Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Hit a Brick Wall lately? Love 'em!
Someone introduced me to an inspiring and moving video on YouTube about a dying but high-spirited and still fun-loving 47-year-old professor, Randy Paush, of Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center.
He chose to speak at his "Last Lecture" about going after his childhood dreams and helping others to achieve theirs.
I find the 1 1/2 talk highy captivating, entertaining, and often funny. Randy is really good. And he presents his life experiences and achievements in generalised, universal terms that we can take and apply in any life situations.
Here's one (or three, or three in one) that I like, and which my business apprentices will find useful to remember every time they run into a brickwall (a.k.a. rejection, or a "stall"):
Brick walls are there for a reason: They let us prove how badly we want things.
Brick walls are there for a reason: They are there to stop other people
Brick walls let us show our dedication.
When you can find 1hr 44min from your busy schedule, go watch this inspiring video,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
&q=randy+pausch&total=19&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&pl
index=6
It'd be well worth the effort. I laughed through most of it and was moved to tears at the end :)
Even when Randy is done with his part, stay on the video, and listen to what significant others in his professional life say about his life's work. That's the really moving part. How often does a man live to listen to "eulogies" and buildings dedicated in his name? Normally not.
He chose to speak at his "Last Lecture" about going after his childhood dreams and helping others to achieve theirs.
I find the 1 1/2 talk highy captivating, entertaining, and often funny. Randy is really good. And he presents his life experiences and achievements in generalised, universal terms that we can take and apply in any life situations.
Here's one (or three, or three in one) that I like, and which my business apprentices will find useful to remember every time they run into a brickwall (a.k.a. rejection, or a "stall"):
Brick walls are there for a reason: They let us prove how badly we want things.
Brick walls are there for a reason: They are there to stop other people
Brick walls let us show our dedication.
When you can find 1hr 44min from your busy schedule, go watch this inspiring video,
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
&q=randy+pausch&total=19&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&pl
index=6
It'd be well worth the effort. I laughed through most of it and was moved to tears at the end :)
Even when Randy is done with his part, stay on the video, and listen to what significant others in his professional life say about his life's work. That's the really moving part. How often does a man live to listen to "eulogies" and buildings dedicated in his name? Normally not.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
The bad news in boom times
Have you heard, because of the economic boom, asking rents for some offices or shop space have shot up 50-100%? Imagine, if you were running a business out of an office and your landlord tells you the rent will double up at the next lease renewal. Some businesses have had no choice but to relocate, incurring painful additional costs in the process. Many businesses have also had to pay more just to keep their workers. My lawyer friend who runs his own little firm recently told me fresh graduates nowadays cost more than S$4,000 a month, and they may not even be good enough for the job!
This situation was captured in the Upfront column of The Straits Times on Wednesday, July 25th, under the headline, Boom time doesn't come cheap for businesses.
The writer Erica Tay wrote of Marcus Ng, owner of an interior furnishings company, who was told by his landlord that the rent for his business premises in a MacPherson industrial estate will be raised by more than 30% when it comes up for renewal in three months. Business has been good, but he is not ready to stomach such a steep rental rise. "If I can't bargain for a lower hike, I will move elsewhere."
Then there is VS Kumar, MD of a 100-strong courier company Network Express. His drivers are clamouring for pay rises. "With the current salary you are giving us, our families can't afford to buy the same things anymore," they tell Mr Kumar. The company has no choice but to review salary packages.
The good times have put a squeeze on the supply of commercial space as well as labour, leading to higher rentals and wages. The higher rentals also apply to rents on accomodation, with expatriates asking for higher housing allowances.
When I read about how many businesses stand to suffer as much in good times as they do in bad times, I am glad and thankful for the unique, hassle-free, home-based business that I own. For me, like many other businesses in good times, business has been better so far this year. However, unlike traditional businesses facing the usual headaches and cost pressures, I get to keep all of the extra income.
Nobody gets to tell me to pay more for my rent for I operate out of my office at own home!
I'm sure the rent for our new shop and corporate showcase at the new location in HDB Hub Mall #02-06 is higher than the rent at the previous location. But that's the responsibility and burden of my corporate partner, not me nor my associates.
Wages must have gone up too for the good corporate staff that serve us, but that again is the corporate side's responsibility.
Nobody in my organization ever comes up to me to ask for more money because inflation is pricing things out of their reach. Like me, they get to write their own cheques. If we want more, we just work harder and smarter. It all depends on our own effort and success.
So, good times or bad times, we are fine.
I remember one clever line Eddy Tan, the most successful of Unicity networkers in this part of the world, is fond of using:
"In good times, they eat; in bad times, they do. For us, either way will do" :)
This situation was captured in the Upfront column of The Straits Times on Wednesday, July 25th, under the headline, Boom time doesn't come cheap for businesses.
The writer Erica Tay wrote of Marcus Ng, owner of an interior furnishings company, who was told by his landlord that the rent for his business premises in a MacPherson industrial estate will be raised by more than 30% when it comes up for renewal in three months. Business has been good, but he is not ready to stomach such a steep rental rise. "If I can't bargain for a lower hike, I will move elsewhere."
Then there is VS Kumar, MD of a 100-strong courier company Network Express. His drivers are clamouring for pay rises. "With the current salary you are giving us, our families can't afford to buy the same things anymore," they tell Mr Kumar. The company has no choice but to review salary packages.
