We can communicate better! I believe in CANI - Constant, Never Ending Improvement

Through this weekend, Feb 4th and 5th, and the evening of Feb 7th, I will be attending another Landmark Education course on COMMUNICATION: ACCESS TO POWER.

The course flyer says: "Be heard, be known, listen — be effective in communication"

Gain access to a new world of communication - where language is not merely a bridge, a response, or a way to deal with the world, but rather what brings that very world into being. Through this course, listening and speaking — actions that we would normally think of as ordinary and common place — take on new dimensions and provide unexpected power.

They become the instruments of creation.

Communication known this way becomes inseparable from who we are and what we bring to our world. It moves people. It transforms both the speaker and the listener. It allows you to be heard and known in new ways that generate partnership and affinity.

In the Communication Curriculum, you'll come to know communication in a new way. You'll participate in dialogue with a leader, one-on-one role-playing, and exercises that take what you've learned into your life. You will discover your ability to communicate with impact, effectiveness, and grace.

EXCITING! I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO COMMUNICATING AT A WHOLE NEW LEVEL!

Thoughts on Being Sapphire in 5 months

Unipower truly rocks, and is the force behind the waves upon waves of success and rank advancements in our Unicity business!!!

My deep heart-felt thanks goes to Unipower - the system, the business school, and the team of world-class leaders, all of whom are lined up behind all the work that we do in The Happy Life Project @ Unicity. Unipower is to me Godsent. It is what we need to be successful in building our personal Unicity franchises.

Having been in business for many years, I know only too well that we'd not have achieved the results that we are enjoying in the latest quarter and the 2 years before this, if we had not plugged fully into the system, and stay plugged on.

I am committed to enrolling every single new franchise owner to do likewise, and to lead them to Bangkok to meet our Thai mentors and leaders and see with their own eyes and hearts the huge results that have been created and continue to be created and put up for scrutiny at the UPS, a monthly showcase of what is possible with the Unipower system.

If they could see, they would believe; and if they'd see more, they'd believe more. When we believe enough, we will do whatever work that is necessary to create success, and when we do that, success naturally follows. X = Y!

I am glad that in Singapore and Malaysia, the Unicity business, powered by the Unipower system and team, is seeing people from all walks of life achieving the extraordinary results that we tell our friends about.

Rich or poor; accomplished business people or young adults fresh out of school; professionals or factory workers; Malay, Chinese or others; young people, middle aged or senior citizens; people from all walks of life can see a vision of new possibilities for their lives when shown the Happy Life Project, and then can achieve the results that we tell them about when they choose to plug in and play along.

I am thankful for the solid structures that are being built up in our business and the many "core leaders" that are showing up every quarter, every month, every week, every day. Core leaders are the most-prized human assets in our business. They are the leaders who would be willing to learn the ropes, avail themselves to the world-class coaching that the system and the team has to offer, and do the basic work needed to be done every day in order to succeed.

I am excited and optimistic about the future that we are scripting.

My personal rank advancement to Presidential Sapphire 1 in August, PS2 in September, and surely PS3 by October 2011, and thus become fully-qualified Presidential Sapphire within 5 months of becoming fully-qualified Presidential Director back in May, speaks volume for the power of the system. The system is enabling many people all the way down the lines and across various legs to grow their business and achieve the results that they set their hearts on.

Congratulations to all who have caught the vision of new possibilities for your life and have embarked on this exciting journey with us.

Come on, no more a life of trade-offs and never-ending struggles. Let's take on the abundance that we can get with The Happy Life Project and go for Health, Wealth, Time, Success, Freedom, Happiness!

Lim Eng Hai, Presidential Sapphire, Unicity
21 October 2011

The Power of The One => The Power of One

Article dated 5 Sept 2011, published in Unicity's Prime Life newsletter, April-June 2011 edition

Thank God I made it, finally - stepping into Unicity International’s President’s Club, as a fully-qualified Presidential Director, earning a permanent place of honor on the wall of fame in Unicity’s office in Singapore.

