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7 Ways How To Keep Yourself Energetic All The Time

October 25th, 2009

You need energy to get things done. Yet, most people live their lives without much energy.

Successful people are those who radiate energy from them. You can know it from the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they think and act and make decisions. You can always feel the energy from them.

They’re passionate and full with energy!

This is the secret that you need to get your work done in effectively and efficiently.

Here are 7 ways how you can keep yourself energetic all the time…

1. Always Read Motivational Materials

This is one of the simplest ways. If you want to stay positive and energetic, read motivational books or listen to inspiring audios. This is a very common motivational technique, but yet, most people never apply it into their lives.

If you can do this for 30 minutes everyday, you will go through big changes in your life in a few months. If you don’t believe me, just try it. You’ll see the amazing changes you’re going to get in your life.

2. Think About Your Dreams

Yes, thinking about your dreams will get you motivated. If you want to be rich, driving a BMW 5 Series, just imagine that you’ve already achieved this goal in your mind. Visualize the vivid picture. Imagine the color, the smell, the touch of the steering and more.

You’ll feel great if you do this right. Do this every time when you feel no motivation or when you’re in a low energy state. The more you do this, the better you’re going to get in visualizing it. Great technique, try it!

3. Identify Your Motivation Starter

When you feel motivated, try to ask yourself this question, “what makes me motivated?”

You have to identify the things that make you move into the high energy state. It can be a thought, a song, an image of a happy family, a voice in your head and more. Once you knew what makes you motivated, you can then repeat the process and stay motivated all the time!

Again, the more you practice, the better you’re going to get.

4. Take Rest And Relax Your Mind

Think about it, when you’re overloaded with works and stress for a long time in the office, what should you do to refresh yourself?

The best way is to take rest and relax your mind. Take a walk in garden, slow down your pace and notice all the great and beautiful things around you, listen to soft music or songs that inspired you.

After you’ve refreshed your mind, you will find that you have all the energy to take on the world again. Sometimes it is a wise way to take a break to relax when you’re feeling stress. It will help you to stay focused and be more effective after you get back to your work.

5. Stay Healthy All The Time

The secret to live in a high energy state all the time is to be healthy! Many people sacrifice their health for their financial future. If you let me choose, I’m going to choose both.

You can say that I’m greedy, but I want both. What is the point of having all the money in the world but you cannot enjoy it and suffer serious illness?

Make sure you take exercise often and eat healthily.

6. Have Faith And Enjoy Your Life

Yes, simply have the faith and enjoy every moment you have in your life will make you a happy-go-lucky person. This is one of the easiest ways to stay motivated and energetic all the time. Most people keep themselves busy and lose the faith to live a happy life.

Sometimes, living a simple life will be the best option. You don’t need to have all the money in the world to be successful. Appreciate what you have at every moment will give you a sense of succeed and live your life with passion.

7. Read The Millionaire Secrets

Frankly, I don’t know what you think about The Millionaire Secrets, but I hope that it is a great blog that will inspire and help you in every way to living a better life.

Simply tell me what you think by leaving your comment below. Thanks.

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Skills You Must Learn To Be Successful

March 26th, 2009

Long ago there’s a professor. He is a very prestigious man with 3 PhDs and he is the dean for his school. One day, he would like to cross the river to his university. He did not know how he can cross it and until suddenly he saw a boatman row his boat over. He then asks the boatman, “Hello boatman, can you row me across the river to my university?” And the boatman agrees.

So as the boatman rows his boat across the river, the professor point to the mountain and asks the boatman, “Boatman, do you know where there is and have you ever learned geography?”

The boatman shakes his head and answers, “No, not at all.” And the professor tells the boatman, “Boatman, 25% of your life is gone.” The boatman seems sad and he keeps on rowing the boat.

After awhile, the professor pick up a left from the river and ask the boatman, “Boatman, have you ever learned botany?” And the boatman answers, “What is that? I have never heard of it before.” Then the professor tell the boatman, “Poor boatman, 50% of your life is gone.”

The boatman feels sad and he keeps on rowing the boat. A moment later, the professor asks the boatman again, “Boatman, boatman, do you know what is mineralogy?” Again, the boatman answer the professor, “No…”

The professor then tells the boatman, “Boatman, 75% of your life is gone.” The boatman is very sad and he rows the boat without noticing that there is a huge rock in front. As a result, the boat hit the rock and it starts to sink. The boatman and the professor both are panic and the boatman asks the professor, “Professor! Professor! Do you know how to swim?”

