September 24, 2008

Power of Network

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Last weekend I was at Entrepreneur Action Program (EAP) doing my review. I attended EAP more than 5 years ago, going back there to re-cap the experience and information is familiar and unfamiliar.

Familiar because some of the activities and information are similar, but Jerome and Wendy added a lot more information which causes the unfamiliar part of it.

In any case, EAP is such a powerful network where you really don’t know who you will meet there. Just like when I was there for my review, I did not expect anything. The Universe likes to play joke, when you least expected, it gives you.

Abrial who graduated from the last batch of the program, and was helping for this batch; chatted with me during lunch. Suddenly he asked for a training proposal for his organization. And of course I am willing to provide him a proposal, and deal done.

In business, having a network that can support you helps to build your business more efficiently. At the same time, you must add value to the network. The principle of give and receive applies here too. Also a huge distinction for me, JUST SHOW UP.

 

September 17, 2008

Financial Market Down

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It was very interesting the way I got the news of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brother.

I was out for a meeting early in the morning yesterday, so I didn’t read the newspaper. Right after the meeting, I went for a drink, switched on my laptop, check the stock market. HOLY COW!!!! Did the stock market crashes? So many companies are trading at a discount.

Seeing the huge discount, I cannot stop the buying bug in me. I have to load up on some of those companies that I’ve shortlisted.

In the afternoon, went for EAP preview. Sylvia commented that the stock market must be in bad shape. I took the opportunity to ask her what actually happened.

Sylvia: You mean you don’t know?
Me: I didn’t read the news today.
Sylvia: Lehman gone bankrupt.
Me: WHAT??? I thought Barclay is buying them?
Sylvia: No, they walked away from the deal.
Sylvia: And Merill Lync is bought over by Bank of America.
Sylvia: And AIG is in deep deep trouble.

At this point of time, Clive came in.

Clive: And HP is retrenching 24,000 of its staff.
Me: WOW! No wonder today stock market plunge.

With these news, suddenly there are tons of opportunities around. I’m sure there will be more coming.

 

September 15, 2008

Liverpool 2 Man U 1

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Yahoo!!! Nothing can be better than beating Man U. Frankly, I didn’t watch this “big four” match. When I walked past my neighbour’s place, I caught a glimpse of the match score at about 60+ minutes, it was 1-1. And then the next moment I looked at it again, it was 2-1 with Man U trailing. I was in estacy.

After watching Liverpool got bullied by Man U for the past few seasons, finally Liverpool got 1 back on Man U. To make it even better, Liverpool was without the inspirational captain, Steven Gerrard and their goal scoring machine, Fernando Torres. Yes, Liverpool won without their two key players.

Great to see Liverpool came back from behind to beat the double champions. It was not easy to come back from behind to win Man U. Through sheer determination, Liverpool has done it.

Credit goes to Mascherano and Alonso. These two center midfielders are awesome in the absence of Gerrard. They actually step up their play, making their counterparts, Scholes, Carrick and Anderson redundant.

All along I like Macherano style of play. A bulldog, yet with the skill. Alonso, the master of passes, I’m so glad he stays in Liverpool. When Rafa wants to sell him, so he can buy Garath something, I thought Rafa has gone nuts. He’s already gone nuts paying $20m for Robbie Keane. I think it’s huge mistake, he almost makes another mistake by selling Alonso.

Robbie Keane, again no goal to his name yet. When is he going to score, I wonder. He’s surely good at one thing - blasting the ball into the air in the 6 yards box.

A must mentioned - Ryan Babel the super sub. I always feels he’s a very good player. Silky skill, fast, dare to run at defender and able to score goals, but Rafa plays him in the bench too frequently. Again he has proves that he is good by scoring the winner. Came into play in just 8 minutes and he made his presence felt.

Overall, a determined performance by Liverpool. If they can keep up this performance, they may take the title home this season.

 

September 11, 2008

Inspire The Youth

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I was conducting a training for this particular school yesterday. As usual while they are playing the game in teams, I was observing their behaviours. I always enjoyed this process, as sometimes I find interesting characters, sometimes I uncover gems.

And I did uncover a gem in the this game. Someone whom worried me the most, showed unlimited potential in him.

A short introduction about this boy. When we first met him in the first session, he was hyperactive. He couldn’t sit still, making fun of the girls, throwing things at people, find that one of the games is boring etc.

When I had this second session, I am worried that the game couldn’t keep him focus throughout. I thought he will disappear half way through the game. But, hell no, I was wrong. He sticks through, not only that, his desire to win was extremely high.

When there is only 5 minutes left in the game, all his team mates has given up, he was there shouting at his team mates, asking them to get their butt out of the chair to complete the project given. He kept shouting and pulling everyone in the team until the time is up. He never gave up.

During the debrief, I specially single out this boy, mentioning that there is huge leadership potential in him. And I wrote the word, “LEADER” on the flip chart to emphasize that point.

What happened next touches my heart!

After the session, this boy asked if he could bring that “LEADER” flip chart back. He tore that flip chart to bring it home. He told me, “nobody has ever praise him.” That moment I knew I had inspired someone.

That’s why I’ve been doing this work for 5 years.

 

September 10, 2008

Taking Action

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An entrepreneur becomes an entrepreneur from the day he starts taking action. The day he starts materializing his dreams and ideas, he become an entrepreneur.

Why do I say that?

Have you ever know of someone who shares with you his/her ideas and big dreams, but is reluctant to take any action or move out of their comfort zone to fulfill this big dream?