Right Actions (X) Get Right Results (Y)

This achievement in May 2011 came 3 months short of the 10th Anniversary of my signing up for a Unicity business. Yes, it’s been a long 10-year journey!

However, this achievement is really the result of the right actions of only the past 2 years – counting from the moment we first embraced the Unipower system for success, on the kind invitation of a great Thai gentleman.

Kawp Khun Maak Krap, Khun Joe

A Big Thank You to Presidential Triple Diamond Khun Joe, for remembering us, reaching out to us and showing us the way. You are truly God-sent. I’ll never forget how in a moment of quiet desperation, in Feb 2009, I prayed to God to send me and my people the power to succeed. You showed up within a month and offered us the Unipower system, developed and perfected in Thailand. Awesome!

Combine Power of Team, System & You with Great Company

Our success in building a PD-rank organization speaks volumes about how having a great opportunity with great products from a great company is not enough to get success. They are necessary conditions, but not enough. We also need to learn to work together as a Team and align ourselves behind one System. There is extra magic when we all agree to work together towards a common goal – one universal enough for all, the 100% Happy Life from the Happy Life Project!

Like the several hundred thousand distributors in Thailand, we now have in Unicity Singapore and Malaysia a system that enables people from all walks of life, regardless of race, language or religion, socio-economic profile or personal capabilities, to achieve big success in Unicity, within a short, predictable time-frame. Unipower is the GPS we need to make sure we stay the course and get to our dreams and goals, on time.

See => Believe => Follow

To access that power, we need to first believe, and then, follow, and follow 100% until we reach our goal.

Let my result serve as an inspiration to those who want success in Unicity, and get health, freedom and happiness in life. Mine is the story of one who was shown a great opportunity, saw it, grabbed it, and then, never let go - no matter how long and difficult the journey was. He persevered until help and the solution showed up.
Now, you don’t just have my result as proof you can see to believe.

Consider the result of Shalina Ismail – a new-generation leader whose achievement gives me greater satisfaction and a deeper joy than my own. Shalina first touched the Presidential Director rank the same month I became fully-qualified. She went on to become fully-qualified the next 2 months. That’s under 2 years from the time she signed up with Unicity, 18 months from her decision to succeed following the Unipower system.

Next, we’d love to help raise 10 more Presidents before the year is out, and cause at least 100 Presidents to show up in the next 2-3 years. There is a lot of room at the top. Would you like to join us?

Lim Eng Hai, Presidential Director, Unicity
5 September 2011

When you're down in the dumps and people heap dirt at you ...

Have you ever come across the story of the donkey that fell into a well, and whose owner, the farmer, didn't know how to rescue it, and so decided to bury it alive? I came across this story again today, on one of my friend's facebook posts, and appreciated the story more deeply this time. Please read on, and let me share with you my takeaway.

"One of my favorite stories is about a farmer’s donkey that fell into a dry well. The animal cried pitifully for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do for his poor donkey. Finally, he concluded that the well was too deep, and it really needed to be covered up anyway. Besides, the donkey was old, and it would be a lot of trouble to get him out of the pit. The farmer decided that it was not worth trying to retrieve the animal, so he asked his neighbors to help him fill in the well and bury the donkey.

They all grabbed shovels and began to toss dirt into the well. The donkey immediately realized what was happening, and he began to bray horribly. Crying would be our normal response if somebody was mistreating us this badly, so this donkey was responding the same way we would at first, but then he got real quiet. A few shovel loads of dirt later, the farmer looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit the donkey’s back, the donkey would shake it off and step on top of it.

As the neighbors and the farmer continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he continued to shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon the donkey shook off the last shovel full of dirt, took a step up, and walked right out of the well. We can learn from this story.

When trouble comes, if we will get still and listen, God will tell us what to do."