Guess what the professor answers? The professor says, “No! I don’t know how to swim!” And the boatman replies the professor, “Professor! 100% of your life is gone!” The boatman jump into the river and swim away to the shore…

What Is The Moral Of The Story?

What I’m going to share with you in this story is that knowledge and skills such as goal setting, visualization, affirmation, success mindset, millionaire habits and more are very important in your life.

Often, it is these skills that will help you in achieving what you really want in your life. Unfortunately, most people do not really bother about these skills and they ignore them. As a result, most people live a mediocre life and they struggle all the time.

If you are serious in achieving what you really want in your life and if you are truly committed in becoming successful, you must learn and improve in this area of your life. Learn and adopt all these success strategies or techniques or skills into your life.

I always received emails from my readers asking me where did I learn all my success knowledge. What I’m going to say is, if you are serious about getting the success you want, you will eventually come up with a way how to acquire all this knowledge.

I learned from reading books. I read a lot of books especially in self-improvement topic. I have developed reading as my hobby and until this day, I will feel odd if I did not read any book in a day.

You don’t have to buy a lot of books and read like crazy. You can buy a book each month if you can afford. However, make sure you finish every book that you bought. More than 70% of people who bought a book did not finish it. It is such a waste to spend your money on something that you never use.

The Book That I Strongly Recommend

Of all the books that I’ve read, one that truly grabs my attention is this, Adam Khoo’s Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny. It is a book that is written with you on the mind. What I like about this book is that Adam explains his success strategies from the head until the toe and every of the techniques are in step-by-step manner. This means that you can follow through and apply the strategies much more easily.

Adam uses Neuro Linguistic Programming as the core principle in his success. It is the technique that you can use to master your mind and achieve anything you want in your life. You should know that your #1 asset is your mind. If you can control your mind, you can basically achieve anything you want in your life, no doubt for this…

Read this book once to grab the big idea, read it twice to sink the idea into your mind and if you read it for the third time, achieving what you want will never be a problem.

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Instant Motivation Technique That Never Fail

November 26th, 2008

Instant Motivation TechniqueAs you might already know, if you fail to achieve something that you want in your life, it is because that you’re not taking the right action that brings you toward your goals.

It is either you take the wrong action and lead to the wrong results, or it is because you’re not doing anything at all. If you take action but fail to achieve your goals, it is because you’re using the wrong strategies, change your strategies and keep on trying until you achieve your goals.

While if you’re not doing anything and you’re just sitting right there waiting for money to fall from the sky, there is one thing that you can do to drive yourself up and get in excited state again.

And that is what I’m going to share with you today. I’m going to share with you the instant motivation technique that you can use the moment you’re down. After you use this instant motivation technique, you’ll get excited, back to your peak state and ready to take massive action.

#1 Common Reason People Fail To Achieve What They Want In Their Life

One of the reasons most people fail to achieve what they want in their life is this, the lack of action. Most people just dream about what they want and wish that their dreams will come true someday. But you know it very well that if you’re not doing anything, nothing will ever come true.

And the reason people are not taking action is because that they are not in the motivated state. Did you notice that sometimes when you’re motivated, you get more things done? This is why you need motivation and drive to propel you into taking massive of action.

And this is also the reason I come up with this post, to share with you this instant motivation technique. If you use this technique correctly, I believe that you’ll be able to drive yourself into your peak performance state again and so you’ll be able to get more things done.

The main key here is to get you motivated so that you will take massive of action. Remember what I always say? “Success is about getting things done“.

Let’s discover this technique now…

Instant Motivation Technique

Actually, this technique is a common technique. I believe that you’ve used it in your life before, just that you did not realize that you’re actually using this technique.

Well, let me ask you this question, why do you feel motivated some of the time? For example, if one of your dream is to buy a luxury bungalow by the sea, and when you hear that one of your friends have just bought this kind of house, will you feel motivated? Most probably. Maybe you’ll tell yourself, “I’m going to buy it too”. So you end up feeling a little bit excited but it is not enough to get you 100% motivated.

But what if that friend of yours suddenly calls and invite you over to his new bungalow and he would like to share with you how he ended up buying that house? What do you feel? You’ll feel even more excited and you’ll boost up the level of motivation.

Let me show you another example. If one of your dreams is to own a BMW, then one day, when you’re walking in a shopping mall, suddenly you see that there is an automobile show event and there is a BMW that you always wanted there. So you walk there and have a look at that car. The salesman then tells you to have a seat and feel the feeling of actually driving it. Do you think that this will motivates you to get a BMW? Of course it will.

