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Richard Koch Quotes

2012-01-31T12:24:00.002+08:00

+ Richard Koch:

is a former management consultant, entrepreneur, and writer +

"Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs
in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk."

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"Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined."

Dale Carnegie Quotes

2012-01-30T12:36:00.003+08:00

+ Dale Carnegie:

was an American writer and lecturer +

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Chinese Proverbs

2012-01-25T12:28:00.000+08:00

"To get through the hardest journey we need take only
one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping."

Mohandas Gandhi Quotes

2011-12-26T15:03:00.001+08:00

+ Mohandas Gandhi:

was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader

of India during the Indian independence movement +

"It is health that is real wealth

and not pieces of gold and silver."

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Garrett Gunderson Quotes

2011-12-04T15:57:00.005+08:00

+ Garrett Gunderson:

is an entrepreneur and author +

"Each person has this magical thing called Soul Purpose within them. The difference between surviving and thriving has to do with whether we see it or not."

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"Potential is all of the resources you have in front of you. Efficiency is putting those resources to use effectively."

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"A resourceful person can see opportunity
when others only see obstacles."

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"Purpose creates an opportunity for value creation. Passion follows purpose.

Passion creates energy,

money is attracted to energy."

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"True wealth is a byproduct of living a principled life."

Confucius Quotes

2011-11-12T13:16:00.000+08:00

Confucius:

was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher

"By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. "

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Peter Thomson Quotes

2011-11-09T01:06:00.001+08:00

Peter Thomson:

is a Nightingale-Conant communications author

"In a world where the big things
have little difference - it's the little things
that make a big difference"

Lao Tzu Quotes

2011-11-03T12:32:00.006+08:00

"Great acts are made up of small deeds."

+ Lao Tzu:

was a mystic philosopher of ancient China +

Steve Jobs Quotes

2011-11-01T21:34:00.004+08:00

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

+ Steve Jobs:

was an American inventor and businessman +

Anthony Robbins Quotes

2011-11-01T21:32:00.006+08:00

"The way we communicate with others
and with ourselves ultimately
determines the quality of our lives."

"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year — and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!"

"It is in your moments of decision
that your destiny is shaped."

"The way we communicate with others and with
ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives."

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity
we can immediately command when we focus all of
our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."

+ Anthony Robbins:

Motivational speaker and author +

Brian Tracy Quotes

2011-10-25T22:16:00.006+08:00

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life,

you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."

"If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do."

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from.
All that matters is where you are going."

"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far
more in a shorter period of time than people
without them could ever imagine."

+ Brian Tracy:

Author, speaker, and consultant +

Peter F Drucker Quotes

2011-10-19T13:08:00.002+08:00

+ Peter F. Drucker:

was an influential writer and management consultant +

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

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Jack Canfield Quotes

2011-10-06T13:48:00.002+08:00

"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you.

But you have to take action to get it."

+ Jack Canfield:

American motivational speaker and author +

Andrew Carnegie Quotes

2011-10-05T12:25:00.003+08:00

"No man can become rich
without himself enriching others."

+ Andrew Carnegie:

19th century captain of American industry +

Warren Buffet Quotes

2011-09-30T12:27:00.002+08:00

"The investor of today does not
profit from yesterday's growth."

"The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning."

+ Warren Buffet:

Investor, billionaire, and philanthropist +

Aristotle Onassis Quotes

2011-09-28T12:19:00.002+08:00

"Wealth comes from knowing
what others do not know."

+ Aristotle Onassis:

Was a prominent Greek shipping magnate +

Henry Ford Quotes

2011-09-22T21:20:00.001+08:00

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

+ Henry Ford:

was the founder of the Ford Motor Company +

Albert Einstein Quotes

2011-09-22T11:38:00.004+08:00

+ Albert Einstein:

Was a theoretical physicist +

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere."

"There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

2011-09-15T15:11:00.003+08:00

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and
to put one's thoughts into action is the
most difficult thing in the world."

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Begin it now."

+ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:

Was a German poet, novelist, and dramatist +

Stephen Pierce Quotes

2011-08-18T13:33:00.002+08:00

"Setbacks and stressors are bridges to be crossed to our goals... not barricades to keep us from them."

"People keep looking outside
themselves for the money. It's inside."

+ Stephen Pierce:

Nightingale-Conant author +

Jim Fannin Quotes

2011-08-16T21:22:00.001+08:00

"When you are in the zone, your intuition comes to the forefront, ... Your intuition will guide you. It is your best friend. It has information your mind does not have. When you are a zone performer — no matter what it is you do — you are operating on intuition and you have an unfair advantage over the competition."

+ Jim Fannin:

Nightingale-Conant author +

Zig Ziglar Quotes

2011-08-14T22:52:00.004+08:00

"People often say that motivation doesn't last.

Well, neither does bathing —

that's why we recommend it daily."

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

"You were born to win, but to be a
winner, you must plan to win, prepare
to win, and expect to win."

+ Zig Ziglar:

Motivational author and speaker +

Dr. Joe Vitale Quotes

2011-08-11T13:10:00.007+08:00

+ Dr. Joe Vitale:

Motivational author and speaker +

"Remember that:
Money will always match your mindset."

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"You are the masterpiece of your own life;
you are the Michelangelo of your experience.

The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts."

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"If you turn it over to the universe, you will be
surprised and dazzled by what is delivered to you.
This is where magic and miracles happen."

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"As soon as you start to feel differently about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things, more of the things you can be grateful for."

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"You want to become aware of your thoughts, you
want to choose your thoughts carefully, and you want
to have fun with this, because you are the
masterpiece of your own life."

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"The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. Until we do, we are hamsters in a cage chasing our own tails and wondering why we aren't getting the results we seek."

William James Quotes

2011-08-01T11:06:00.002+08:00

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of

their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

"There is but one cause of human failure.

And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

+ William James:

Was a philosopher and psychologist +

G. Alexander Orndorff Quotes

2011-07-27T13:53:00.002+08:00

"No one can become rich without enriching others. Anyone who adds to prosperity must prosper in turn."

+ G. Alexander Orndorff +

Pablo Picasso Quotes

2011-07-18T19:55:00.001+08:00

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working."

+ Pablo Picasso:

Was a Spanish artist +

Keith Harrell Quotes

2011-07-07T17:01:00.001+08:00

"The loudest and most influential voice you hear is your own inner voice, your self critic. It can work for you or against you, depending on the messages you allow."

+ Keith Harrell:

Was a motivational speaker, trainer, and coach +

Napoleon Hill Quotes

2011-06-29T14:07:00.005+08:00

"A primary method for gaining a mind full of
peace is to practice emptying the mind."

"Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in
the mind through repetition of thought."

"If you put off everything till you're sure of it,
you'll never get anything done."

"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."

+ Napoleon Hill:

Was a lecturer and author of books on achieving success +

Dave Ramsey Quotes

2011-06-22T14:15:00.001+08:00

"Not until the pain of the same is greater than
the pain of change will you embrace change."

+ Dave Ramsey:

financial author, radio host, and motivational speaker +

Deepak Chopra Quotes

2011-06-19T13:55:00.008+08:00

+ Deepak Chopra, M.D.:

Author on mind-body medicine and spirituality +

"The most creative act you will ever
undertake is the act of creating yourself."

"There are no accidents... there is only some
purpose that we haven't yet understood."

"You must find the place inside yourself
where nothing is impossible."

"The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself."

"There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle."

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

"The less you open your heart to others,
the more your heart suffers."

Asara Lovejoy Quotes

2011-06-15T13:53:00.003+08:00

"To be successful, all you have to do
is give up everything you know."

"Many can argue that reality is as it is, but my experience is that the opposite is exactly true,

reality is ours for the making."

+ Asara LoveJoy:

Motivational author and coach +

Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

2011-06-06T13:56:00.002+08:00

"All you see in your world is the

outcome of your idea about it."

+ Neale Donald Walsch:

Spiritual author +

Guidelines for Communication

2011-05-31T22:01:00.001+08:00

1. There are many slips between the other person's ears and your lips. The message you want to convey may be garbled, distorted, camouflaged or completely lost by more dominant messages. This happens because the recipient interprets your message by his or her brain, not by your brain. To avoid this, think about the possible ways in which your message can be misunderstood or distorted by a recipient who is not on the same wavelength or of the same orientation that you are.

People are not mind readers. They can't read your mind. They don't know what is really bothering you or what you really want from them. Ask clearly and precisely what you want.

Feel a genuinely liking for the people with whom you are communicating. Remember the saying, "Nobody cares how much you know, unless they know how much you care." When they feel you really like them, they make an extra effort to understand what you want.

The rule of listening. There are two ears and one tongue, spend twice more time in listening than in speaking. The more closely you listen to others, the more effective you would be in communicating your ideas to them according to their frame of reference. It is by listening close to them, that you will know how they think, what their favorite expressions are and how you can arouse their interest.

The spoken word is but a small component of communication. The spoken word constitutes of only 7 percent of the message, the other 93% is non-verbal. If you say the words, "You are fine," but your face, body and your voice is conveying, "I can't stand you," which one do you think will get conveyed? Match your body language, voice tone, and other non-verbal behavior with your words.

Keep your communication pure and simple. Do not contaminate it with sarcasm, witticisms, or put-downs. When you do that, people stop listening to what you say and get flooded with emotions and thoughts regarding how you are treating them.