- Meyer Joyce, New Day, New You, 366 Days for Enjoying Everyday Life, FaithWords, Kindle Edition

My takeaway from this story ...

When you are (or feel like you are) down in the dumps, and find that people, for whatever reasons, saw it fit to throw more dirt at you, you have two choices.

Surrender and die, or turn the situation around to your advantage. Succumb to the dirt people heap at you or shake it off, step on it and use the dirt to go higher?

It will help if we know deep in our heart why we need to get out of the hole that we may find ourselves in so as to live to enjoy another day in the warm sunshine!

As the story goes, it also helps if we'd just be still in the midst of troubles, and listen up for the Wisdom from above.

I've been there before. I'm forever glad I had the wisdom to quieten my spirit and look up for the blessing in the challenge.

A million dollar vision of Singapore

On 11 September 2002, I posted the following article in my organization's private website. I never let go of this vision through the difficult years when the burden was heavy, the journey was lonely, and the result, nothing to shout about.

Now in conjunction with Singapore's 46th National Day, celebrated with great fanfare and fireworks just a few days ago, and given the great success and inspiring results we've been able to produce in the past 2 years, I feel it is time to roll out what I called ..

A Million Dollar Vision: An opportunity not to be missed.

Please read on.

I envision Singapore emerging as the Network Marketing capital of the world. I foresee a vibrant, happy, positively-charged city in which an unbelievable 40% of the 4m population is actively or passively involved in Network Marketing.

The active network marketers, celebrated on a global platform, do a global business connecting every day with people within the immediate region, Southeast Asia, and well beyond.

Their activities touch millions of lives all over the world, certainly in all the active network marketing regions of the world – Asean, China, Japan, Korea, USA, Latin America, Europe.

This vision is founded on certain conditions currently in place and trends that are at work today.

1. Singapore is the most globally connected city of the world. That makes it the best place in the world to build and run a global business.

2. Singapore is losing its edge in many traditional industries in the light of sustained competition from low-cost manufacturing giants such as China and others. Hence, a government-sponsored drive into biotechnology or life sciences.

3. However, the climb up the technology ladder involves ever-smaller job creation. People displaced by unprecedented shake-out in many industries - from manufacturing to finance and other services – are forced to look for new ways to make a living and ensure their economic well-being. For many, going into business for themselves has become a matter of necessity rather than a matter of choice.

4. Network Marketing, totally banned until the year 2000, provides a compelling option to middle-class risk-averse Singapore, unused to the ways and risks of traditional businesses. For a people unprepared to risk their personal capital, lacking in entrepreneurial experience but abundantly blessed with capacity and desire to learn, the emergence of Network Marketing is but a timely Godsent. It provides more than a welcome relief to thousands of people at a time when they feel deeply insecure about their economic wellbeing.

5. Serious Network Marketers cannot help looking beyond the domestic market, driven out by the smallness of Singapore and attracted by the bigness of the market potential regionally and beyond. Their international endeavors will be facilitated by the connectedness of Singapore and encouraged by the ease of building a global network of relationships by leveraging on unrivalled socio-cultural, linguistic, physical and technological connections.

Socio-cultural connections

Singapore has a globally-connected population of 4m. It includes expatriates and foreigners who have “permanently resided” in the island state but still maintain family and friendly links with people from various parts of the world. Even the core group of Singaporeans have active family and social contacts in various countries where they or their forebears come from – Malaysia, Indonesia, China, India, USA, Europe. In addition, the transient foreign worker population includes hundreds of thousands from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and China, even the US and Europe. Many of these groups - such as the 500,000 Chinese nationals said to be working in Singapore - have a very visible or audible presence in Singapore’s social landscape. Look out or listen out for them not just along Orchard Road or Shenton Way but also in the HDB heartland.

