how this platform has changed the lives of people who have believed in us from day one.

Of course allegations have been levelled against us, but they have never been proved right, they have never gained traction. The logic simple. We have currently a member base of more than 10, 000 people. If in fact we at any point of time, perpetrated a business model which takes advantage of people, it would be a widespread fact and knowing the internet, it would have destroyed our brand a long time ago.

Just look at the Sim Lim saga as a case study. It only takes one bad move, one bad complaint. We have ten thousand people backing our system just in Singapore – let’s not mention Galaxy Trio’s expansions into Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia in this year alone. We treat our members with respect and expect them to do the same to the brand name and the system.

As a company, we are more afraid of bad publicity than anything else , and have worked hard to protect our reputation, by removing errant representatives, and standing up for ourselves in the face of blatant lies and industrial espionage.

We do not look for short term gains, but are in it for the long haul and wish to grow as a family. The Sim Lim saga also taught us an invaluable lesson on maintaining our brand as an honest, driven and transparent one. 

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The Matrix Board System – the only income generating platform you will ever need

The success of Galaxy Trio rests solely behind its exclusive use of the Matrix Board System, a revolutionary platform that guarantees constant generation of income, hiding behind no gimmicks, no fine print and can be used again and again with no monthly fee.

The pyramid system was the one that dominated the income generating scene for many years, not because it was popular, but because it was the only system that was available, especially in Singapore. From health products to electronic goods to even mattresses, any and everyone who was interested in either making it big, or earning passive income so that they may live a little more lavishly parked themselves in the pyramid system and tried to work it.

There was also much controversy surrounding the system, and some even considered illegal. To be straight, multi level marketing or the pyramid scheme is not illegal, but highly regulated by the government only because it has been infiltrated with plenty of cases of cheating.

(http://www.cad.gov.sg/content/cad/en/prevention/crime-prevention-advice/multi-level-marketing---pyramid-selling-scheme.html)

Pyramid marketing also causes a lot of member fatigue – there is plenty of maintenance fees to consider, and you need to sell products, and the lower you are in the system, the harder it is for you to reach higher and higher. The guys who sit atop the system are usually the ones who are reaping most of the rewards – they are the pioneers, the first batch who crowned the system and are getting income from everyone on their downline. The dropout rate for such a system is high, with more and more people realizing the difficulty and hard work needed to reach a certain goal, and with market saturation and the added difficulty of selling a product in a particular sector, you have a system with many walls to overcome. It is still operating today – in fact, many big brands such as Herbalife operate on such a system.

So what makes the Matrix Board system different? Well several factors. For one thing, you only need to join once, and once only for the rest of the time the board and company stays active. Galaxy Trio maintains the matrix board system with different levels for all its members. There is no monthly joining or maintenance fee at all. The Matrix Board system also employs a dynamic shuffling system, which means that it adjusts to how many members you bring in (you only need to bring in 2 to get things moving) and how many members people in your downline bring in. Once one cycle completes, you get your payout, and you automatically get moved back to the end of the system so you can start again. No fees, no payment, no difficulties. You work at your own pace, and the best thing of all is that there are no products to sell. Once you remove the product and focus just on the system itself, the difficulties decrease a lot. You do not have to convince anyone of the benefit of any product, health or otherwise, just the merits of the system – and Galaxy Trio has paid out to thousands of people in the millions of dollars since it was founded in Canada.

Honestly, you do not have to take my word for it, you can come for a free, no obligation briefing of how the system works and make your decision from there. Just contact your nearest Galaxy Trio member and you will be well on your way to financial freedom.

Watch out! You’re being scammed at this very moment.

Watch out! You’re being scammed at this very moment.

While there may be many forms of “scam” out there in the world today, we at Galaxy Trio believe that the biggest “scam” is the one we are perpetrating on ourselves, day in and day out, causing us to rest on our laurels, lose our passion and fail at every turn.

Webster’s definition of a scam is a strategy to defraud, swindle and trick – an act of systemic destruction using opportunity and deceit to gain profit. However, I have a different definition of the word “scam”, and it is closely related to how most of us are living our lives at this very moment. Many of us go through life just to “cruise”, we settle, limit our own abilities and convince ourselves that we have done enough. That still small voice in our head that often tells us to stop working so hard, be opportunistic, to follow and not lead is the one that is defrauding us day in and day out of our lives.

Yes, we are scamming ourselves. Every day and we do not even know it. We scam ourselves when we procrastinate, when we leave things too late, and when we give up. We scam ourselves when we are convinced that the world is against us, that luck is not on our side, and that success is for other people, and we are happy to live life on the fringe and accept whatever meagre scraps that are given to us.

Well, let me tell you something. That is not how you succeed in life and that is definitely not the Galaxy Trio way. We are where we are today because of our winning spirit, because we refuse to convince ourselves that we have done enough, and we strive to do better each and every day.

