Stand Tall, Stand Strong

"I've learned a big lesson, which is, if I stand long enough, I will win. I will stand, I will win, I will succeed." 

 

We have stood, long enough, until we achieve a certain measure of success. We can call this the Mercedes Benz standard. We are the Unipower-empowered Presidents in Unicity Singapore.

 

Now, we will stand, and stand, and stand, until our work is done, until there are more than 100 of us standing together, for the people of Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong, Indonesia, Philippines, Brunei, and standing in great friendship and partnership with our good friends in THAILAND, in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar.

 

We are breaking down artificial barriers within Asean that keep people down, and small, and creating a borderless community of powerful leaders, big people with the power to help millions to redesign their lives, and live the life they choose, a life that is healthy, wealthy, free and happy. Awesome opportunity, awesome partnership!

An Old Donkey Tale: Seeing the good in the dirt thrown at you

Have you ever found yourself in self-pitying situations where you wonder why circumstances seem to develop against you, and the very people whom you trust or have served loyally, also turned their backs on you, and even go further to throw dirt at you? It is hard in such situations to see the good in anything, and it'd be so easy to wallow and self-destruct in self-pity..... But the truth is that, there is always some good behind every bad, and that, is usually a little realization away.

Consider the story of the old donkey that fell into an old disused well while wondering around the farm early one morning ... It kicked up such a noisy fuss it's hee-haw woke up the old farmer... The farmer studied the situation, felt helpless, and shook his head. He could not figure out how he could ever get the injured donkey out. To him, there was only one way out. Bury the donkey to get it out of its misery, and cover up the well so no one and no creature would ever fall into it again... So, he called out all his farm hands. After instructions, everyone started shovelling dirt into the well.

The donkey looked up in dismay, and couldn't help feeling awfully bad... "After all these years of serving my master, he is now going to give up on me and bury me alive!" ... As donkey shook its head feeling really hurt, the dirt keep raining down on its back....  Then, suddenly, a thought hit it... The dirt was raising the floor of the dry well. It didn't need to stand still and surrender to the situation. All it needed to do was to shake off the dirt as it rains down, and step on the rising level of dirt ..... The farmer and his farm hands eventually realized what was happening. The donkey was rising higher as they shovel more dirt at him.... They sped up the process, and eventually, the donkey could simply step out of the well, and was reunited with its master, who felt both bad and good, guilty yet relieved, about all that had happened.

What can we get from this story? 1) When people throw dirt at us, it may be that they don't know how else to respond to a situation. 2) It pays to quickly regain control of our emotions when things seem to be going against us. Anger, hurt, disappointment or self-pity can blind us to the good behind the seemingly bad. 3) We can turn dirt thrown at us into stepping stones to freedom. The more dirt gets thrown at us, the faster we get to freedom ;)

Did you get anything else from this story? If you do, please share.      

Choices in a storm? Be chicken, crow or eagle?

Life is about Choices, and how it turns out comes from the choices we make. Keep making the wrong choices, and we will keep getting the wrong result. Want to change your result? Change the choices that you make. When God created Man, he left man with the Power to Choose e.g. Tree of Life or Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil - Choose. But Man were not left clueless. God did indicate his preference. Yet ....

Back to the present, are you dealing with some storms in your life? Bad winds blowing.... How are you going to respond...

Yesterday, at the Unipower Seminar in Singapore of 26th May 2012, I spoke of 3 possible responses: Respond like a chicken, respond like a crow, or respond like an eagle.

The chicken, which would normally be scratching through the ground for crumbs, would, on realizing a storm is upon it, flutter its wings but cannot fly and then use its dainty legs to run into the safety and comfort of the barn. It would re-emerge when the weather has cleared up.

The crow would normally be rummaging for food among garbage, or picking up on the incidental food droppings on the ground. Like the chicken, it would respond only when the storm is upon it. It would then take off from wherever it is, with a sqwuak, flap its wings, and fly away, aimlessly for unlike the chicken, it does not have a barn to go home too. Homeless.

What about the Eagle response? The Eagle can sense a storm coming well before it breaks. On detecting a storm approaching, the eagle will fly to a high spot and wait for the winds to arrive. When the storm hits, it would set its wings against the winds, so that the winds will pick it up and lift it above the storm. While the storm rages below, the eagle soars above. It does not seek to escape the storm. It simply takes on the storm and harnesses its energy to fly even higher than without the storm. To the eagle, storms are not a curse. Storms are a blessing, an opportunity to triumph in life.

So, what shall we be in the current or the next storm in life?

Run away scared, fleeing to the safety of our comfort zone, like a chicken? Or throw up our hands and complain, sqwuaking like a crow? Or shall we get ready to take on another storm and another, and let them lift us higher, like the eagle?

The choice is clear. But some of us may be scared of what it takes to take on the Eagle Being. We may be simply afraid of heights? Or whatever ... Before we try to fly like an Eagle, why not go to Eagle School? Ask around for a good one to enrol into ;)

The Eagle is an "extraordinary creature has great beauty, tremendous strength and skills. They inspire respect by man. Its flight is nothing short of dramatic. They glide in the air with movements more elegant than the waltz," writes Randy Vild in www.blowthetrumptet.org

We can learn so much from this beautiful, majestic creature, created by God to inspire Man to Be A Leader in Life. Of all the birds ever created, the Eagle was created as Leader, reigning undisputedly over all birds.