The rule of repetition. Tell them first what you are going to tell them, then tell them, and then tell them what you just told them.

Check. Ensure the accuracy and comprehension of your message. For example, when you leave a message for someone, ask the person who has taken your message to repeat it so you can check it for its accuracy and comprehension.

Review. We will record what decisions have been taken so we could review what has been discussed and evaluate at our next meeting.

Walk your talk. Match your actions with your words. If you say something and then do another, your action will be received as the real message and not your spoken words.

We are discussing problems or challenges that has arisen from our thought process. Our decisions arise from knowledge and based on the current knowledge we make our decisions and these decisions can be right or wrong and they cause challenges. The effect is the challenge and the cause is the thought. We need to change our thinking by gathering more knowledge and information to solve the current challenge. Focus on the challenge and not the person and we will have a very good productive meeting.

Remember to focus on the facts not on opinions or assumptions. Do take notes for clarity.

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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

2011-05-31T21:31:00.001+08:00

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

+ Leonardo da Vinci:

Was an Italian artist, writer, and scientist +

Voltaire Quotes

2011-05-29T21:42:00.001+08:00

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."

+ Voltaire:

Was a French writer, historian, and philosopher +

What Story Will You Write?

2011-05-26T23:29:00.001+08:00

Between your Birth Date and your Death Date there is a DASH ( ----- ).

What's the story are you going to write in that DASH?

This could be your story! Courtesy of one of my team leaders Yeo Hong Ming. Tks !

Click on this link

<http://www.this-is-my-story.com/v/O0KJ82D936K1>

Earl Nightingale Quotes

2011-05-23T13:33:00.004+08:00

+ Earl Nightingale:

Was a motivational author and speaker +

"The biggest mistake that you can make is
to believe that you are working for somebody else.
Job security is gone. The driving force of a career
must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!"

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"We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within."
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"One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do."
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"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind
and nourish with repetition and emotion
will one day become a reality."

William Anthony Quotes

2011-05-09T21:00:00.021+08:00

Be Disciplined

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I control the circumstances of my life and not someone else who controls the circumstances of my life. 

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We prefer the opinion of others

rather than the experience or wisdom of those who have gone before us.

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Out of every adversity or challenge

lies the seed that defines your character.

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The fear of not changing should be greater then the fear of what you need to do to change.

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What a foolish man does in the end, is what a wise man does in the beginning.

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When you change the way you look at things, the things change.

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What you don't like to hear,
is what you need to hear
That's the TRUTH.

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Live to a PROMISE not to the PAST

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We cannot reap where we
have not sown first
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Success is not a destination but
rather the journey

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New knowledge changes

our beliefs and paradigms

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Expertise is not an opinion of the majority but rather facts and skills of the minority

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Settle the past engage the present
and belief in the future

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An Individual's Network

Defines his Networth

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The greatest sin of mankind is his ignorance of not recognising his fullest potential and

using it for the benefit of mankind.

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We must do the things that others are not willing to do,
to have the things others will never have.

+ William Anthony:

Education and Business Development +

Alvin Toffler Quotes

2011-05-09T20:50:00.002+08:00

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
who cannot read and write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

+ Alvin Toffler:

Author and futurist +

Winston Churchill Quotes

2011-05-05T15:27:00.002+08:00

I like things to happen

and if they don't happen
I like to make things happen !

+ Winston Churchill +

Shivaram Kumar Quotes

2011-05-05T15:21:00.002+08:00

If you do the things that count,

you don't have to stop to count them !

+ Shivaram Kumar +

Critical Thinking

2011-05-05T13:18:00.002+08:00

I have this statement in my phone under a note application where I review it constantly when I encounter with mediocre and negative thinking.

" I will not identify with the content of any belief. I will identify only with the way I come to my beliefs. I am a critical thinker and, as such, am ready to abandon any belief that cannot be supported by evidence and rational considerations. I am ready to follow evidence and reason wherever they lead. My true identity is that of being a critical thinker, a lifelong learner, and a person always looking to improve my thinking by becoming more reasonable in my beliefs. "

Socratic Questioning - Process to Clarify Thinking

2011-05-05T13:01:00.004+08:00

In my recent training session with my team I covered the importance of questioning to clarify thinking. When your thinking becomes clear it gives you power and you will be able to help others to clarify their thinking. All challenges stems from your thinking. The cause is our thinking and the effect is the challenge and or outcome. So get your thinking clear by asking QUESTIONS? The quality of your QUESTION determines the quality of the RESPONSE!

Use Socratic Questioning to Clarify Thinking

Conceptual clarification questions

Get them to think more about what exactly they are asking or thinking about. Prove the concepts behind their argument. Basic 'tell me more' questions that get them to go deeper.

· Why are you saying that?

· What exactly does this mean?

· How does this relate to what we have been talking about?

· What is the nature of ...?

· What do we already know about this?

· Can you give me an example?

· Are you saying ... or ... ?

· Can you rephrase that, please?

Probing assumptions

Probing of assumptions makes them think about the presuppositions and unquestioned beliefs on which they are founding their argument. This is shaking the bedrock and should get them really going!

· What else could we assume?

· You seem to be assuming ... ?

· How did you choose those assumptions?

· Please explain why/how ... ?

· How can you verify or disprove that assumption?

· What would happen if ... ?

· Do you agree or disagree with ... ?

Probing rationale, reasons and evidence

When they give a rationale for their arguments, dig into that reasoning rather than assuming it is a given. People often use un-thought-through or weakly understood supports for their arguments.

· Why is that happening?

· How do you know this?

· Show me ... ?

· Can you give me an example of that?

· What do you think causes ... ?

· What is the nature of this?

· Are these reasons good enough?

· Would it stand up in court?

· How might it be refuted?

· How can I be sure of what you are saying?

· Why is ... happening?

· Why? (keep asking it -- you'll never get past a few times)

· What evidence is there to support what you are saying?

· On what authority are you basing your argument?

Questioning viewpoints and perspectives

Most arguments are given from a particular position. So attack the position. Show that there are other, equally valid, viewpoints.

Another way of looking at this is ..., does this seem reasonable?

· What alternative ways of looking at this are there?

· Why it is ... necessary?

· Who benefits from this?

· What is the difference between... and...?

· Why is it better than ...?

· What are the strengths and weaknesses of...?

· How are ... and ... similar?

· What would ... say about it?

· What if you compared ... and ... ?

· How could you look another way at this?

Probe implications and consequences

The argument that they give may have logical implications that can be forecast. Do these make sense? Are they desirable?

· Then what would happen?

· What are the consequences of that assumption?

· How could ... be used to ... ?

· What are the implications of ... ?

· How does ... affect ... ?

· How does ... fit with what we learned before?

· Why is ... important?

· What is the best ... ? Why?

Questions about the question

And you can also get reflexive about the whole thing, turning the question in on itself. Use their attack against themselves. Bounce the ball back into their court. Etc.

· What was the point of asking that question?

· Why do you think I asked this question?

· What does that mean?

Source: http://www.criticalthinking.org/

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

2011-04-27T13:59:00.001+08:00

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

+ Norman Vincent Peale:

Was a minister and author of inspirational books +

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

2011-04-09T22:12:00.002+08:00

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore… they had better aim at something high."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and
go to the grave with the song still in them."

+ Henry David Thoreau:
Was an author, poet, naturalist, and philosopher +

The Point of Power is in the Present!

2011-04-07T17:57:00.001+08:00

A recent email from a new friend I made was rather inciteful which I felt the need to share. The credit goes to Meena. Tks.

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay 'them'

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down..

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5.. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER :
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Marianne Williamson Quotes

2011-03-16T14:06:00.002+08:00

"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts."

+ Marianne Williamson:
Spiritual author and speaker +

Dr. David Hawkins Quotes

2011-02-26T14:23:00.002+08:00

"Everybody is like a magnet. You attract to yourself
reflections of that which you are. If you're friendly, then everybody else seems to be friendly too."

"Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being
kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give."

+ Dr. David Hawkins:
Physician, spiritual teacher, and lecturer +

A Course in Miracles Quotes

2011-02-01T13:12:00.002+08:00

"What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present, and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good?"

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see."

"You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.

What you do comes from what you think."

+ Quote from A Course in Miracles +

What is your deepest & darkest fear?

2011-01-17T13:04:00.001+08:00

Our deepest fear is not that we’re inadequate; our deepest fear is that we’re powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world, there was nothing enlighten about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were all meant to shine as children do. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our life shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same, as we are liberated from our own fear. Our presence automatically liberates others.

Jim Rohn Quotes

2011-01-17T13:01:00.002+08:00

"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us."

+ Jim Rohn:

Was an entrepreneur and motivational author and speaker +

David Allen Quotes

2010-12-26T16:50:00.001+08:00

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not
finishing what they've started."

+ David Allen:
Management consultant, trainer, and author +

Responsibility - Ability to Respond

2010-12-12T00:13:00.002+08:00

"Take 100% personal responsibility for all your own performance results in life"

In a nutshell, we are personally accountable for our performance outcomes; we are truly responsible for our executed actions & subsequent consequences, & own everything that takes place or shape in our work & in our lives.