The question now I would like to ask is, what triggers that motivation force?

It is the things in your goals or in your dreams that you can see, smell, feel, touch, hear or taste that motivates you. Therefore, you can simply use this as an instant motivation technique.

What You Can Do With This?

What you can do to motivate you with this is that, for instance, you can write down on a piece of paper of what you want to achieve or own or buy in your life. And then keep this paper close with you every single day. When you’re down, this paper will be the savior.

Take out this piece of paper and read aloud when you’re down, and see what happens.

Of course, this is just an example of how you can make use of this technique. There are still many ways you can trigger your peak state. Such as, if there is a key chain that has a picture of your dream car on it, and the moment you look at it you’ll feel motivated, it can be used when you’re down as well.

The key to make this technique a success is to make it as tangible as possible. It is even better if you can include your 5 senses into it at the same time. The level of motivation is higher when you see and hear something that motivates in the same time than when you are just seeing or just hearing something that motivates you.

One of the most powerful techniques that I shared in my previous post is this, The Power of Anchoring. It uses the same technique, just that you in anchoring, you create your own ‘pattern’ or ‘style’ to motivate you.

I urge you to read it if you are looking for instant motivation technique. It works and it works wonder. So head over and read the post now.

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Opportunity Will Come When You Are Ready

August 25th, 2008

How often have you heard people keep on telling you that it is not that they don’t want to succeed, it is just that they don’t have the opportunity. God has forgotten them and did not create any opportunities for them. Is this true? If you are someone who has a millionaire mindset, you will never think of it this way.

When you are ready, opportunity will come to you! Don’t believe? Try this out. Try to save a portion of your money. Maybe you are just a student and you got no income yet, or maybe you are an adult and you work for living. No matter who you are today, just save a portion of your money. When this portion of money reach a certain amount, miracle will occur!

When you are ready, something will eventually happen. I cannot tell you what kind of opportunity you will get, but I can tell you that somehow opportunity will come when you are ready. If you are a student and wanting to score A’s is always your dream, when you are ready, maybe you will stumble upon a great book that teaches you how to study. You grab that opportunity and you buy that book. As a result, you pass your exams with flying colors.

The same if you are a working adult. When you are ready, opportunity will drop in front of you. Just like if you take up the test to save a portion of your money. When the money reach a certain amount, you will somehow use that money. No matter how you use it, maybe you spend it or maybe you invest it, you will eventually use it. It depends on your mindset and your habits. If you are someone constantly pursuing for higher wealth, maybe you will invest the money. However, if you are someone who spend heavily, maybe you will end up buying something you dream of with that money.

Just like what happened to me last month. I always had a dream of wanting to go for this guy’s seminar in Singapore. He is the world’s number one super affiliate, Ewen Chia. Maybe you have heard of him, maybe not. But that’s not the key here. The thing I want to share with you is this, the moment you got yourself prepared, God will send you the opportunity that you always looking for.

And one day I read the newspaper and I saw Ewen’s face was on the ad section! He is holding a seminar in Malaysia and he is going to have a 3-day workshop too! What a great opportunity for me. Without thinking much, I straight away decided that I’m in for that seminar. So you see, when you are ready, opportunity will come!

Below is the picture that I took with Ewen Chia in his preview seminar.

Me and Ewen Chia

So do you believe it now? Another great example is from the movie The Matrix. One of my favorite movies. Morphues tells Neo that when he is ‘ready’, he won’t even have to dodge bullets. So you see, when you are ready, you are telling the universe that it is time to give you a giant leap in your life. Just like the law of attraction. If you keep on thinking what you want to achieve in your life, you are actually sending message to the universe. You are telling the universe that you want it so much and the universe will give you what you seek.

The same thing happen here. Once you are ready, you are telling the universe it is time to fulfill your dreams and goals. It is not that you don’t have the opportunity, it is just that you are not ready for it!

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How to Use Your Physiology to Drive You into Action

August 19th, 2008

Have you ever wanted to be absolutely confident in certain situations when you were feeling unsure? Would it be empowering for you to get into a state of being totally motivated instead of feeling the usual lethargy?

Or how about changing your fear of going on stage to feeling enthusiastic and relaxed when you have to face an audience? How much would it change the results you are able to produce in life? Well you can! All you have to do is to put yourself in that physiology of excellence!

If you want to feel confident, all you have to do is to adopt the total physiology of confidence. If you want to feel motivated, adopt the physiology of motivation. This is called the ‘Act as if…’ principle. If you want to fall a certain state, act as if you were already in that state.