“Now” is not later, it really means now!

Stop procrastinating. One of the habits of successful people in the world today is that they often are “go!” from the moment they wake up and they do not stop moving till they get back to bed. They are constantly motivated in whatever they do, they get inspired daily and measure their progress by the achievements that they make, be it tiny or great. We need to stop telling ourselves that later is a good idea, which tomorrow is the day to start – now means now. It means to change our mindset, to resist that lazy inertia that will only leave us in the void of failure and in the end, we will wake up and find ourselves too far behind to catch up and too lost to find our way again. Here at Galaxy Trio, we inculcate a philosophy of locomotive assertion – building mountains by working everyday towards a goal. We balance our leisure with a reinforced and positive attitude of work which leads to an equal and opposite reaction of success.

Milestones exist, but nothing is ever “good enough”

Another way that we scam ourselves is that all familiar pat on the back that turns into a resistance to work harder. There is nothing wrong with celebrating milestones or successes along the way, but as long as you have the energy to achieve and do more, nothing should be “good enough” – there is always more out there, not in a monetary sense, although that will always come, but in a sense of ambition, fulfillment and passion. No matter what you do – whether you are working on the Galaxy Trio platform, working on your love life, your family – never stop. The bar can always climb higher, you can always do more, you can help others to achieve. The problem with thinking that something is good enough is that more often  - you can get stuck to a point where locomotion is no longer possible, and it will take a gargantuan effort to overcome this static energy and get back in the groove.

Sometimes it is best to ignore that small voice in your head.

The biggest enemy you can have is yourself. Remember that. At Galaxy Trio, we are a family where a fully functioning support center exists at all times to encourage each other, push each other and celebrate successes together. People who can work alone and achieve greatness are a rare breed and if this is something that you can do, then congratulations! For the rest of us, isolation is the disease that leads to the epidemic of failure and under achievement and this must be avoided at all costs. Surround yourself with positive, successful people and soon you will find that you will rise as well, and you have made making a difference everyday a habit. And if you ever hear yourself in your head telling preaching negativity, shut the voice out, go for a walk, talk to your friend or mentor – whatever you do, do not listen to that voice.

Last but not least, do onto others . . .

If you notice people around you that are scamming themselves – step in, be the mentor, teach them the ways. Learning not to trick yourself into failure is a skill and a talent that can be carried on through to every aspect of your life – from personal to business. If we can build an ecosystem of support – there is almost nothing that can be achieved. This is exactly the mantra in which Galaxy Trio lives by – work together, achieve together, support each other – we are a proven platform that has benefitted thousands  - because we have our basics right.

Success is a lifestyle, money is the score.

One of the habits of successful people is that they have made achievement into a habit, it is encoded into the DNA of their lives and it affects everything that they do. They have passion, energy, a temperament towards outdoing what is established but at the same time, willing to impart their knowledge to others, sharing their experiences and most importantly, getting joy when success is achieved by everyone around them. They are not selfish, nor do they retreat into their own enclaves of self-achieved wealth while wishing detriment on others.

One of the first things that I noticed when I joined the Galaxy Trio team is their emphasis on the word family and togetherness – if one succeeds, all succeeds – there is a support system that surpasses any other programme I had been in and gave me inspiration to achieve. Their classes are full of energy, sociable and most importantly, held together by the thread of togetherness. This word will be echoed a lot  - not just during the Galaxy Trio training sessions but also, the events that happen outside of class – the get-togethers, the picnics, social bonding that is at the very heart of an organisation that has helped so many people achieve financial freedom.

The problem with most systems and most people who are in their careers is that they put money first. That is the baseline of their job choices and that is how they measure their satisfaction in life. Money is transient, it is cold, and a fat bank account does not necessarily mean that one can be totally happy. Look at so many of the Wall Street bankers who have quit their jobs for more modest jobs that give them freedom of life; we don’t even have to look that far – the financial handlers that live in our very own shores are just like the money they make – transient. Money comes, and it can easily go.

One of the most important lessons that Galaxy Trio taught me is instilling a great work ethic in whatever it is I do. Having passion for what I believe in, and of course, kicking selfishness out of the door. This is why all the haters of the system, all the people who have accused it of being something else than a great platform that has helped hundreds of people get out of their rut and finally find purpose in their lives – are still standing by the wayside.

Success is a lifestyle. It is with you when you wake up, throughout the day, when you meet new clients and when you are with your family. When this happens, you look at failure as a lesson, you pick yourself up and you soldier on. No book in the world is going to teach you that. Galaxy Trio has taught me how to be successful, reap the rewards of success and impart this to everyone else. I urge anyone out there who has lost their passion, to come into the Galaxy Trio family environment and blossom.

You have nothing to lose.