"Don’t whine; don't justify; & don't lay blame";

The great Indian leader, Gandhi said this, "you must be the change you want to see in the world";

In reality, & also interestingly, change will happen with or without our personal inputs; so, we might as well exercise our power to choose the extent of change we wish to embrace; & to choose how we allow change to affect us;

"Those who don't change with the times find themselves left behind";

There is nothing permanent, except change. Change or be history.

Don't fight the forces of change; use them;

"The only failure in life is the failure to participate fully in your own life"

What we are personally responsible for is our full participation in the change process. After all, change is inevitable, but growth is optional. Growth is essentially a personal choice. We therefore can participate by the personal choices we make in our lives, & in consideration of the kind of world we serve to create in our living spaces.

"Removal of past mental & or emotional blocks - subconscious negative programing - is the first step to personal success";

As one success guru once said: "We are born to win; but conditioned to fail!"

Interestingly, the subconscious negative conditioning or programming can come from our parents, our teachers/guardians, our bosses, our colleagues, our friends, & sad to say, even our society in general, especially through the mass media

"Clarity is power"

In a nutshell, when we have clarity in our thoughts, we know precisely what matters. When we know precisely what matters, we know where to place our focus, energy & resources.

Getting clear in our minds & then staying that way takes diligent effort as well as personal courage.

"If it's possible in the world, then it's possible for me; it's only a question of strategy";

I have learned over the years, in whatever we do, strategy dictates our success or failure. With the right strategy, everything in life as well as in business is possible.

Start the New Year, with this book '7 Habits' from Stephen Covey and that is one good strategy to embrace in your life pursuits.

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

2010-11-24T15:08:00.001+08:00

"Nurture great thoughts, for you will
never go higher than your thoughts."

+ Benjamin Disraeli:

Was a British prime minister, parliamentarian, and author +

Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

2010-11-18T13:59:00.001+08:00

"By giving people the power to share, we're
making the world more transparent."

+ Mark Zuckerberg:
Entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook +

Dr. Wayne Dyer Quotes

2010-11-17T14:59:00.004+08:00

+ Dr. Wayne Dyer:
Motivational author and speaker +

"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."

___________________

"Abundance is not something we acquire.
It is something we tune into."
___________________

"I will see it when I believe it."
___________________

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human
being, not because anybody says so, not because
you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."

IF TOMORROW STARTS WITHOUT ME

2010-11-03T15:00:00.002+08:00

I received this email recently from an acquaintance, Jacinta Benjamin which I felt that I needed to share with the world.

A few weeks ago a woman was killed in an auto
Accident. She was very well liked, so the office shut
Down for her funeral and it was on the news and so on.
On the day the workers came back to work, they found
This poem in their e-mail that the deceased woman had
Sent on Friday before she left for home.

If tomorrow starts without me,
And I'm not there to see,
If the sun should rise and find your eyes
All filled with tears for me;

I wish so much you wouldn't cry
The way you did today,
While thinking of the many things,
We didn't get to say.

I know how much you love me,
As much as I love you,
And each time that you think of me,
I know you'll miss me too;

But when tomorrow starts without me,
Please try to understand,
That an angel came and called my name,
And took me by the hand,

And said my place was ready,
In heaven far above,
And that I'd have to leave behind
All those I dearly love.

But as I turned to walk away,
A tear fell from my eye,
For all my life, I'd always thought,
I didn't want to die.

I had so much to live for,
So much left yet to do,
It seemed almost impossible,
That I was leaving you.
I thought of all the yesterdays,
The good ones and the bad,
I thought of all that we shared,
And all the fun we had.

If I could relive yesterday,
Just even for a while,
I'd say good-bye and kiss you
And maybe see you smile.

But then I fully realized,
That this could never be,
For emptiness and memories,
Would take the place of me.

And when I thought of worldly things,
I might miss some tomorrow,
I thought of you, and when I did,
My heart was filled with sorrow.

But when I walked through heaven's gates,
I felt so much at home.
When God looked down and smiled at me,
From His great golden throne,

He said, "This is eternity,
And all I've promised you."
Today your life on earth is past,
But here life starts anew.

I promise no tomorrow,
But today will always last,
And since each day is the same way,
There's no longing for the past.

So when tomorrow starts without me,
Don't think we're far apart,
For every time you think of me,
I'm right here, in your heart "

Jerry Gillies Quotes

2010-11-03T14:34:00.002+08:00

"Wealth is not a material gain,
but a state of mind."

+ Jerry Gillies:
Former newsman, author, workshop leader +

W. Clement Stone Quotes

2010-11-03T14:31:00.001+08:00

"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."

+W. Clement Stone:
Businessman, author, and philanthropist+

One Degree of Separation !

2010-10-23T17:37:00.000+08:00

Distinction between Success & Failure !

Rabbi Harold Kushner Quotes

2010-10-23T17:06:00.003+08:00

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought to other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

+ Rabbi Harold Kushner+

Born Mildred Norman Quotes

2010-10-23T16:59:00.003+08:00

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,
you would never think a negative thought."

Peace Pilgrim: Born Mildred Norman,

was a peace activist and spiritual leader

Denis Waitley Quotes

2010-10-15T23:47:00.005+08:00

Denis Waitley:
Motivational speaker and author

"Losers live in the past.
Winners learn from the past and enjoy
working in the present toward the future."

__________________

"Time and health are two precious assets that
we don't recognize and appreciate
until they have been depleted."

__________________

"There are two primary choices in life:
to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them."

Use "Wasted" Time

2010-10-07T14:16:00.002+08:00

Most of us waste time, me more than ever. This came about as I was not clear of my goals and objectives. We waste time standing in queues, waiting in traffic, chatting on-line, sms'ing, surfing the net aimlessly, etc........ I call all these time wasters, diversions or distractions. We fail to use all of our time productively or even pleasurably. We jump from one diversion to another without enjoying any of them. We get irritated about matters beyond our control. The cause, we fail to plan well, causing negative consequences that could be easily avoided, for example we could use our travelling time to read or listen to personal development materials rather sitting, standing around or just purely listening to music. I find reading in the toilet useful as I am in an alpha state where absorption of information is at its highest. :-)

You could use these questions at the end of the day to evaluate your strengths and weakness:

When did I do my worst thinking today?
When did I do my best thinking?
What did I actually think about today?
Did I figure out anything?
Did I allow any negative thinking to frustrate me unnecessarily?
If I had to repeat today, what would I do differently? Why?
Did I do anything today to further my long-term goals?
Did I do what I set out to do? Why or Why not?
Did I act in accordance with my own expressed values?
If I were to spend every day this way for 10 years, would I, at the end, have accomplished something worthy of at that time?

Source: Critical Thinking, Richard W. Paul & Linda Elder

Take a little time with each question and reflect. It would be useful, like a daily journal to record your observations so that you are forced to spell out the details and or bad habits. Be explicit in what you recognise. As time passes, you will be able to look back and search for patterns in your daily thinking, habits and in your observations and assessments of that thinking.

The Legacy you leave behind !

2010-08-30T14:03:00.001+08:00

I received this email from my cousin Maria Crescentia, which will be worthwhile reading.

Randy Pausch, died of pancreatic cancer in 2008, but wrote a book ‘The last lecture” before then, one of the bestsellers in 2007. What a legacy to leave behind…
In a letter to his wife Jai and his children, Dylan, Logan , and Chloe, he wrote this beautiful "guide to a better life" for his wife and children to follow. May you be blessed by his insight.


Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

POINTS ON HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE

Personality:
1. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
2. Don't have negative thoughts of things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment
3. Don't over do; keep your limits
4. Don't take yourself so seriously; no one else does
5. Don't waste your precious energy on gossip
6. Dream more while you are awake
7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need..
8. Forget issues of the past. Don't remind your partner of his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don't hate others.
10. Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present
11. No one is in charge of your happiness except you
12. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
13. Smile and laugh more
14. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Community:
15. Call your family often
16. Each day give something good to others
17. Forgive everyone for everything
18. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6
19. Try to make at least three people smile each day
20. What other people think of you is none of your business
21. Your job will not take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:
22. Put GOD first in anything and everything that you think, say and do.
23. GOD heals everything
24. Do the right things
25. However good or bad a situation is, it will change
26. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up
27. The best is yet to come
28. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful
29. When you awake alive in the morning, thank GOD for it
30. If you know GOD you will always be happy. So, be happy.

While you practice all of the above, share this knowledge with the people you love, people you school with, people you play with, people you work with and people you live with. Not only will it enrich YOUR life, but also that of those around you.

Beliefs drives Results !

2010-07-28T11:59:00.012+08:00

At a recent training which I conducted called "The Awakening" in June 2010 I reflected on this flip chart above. Our current results now and to come are driven from our behaviours, if you observe individuals, what they say and do are not congruent. Because what they say they intend to do was not from their thought through, thought process but rather what others want them do or from previously engrained beliefs. Our beliefs drive our thinking (mindsets) thereby driving our behaviours and getting the result that we do not want. Change your beliefs your results will change, so how do we form beliefs.