Remember that confidence, motivation and excitement are nothing but emotional states that you have experienced in the past. If you could access these states in a past situation, those same resources are available to you now. All you have to do is to model the exactly same physiology you were in when you experienced it previously.

6 Steps to Modeling Your Physiology of Excellence

Whenever you need to feel particularly motivated, confident and even happy, you don’t have to depend on something external to put you in that state. As long as you have experienced this resourceful state in the past, you can tap into it now by modeling the physiology you were in then.

There are 6 steps you must take to access any resourceful state. Let’s say you have to take on a challenge and you want to put yourself into an absolutely confident state in order to perform at your peak. Below are the 6 steps you must follow:

1. Think of a time in the past when you felt totally confident.

2. Stand the way you would stand if you felt totally confident.

3. Breathe the way you would breathe if you felt totally confident.

4. Have the facial expression, focus in your eyes when you felt totally confident.

5. Gesture the way you would if you felt totally confident.

6. Say what you would say to yourself if you felt totally confident. Make sure you use the same tone, pitch and volume on this.

By modeling the exactly same physiology your body was in previously, you will be able to feel the confidence surging through your body, readying to take you on the challenge!

Let me share with you one real-life example of how physiology can motivate and regain the confidence of a sport star.

At one time, Andre Agassi was invincible on the tennis courts. The world’s number one tennis player would be in a state of total focus and confidence each time he faced his opponent. As a result, he performed at a standard that gave him the winning edge. Then he started to go into a slump. For some reason, he lost his focus and could not get into the right state. He kept missing the ball and making the wrong moves. He consulted peak performance coach Anthony Robbins who explained to Agassi that the reason he was not winning his games was because he was not in the same resourceful states he was in, in the past.

Robbins got Agassi to watch video tapes of the matches in which he won and Agassi started noticing that in those instances, his physiology was different compared to the way he presently carried himself on the courts. In the past, his posture was different, the focus in his eyes was different, his breathing pattern was different and he moved differently.

So Robbins instructed him to watch and model the physiology he had in the past. In the next few matches, Agassi would go in and consciously adopt the exactly same physiology he had in the past. He started getting into his peak state and played the winning way he used to. As a result, he won the US Open within six months and regained his ranking as the world number one.

You have to know that your mind and your body are connected. Just like in the movie, The Matrix, once said, “Your mind cannot live without your body“. What this means is that when you change either your thinking in your mind or your body physiology, the other will change as well. And in this case, you are changing your body physiology, and hence your mind changed as well.

Facial PhysiologyThink about it, when you are feeling bored and tired, how does your physiology look like? Is your shoulder slouched forward? Is your head hanging down? Are your eyes looking down and unfocused? Is your breathing shallow and deep? Is your voice has low volume and low pitch? What about your muscle? Is it relaxed and having tension in the neck?

Now, what about if you are in a totally motivated state? How is your physiology look like? Is your shoulder at your back and your head is up? Are your eyes looking up, widely opened and very focused? How about your breathing? Did you breathe faster and deeper? What about your voice? Did you talk louder and faster?

There are 2 totally different states and that is why you are having 2 different states. Try to use the physiology when you are feeling totally motivated, and then think about feeling bored and getting depressed. It is not possible to be done because your mind and your body are inter-connected.

Just like when you smile and laugh, you will feel happy. Will you smile and laugh the moment you are feeling sad? That is not possible, and even if you try to do so, you will become happy in the end because you are telling your mind that you are in the happy physiology, and your mind will simulate that state.

I hope you can see the big picture now. Use your physiology to stay motivated all the time. When you are feeling sleepy reading articles or blog (I hope my blog won’t make you feel sleepy, ^_^), notice your physiology. Change your physiology immediately and you will see the effect.

Here is a post that teaches you how to make use of your physiology to get you into a motivated state instantly. It is called anchoring! Anchoring: How it is Used to Control Your Emotion

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You Need Courage to be Successful

August 17th, 2008

Recently I have just read a book titled, “The Millionaire Next Door”. I believe that you knew about this book and you have heard about it. Maybe you even read about it. I’m very inspired after reading a real-life story told by the author. You need courage to be successful.

It happens to me a lot of times, the moment some opportunities appear to me, I don’t have the courage to take that opportunity. Let me give you an example. Have you ever planned on to go for jogging in the morning? And when in the morning you alarm ring you wake up, brush your teeth and ready to go for jogging, something stops you. You heard your inner voice is telling you that it is boring to jog alone, you heard your inner voice is saying that why do you have to jog alone the moment you can watch television or do some exercise in your house?

