Personal Development: Seeking Purpose

Filed under Goals, Life Purpose, Personal Development, Pursing Your Passion by on December 18, 2010 at 10:08 pm {no comments}

I often get curious about how people lead their lives. One thing that really gets me interested is the way they use Facebook (or other social networking tool) to get affirmation about what they do and even attention with respect to the decisions they make.

I think in recent months, especially since it has been rather dark, cloudy and wet in Singapore, and given the fact that it is coming to the close of 2010, I’ve discovered that more people are looking for a new challenge in 2011, or seeking some purpose in what they do. I suppose it’s part of the “let’s do our New Year’s Resolution” deal.

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Personal Growth: Developing Fighting Spirit

Filed under Confidence, Emotional Management, Goals, Personal Development, Pursing Your Passion by on November 20, 2010 at 10:43 pm {no comments}

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
~ General Dwight Eisenhower

I was quite taken by this quote, as you might tell. I’m not the biggest dog in any fight. Heck, if there were a fight, I’d be somewhere else. In my earlier days, confidence was a central issue in my life. I wasn’t willing or able to interact and make friends, so I spent most of my childhood alone. It wasn’t until several years later that I found that almost everything we do can be a fight – as long as we are willing to be a part of it.

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Personal Transformation Tips: Learning and Growth

Filed under Goals, Learning, Personal Development by on November 4, 2010 at 3:00 pm {no comments}

In my seminars, I often talk about the concept of the Ultimate Success Formula. In this model, I am adamant about the fact that people can achieve any kind of success that they want. However, they will need to learn how to learn from their past, and hopefully, other peoples’ pasts.

The main reason is simple. In learning, we develop flexibility and new objections, new perspectives and new ways of being. For instance, if you know that the present way in doing business isn’t right for you, learning something about it will allow you to do things differently. You keep changing the strategy that you’ve executed until you achieve your end desired outcome.

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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.

Running to the middle
Creative Commons License photo credit: HikingArtist.com

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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Inspiration Is Not Action

Filed under Goals by on May 5, 2010 at 3:34 am {one comment}

In a recent seminar, someone came up to me and told me how inspired she was about the event, and that she was impressed at how she could stay awake compared with other seminars she had attended where other trainers were not as compelling.

You have to realize how awkward it must have been for me. On the one hand, this lady has learnt something, but she hasn’t really learnt much. The only measure for success in her life is that she doesn’t fall asleep in the classroom. While I honestly feel flattered, I think that the trainer has far less bearing on the success of a student.

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Turn Your Goals Into An Obsession

Filed under Goals, Personal Development, Reflections by on December 8, 2009 at 5:40 am {2 comments}

This year I’ve been on a number of different trips out of the country, most of them for work purposes. While I seldom go to different places for the purpose of looking at things or ‘vacationing’, I do enjoy the getaway in a foreign place once in a while just to chill.

For some people, though, this vacationing is like an obsession. It’s planned several times a year and given deadlines as though there were a profit margin to be earned from it. It must mean that they will end up “musting” their desires into reality.

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