"We think within a variety of domains: sociological, philosophical, ethical, intellectual, anthropological, ideological, political, economical, historical, biological, theological and psychological. We ended up with our particular beliefs because we were influenced to do so in the following ways

Vocational: our minds are influenced by our work environment;

Sociological: our minds are influenced by the social groups to which we belong;

Philosophical: our minds are influenced by our personal philosophy;

Ethical: our minds are influenced by the extent to which we behave in accordance with our obligations and the way we define our obligations;

Intellectual: our minds are influenced by the ideas we hold, by the manner in which we reason and deal with abstractions and abstract systems;

Anthropological: our minds are influenced by cultural practices, mores and taboos;

Ideological and Political: our minds are influenced by the structure of power and its use by interest groups around us;

Economic: our minds are influenced by the economic conditions under which we live;

Historical: our minds are influenced by our history and they way we tell our history;

Biological: our minds are influenced by our biology and neurology;

Theological: our minds are influenced by our religious beliefs and attitudes;

Psychological: our minds are influenced by our personality and personal psychology;

Physiological: our minds are influenced by our physical condition, stature and weight;

Reflections such as these should awaken in us a sense of how little we really know about our own minds"

Source: Critical Thinking, by Richard W Paul and Linda Elder

When I read this and reflected I discovered how much of influence all the above has influenced my mind and why sometimes I do not get the desired results. Today I read and reflect on this following statement below;

"Critical Thinking -I will not identify with the content of any belief. I will identify only with the way I come to my beliefs. I am a critical thinker and, as such, am ready to abandon any belief that cannot be supported by evidence and rational considerations. I am ready to follow evidence and reason wherever they lead. My true identity is that of being a critical thinker, a lifelong learner, and a person always looking to improve my thinking by becoming more reasonable in my beliefs.

Source: Critical Thinking, by Richard W Paul and Linda Elder

Just remember, examine your current beliefs and replace them with new beliefs following the above process and without doubt you will achieve your desired results. As I have.

Taking Personal Responsibility

2010-05-13T14:44:00.008+08:00

We are in the constant process of blaming others or justifying for our current condition or status and never look inside our selves for what we need to change. This was true for me till I went for a personal breakthrough programme in the year 1997. I walked out of the event with only one thing in my mind "For things to change first I must change". And the first thing to change is taking responsibility for everything that happens around me. I like this write up by Brian Tracy:

By: Brian Tracy

Did you ever stop to think that everything you are or ever will be is completely up to you? Just imagine! You are where you are because of who you are. Everything that exists in your life exists because of you, because of your behavior, words and actions. Because you have freedom of choice and because you have chosen each and every circumstance of your life, you are completely responsible for all of your success and failure, your happiness and unhappiness, your present and future.

That thought is like a parachute jump: It’s scary and exhilarating at the same time. It’s one of the biggest and most important ideas that can ever occur to you, or anyone else. The acceptance of personal responsibility is what separates the adult from the child. It’s the great leap forward into maturity. Responsibility is the hallmark of the fully integrated, fully functioning human being. Responsibility goes hand in hand with success, achievement, motivation, happiness and self-actualization. It’s the absolute minimum requirement for the accomplishment of everything you could ever really want in life. Accepting that you’re completely responsible for yourself and realizing that no one is coming to the rescue is the beginning of peak performance. There’s very little that you cannot do or have after you accept that If it’s to be, it’s up to me!

The opposite of accepting responsibility is making excuses and blaming people and things for what’s going on in your life. And since everything we do is a matter of habit, if people get into the habit of making excuses, they get into the habit of evading responsibility at the same time. If they set a goal or objective for themselves, they immediately create an excuse that they hold in reserve just in case the accomplishment of the goal is too difficult or requires more self-discipline and persistence than they had thought. As soon as things start to go poorly, irresponsible people trot out their excuse and let themselves off the hook. But that won’t get them anywhere in the long run.

A basic law of human life was first espoused by Socrates more than 400 years before Christ. It’s called the Law of Causality. We call it the Law of Cause and Effect. It states that for every effect in your life, there’s a cause. If there’s any effect that you desire, or desire more of, you can trace it back to the cause, and by duplicating the cause, you can have the effect.

For example, everyone wants to be healthy. If you set a high level of physical health and energy as your goal, or the desired effect, you can have it simply by finding out the cause, by finding out what other healthy and energetic people do with regard to diet, exercise and rest, and by doing the same thing. If you do, you’re likely to get the same result. This is no miracle. It sounds simple, but in many cases, it’s one of the hardest things in the world to do.

Unhappiness is an effect as well. If you wish to be happy, the first thing to do is to decide for yourself the kind of life situation in which you would feel wonderful. Think of the very best times of your life, and think of what you were doing, where you were doing it, and the people you were with at the time. Then write out, in complete detail, a description of your ideal lifestyle. Now you have defined the effect that you desire.

Next, look at your current life and ask yourself, What are all the things in my life that are inconsistent with the lifestyle that would make me happy? In other words, look at the causes of the effects that you don’t like. Then make a decision to begin alleviating or removing those causes, one by one, until what you have left is the kind of life you want to live.

Your thoughts are extremely powerful. They have the power to raise and lower your blood pressure, your pulse rate and your respiratory rate. They can affect your digestion. And if your thoughts are strong enough, they can even make you sick or healthy. Your thoughts tend to trigger images in your mind, and the feelings in your body are consistent with them. If you think or read happy, healthy thoughts, you will have happy, healthy pictures and experience happy, healthy emotions. As Deepak Chopra points out in his audiocassette program Magical Mind, Magical Body, every part of your mind is connected to every single part of your body in a complex web of messages and impulses that affect everything you feel, say and do.

Only you can think your thoughts, only you can decide what you’ll dwell upon, what you’ll read and listen to, who you’ll associate with and the conversations you’ll engage in; therefore, you are totally responsible for all the consequences of all those behaviors. It’s unavoidable.

Perhaps the most important part of the subject of self-responsibility involves your happiness and your peace of mind. There seems to be a direct relationship between responsibility and happiness on the one hand, and irresponsibility and unhappiness on the other hand. Let me explain.

First of all, the key to happiness is having a sense of control over what’s going on in your life. The more you feel that you’re in control, the happier you’ll be. Men and women who have risen to the top of their organizations tend to be far happier than people further down. This is because they feel far more in control of their destinies, far more capable of making decisions and taking action. The more responsibility you take in your company, the more power, authority and respect you’ll receive. One of the smartest things you can do is to take responsibility for the most important concerns of your boss. The more you accept responsibility for getting results in the areas that your boss considers most important, the more valuable and indispensable you’ll become in your organization. People who want more money and more respect often think that they can get it simply by asking for it or by politicking. The truth is that it will accrue to you rapidly as soon as you step up to the plate and undertake responsibility for results in your organization. The most respected people in any company are those who are the most capable of getting the most important jobs done on schedule.

The more responsibility you take, the more in control you are. And the freer you are, especially in your own mind, to make decisions and to do the things you want to do. So there’s a direct relationship between responsibility, control, freedom and happiness. The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their lives.

At the other end of the spectrum, there is irresponsibility, or the failure to accept responsibility. Each person is somewhere in between, moving toward a higher level of responsibility or irresponsibility with every word and every decision. In fact, a good definition of insanity is total irresponsibility, to the point of needing a straitjacket and a padded cell. Thomas Szasz, the great psychoanalyst, once wrote, There is no such thing as insanity. There are only varying levels of irresponsibility.

A person who is completely irresponsible is subject to anger, hostility, fear, resentment, doubt-all sorts of negative emotions. And here’s why. All negative emotions tend to be associated with blame. Fully 99 percent of all our problems exist only because we’re able to blame someone or something for them. The instant we stop blaming, our negative emotions begin disappearing.

What’s the antidote to blaming? It’s simple! Since your mind can hold only one thought at a time, either positive or negative, you can override the tendency to blame and become angry simply by saying, firmly, I am responsible! You can’t accept responsibility for a situation and be angry at the same time. You can’t accept responsibility and be unhappy or upset. The acceptance of responsibility negates negative emotions and short-circuits any tendencies toward unhappiness.

The very act of accepting responsibility calms your mind and clarifies your vision. It soothes your emotions and enables you to think more positively and constructively. In fact, the acceptance of responsibility often gives you insight into what you should do to resolve the situation.

Here’s an exercise: Look at the most common problems and difficulties that people have in life. Apply this simple remedy of accepting responsibility to each one, and see what happens.

People have problems with other people-their spouses, their children, their friends, their coworkers and their bosses. Someone once said that almost all of our problems in life have hair on top, come on two legs and talk back. So think of the people in your life who cause you any stress or anxiety and ask yourself who is responsible. Are they responsible for being in your life, or are you responsible for having them in your life?

According to the Law of Attraction, you’re a living magnet in that you invariably attract people into your life who harmonize with your dominant thoughts and emotions. The people in your life are there because you’ve attracted them by the person you are, by the thoughts you hold, by the emotions you experience. If you’re not happy with the people surrounding you, you’re responsible. You’re attracting them, and you’re keeping them there.

Let me give you an example. I have four beautiful children. For a long time, when my children were behaving in ways that I felt were inappropriate, I had a tendency to blame or criticize them. However, the more I studied child raising and learned about the subject, the more I found that children are almost totally reactive. Their behaviors are almost always responses to what is going on around them and to their relationships with their parents. So I began asking the question, What is it in me that is causing my child to act this way? As soon as I turned the question around, and looked to myself for the reason-in effect, accepted complete responsibility for my children’s behavior-I was able to see what I might be doing, or not doing, that my children were reacting to. Perhaps I wasn’t spending enough one-on-one time with them. Perhaps I wasn’t listening to them when they wanted to talk. Perhaps I was too quick to question their report cards.