I do know of people like that, many of them.

I remember 5 years ago, a friend shared with me that he hopes to own his own cafe. Today he is still working for others.

Well, there is nothing wrong with working for others, if you are enjoying it. But why do some choose to give up on their dreams, and continue working for others?

One of the reasons may be because working for others is the easy way out. As long as you run out of cash, find a job, it’s the easiest. Find a job that pays you $5 to $10 an hour. What can be harder than exchanging time for money?

Then we come to the next point. Most people are good at exchanging time for money, which means they are not so good at creating wealth. An entrepreneur creates wealth, they don’t exchange time for money. It seems creating wealth is a much harder process, at least on surface it is how it’s look.

Why is creating wealth harder for many?

That’s because we are not trained to create wealth. In school, we are train to be an employee, exchanging time for money. Parents told us to look for a job when we grow up. All these upbringing wired our brain into having thoughts of exchanging time for money. As long as crisis comes, our brain goes, “look for a job.” It become an immediate reaction.

To change this, stop looking for a job. Take action to fulfill your dreams and ideas. Once you are able to break that cycle, you are re-wiring your brain.

 

September 9, 2008

1 Week Rest

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I was down with fever for a whole of last week. The doctor had suspected dengue, but fortunately it was just viral. But it was enough to set me back for a week.

Coincidentally, there was no training last week. No appointments, no business talks, no meetings etc. The body chose to fall sick during that kind of week. It’s no coincident, it was planned beforehand. The Universe never makes a mistake.

I’m well again, ready for some action.

 

August 30, 2008

Value Investing Course

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Last weekend has been a fun, amazing and self-discovery weekend. Finally the days that I’ve been waiting for has come. The value investing course or the name of the course is called Millionaire Investor Program (MIP).

Ken and Clive has done a great job sharing their knowledge with us. The biggest take away for me is discovery of my investment behaviour or rather my behaviour in business as well; and understanding those ratio and numbers in the company annual report.

With the knowledge that I got out of MIP, I’ve found one strong growth company last night. In fact, I read up this company a month ago. That time, I didn’t thing it is that great. I picked up its annual report again last night and found out that I almost miss a gem here.

This morning, I sold my loser, and put the money into this new gem that I found.

I think MIP should be a 3 days program instead of 2 days. It seems not enough for many of us. There are a lot more value that can be added into the program. I believe in the near future, it will be a 3 days program.

 

August 29, 2008

Love To Travel

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It has been a while since the last time I updated this blog. In those days of missing in action, there were nice things happening around me. I asked myself one interesting question - “Do I love to travel?” Of course, my answer is yes.

Of course, most of us will answer ‘yes’. I can’t imagine anyone will answer ‘no’ to that question. But I had a distinction recently. When you answer ‘yes’, does your body and soul answer ‘yes’ too. When you say ‘yes’ physically from your mouth, does your mind and spirit says the same thing also.

My distinction was when I say ‘yes’, my spirit got pump up, my mind got awaken. That is truly a ‘yes’.

Last month, I got a referral from a close friend. This company wants to hold a sales training for their sales people. They requested a proposal from me. What got me excited was they are having this training at Phuket. I told myself - this is going to be fun. My mind and soul nodded their head as well.

Unfortunately, the company decided to shelf this training.

Another good news came. There is another company which the deal was closed, change their plan. Instead of doing their training in Singapore, they wanted it in Bintan, Club Med. They invited me over to conduct the workshop and join them for the holiday.

My mind and soul couldn’t stop jumping. This is truly a ‘yes’.

While I love to travel, I also realize that there are times when I am planning for the trip, I was at a lost on which hotel to stay in. To me this is the most important part of of traveling.

A hotel is a place I rest and keep my belongings. Knowing that my resting and belongings is taken care of, then I can have a great time visiting the places of interest.

What I do is to go to Hotel Combined to find a suitable hotel for myself. It is able to list down all major hotels in the area of visiting. This frees me up with a lot of time doing more important things.

 

August 16, 2008

New Program

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New program to expand our business. Our core program used to be “Spirit of Enterprise Program” sharing business concept with the youth. In the time now, we are moving out of this “entrepreneurship” box, we are creating something new.

The tentative name for this 3 days program is called - Success Mastery.

I am done with the initial program outline. There is still a lot to do, like marketing letter, brochures, content etc. I am aiming to finish them by next week. Then another week to tighten everything.

 

August 15, 2008

Trusting The Great Spirit

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Some called it God, I called it Great Spirit. It meant the same to me. It must be extremely strange for an entrepreneur to talk about Great Spirit. Why I talked about the Great Spirit?

Because It’s there. It may seems like It belongs to the “unknown” to some, but I must admit many miracles happened to me because of the “unknown”.

The vehicle I was in overturn down a hill, and I was not hurt was a miracle. Some business projects that came to me as a surprise was a miracle. Some cheques I received was a miracle.

Ok, I don’t mean you just sit on a floor, meditate and wait for miracles. Definitely someone must take action to allow miracles to happen.

This month we have an increase of inquiries about our business from our prospect. We are after other potential prospects, but these additional inquiries come from another direction, and found us. This is miracle to me.

Someone ever told me, as long as you are moving, you will attract miracles to you. They can come in different forms, have an open mind to accept them. Example if you are after a certain result, but could not get it, don’t be dishearten, because you may have created something else on your left that may lead to the same thing.

Always trust the Great Spirit. As long as you are moving, taking action, you will receive miracles.

 

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