Keeping Your Dreams Alive Book

By sharing his struggles and dreams through writing a book, Keeping Your Dreams Alive, Bo Chew hopes to make a difference. With humility and reflection, he encourages you to learn about yourself and how you can create wealth and help others.

Hopefully the book ’s real-life examples will help people learn about the entrepreneurial spirit, the wealth challenges, managing financial risk, and gaining high investment returns. More importantly, these ideas are likely to foster a life of personal growth, enduring prosperity, and philanthropy in everyone.

In studying the successes of others, such as Warren Buffett, the author has learned what accelerates the creation of wealth. This involves maximizing the amount invested, its growth rate, the investment duration, and tax sheltering.

Although sacrificing today for tomorrow is very difficult, the benefits of doing so can be huge. Even an extra $100 per month invested for 30 years at 20%makes a difference of $1,418,258. Imagine how this extra money can enrich your life. If you have the will, you can find a way to save more and get higher returns.

Wealth Challenge A
Increase Savings and Seek Higher Returns
$100/month invested at different returns:

Becoming wealthy comes from growing your net worth. As all decisions have financial implications, always consider how your net worth will be impacted. Try taking actions that increase your earnings, productive assets, and investment returns. Alternatively, decrease your overall borrowing costs, consumption, and depreciation on personal assets.

After growing your net worth becomes habit, challenge yourself to increase it at faster rate. You can do it. It doesn't matter what your starting point is. If your net worth is at the Canadian average of $100,000, it blossoms to $6,621,177 in 30 years at 15%growth. With a net worth of $10,000,just divide the numbers in the following table by 10. Likewise, at $500,000, just multiply by 5. Envision the good you can do with a much greater net worth.

Wealth Challenge B
Grow Net Worth at a Higher Rate
$100,000 net worth grown at different rates:

When finished writing this book, the daunting task of self-publishing and distributing it remains. As the December 1, 2001, launch date nears, there is anxious anticipation that the book will help people keep their dreams alive and create a more prosperous world. In time hopefully the book can give you strength to create abundance and make a difference.