I began to apply that simple principle to every other part of my life as well. I began asking, What is it in me that is causing this external situation? If the Law of Correspondence is true (and it is), and everything that is happening to you on the outside is due to something that is happening to you on the inside, then the first place to look is within. As soon as you do that, you begin to see things that you had completely missed when you were busy blaming others and making excuses. You begin to see that you’re responsible in large measure for the things that are happening to you.

If you’re in a bad relationship, who got you there? You likely weren’t marched into the relationship and kept there at gunpoint. So it’s largely a matter of free will and free choice on your part. If you’re not happy, it’s up to you to do something about it. As Henry Ford II once said, Never complain, never explain. If you’re not happy with the situation, do something about it. If you’re not willing to do something about it, then don’t complain.

There’s the story of the construction worker who opens up his lunch box at the noon break and unwraps his sandwich to find that it contains sardines. He gets really upset and complains loudly to everyone around him about how much he hates sardines. The next day, the same thing happens: a sardine sandwich. Again, the construction worker shouts and complains about how much he hates sardines for lunch. The third day it happens again. By this time, his fellow workers are getting fed up with his loud complaining. One of them leans over and says to him, If you hate sardines so much, why don’t you tell your wife to make you some other kind of sandwich? The construction worker turns to the fellow and says, Oh, I’m not married. I make my own lunches!

Many of us get into the same situation as the construction worker’s and complain about circumstances that are almost entirely of our own making. Is this true for you? Look over your relationships and ask where this might be true in your life.

Are you happy with your job? Are you happy with the amount of money you’re earning? Are you happy with your level of responsibility and your activities each day? If you’re not, you need to accept that you’re completely responsible for every aspect of your job and your career. Why? Because you chose it freely. You took the job, you assumed the responsibilities, and you accepted the wage. If you’re not happy with any of them, for any reason, then it’s up to you to do something different.

You’re earning today exactly what you’re worth-not a penny more, not a penny less. In life, we tend to get exactly what we deserve. If you’re not satisfied with the amount you’re getting, look around you, at people who are doing the kind of work you would like to do and earning the kind of money you would like to earn. Ask them what they’re doing differently from what you’re doing. What are the causes of the effects they’re getting? Once you know what they are, accept complete responsibility for your situation, apply your wonderful mind and abilities, back them with willpower and self-discipline, and get busy making the changes you need to make to enjoy the life you want to enjoy.

Your great aim in life is to develop character. Character is composed of self-esteem, self-discipline, the ability to delay gratification, and the willingness to accept full responsibility for your life and everything in it. The more you say to yourself, I am responsible, the stronger, better and finer a person you become. And every part of your life will improve at the same time.

Source: Brian Tracy is a leading authority on personal and business success. As Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, he is the best-selling author of 17 books and over 300 audio and video learning programs. Copyright 2001 Brian Tracy International. All Rights Reserved. http://www.briantracy.com

Critical Thinking

2010-05-11T15:03:00.005+08:00

Ironically, humans are not simply the only “logical” animal, they are also the only “illogical” animal. They are the only animal that uses meanings – ideas, concepts, analogies, metaphors, models, theories and explanations – to make sense of things, to understand, predict, and control things. They are also the only animal that uses meanings to negate, contradict, and deceive itself, to misconceive, distort and stereotype, to become dogmatic, prejudiced and narrow-minded. Humans are the only animal whose thinking can be characterized in terms like clear, precise, accurate, relevant, consistent, profound, and fair: they are also the only animal whose thinking is often imprecise, vague, inaccurate, irrelevant, superficial, trivial, and biased.

Critical thinking makes sense in the light of this paradoxical dichotomy. Humans ought not simply trust their instincts. They ought not believe unquestioningly what spontaneously occurs to them. They ought not accept as true everything taught as true. They are not born with intellectually sound standards for belief, for truth, for validity. They need to cultivate habits and traits which integrate these standards into their lives.

In the last three decades, much has been discovered about animals and their thinking, including the fact that, seen from a certain light, they are very often quite “logical” in their orientation to the world. Still, Paul’s comments about the dichotomous nature of human thought and action are as relevant today as ever. How do we effectively deal with the fact that on the one hand we can be rational, reasonable creatures while on the other, irrational and unreasonable? One and the same person can be logical, open-minded and empathic in one setting while close-minded, selfish and unreasoning in another. This question has always been at the heart of the work of the Center and Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Source: In 1989, in the program for the Seventh International Conference on Critical Thinking and Education Reform, Richard Paul opened with these comments.

How do we Spend our $$$$$ !

2010-04-23T14:49:00.010+08:00

People with Poor Thinking spend like the Rich!
VS
People with Rich Thinking spend in Richness!

Is the above statement true for you? For me it was, my rich dad that said our income will never exceed our self-image and we must have the self-image to handle wealth. I believe we are stewards of mother earth and its resources, how we manage and grow them is our collective responsibilities. But first are we responsible for our own personal wealth creation.

My story, I came across a substantial amount of wealth in the year 1995 after selling of my private property. I was a poor thinker spending like the rich. Bought a second hand car in cash to help a friend out who was having financial difficulties. I bought a home and renovated like the rich, personally selected Italian tiles for my home, bought designer lights from Europe which cost about $1’000 per piece. Bought even a marine coral fish tank, a self- sustaining system which was about $10’000. All for what, to impress the Joneses, living like the rich but thinking like the poor. Invested in a business, losing all my money made me realize what a fool I was. No financial literacy period. It has taken me awhile to learn these lessons and the first lesson is learn to think like the rich. The rich tracks and keeps records of their finances by way of an Income/Expenditure and Asset/Liability account while the poor only have an Income/Expenditure account. What I discovered is the poor spends money on consumer products, which we all love to do and probably it will end up in the trash. While the rich invests money in assets which produces income. Asset puts money in your pocket while Liability takes money out of your pocket.

This would be a good place to start a link to download and create your very own Income/Expenditure and Asset/Liability account. Please click here Rich Dad's Personal Financial Calculator. What’s the point in becoming rich if you do not know where your money is going? That’s what happened to me, I become temporarily rich and lost it all. Once a acquaintance said this; "The essential miracle is not walking through fire, or on water: it is waking up!" +Dilip Mukerjea+

So wake up! First you need to start thinking and acting like the rich before we can spend like the rich. Your first step to being rich is to start reading this book by Robert Kiyosaki, “Rich Dad Poor Dad” to change your thinking next start acting by creating your very own Income/Expenditure and Asset/Liability account. What’s the next step, coming soon in future blogs?

Duplicate don’t Complicate !

2010-04-04T22:40:00.007+08:00

From the 26^th to the 28^thof March 2010, I was at a major e commerce seminar where we had successful millionaires sharing success principles with an audience of about 700 + would be millionaires. As I was taking notes a thought came to me “Duplicate don’t Complicate”. All through life we all wish to succeed but some of us don’t and some of us do, why? In my past 7 years of helping and mentoring individuals to succeed I have found that the reason why individuals fail is because we do not want to follow success principles to the letter.

We start and stop, start and stop, start and stop and then quit! While those who succeed stay on the course, stick to the letter of principles and figure out how to get these success principles work for them. We should duplicate success principles, why because it works, that’s why! Countless books have recorded success principles, they are even found in religious books and why are we discounting them. Maybe too much education has made us dumb and we can’t see the simplicity of becoming rich, so we complicate by questioning proven success principles. We start and when it does not work we question the success principle.

Lets use an example like the law of gravity, this principle works right. The earth is 93 million miles away from the sun; it’s exactly where it should be for life to flourish. If the earth is just a 100’000 miles in excess closer or further we either get burnt or frozen to death. Why don’t we question law of gravity because we have either taken it for granted or never questioned its very existence except Isaac Newton and its existence validated. I am sure Isaac Newton must have tested this theory, having done numerous experiments and validated its existence.

In this process of testing theories, success principles have been worked and tested to its existence and proves it works by individuals who have used its principles and share with us through their successes but what they have not shared is the many failures they had to go through and the many corrections they had to make to get the success principle to work.

Napoleon Hill took 20 years of his life to interview 500 + successful individuals and documented 17 success principles and the book is called “The Law of Success”. This book its like a bible of success, subsequently another book was published, which I highly recommend to read before your start to read the bible of success and that is “Think & Grow Rich” and it gives an intro to success principles. This book is a classic and I would recommend that you should re-read this book every year.

Duplicate its principles don’t complicate it, and make constant corrections to make the success principle work and in the process you will figure out what works and what doesn’t. And the answer to success lies in your hands!

Compass & Watch

2010-03-09T01:40:00.006+08:00

I read a book sometime ago, and I cannot remember the title of this book. It indicates that in life we need to have a compass and a watch. The compass is to set the direction and destination for us and the watch to reach our destination within a given time. Sounds about right. But my recent discovery has been that our current compass is grossly misaligned. Our compass is what are our dreams, goals, desires and what we wish to achieve. But there seem to be a misalignment with these abovementioned with our value system.