There are two things we can get and learn from the Eagle. First, its extraordinary way of dealing with adversity, its being in the face of storms, as described above.

Second, its incredible vision. The Eagle can see a fish swimming camouflaged under the surface of water even from several hundred feet above water. Its vision is at least four times sharper than a human being with perfect vision. It can pick out a rabbit scampering around within a 3 square mile area, while flying 1,000 feet high above open country.

Let's be inspired by the Eagle to have an incredible vision for our life - like, being able to see into the future a new reality that we would love to create and to design, with all the blessings that we already have with us in our being and in the tools placed in our hands to help us reign in life.

Let's be inspired by the being of the Eagle in the face of storms. Let's welcome troubles, welcome problems, welcome challenges, for we can harness the exceptional energy within them and use them to soar high above the ordinary, and live out the extraordinary life, enjoying breath-taking sights others cannot imagine.

First, go look for your Eagle School! Or Eagle Mentor!

Frog Tale: Comfort zones or zones of false comforts?

This is a tale of a frog in a beaker of slow-boiling water ....

There was once a frog which found itself in a beaker of water. Being in a beaker, the frog was not free to jump about as it naturally would. But the beaker was spacious enough, with enough homely attractions, to keep it happy.

Then, someone unknown to the frog, for reasons also unknown to the frog, put a slow burning fire underneath the beaker, and subjected the water to a slow boil.

The frog has a natural gift. It has the physiological ability to adjust to ever higher temperatures. This is the gift that enable the frog to live through all seasons.

The temperature of the water in the beaker kept going up, but gradually. If the temperature had spiked up, the frog might have jumped out. But that was not the case. So, the frog unknowingly used its natural gift to cope with ever higher temperatures.

It kept adjusting to the higher temperatures. The frog never felt uncomfortable enough at any point to get out.

Eventually, the water reach boiling point. Then, what happened to the frog? It died. Suddenly, or so it seems.

Consider, the point of this story. What does this have to do with the human existence?

In my previous vocation as an economist and investment analyst, I figured out from my almost 20 years of studying companies and business trends that there is one rule of survival that applies to practically all companies today.

Whatever it is that the company is doing, be it manufacturing, services, or marketing, it has got to do what it does better, faster, smarter, constantly, but charge less.

The company has to keep investing to expand and upgrade capabilities and equip its workers with more skills, and new skills.

Despite the cost pressures, and because of the highly competitive global marketplace, the company cannot charge more.

Instead, whatever it is that it is doing better, faster, smarter, it has to keep pricing its goods or services lower.

It'd want to keep costs down, but often all it can do is to contain the inexorable upward pressures on costs. Then, once in a while, something has to give. Normally, the workforce. By way of massive retrenchments, by the tens of thousands for big global companies.

What do you think is the impact of this divergence of capabilities and costs and pricing power on humanity? What is the human cost?

Is it a wonder people get really stressed up and uptight nowadays? Is it a wonder cancer, a stress-induced disease (whatever they say about smoking), has become commonplace and a commonly-feared health risk for every other person, or more? Is it a wonder why the age-related diseases of the past no longer respects our youth?

Has it ever occured to you that diseases originate from dis-ease? Often mistaken as stress in the face of higher level of performance.

Is our comfort zone really that comfortable, or are we just like a frog in a beaker of slow-boiling water, adjusting to ever higher levels of discomforts?

Shall we not get out before the water hit boiling point?


I know of a land where we can hop about healthily, freely, happily ..

Stand for something! What do you stand for?

What do I stand for?

I stand for The Happy Life Project, and all the great possibilities that it offers to people who can see, or envision, those possibilities.

I stand for the Unicity Opportunity, and its powers to Make Life Better for people all over the world.

I stand for the Unipower system for success - a system that levels the playing field, and enables people regardless of their prior capabilities and socio-economic background, to get any extraordinary results that they can freely set their minds and hearts on.

I stand for the great possibilities that I see for myself and my family - the result, the success, and the lifestyle of a Diamond-rank distributor, to be achieved before the September 2012 Korea Global Leadership Summit.

I stand for the Possibilities and the Success of everybody who choose to succeed in life through The Happy Life Project.

I am the Source and the Cause of all that matters in my life, everything that I wish to create in the days, the months and the years ahead.

I choose to be Responsible, 100%, for everything that happens, and everything that doesn't happen. I give up having anybody, anything or any circumstances to blame, whatever happens.

I am powerful, as the empowered, as well as the empowerer.

I am a Go Giver. I choose to be one, and I claim the results and possibilities of the Laws of Stratospheric Success. That means, I give great value in every human encounter - much more than I expect in payment; I serve many across many territories in our borderless world; I deeply care for others and focus on what really matters to them; I contribute the best of myself, my authentic self, in every situation; and I am ever ready to receive even as I give whatever I can.

In my pursuit of success in life, I acknowledge that I already enjoy the abundance and blessings of God, my Lord, Jesus Christ. I also acknowledge the leverage power of the 4 Partners - Unicity the Make Life Better Company, Unipower the people-enabling system, the Unipower Team, and myself. God and the 4 Partners make the Big Game, light work.

I am Lim Eng Hai, and these are what I stand for. What about you????

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!