I don’t know about you, but this is what sometimes I will face. I believe that everyone has their own fear to conquer in their life. There must be a time where you need courage to make the decision. Think about it, after you finished your secondary school, what kind of decision did you make? Is it a courageous one? If you like to further your studies, will you fly overseas to continue your studies? I believe that this is a decision that requires a lot of courage.

The same thing is happening in your journey to success. If you want to be a millionaire today, and it happens to you that there is a seminar held by a very prestigious speaker. You are very interested in that seminar, but it is going to cost you a big amount of money. Will you take the necessary courage to overcome your fear and attend the seminar anyway? I believe that a lot of people cannot overcome their fear, most of them fail to conquer their fear. It is the fear that is ruling their life, and that is why they hardly create any amazing results.

If you are given an opportunity to make a million dollar, but you will have to go to a country that you don’t even know about in order to expand that business, will you take the opportunity? Courage is everything is making decision. Do not let your fear controls you. Instead, always think positively and make your decision with courage.

A Real-Life Inspirational Success Story:

Jim MacLarenJim, a former Yale University All-American football and lacrosse player, was hit by a bus at age 22; an accident that forced doctors to amputate his leg. However, Jim persevered, beat the odds and became a marathon runner, Ironman triathlete world record holder and earned the title: “The Babe Ruth of Amputee Athletes”.

Eight years later, Jim was once again the victim of a tragic accident; hit by a van while competing in a triathlon and left as a quadriplegic after sustaining serious spinal injuries.

Never the one to give up, Jim once again proved that his spirit was strong enough to surmount even the most unthinkable of adversities. Jim has gone on to become a motivational speaker, founder of the “Choose Living Foundation”, and as Oprah said at the 2005 ESPY Awards in presenting him with ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award, Jim has “given new life to those around the world who need it most”.

For more information, visit: Jim MacLaren at The Final Sprint.

So you see, success require courage. If you don’t have the courage, it will hard for you because the road to success is a bumpy one. You have to face with a lot of obstacles, limiting beliefs, fears and more negative events before you can achieve the success that you always wanted.

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Do You Dare to Fail?

August 2nd, 2008

Dare to Fail - Billi LimFailure is the mother of all successes. Have you ever heard of this statement? I bet you do. There are some truth to this statement. As for me, I totally agree that failure is the thing that will bring you the success that you are looking for.

Let me share one real-life story with you. This guy, a very successful guy, he turned failure into success. In other words, it is the failure that brings him the success. Without going through all the failures in his life, it is impossible for him to be in today’s status.

Take the irrepressible real estate tycoon, Donald Trump (host of ‘The Apprentice’) as an example. Trump lost his entire fortune when property prices crashed in the early 1990s during a recession and he ended up $935 million in debt. Down, but not out, Trump hauled himself up from the pits to triumphantly make a $3.7 billion fortune, all within ten years!

Why didn’t such a crushing failure crush him completely? Because wily Trump of ‘The Art of The Deal’ fame, knew that he may have lost everything physically, but his true wealth did not lie in what he has stashed in his bank, it lay in his mind. It was his way of thinking and his financial intelligence that was worth billions, and that is what continues to make him a genius in negotiating the best deals. Of course he does not always win, but with his multi-million dollar mindset, the comeback is inevitable.

Can you see it now, if it is not for all the failures that Donald Trump faced in his life, he will not achieve the results he had today. It is because of the failures that had happened on him that transform him into a billionaire. (How Failure Can Make You A Billionaire)

What about Michael Jordan? Do you think Michael was born talented in playing basketball? Not at all. In fact, he is the one that failed the most in basketball, and that is why he is the best!

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots. I’ve lost almost 300 games. I’ve failed & over again in my life. And that is why i succeeded.” Michael Jordan

It Is The Failure That Will Bring You To Success

Often, if you are trying to achieve something in your life, you will not be able to achieve it the first time. Just like if you want to be a millionaire, you are trying hard to make more money from internet marketing, most people will not achieve it on the first time. Most people fail in their first attempt.

However, if you keep on and never give up, you will come across the right strategies of achieving what you want, and that is why people say that failure is the mother of all successes. Think about it, there must be a time in your life that you have faced failure before. Have you ever came across a moment where you failed to achieve something, but in the end it leads to other better results?