The Greek philosopher Socrates said “Know Thyself”. Do we really know who we are! In my personal assessment we really do not know who we are. Yes, we think we know who we are and what we want but until one examines our core value system we are grossly in misalignment to what we want. Socrates also said “The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living”

“The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living” by Karl W. Palachuk

The hardest thing about examining your life is getting started.

I’m sure you’ve read this quote before: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates said that at his trial for heresy. He was on trial for encouraging his students to challenge the accepted beliefs of the time and think for themselves. The sentence was death but Socrates had the option of suggesting an alternative punishment. He could have chosen life in prison or exile, and would likely have avoided death.

But Socrates believed that these alternatives would rob him of the only thing that made life useful: Examining the world around him and discussing how to make the world a better place. Without his “examined life” there was no point in living. So he suggested that Athens reward him for his service to society. The result, of course, is that they had no alternative and were forced to vote for a punishment of death.

Luckily, we don’t have to choose between an examined life and death. But the sad thing is, most people avoid leading an examined life. It’s not that they don’t have time or make time. They actively avoid examining their lives.

People who do examine their lives, who think about where they’ve been, how they got here, and where they’re going, are much happier people. No one has all the answers. And no one’s life is free from trouble and strife. But those who have some sense of where they belong in the universe also have a context for understanding how all the elements of their life fit together.

If there are two people, one with a map and one without a map, who has the better chance of reaching her destination? The one with the map, of course.

When you set aside time to examine your life,

You get to choose your destination; You get to set the goals;

You get to determine the path; You get to decide how long it will take;

You get to decide whether you’re on the right path or the wrong path.

In other words, you begin to know your self and to take control of your life. You decide who you want to be and begin to become the person you want to be.

Examining your life brings tremendous freedom. You can take control of your life and all you have to do is set aside half an hour a day to get started. “

Karl W. Palachuk captured the essence of this quote from Socrates, my question was what do we examine. I believe we should examine our core values, as that is our main compass. Our values are formed thru traditional education, culture, religion, social networks, society and families. An example would be from young we are told to educate our selves to get a good degree and get a safe and secure job, settle down and start a family. Now someone tells you forget this path and begin on a new path of freedom and achieving whatever your heart desires. You want it and it rings true for you but when you embark on the journey of this new path you encounter challenges and easily you quit, WHY?

Because your present core values and what you wish for or want which is the new value system has a gross misalignment. Your old operating system in your brain does not allow for the new values to take root. You need to upgrade your operating system by challenging your current values. Questioning your beliefs, norms and values as Socrates encouraged his students to challenge the accepted beliefs of that time and think for themselves. This will take place when you encounter challenges on your new journey when you have new dreams and goals that you wish to achieve. As you question and challenge your accepted beliefs and values you start to acquire new thinking (upgraded operating system) and in the process acquire new habits. This formulae was taken from an unknown source:

Old Thinking + Old habits + Short Term Viewpoint = Predictable Consequences

Old Thinking + Old habits + Long Term Viewpoint = Potential Consequences

New Thinking + New Habits + Long Term Viewpoint = New Consequences

When we have old thinking and habits our consequences are always predictable.

When we want change and that is taking a long-term viewpoint and when we approach it with the same old thinking and habits we will only have potential consequences.

But when you approach a long-term viewpoint with new thinking and habits in other words you have questioned and challenged your current accepted beliefs and values, you acquire new thinking and habits and the consequences will definitely be new not potential or predictable.

In conclusion examine you life by constantly questioning and challenging accepted beliefs, values and norms. As Socrates says: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Success is a Function of Correction

2010-02-23T23:10:00.009+08:00

I just finished reading this book which I would highly recommend for all who are on their journey to achieving their goals and dreams. Far too often when we begin or take action to start something we quit at the first sign of defeat or rejection. My personal experience has been that you need to have a plan and what are the current resources that you have to start with. Some of us never start as we make the assumption that we need to have all the resources and conditions right before we start taking action. That's pure procrastination. Some of us will take action and quit as the going becomes tough. I have come to the conclusion why people quit its because they do not wish to put their thinking cap and ask questions as to why the process or action taken is not working.

"Thinking is the hardest work there is that's why so few people engage in it" quote Albert Einstein. In my training experience one of the common characteristics that I find is that most participants refuse to or are just lazy to think or do not have the necessary tools or skills to solve a challenge when they are faced with it and prefer to seek advice or opinion of others which is convenient and can be disasterous. We prefer instant or quick fixes, probably because we live in a society of instant coffee, instant cash, instant noodles and instant answers.

This book gives you an insight and tools to help you succeed. An excerpt from the book; the three most important steps, discovered and rediscovered by virtually every successful person, are these:

Decide exactly what you want, write it down, and make a plan to achieve it. Decide upon your destination.
Take action. Launch toward your goal. Step out in faith. Take the first step with no guarantee of success. Take off on your journey.
Be prepared to make continual course corrections every hour and every day of your life as you fly toward your destination. Expect an inevitable, unavoidable, and unbroken series of problems, difficulties, reversals, setbacks and crises every day and week of your life. Since you cannot avoid them, your aim must be to respond to them effectively.

The Law of Seeds

2010-02-21T00:50:00.006+08:00

This is a good way to think if you want to be happy. Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apples on the tree, each with ten seeds. That's a lot of seeds! We might ask. Why would you need so many seeds to grow just a few more trees? Nature has something to teach us here. It's telling us: Most seeds never grow. So if you really want to make something happen, you had better try more than once.

This might mean:

You'll attend twenty interviews to get one job.

You'll interview forty people to find one good employee.

You'll talk to fifty people to sell one house, car, ideas, etc

And you might meet a hundred acquaintances to find one special friend.

When we understand the Law of the Seed, we don't get so disappointed.

We stop feeling like victims. Laws of nature are not things to take personally.

We just need to understand them and work with them.

IN A NUTSHELL

Successful people fail more often. They plant more seeds. When Things Are Beyond Your Control, Here's a recipe for permanent misery...

a) Decide how you think the world SHOULD be.

b) Make rules for how everyone SHOULD behave.

Then, when the world doesn't obey your rules, get angry! That's what miserable people do! Let's say you expect that:

Friends SHOULD return favours.

People SHOULD appreciate you.

Planes SHOULD arrive on time.

Everyone SHOULD be honest.

Your husband SHOULD remember your birthday.

These expectations may sound reasonable. But often, these things won't happen! So you end up frustrated and disappointed.

There's a better strategy. Have less demands. Instead, have preferences! For things that are beyond your control, tell yourself: I WOULD PREFER A, BUT IF B HAPPENS, IT'S OK TOO!

This is really a game that you play in your head. It is a shift in attitude, and it gives you more peace of mind. You prefer that people are polite ... but when they are rude, it doesn't ruin your day. You prefer sunshine ... but rain is ok!

To become happier, we either need to

a) Change the world, or

b) Change our thinking.

It is easier to change our thinking!

IN A NUTSHELL

It's not what happens to you that determines your happiness. It's how you think about what happens to you!

+Source Unknown+

Success is a journey not a destination !

2010-02-20T14:19:00.005+08:00

In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said,"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles.

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." He went on to become the most popular singer in America named Elvis Presley.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 10'000 experiments

before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 10'000-step process."

In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

The Moral of the above Stories:

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the things you cannot do. And remember, the finest steel gets sent through the hottest furnace. A winner is not one who never fails, but one who NEVER QUITS! In LIFE, remember that you pass this way only once! let's live life to the fullest and give it our extreme best....have a blissful life... A miracle is not the suspension of natural law, but the operation of a higher law...

"In the Final Analysis"

2010-01-29T03:52:00.006+08:00

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

The version found written on the wall in
Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta

The Difference Maker !

2010-01-21T17:50:00.005+08:00

I was reading this book recently, John Maxwell, author of "Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It"
and came across the distinct differences between people that make things happen and those who watch and wonder!

Believe while others are doubting.

Plan while others are playing.

Study while others are sleeping.

Decide while others are delaying.

Prepare while others are daydreaming.

Begin while others are procrastinating.

Work while others are wishing.

Save while others are wasting.

Listen while others are talking.

Smile while others are frowning.

Commend while others are criticizing.

Persist while others are quitting.

+ Poet William Arthur Ward+

Believing or Seeing !

2010-01-12T01:32:00.005+08:00

Seeing isn't believing !
Believing is seeing !

+From the movie Santa Clause+

The Science of Getting Rich !

2010-01-12T01:15:00.007+08:00

I was browsing through a bookstore one day and my eyes fell upon this book. In my personal opinion I attracted this book as I have been in search of creating wealth. I subscribe to a book club and after I bought this book I received delivery of the same book from my book club. Talk about coincidences! I don’t believe in coincidences, everything takes place for a reason. The Law of Attraction! If you are in search of creating wealth, start with this book first! I highly recommend it!

The Science Of Getting Rich, written by Wallace D. Wattles, was first published almost a century ago, and become an immediate success thanks to its revolutionary, but extremely practical approach to achieving financial and personal success.

This prosperity classic has recently been re-discovered for a new generation. The principles of the book are timeless, like all universal laws, and will set you free from financial insecurity, helping you grow as a person and live to your full potential.

The Science Of Getting Rich can do for you today what it has been doing for successful men and women of all ages and from all walks of life for almost a hundred years: making you wealthy by creative thinking. It will teach you to think in a “certain way” so that you attract abundance and prosperity rather than chase it.