Linguistic connections

If you can’t speak Pudonghua, you can find thousands who do in Singapore. Likewise with Malay, Indonesian, Thai, Tagalog, Indian, Japanese, Korean, even Russian, French and Dutch. If you want to communicate with someone in Thai, find a Thai in Singapore who speaks in English with you and speaks in Thai with his compatriot. Likewise, with the others.

Physical connections

Singapore has one of the busiest airports and seaports in the world. Global competition and a marketplace open to all major players in the world will keep prices down and send them even lower over time. Travel is already easy and cheap, and it will become easier and cheaper; so will movement of goods. This is the positive spin-off missing from the generally negative press coverage of Port of Singapore recently losing some high-profile customers to Johor’s new port. The positive spin-off, however, is relevant mainly to those who travel frequently and those who have a vested interest in the cost-effective movement of goods.

Technological connections

Singapore has the highest mobile phone penetration rate in the world – a remarkable feat after only 5 years of breaking up Singapore Telecommunications’ monopoly.

In March 1997, as M1 was rolling out its competing services, SingTel had achieved a penetration rate of only 14%, based on 430,000 subscribers on a narrowly-defined population base of 3.1m Singapore residents. In August 2002, the mobile penetration rate had climbed to a previously unimaginable 75% - or 3.1m subscribers, on a more broadly defined population base of 4.1m. Prior to 1997, the conventional wisdom of how high mobile phone penetration rate can be was 50%, or a level below that. The 50% was the mobile phone penetration rate in Scandinavia.

Singapore’s Internet connectivity is also possibly one of the highest in the world, and its cosmopolitan population, exposed to the latest in technological gimmickry, one of the most Internet-savvy in the world. Singapore epitomizes a world where business can be done “at the speed of thought”!

Interpretations and Postulations

Here’s one interesting interpretation of the phenomenal increase in mobile phone penetration: Great ideas, products and services spread like wildfire in Singapore’s compact marketplace, and can far exceed conventional wisdom of what’s achievable or thinkable.

Now, imagine combining the opportunity of network marketing on a global scale with the necessitating, facilitating and encouraging (or push and pull) factors that are uniquely Singapore’s. What do you think will happen in 10-20 years?

Based on this convergence, I believe Singapore will, within this generation i.e. in 10-20 years, emerge as the Network Marketing capital of the world, with a currently-unthinkable audacious-sounding 40% of the population involved, providing a rich pool from which many inspiring Global Network Marketing Leaders will appear.

Singapore is the right place and now is the right time to build a global business that can produce million dollar cheques, and I am thinking per month and in US$! Next, all you need is the right vehicle with the right products – not any company and any product.

Are you going to pass up this opportunity of a lifetime and continue to gripe about life being hard in resource-poor Singapore? Or are you going to take advantage of Singapore’s unique global advantage and turn its connectedness into a currently-unimaginable personal fortune?

I have made my choice, and will continue to steadfastly build my global pipeline to realize what some may call my global pipedream.

How about you? The choice is yours, has always been.


Lim Eng Hai
11 September 2002
– a day to celebrate humanity

A partnership we are proud of

It took us 2 years to get from a conversation over lunch at the Raffles Hotel to this joint honour of having a permanent slot next to each other on Unicity Singapore's Wall of Fame, under the label, The President's Club. Shalina and I will work closely together, employing the awesome people-enabling system, Unipower, to help raise another 100 and more President's Club members. OK, who's next?

Shalina, Welcome to the President's Club!

Yes, more than a pretty face, indeed ... A Leader with Beauty, Vision, Power, Tenacity and Results!

In January 2009, Shalina, a hardworking mother of two with 3 paying jobs and one non-paying passion to her name, was awarded a box of Bios Life Slim for being among the winners in a beauty pageant for beautiful moms. She was a runner-up in the Ibu of The Year 2009 contest held at Orchid Country Club.

In July 2009, on our follow-up and encouragement, Shalina finally decided to use the product diligently in preparation for the Mrs Universe pageant in Latvia, where she represented Singapore as Mrs Singapore Universe.

