Who is Maynas Eric?

Hi my friend, my name is Maynas Eric Chua and I use Modern Technology & Life shortcuts to make Businesses and Lifestyle run smoother, smarter, faster and better. I’m currently one of the Top 3 Twitter Users listed under Singapore and was once a Top Contributor in Yahoo Answers.

I’m also known to be an Agent of Change, Author, Connector, Business Person and Innovator. What I do is to research with people upon various topics of interest & unleash them into our Blogs and Products.
My plans for 2009 would be to settle down on my businesses and go on to pursue a PhD.

Background

My homeland is in Singapore and I was once an award winning engineering graduate from Australia. I would like to consider myself as a serial entrepreneur, futurist and researcher with main interests in feasible solutions to Global Warming, solving the poverty issue and increasing the functionality and longevity of humans (Yes, myself included). I reckon that would make my life pretty meaningful and fun! *Winks*

In the past, I have been in the Military as a Soldier, Air Force as a Sergeant, University Tutor and Mentor, Librarian, Factory Worker, Roadshow Mascot, Sportsman, Track and Field Captain, Casual Soccer Team Manager, Freelance Designer, Small Business Owner and an Electrical and Renewable Energy Engineer.

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Create a Life That Matters

My objective for this site is to bring my friends and people all over the World together to start and build interesting projects and businesses that are both profitable and fun to endeavour.

We are all individuals living in a shared World, when each of us is able to contribute our part to improve the society as a whole, we can reap the benefits together. I would think I favour people who are balanced on the scales of self interest and altruism (selfless giving), but not to the extreme of either ends.

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Self Interest:

To be productive for self interest that benefits and provide our psychological needs, physical security and creating prosperity, but not indulge in extreme selfishness that one hoards wealth and benefits to oneself and not help others in need and prevent others from prospering.

Altruism:

To help others in need and to help others prosper, but not to practise extreme altruism in that one gives up their own ambitions and desires for the sake of others.

In a word, be proud of yourself (but not overly) and do not be ashamed that you are a productive person who has the ability to be a wealth creator. Contribute to causes that you think can help the society and give to what you are passionate about, not what you think the world expects of you and not more than you can afford to that your giving becomes unnecessary sacrifice.

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For me, the ability to be self reliant with the passive income through businesses would enable us to participate in greater issues and causes which need attention.

I would think that some examples of causes which matter, would be to play a part in solving global problems like global warming, to helping people out of poverty by giving them the skills and education to improve their own and society’s economy and to sponsor promising talents/ researchers who can improve humanity as a whole…that’s my dream…is it yours too?

No matter how talented a person is, one man alone cannot change the World. Let us join hands together and accomplish things…great things, shall we? *Smiles*

This is also why the name of this blog is called “Create a life that matters“.

Let’s rock the World, my friend, shall we?
*Winks*

I would think that Success in Life can be derived into a Four Stage Process.

1. When one improves through self-improvement willingly (not compelled to)
2. When he or she is 70% ready, starts projects and businesses
3. Multiplying systems that work
4. And with the revenue, seek to use it for causes that matter