As Wallace D. Wattles says:
“Getting rich is not the result of doing certain things; it is the result of doing things in a ‘Certain Way!’”

Discover “the secret” of how to get rich, starting from where you are, with what you already have, and doing what you’re already doing – no matter what your situation. There is a science to getting rich and this book contains the time-tested formula.

Know Thyself !

2009-12-31T16:32:00.006+08:00

Socrates
(469-399 B.C.E.)

Socrates once said this "Know Thyself"

The saying "Know thyself" may refer by extension to the ideal of understanding human behavior, morals, and thought, because ultimately to understand oneself is to understand other humans as well. However, the ancient Greek philosophers thought that no man can ever comprehend the human spirit and thought thoroughly, so it would have been almost inconceivable to know oneself fully. Therefore, the saying may refer to a less ambitious ideal, such as knowing one's own habits, morals, temperament, ability to control anger, and other aspects of human behavior that we struggle with on a daily basis. Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself)

Do we really know who we are and this questions evades us even till to date. Until we can discover who we truly are how are we going to achieve our dreams and our goals? I work with a team of individuals in the areas of personal development and coaching them to build an internet based business. We have regular weekly sessions after our main e-commerce meetings and we call these sessions night owls, where we get together to have coffee and break bread together. 30/12/09 was one of these sessions that was held @ 11pm and my focus for this session was to approach the year 2010 with a thankful and grateful heart. This email was sent by one of my team members, Elvin Zhang where he captured the thoughts and points of this night. I felt that this is worth sharing with the rest of the world.

"Happy New Year’s Eve CAM Team!!
I’ve been staying up pondering and looking through William’s awesome Night Owl today. Despite it lasting a short while, I think it will have a lasting impact for all those who attended the Night Owl. It struck me to just share with the team, especially the people who cannot make it for night owl due to various commitments as I believe the below information will be critical to shaping 2010 for all of us in CAM team. So... Do take some time off to go through them if you missed the session! :)

Objective: To discover yourself as a person in 2010 (not only in the business but in life as a whole)

Ask yourself this 8 questions and ponder over them, arrive at an answer and write them down:

Who am I?
What are my values?
What is my current life as of to-date?
What is my future life going to be like, any decisions I am making?
What are my strengths and shortcomings?
What are the opportunities and threats out there?
What are 3 specific goals I have for myself for 2010?
What are the 3 things that I must do for 2010 or I shall perish..

Analyze what you have achieved so far? Be specific... During the year 2009, what have you done to your life? What are some of the decisions that you have made which made you who you are. Focus on the positive things.

Finally..

If we look back at the year and moan and whine and bitch relentlessly, facing the coming year will be a tedious and long journey for every single one of us. The very fact that we live right now, breathing the air around us and being able to read this very sentence is a sign of blessing so do count our blessings and give thanks. Effortless action only comes about being thankful of what we have. So here’s the final activity:

What are you thankful for in 2009? List down at least 10 (we all definitely have more than 10.. the list is inexhaustible of course, as many as you like)

The new year will be a year full of opportunities and it’s going to be a blast for every single one of us in CAM team! The problem is: It will only be so if our mind can conceive it and believe it! God’s greatest gift to us is the ability to believe in thyself. Make use of it and scaling greater heights in the echelons of success is a done deal for year 2010! Good faith guys/girls and FINISH IT OFF~ Festive Regards, Elvin Zhang"

Rolling Thunder

2009-12-07T17:21:00.004+08:00

Our thoughts are thunder ! Constantly rolling in our brain ! Deepak Chopra indicates that we go through 60'000 thoughts per day and 90% are negative thoughts repeated over and over again. We are responsible for our THOUGHTS ! Thoughts are Causes, Outcomes are Effects !

“People have to be responsible for their thoughts, so they have to learn to control them. It may not be easy, but it can be done. First of all, if we don’t want to think certain things we don’t say them. We don’t have to eat everything we see, and we don’t have to say everything we think. So we begin by watching our words and speaking with good purpose only. There are times when we must have clear and pure minds with no unwanted thoughts and we have to train and prepare steadily for those times until we are ready. We don’t have to say or think what we don’t wish to. We have a choice in those things, and we have to realize that and practice using that choice. There is no use condemning yourself for the thoughts and ideas that come into your mind; so there’s no use arguing with yourself or fighting your thoughts. Just realize that you can think what you choose. You don’t have to pay attention to those unwanted thoughts. If they keep coming into your head, just let them alone and say, ‘I don’t choose to have such thoughts’, and they will soon go away. If you keep a steady determination and stick with that purpose you will know how to use that choice and control your consciousness so unwanted thoughts don’t come to you anymore. Then you can experience purification completely and in the right way and no impurities can exist in your mind or body at anytime.”

Rolling Thunder by Doug Boyd

Please DO NOT WASTE food

2009-12-07T16:46:00.007+08:00

Not liking the food you have daily????

..........................How about some pizza?

No??? Ok....... Pasta?
No?? .. How about Taco?

Not in taco mood today? ... ok.. Trying this Mexican Food?

No again? No probs.. we have more choice..
Hmmmmmmm.. chinise??????? :-)

Burgersssssss????????

Ok.. lets try Indian.. J South Indian Food?
Naaaaa??? North Indian?

Junk food mood?

The choice we have is endless....... Tiffin ?

Non-Veg?

Large Quantity?

Or just some bites of chicken?
You can have any of these... or try out little from all...

But.. They have No choice..

They just need some food to survive...

Think of them next time you throw the cafeteria food saying, its not tasty!!

Think of them next time you say ... Roti here is too hard to eat..

Please DO NOT WASTE food

'Helping hands are better than Praying Lips' - give us your helping hand.

Self Mastery

2009-12-05T15:15:00.007+08:00

The above statement rings true for most of us. We spend most of our lives earning a living rather than designing our lives. Before we start to design our lives we should know who we are and what we want. Socrates the Greek philosopher quoted "Know Thyself". And to know oneself is to attain Self Mastery. The below mentioned quote from Stewart Emery will shed some light. Please read and master yourself.

Mastery in one’s career and consciousness growth simply requires that we constantly produce results beyond and out of the ordinary. Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits. For most people, it starts with technical excellence in a chosen field and a commitment to that excellence. If you are willing to commit yourself to excellence, to surround yourself with things that represent this and miracles, your life will change. (When we speak of miracles, we speak of events or experiences in the real world, which are beyond the ordinary.)

It’s remarkable how much mediocrity we live with, surrounding ourselves with daily reminders that the average is the acceptable. Our world suffers from terminal normality. Take a moment to assess all of the things around you that promote your being “average”. These are the things that keep you powerless to go beyond a “limit” you arbitrarily set for yourself. The first step to mastery is the removal of everything in your environment that represents mediocrity, removing those things that are limiting. One way is to surround yourself with friends who ask more of you than you do. Didn’t some of your best teachers, coaches, parents, etc.?

Another step on the path to mastery is the removal of resentment toward masters. Develop compassion for yourself so that you can be in the presence of masters and grow from the experience. Rather than comparing yourself and resenting people who have mastery, remain open and receptive; let the experience be like the planting of a seed within you that, with nourishment, will grow into your individual mastery.

You see, we are all ordinary. But a master, rather that condemning himself for his “ordinariness”, will embrace it and use it as a foundation for building the extraordinary. Rather than using it as an excuse for inactivity, he will use it as a vehicle for correcting, which is essential in the process of attaining mastery. You must be able to correct without invalidating or condemning yourself, to accept results and improve upon them. Correct, don’t protect. Correction is essential to power and mastery.

Stewart Emery

The Millionaire Mentor

2009-11-25T15:38:00.008+08:00

Why a Mentor? Because……..

The Johari Window below explains that we need someone to cover our blind spots and if you say we do not have any my Millionaire Mentor Shivaram Kumar indicates you have a blind country behind you. We all have blind spots and we need someone to cover these so we could minimize our mistakes and failures. I personally have mentors in the arrears of brain development (Lee Say Kheng), Karate (Michael Sim), Powerful Presentations (Blair Singer & Yeo Chak Khng) and Financial Freedom (Kankan Bhattacharyya & Shivaram Kumar)

In the year 1998 I lost a substantial amount of money in business and figured out why? You have a choice to learn from mentors that is called “WISDOM” or try it out on your own and that is called “EXPERIENCE”. Wisdom, three things that I have learnt. Firstly, emotions and money do not go hand in hand. When we make decisions about money we should always rely on facts and not the opinion of others and remove all emotions out of the decision making process. Secondly, I went into a Good Deal with Bad People instead I should have gone into a Bad Deal with Good People. There are numerous, seemingly good deals around and as we know these good deals can go bad as we are dealing with bad people where they are only interested in making money for themselves. If we deal with good people, a bad deal can be turned around because they have your interest in their hearts and they want to make this deal work for all. Thirdly, mentorship, because I had so many blind spots, I had no one covering them and the outcome was my lost of monies. Today I have an awesome mentor, financially retired at the age of 32, 1st march 1996 and till to date he is still retired young and rich and he mentors me and my team to achieve the same status where he is now. Makes Sense!

The Millionaire Mentor is a little book with a BIG message, offering sage advice you can use to move ahead in your work and life.