On 19 August 2009, on her return from Latvia as Mrs Best Smile (living up to her name Shalina Ismail (read, Is-smile)), I met with Shalina to show her how she can leverage her life experiences todate, both the happy ones and the not so happy ones, and translate them all into something big and hugely valuable, through The Happy Life Project. We met over lunch at the Tiffin Room in Raffles Hotel, a classy venue befitting a beauty queen, I had said :)

Shalina saw some possibilities, and signed up on the spot, opening a franchise account with Unicity that very day.

A few days later, on 22 August 2009, right smack in the middle of "Puasa" or fasting month, Sha attended her first big meeting, a Super OPP at Suntec City, and met with Triple Diamond Khun Joe and CEO Stewart Hughes.

She saw something, confirming that she wanted to build a personal franchise with Unicity, but missed somethings. She went about sharing Unicity's great products, especially Bios Life Slim, generating quite a lot of orders but at the expense of her already highly-constrained time. Her time constraint kept her from much-needed training and exposure to the Unipower system.

In February 2010, after persistent never-give-up enrollment by her leaders, she attended Unicity's Global Convention in Bangkok. There, she caught a bigger, sharper, stronger vision of what's possible for her in the Happy Life Project, with the Unipower system. She met her idol, her role model - Khun Rasa Comeban, the first female Triple Diamond in the world of Unicity.

Shalina returned to Singapore a good follower, open and ready to plug into the system, drawing power from the system, and the system's training, events and leaders, not herself. She has not looked back since, moving forward with stealth and great speed, climbing the pin ranks every quarter.

Today, 18 months after she caught the full vision and decided to succeed with the Unipower system, Shalina becomes a fully-qualified Presidential Director in Unicity.

Shalina is now "jobless", having quitted all the jobs that previously locked up almost all her time and attention but never did pay her enough to meet her needs and daily expenses. But she's never been better paid. She enjoys a 5-figure monthly income which she richly deserves.

Shalina, Welcome to the President's Club!

You will be joining me, and Nancy Long, and Aaron Ong, on The Wall at our office in HDB Hub, Toa Payoh, very soon.

From that vantage position, we have a big task ahead of us, to fulfill with great passion, pleasure and purpose - to inspire many more people to take control of their health, their finances, their time and their life so as to achieve Health, Wealth, Freedom and HAPPINESS!

We're in the Business of Uplifting People

13 July 2011. Orchard Parade Hotel. Before the Ballroom doors open.... Recognition plaque and pins all laid out, ready to be awarded to the achievers. So many new managers, senior managers and executive managers to recognize.

So many new Directors, a few Senior Directors, an Executive Director and an upcoming Presidential Director ... All enjoying good 4 to 5-digit incomes, the first taste of real lasting wealth, and much better health with good looks and great complexion to prove that!

That's why there is that one plaque, mine.... Just over 2 years of Unipower system, April 2009 - June 2011, and this is the result we are creating. The best part is this is only the beginning.

Fast forward by one month.. 13 August 2011, location: Bangkok - Impact at Muangthong Thani ... Another such plaque, among many others, will be presented to our next fully-qualified Presidential Director from Singapore, an achievement that warms my heart, fills my being with a deep joy, a result that validates the power we now have to create and recreate more and more success.

Shalina Ismail, welcome to the President's Club!

Let's Reach Within To Embrace Humanity

On 1st July 2011, I took on being President of The Rotary Club of Pandan Valley for the Rotary Year 2011/12. On the evening of 2nd July 2011, we had the Installation Dinner at The Tanglin Club, in the august Churchill Rooom. I shared the following thoughts with the some 200 guests at the dinner, Rotarians and their family and friends. I said ...

"Rotary, as I have come to know it through my time in the Rotary Club of Pandan Valley, is a fine fellowship of men and women of substance, pooling together time, talent and resources to do good, making a difference to humanity, locally and globally.

