Personal Development Singapore: Desiring Your Goals Vs Acting On Them

Filed under Goals by on June 18, 2010 at 3:53 am {no comments}

A client of mine just spoke to me with respect to goal achievement.

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He had been talking at length about improving his business but he seemed to be quite hesitant about actually doing something about it. Eventually, I asked why he hadn’t really started on it, and asked for an honest answer. He said he was very doubtful as to whether he could pull it off.

We did an experiment, just listing down the factors that would make his business grow. It totaled over 30 factors, but when rating his competence and access to resources in every single one of those factors, he rated them above 7 out of 10.

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Self-Help: In Spite Of Self-Help, Why Am I Not Successful?

Filed under Uncategorized by on June 13, 2010 at 5:58 pm {no comments}

You may read lots of self-help books. You might be a proponent of the law of attraction. You might be a personal development junkie. But it begs the question: why am I not successful?

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Here are a few questions for you to clarify your thinking a little bit.

  1. Whose benchmark of success are you choosing? In many cases, someone else’s idea of success, no matter how appealing, may not be suitable for you.
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Myers Briggs Personality test: Personality Types

Filed under Personal Development, Personality, Self Help by on June 11, 2010 at 6:41 pm {no comments}

Personality is one of the invisible factors in human relationships I always talk about. In most cases, we’re not aware of this and understand personality merely as traits.

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However, traits can always be present when the need calls for it. For instance, you might be at the workplace that needs you to be serious and logical even though by nature you are a fun loving person. Traits are often stronger and more dominant as a result of habituation and skill training.

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Self-Help: Building The Leader In You

Filed under Leadership, Self Help by on June 11, 2010 at 7:22 am {one comment}

Change of Command Ceremony - United States Army Africa - 10 June 2010

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

~Colin Powell

Problems, problems, problems. It seems that people are obsessed with problems and don’t know how to solve them. They complain about the problem. In reality, as Colin Powell says, it is a way to build a positive relationship with those around you, in spite of the problems.

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Self-Help: Is Your Life Difficult?

Filed under Personal Development, Self Help by on June 11, 2010 at 12:50 am {no comments}

“Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.”

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Has it ever occurred to you that people seldom tell you how good their life is? the only people I know who are truly satisfied with their life are those who have gone through lots of personal trials that have affected them, and they learn to be grateful for what they have.

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Myers Briggs Personality test: Learning About Yourself

Filed under Personality by on June 6, 2010 at 12:53 am {no comments}

So a number of people have asked me about personality tests and whether they are useful. Here’s some tips to bear in mind if you have never taken a personality test yourself.Identity
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  • Don’t take a test that is unvalidated. You need to know the source of your test and make sure it’s credible. But beyond the test, you need to know that your administrator can give you added value. For instance, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) can be useful, but not all administrators are made equal.
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Personal Development: Why Is My Life In A Mess?

Filed under Blaming, Excuses, Failure by on June 5, 2010 at 9:21 pm {no comments}


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A training participant once approached me and said that his life was in a big mess and just did not know where to start. I had three questions for him:

  • Is it important enough to change?
  • Is it beneficial enough to change?
  • Do you have the right resources to change?

He was slightly taken aback where these three questions were concerned because a while he felt it was important to change, and logically thought it was beneficial to change, he was a little disturbed to discover that he still did not take any action.

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Personal Development Singapore: Finding Spiritual Health

Filed under Spirituality by on June 3, 2010 at 6:46 pm {no comments}

Spiritual health, in my opinion, is one of the main aspects of a human being’s natural cycle of development. After you are done with your studies, you would usually start a career. But it has never been emphasized that one should actually educate one’s spirit.

Spirituality is defined this way by Wikipedia:

Spirituality can refer to an ultimate or immaterial reality; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of their being; or the “deepest values and meanings by which people live”.

from Wikipedia, Helix Nebula aka "The Eye Of God"

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Personal Development Singapore: Generation Gaps

Filed under Awareness, Personal Development, Reflections by on June 2, 2010 at 6:07 am {no comments}

It never fails to strike me as how one-sided many people are in relating to one another.

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I often like to tell the story of how one day I was in a cab driving down the Central Expressway (CTE). The driver was so engrossed in talking to me about the bad traffic situation in Singapore that he made this claim: “All women are bad drivers. They cause all accidents.” No sooner had he mentioned this, there was an accident up ahead that involved a woman.

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Personal Development Singapore: Passion

Filed under Failure, Personal Development by on June 2, 2010 at 1:56 am {no comments}

Inside Steve's Pad
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So… I’m almost certain that you’ve been struck senseless by Steve Jobs’ flurry of innovations beginning with the MacBook, the iPod, the iPhone and now the iPad.

There’s a lot to say about genius, and although I have not yet met Steve Jobs myself, I think there’s a certain kind of drive in the man that enables him to push himself forward so much.

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