It’s a powerful parable with inspiring insights about believing in yourself, your objectives, and your dreams – and taking action to achieve them! Poignant and illuminating, it unlocks the secrets of winning in a simple way, yet profound, story about an entrepreneur and his protégé.

The story begins when young Oscar meets Roy, a wealthy business, outside the Palace of Frozen Delights. Seeing Roy’s Mercedes, Oscar says, “Wow! You must be rich. How did you get that way?”

Roy takes Oscar under his wings, and they start meeting monthly at the Palace. Oscar matures from a wide-eyed kid to a wealthy adult – fueled by Roy’s invaluable words of wisdom.

The story is uplifting yet pragmatic, philosophical but fun. It’s an enjoyable, easy-to-read narrative, highlighted by a unique series of motivational success cards. Strong, yet warmhearted, Roy teaches Oscar habits you, too, can use to achieve not only material success, but also the ultimate fulfillment of finding and living your purpose.

An inspiring book and a must read.

The Parable Of The Pipeline

2009-11-25T14:05:00.005+08:00

If you are struggling financially, this book will open doors to possibilities you would have never dreamed off! When I read this book I personally realized why I was struggling day to day, week to week, month to month & year to year. Today I have an internet based private franchising business and it is providing me a pipe line other than my paycheck. My wife was retrenched earlier this year 2009, due to the bad economic recession and because I made a decision to build this business seven years ago, December 2002. My family has survived this recession and we had a pipeline that replaced the loss of income. One pipeline is worth a thousand paychecks!

We’re living in the most affluent economy in decades. Yet millions of people are still living from paycheck to paycheck, working longer and longer hours just to stay even.

Why? Because they bought into the wrong plan! They’ve fallen for the Time-for-Money Trap. You know, a day’s work for a day’s pay. A month’s work for a month’s pay. Making ends meet. Sounds familiar?

Whether you’re a $10,000-a-year dishwasher or a $100,000-a-year doctor, you’re still trading one unit of time for one unit of money. You’re still living paycheck to paycheck. As for “job security” – if you can’t do the work because of layoffs… illness… injury… or retirement – the paychecks stop!

Where’s the security in that?

How do you escape the Time-for-Money Trap? By building Pipelines of ongoing, residual income. With residual income, you do the work once and get paid over and over again. That’s why one pipeline is worth a thousand paychecks. Pipelines keep pumping day after day, year after year, whether you’re there to do the work or not.

Now, that’s security-true financial security!

The Parable Of The Pipeline will teach you how to build pipelines so that you can make the leap from earning a living today… to enjoying a lifestyle tomorrow!

I highly recommend that you get hold of this book and read it. And start to create a pipeline now!

If you need help in creating a pipeline, email me at william_anthony@singnet.com.sg

The Ant And The Elephant

2009-11-25T13:46:00.011+08:00

How can an Ant control an Elephant ?

In The Ant And The Elephant, renowned business strategist and Olympian, Vince Poscente, weaves a clever parable around profound concepts that can have an immediate impact on your life and the life of your organization.

With his trademark wit and wisdom, Poscente shows us how to focus on and redirect the subconscious mind in order to accomplish the goals we consciously strive to achieve. This empowering story illustrates that understanding the dynamic relationship between conscious and subconscious thought is the first step toward becoming a leader who can transform individual performance. But harnessing the power of the subconscious is an experience commonly fraught with frustration. Even the most competent amongst us battles the subconscious fears, habits and attitudes that obstruct authentic leadership. In fact, adjusting our own patterns of behavior as a means to motivate others is not unlike an ant trying to convince an elephant to change its ways.

Meet Adir the ant and Elgo the elephant. Like two teammates who must work together to realize a common goal, Adir (our overly conscious hero) and Elgo (Adir’s stubborn and instinctual subconscious partner) must work as a single creature in order to reach the Oasis, their vision of a paradise in the African savannah.

Once you understand the power of the conscious and the subconscious mind, and that they are interdependent on each other, you will better manage your mind to achieve your goals and dreams. This book demystifies and simplifies understanding the brain.

Their simple story is a powerful metaphor designed to bring out your best performance as a leader, so that you can do the same for those around you. Destined to become an instant business classic, The Ant And The Elephant is a must for all who wishes to reach their full potential as individuals.

What is your deepest & darkest fear?

2009-11-20T16:33:00.002+08:00

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others will not feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine as children do. We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just some of us: it is all of us.
As we let our own light shine, we give others permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others from their fear. May we all give ourselves permission to shine today so that the truth is reflected in all of us."

+Nelson Mandela+
1994 Inaugural Speech

The Scientific Adam !

2009-11-19T23:49:00.003+08:00

A thought provoking video ! Last year when I watched it on National Geographic, my earlier thoughts about all of us coming from a single source came true for me. Watch this video and arrive at you own conclusions !

Dr Spencer Wells a genographer, studies human diversity -- the process by which humanity, which springs from a single common source, has become so astonishingly diverse and widespread.

Faith can handle anything in this world !

2009-11-19T23:34:00.010+08:00

An email I received from my team leader, Logen which I feel is worth sharing. Our bucket is not big enough. We should expand our bucket !

Two men went fishing. One was an experienced fisherman, the other wasn't. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he put it in his ice chest to keep it fresh. Whenever the inexperienced fisherman caught a big fish, he threw it back.

The experienced fisherman watched this go on all day and finally got tired of seeing the man waste good fish. 'Why do you keep throwing back all the big fish you catch?' he asked.

The inexperienced fisherman replied, 'I only have a small frying pan..'

Sometimes, like that fisherman, we throwback the big plans, big dreams, big jobs, big opportunities that God gives us. Our faith is too small.

We laugh at that fisherman who didn't figure out that all he needed was a bigger frying pan, yet how ready are we to increase the size of our faith?

Whether it's a problem or a possibility, God will never give you anything bigger than you can handle. That means we can confidently walk into anything God brings our way.

Nothing is too big for God.

REMEMBER:

Stop telling God you've got big problems.
Tell your problems you've got a BIG GOD!

Ten Rules of Building a Winning Team

2009-11-19T23:15:00.007+08:00

Learn to be excited and passionate about your purpose
Have a clear dream and Vision
Be honest and sincere about everything
Loyalty to principles by being an example
Produce to perfection by always giving your 100%
Learn to be plan but be flexible about it.
Learn to be a motivator by believing in others
Learn to involve others participation and cooperation with commitment.
Develop a strong sense of discipline to the extra mile
Create influence by example and leadership

Source: BWW Gala Team

Life is Beautiful :-)

2009-11-19T22:53:00.006+08:00

Abundance vs Poverty

2009-11-19T14:14:00.006+08:00

Why does abundance evades us?

In a world of plentiful & abundance why do we struggle ?

The answer lies in our thought process.

We first ( Do - Have - Be ) rather, We should ( Be - Have - Do) !

We always Do activities first, thereby Having the residual outcome of the activity and Being what is the residual outcome but rather what we should be doing is Being first, visualising what are we going to be and believing that we already Have and seeing in our mind the activity we are going to perform and finally the Doing, the action of the activity.

Abundance is having an extraordinary life but we pursue an extraordinary life with an ordinary mind.

An ordinary mind has a scarcity pattern of thinking and has poverty styled habits.

An extraordinary mind has an abundance pattern of thinking and has success styled habits.

Clarity of mind leads to Power & Abundance.

Lack of clarity leads to Weakness & Scarcity.

An Extraordinary Life

2009-11-16T23:14:00.006+08:00

All of us want an Extraordinary Life but we cannot achieve it because we have an ordinary mind. We need to train and develop to have an Extraordinary Mind to have an Extraordinary Life!

HOW ?

Old Thinking + Old Habits + Short Term Viewpoint = Predictable Consequences
Old Thinking + Old Habits + Long Term Viewpoint = Potential Consequences
New Thinking + New Habits + Long Term Viewpoint = New Consequences

In conclusion we need to acquire New Thinking + New Habits + Long Term Viewpoint = to acquire an Extraordinary Mind to have an Extraordinary Life!

Two Choices

2009-08-19T01:34:00.005+08:00

A recent email from my team member Lewis Tay, got me thinking about choices! When some one says I don't have a choice! What they are saying is, no choice is a choice!

Two Choices
What would you do?....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?
At a fund-raising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:
'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.
Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?'
The audience was stilled by the query. The father continued. 'I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.'

Then he told the following story:
Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, 'Do you think they'll let me play?' I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps. I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, 'We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning.' Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat. At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball. However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact...
The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher. The game would now be over.
The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.
Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, 'Shay, run to first!
Run to first!' Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.
He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.
Everyone yelled, 'Run to second, run to second!'
Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball . the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team.
He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home. All were screaming, 'Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay'
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, 'Run to third! Shay, run to third!' As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, 'Shay, run home! Run home!' Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team 'That day', said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, 'the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world'. Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

AND NOW A LITTLE FOOT NOTE TO THIS STORY:
We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending or sharing messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces. If you're thinking about forwarding or sharing this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the 'appropriate' ones to receive this type of message Well, the person who sent you or shared this, believes that we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the 'natural order of things.' So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice: Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process? A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them.
You now have two choices:
1. Delete (Deny the chance for others to see the beauty in others)
2. Forward (Share this beautiful choices)

May your day, be a Shay Day.

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