This is my choice of 28 words to describe what Rotary means to me personally. You can find these 28 words among other 28-word selections contributed by all our active Past Presidents featured in our souvenir magazine. Please have a good look when you can.

To be in the midst of the many fine people that make up the Rotary Club of Pandan Valley is, in itself, already, a great privilege.

To be given the opportunity to serve as your President adds great honour to that privilege.

I thank all the members for entrusting me with the leadership of this distinguished club, a club which I believe to be one of the finest of Rotary Clubs in Singapore and District 3310. If you agree, let’s have a rousing applause for that.

I accept the responsibility that comes with it. It is the responsibility to continue the good work, and maintain the happy camaraderie that the club is well-regarded for, over the past 28 years of “Service Above Self”, and by our actions and work, to promote the good 100-over years old name of Rotary.

I would like to acknowledge the 14 other Rotarians who agreed to serve with me in the Board of Directors for the Rotary Year 2011/12. I’d like to introduce them all at the end of my address tonight. The group of 14 includes 7 Past Presidents, whose wise counsel we would do well to tap.

I am heartened and encouraged by their support, so readily given when asked for. Thank You! I know that ours is not a lonely endeavor. This is no one man show, not for the President nor for any of the service directors. Instead, it is the coming together of a wealth of experience, great wisdom and diverse strengths and vocational expertise.

With our combined time, talent and treasures, we can do great things.

In the new Rotary Year, we are called by the President of Rotary International, Kalyan Banerjee, to “Reach Within To Embrace Humanity”.

If you were to “Reach Within” now, and what will we find?

I believe that when we do that, reaching within, we will get in touch with our inner man, our own humanity. We will feel our heart and rediscover in our heart a deep desire to make a difference in the life of others. We will find a great capacity to love our fellow human beings, be they family, friends or friends whom we have not yet met.

We will then find it only natural to willingly dig into our treasure box, tap into our time - despite our already being busy with our life and work, and draw upon our respective talents, all for the purpose of doing good and serving others who make up the beautiful Humanity that we belong to, the Humanity that is the greatest Creation of God!

That is why those of us who are already Rotarians are in Rotary.

That is why some of our guests tonight, I believe, will find their way into Rotary, and put their life into the work of Rotary.

If that’s you, please come have a chat with us. Let’s have a conversation to confirm that we have a good fit. The Rotary Club, 47-members strong right now, is open to taking on a few new members this year, just as we have done in each of the past several years. We will never have enough good people. More hands, and more hearts, will make the great work, LIGHT.

In the Rotary Club of Pandan Valley, we do not need to fear hard work. Firstly, because we are doing only our heart’s work. Secondly, because with so many good people around, everyone needs to do only a little bit, and together we can do really a lot of good.

As a fitting close to my speech, it’s my great pleasure to present to you all the good people who have agreed to serve with me in the Board of Directors for the Rotary Year 2011/12. These are the good people who have agreed to step up to the call to Reach Within To Embrace Humanity, and make a difference to our community and the world we live in, through the Rotary Club of Pandan Valley.

Please allow me to present to you …..

1. Vice President, PP Peter Yap (away)
2. President-Elect, Rtn Tan Wah Yuan
3. Immediate Past President, Michael Loh
4. Hon Secretary, Rtn Anil Changaroth, concurrently Chairman of Club Administration
5. Hon. Treasurer, Rtn Alice Yim
6. Directors, Community Service, PP Choe Peng Sum
7. International Service, PP Jeffrey Seow
8. Membership, PP Dr Richard Guan
9. Public Relations, PP Cynthia Tan
10. Vocational Service, Rtn Elsie Chua, concurrently Chairman of Service Projects
11. Club Service, Rtn Rajamohan Munisamy
12. New Generations Service, Rtn Patrick Cheo
13. Sergeant at Arms I, Rtn Dennis Wee
14. Sergeant at Arms II, PP Pang Boon Seng (away)

Please give them all a BIG HAND!

Thank You!"