Here is another great inspiring real-life story for you:

Another great example that never fails to inspire me about turning crushing failure into resounding success is the story of Steve Jobs, the founder and current CEO of Apple Computers. Steve co-founded Apple at the age of 21 in 1976. Within four years, the company was listed on the stock exchange and Steve was worth $217 million at the age of 25.

As Apple continued its phenomenal growth, it was decided that professional management had to be hired to run the huge organization. So in 1983, Steve hired John Scully to be the CEO. However, within two years, the CEO and directors at Apple could not get along with Steve Jobs (he was known to be an erratic and emotional manager) and stripped him of all his duties, forcing him to resign from the very company he founded in failure and disgrace. To make things worse, Apple sued Steve for neglecting his duties.

While those in the business world wrote him off, Steve when possessed the millionaire mindset, took it as a huge learning experience and took the proactive action of starting a new and better company called NeXT computers. He believed that he could develop a range of hardware and software that would be even better than that at Apple. Did he succeed? Undaunted, he again took the feedback and went on to found Pixar Animation Studios, which became a huge success in creating the first breakthrough fully digitally animated movie ‘Toy Story’.

In the meantime, Apple Computer was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1995 after suffering from internal mismanagement and lack of new product innovation. The company was making losses of $800 million to $1 billion a year and its share price dropped from a high of $18 to $3.80. Believing that he could save Apple, Steve Jobs agreed to return as CEO for a nominal pay of $1 (he was doing it purely for the passion… millionaire habit 5). When Steve took over, he fired all the unproductive executives and spearheaded the launch of revolutionary products like the iMac, iPod and iTunes.

The revolutionary operating system (OS) he developed at NeXT was then evolved into the highly popular Mac OS X. As a result of these successful products, Apple turned its $1 billion loss into $1.3 billion in profits by 2005. Its share price rose from $3.80 to a high of $75! Looking back, Steve realized that if he never got fired from Apple, he would never have founded NeXT and Pixar Animation. If not for Pixar, he would not have become a pioneer in digital animation and if not for NeXT software he developed, Apple would never have the Mac OS X operating system that has made Apple a huge success today.

It is for this reason that many millionaires believe that ‘everything happens for a reason’ and that ‘adversity is often opportunity in disguise’ provided you learn from your experience and continue to take consistent action!

So you see, it is the bad events that brought Steve Jobs to what he was today! Now, I don’t know about you, but for me, everything happen, happen for a reason. If you are not looking for success-related topic, you will never be reading this post of mine right now. If you are not committed to success, you will never read until this point.

Even if there is something bad that happened on you, there must be a reason. If you fail to make more money in your business, take it as a challenge, a challenge given from god, to test how strong your business is. And if you pass the test, the rewards are great. Therefore, take life as a challenge. There are a lot of ups and downs in life, learn how to cope with them and you can achieve much more in your life.

Remember, everything happens for a reason. The point here is, you cannot control some of the thing that is going to happen on you. For example, the down-turn of economy, however, you can choose to give the meaning of what the event means to you.

Event + Response = Outcome

This is one of the most powerful life formula taught by Jack Canfield (The author for Chicken Soup for The Soul). What happened to you is not important, the most important thing is how you choose to react. Just like if you fail in your examination, you can choose to think that it is your teacher’s fault or you can choose to think that it is because you are lazy and did not do your revision.

The response you choose will determine your life, not the event that is happening to you. The best example I can give is Oprah Winfrey, you can read more about her in my blog, The Oprah Winfrey Success Story.

As you know, we cannot control some of the events that is happening onto us, but we can choose the meaning that we are going to give. You must understand that it is what you choose to react that is going to affect your life, not what is happening on you. I have a post for this, read more about it here, Event + Response = Outcome.

I hope that this post is going to inspire you to take more action. Remember, failure is not the end, it is just the beginning of your journey!

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Life’s Most Fundamental Question

June 8th, 2008

If you are serious in achieving success in your life, you should know the answer to this fundamental question of life. This question may seem like very easy to answer, however, what many do not know is that the real reason to their answer. If you can’t answer that question, and answer it correctly, no amount of motivation can help you change your life. And if you’re like most people, the answers you need haven’t been easy to find, it can all changes today. The question is…

What Do You Want?

People who know the answer to the question above, they know exactly what they want, they know how they should walk their journey called life. They focus in everything they do, because they know their path and they know where they will reach.

Unless you know what you want in your life, you will never find a way to achieve your dreams. Too often, many people have blurry dreams and goals in their life, and that is what makes them don’t know where they should head to. That is the main reason so many people are dangling in nowhere in their life.

