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Monotone – Recasting Vision for Your Life

30. July 2008

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Who do you think of when you picture someone talking in monotone? I personally think of Ben Stein who did the Clear Eyes commercials a few years back. His voice remained at the same tone throughout the commercial. He did not show any excitement whatsoever in the product he was selling. He was just straightforward, [...]

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Create a Vision Board or How I Attracted an iPhone

8. October 2007

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I finally finished my vision board a couple of weeks ago with some pushing from my mastermind group. For the uninitiated, a vision board is a poster with images of what you want to have, do and be in your life. The idea behind this is the same as putting your goals, tasks and intentions [...]

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What Have You Done?

14. March 2007

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Remember those goals you set out at the beginning of the year? So this is March, and what have you done? Yup, welcome to the reality gut-check post – not for the faint-hearted. After years of setting goals; achieving some and not others, I realized the difference that makes the difference is you must have a way [...]

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Start Your New Year In The Best Direction

7. January 2007

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I know, I’m 7 days late. Remember that rough patch I was telling you about? I’m still roughing it out, but I’m feeling better and better as time goes by. Some of you already know – I broke up with my girlfriend. Maybe one day I’ll share the lessons I learnt from that, but not [...]

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The 20% That Makes You 80% Happy

11. June 2006

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What’s The Next Best Thing To Do? I’ve been living on a more micro than macro level the last couple of months, ever since being inspired by Adrian Savage’s The Simplest Path to Success post. Instead of asking myself, ‘what would go on my 10 year plan?’, I’m just asking ‘what’s the next best thing to [...]

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Get Comfortable Outside Your Comfort Zone

10. February 2006

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This may a little bit deviate from Alvin’s theme on Gratitude. At the same time, from another angle it’s really related because you should be gratify of all the challenges that is coming into your life. And that’s reason why you should be comfortable coming out of your comfort zone. If you remember the earlier post by [...]

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Directions vs Goals

31. December 2005

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Since we’re nearing the new year I’m sure many of us will be taking this chance to reflect on the year past and renew on the year ahead. I thought this would be a nice time to make a distinction between setting goals, and setting directions. What is a goal? Simply put, a goal is a [...]

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3 Things To Do Before End of 2005

19. December 2005

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Before you start wearing your holiday hat, there are few things you could do before X’Mas eve. Pull out your journal right now and complete these 3 activities within next 10 mins. 1) List down your 3 highlights of 2005. Something that worth remembering, something that make yourself proud, something that happen because you’ve put those effort [...]

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The Hand Pump Story

19. December 2005

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I visit China regularly, and my recent trip teach me something that I would like to share with you, it’s a “Hand Pump” Have you use such the pump before? “I have never seen one in Singapore”. You might say. Yes, because this type of pump is only constructed in the location where drought is common. [...]

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How You can Achieve Success… … Everytime Part 3

7. November 2005

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As promised, I will be focusing on How you can deal with ‘Precursors of Failure’ patterns in this post. Some simple strategies. 1) Threshold blow-out What I mean by threshold blow-out is to exaggerate your pattern to the extent that it becomes ridiculous. You will know you have done it when you find yourself laughing at what [...]

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