What Do You Want?

Many people work, but they don’t even know why they work. Some said that because they need to make a living and they need to feed their family and that is why they work. If you are working for money, there are better ways to make money. Why do you need to spend so much of your time into working and facing frustration then complaining about how much you hate about your work?

Have you ever asked yourself whether you like what you are doing? Do you even know why you are doing it? For example, if you are reading this article right now, what makes you reading it? Is it because you are looking for ways to motivate yourself? Well, maybe, but everything happens, it happens for a reason.

We Do What We Do For A Reason

In other words, some kind of reason, whether good or bad, is at the root of everything we do. To the average person, this doesn’t mean much, but you’re not average. You’ll soon be able to see just why this is such a powerful idea. You can’t get motivated if you don’t know what it is you want in the first place.

If you ask 10 people in the street what is it that they want and why are they doing it, I’m sure that you will get answers that are blurry. We do for a reason, but not just any reason. It has to be a good one, a powerful one. When you put a weak reason behind any goal, it’s not going to happen.

‘It will make me happy,’ isn’t strong or specific enough. It doesn’t excite or inspire. Taking into account the way our mind works, this is never going to move you to action. In fact, you can choose to feel happy at any moment you wanted to. If you know how to control and manage your state, you know that happy is not an outcome, you can make it happen in an instant.

So you can see now, this is why so many people keep wishing for a better life instead of enjoying one. They don’t have good enough reasons behind their goals. So what should you do to achieve success and greater results in your life?

Find Yourself Better Reasons!

It’s that simple. If I told you that walking across the room would radically change and improve your life in an instant, and you truly believed it, I guarantee you would be moving your feet right now. Why? Because the reason moved you to action. It was powerful enough to make things happen. And that’s what you need to do when it comes to your own ideas of a happier, more successful life.

Remember, everything starts from a good and solid reason. Only if you have a strong reason to achieve your goal, or else you will not take any action to achieve it. So take some time right now to think of at least three great reasons why your goal is worth achieving. Make them specific, powerful, exciting, and inspiring.

Just imagine what you could accomplish if you knew how to quickly and easily get and stay motivated to anything, absolutely anything, you’ve ever wanted to be, do, or have. This little trick is just one simple way to get and stay motivated to live a better life.

The better the reason, the better the result. So make your reasons for success so powerful, so compelling, so enticing that you can’t help but follow through with action.

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Event + Response = Outcome

April 24th, 2008

Now this is truly a motivation article, read this and I believe that you will get motivated just like I do. Well, before we start, you should know that the law of polarity exist in our world. What is this law of polarity actually? It is the same concept as Yin and Yang, for every outside, there is an inside, for every north, there is a south, for every crisis, there is an opportunity, for every head, there is a tail, and so on and so forth.

Law of Polarity

So what it has to do with our life? Very simple, everything you do, there must be something opposite. I still remember that in the movie ‘The Matrix’ (one of my favorite movies), the Oracle told Neo, “Everything that has a beginning has an end”. It is the same as in the law of polarity. The meaning we choose to attach to an experience is the meaning we create. When we interpret an experience as negative or bad, we will get into a miserable state, take lousy actions.

In the meantime, if you interpret something as positive, you will straight away get into resourceful state, you will get motivated straight away. So can you see it now? It is how you choose to respond to what is happening to you. What you choose to respond will determine your outcome. One of my previous post, I wrote about how Oprah Winfrey transform her life from deep down until she becomes a successful person. It is a must read, if you haven’t read it, you can read it here, The Oprah Winfrey Success Story.
Here is a famous quote:

Event + Response = Outcome

This wonderful formula is given by Jack Canfield (Co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul). Many people believe that it is the events around us that shape our outcomes. They believe that it is the events that happen toward those successful people that makes them successful. If you don’t believe me, ask your friend, what makes Bill Gates so rich, what makes Warren Buffet so wealthy? I’m sure they will say something like they are lucky, they hit the market at the right time, etc, etc.

What people never see is this, the hard work behind those successful people. Do you think that Bill Gates or Warren Buffet achieve all these amazing results all by being lucky? That is impossible. You and I both know that this is totally untrue. It is not the things that happen to us, but rather how we choose to respond to happenings and external circumstances that ultimately shape our outcomes. Here is one thing that is very important, in fact, if you can handle this thing well, you can handle your life, you can even change your life and achieve what you want. This is the fact:

“As you know, we cannot control every single thing that happens to us, but we can control how we choose to respond to it.”

For example, if you go sailing, you cannot control where the wind is going to blow. You can complain and blame the wind all you want but it is not going to be of any use. However, you can control how you maneuver the sails, and that will control the outcome of your boat’s direction. This is why people often say this,

“I can’t the direction of the wind, but I can adjust the sail to always reach my destination.”

There are so many real-life stories that have proved this principle, this law of polarity. One classic example is this, How A Woman Transform From $50,000 Dept Into A Multi-Millionaire. So as you can see now, we have heard so many stories of people who were born with all kinds of handicaps and despite all the odds stacked against them, they managed to create a life most others can only dream about.

When we look at things (an experience, an incident, an event) from one perspective, it may seem totally bad. However, when we change the way we look at the same thing, i.e. from a different context, the meaning completely changes. In other words, there is no meaning in life except the meaning we choose to give it.

It depends on your perspective, the frame in which you are seeing it from. People who succeed and live fulfilling and enriching lives don’t experience better events, they just re-present things and respond in a much more powerful way. So I hope that after going through this article, you will learn the law of polarity. It is the meaning that you choose to give that matters. Remember this, life itself is meaningless, it is how you choose to give meaning to your life that shapes your life.

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Are Big Brain Attracts More Wealth?

April 20th, 2008

I came across this article in Yahoo, “Are Big Brain Smarter?“. Frankly, do you really think so? Is it that those who earn more money are those who have bigger brain? Here is some part of the article:

One thing scientists do agree on: A big brain alone doesn’t equate with smarts. If it did, elephants and sperm whales would win all the spelling bees. Rather, scientists look at brain mass relative to body mass in order to make any speculation about a creature’s cognitive abilities.

Are Big Brain Smarter?

So while an elephant noggin, at 10.5 pounds (4,780 grams), could squash a human think box in a purely physical battle of brains, you and I take the cake in a war of wits. Our brains, which weigh an average of 2.7 pounds (1,200 grams), account for about 2 percent of body weight, compared with an elephant’s under one-tenth of a percent.

So you can see now, big brain does not equal smarter and it does not mean that if rich man are smarter. We all born equal, you and I both have the same bio-computer, that is our brain. Then what makes some people so smart in math? What makes some people so well in communication? What makes some people so clever in geography? Some in marketing, some in chemistry? Why is there a huge difference if it is not because of our brain?

It Is The Experience

If you are good in mathematics today, it doesn’t mean that you have a bigger brain. The truth is this, it is because you are expose to more mathematics in life. It is because of your life experience, it is because of what you have been through. For example, if you are good in math, maybe it is because of your parents teachings, they are good in math as well. We need to understand how our brain works. Our brain which consists of more than 1,000 billion neurons, each capable of processing information at a speed greater than a P4 personal computer. Do you know that you already have the most powerful resource in your life?

Our talents, skills, behavior, abilities, thought are determined by how our neurons are connected, not by how much neurons we have. So, if someone who is very talented in mathematics, it is because he has a richer neuro-connection in the area of mathematical-logical thinking. Our neuro-system will develop once we were born, and after that we will get influent by role model around us. You can be very talented in singing, but you may have less talent in calculus.

Meaning to say that, if you can replicate the brain of how Warren Buffet is thinking, you can then replicate his amazing achievements. Successful people is successful because they know how to run their mental program effectively. So today if you want to achieve great results in life, just replicate those who are successful in the field you want, you can be just like them.

To Become Rich Has Nothing To Do With Our Brain

Maybe you have heard of some people saying that they are not rich because they are not smart enough, they are not clever enough, they don’t have the knowledge, they don’t have any PhDs, etc. However, you know that all of these are lousy excuses, they are the limiting beliefs that prevent you from getting what you want in life. So if you want to be a successful person, you want to make big money, then commitment and action are what you need.

Just like Sylvester Stallone, did you know how much he had gone through to achieve the results that he has today? Do you think that Arnold Schwarzenegger achieved all his results from his talent and luck? Frankly, I don’t think so. Read this post, The Commitment of Sylvester Stallone, and you will find that to achieve great success in life, does not require any luck, it is not knowledge that makes you success. It is the commitment and the action that you take.

Another success guru I want to share with you is this, Adam Khoo. He is my favorite success guru. He achieved all his great results in life all by himself. He made his first million at the age of 26, and I read a lot about him. If you are going to learn all the secrets of success, then you should definitely learn from him. Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires is one of his product that I bought and I will strongly recommend to anyone who are serious in achieving great financial success.

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