The good times have put a squeeze on the supply of commercial space as well as labour, leading to higher rentals and wages. The higher rentals also apply to rents on accomodation, with expatriates asking for higher housing allowances.
When I read about how many businesses stand to suffer as much in good times as they do in bad times, I am glad and thankful for the unique, hassle-free, home-based business that I own. For me, like many other businesses in good times, business has been better so far this year. However, unlike traditional businesses facing the usual headaches and cost pressures, I get to keep all of the extra income.
Nobody gets to tell me to pay more for my rent for I operate out of my office at own home!
I'm sure the rent for our new shop and corporate showcase at the new location in HDB Hub Mall #02-06 is higher than the rent at the previous location. But that's the responsibility and burden of my corporate partner, not me nor my associates.
Wages must have gone up too for the good corporate staff that serve us, but that again is the corporate side's responsibility.
Nobody in my organization ever comes up to me to ask for more money because inflation is pricing things out of their reach. Like me, they get to write their own cheques. If we want more, we just work harder and smarter. It all depends on our own effort and success.
So, good times or bad times, we are fine.
I remember one clever line Eddy Tan, the most successful of Unicity networkers in this part of the world, is fond of using:
"In good times, they eat; in bad times, they do. For us, either way will do" :)
S$300,000 to learn to "listen well"!
I read in The Straits Times on Tuesday, July 24th, that 46 UBS wealth management trainees are in Singapore to attend a one-year, S$300,000 course on how to be a very good listener - one of the key attributes of a successful private banker.
This select bunch were handpicked from a massive field of 2,800 applicants. They include a former top-ranked Hongkong professional tennis player, a programme manager with the World Economic Forum in Geneva and a super-geek from Singapore, who gave up a S$150,000 a year job developing electronic payment systems to join the programme.
As part of their training, they will receive both classroom and on-the-job training in empathy (YES, EMPATHY), product knowledge and leadership skills in financial hubs such as Singapore and Switzerland. The cost of the course, fully paid by UBS, covers trainees' salaries accomodation, travel expenses and course fees.
According to UBS global wealth management chairman Raoul Weil, who was in Singapore to meet the trainees, successful private bankers must have both "a high emotional quotient (EQ) to relate effectively to the client and the IQ to offer him the best investment options".
The news article was headlined: Want to be a successful private banker? Listen well ..."
My guess is that if you want to be a successful anything, we need to listen well :)
So, it's great that bankers and businesses are picking up on this, and investing in it.
One of these days, some of us are going to make a lot of money simply teaching people how to listen well. Indeed, some of us already are, although indirectly ;)
This select bunch were handpicked from a massive field of 2,800 applicants. They include a former top-ranked Hongkong professional tennis player, a programme manager with the World Economic Forum in Geneva and a super-geek from Singapore, who gave up a S$150,000 a year job developing electronic payment systems to join the programme.
As part of their training, they will receive both classroom and on-the-job training in empathy (YES, EMPATHY), product knowledge and leadership skills in financial hubs such as Singapore and Switzerland. The cost of the course, fully paid by UBS, covers trainees' salaries accomodation, travel expenses and course fees.
According to UBS global wealth management chairman Raoul Weil, who was in Singapore to meet the trainees, successful private bankers must have both "a high emotional quotient (EQ) to relate effectively to the client and the IQ to offer him the best investment options".
The news article was headlined: Want to be a successful private banker? Listen well ..."
My guess is that if you want to be a successful anything, we need to listen well :)
So, it's great that bankers and businesses are picking up on this, and investing in it.
One of these days, some of us are going to make a lot of money simply teaching people how to listen well. Indeed, some of us already are, although indirectly ;)
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Hello! Who's listening?
Yesterday, in a private coaching session with an apprentice on how to become exceptionally popular and make friends in a social setting, we reviewed a common scenario.
Imagine five friends catching up socially over a coffee. A few have known each other for some time; the others more recently acquianted and inducted into the informal get-together.
Someone starts talking about a pet peeve. He barely finishes what he wants to say. Someone else jumps in with his take on the same subject, believing that he is contributing to the conversation and staying with the flow. Then, another jumps in with her own story. Now, we have three excited people trying to talk at the same time.
The other two, being relatively new to the group or not so adept at speaking up or breaking into an animated conversation, couldn't get a word in. They drift away, find companionship in each other's sense of not quite fitting in, and enter into their own little chat.
Hello, who's listening?
The party ends later and everyone goes home, with dry throats and hollowed hearts.
Now, what if one of the two left out of the conversation, instead of drifting away, listens in closely? He makes a connection with one of the talkers and what he's trying to say. He realizes that there is an interesting story that was unfinished because it was interrupted. So, he speaks up, saying, "Excuse me, just now, what you said about ...., I find that so interesting. Can you please tell me more about that?"
The guy with the unfinished story beams, pleasantly surprised someone was actually listening in to what he had to say, and even wanted to hear the rest of his story. So, he continues with his interrupted story. Now, the polite and interested listener gets the others listening in too.
Do you think this party will end differently?
Do you think there will be at least one person in the party who felt really listened to? And do you think someone in the party of five will leave a good impression of himself on the others and possibly win for himself a deeper bond or friendship than before the evening started out?
The moral of the story? In this world where speaking is over-rated and listening is under-appreciated, it doesn't take much to make a difference and to leave a mark. Let's not worry about speaking up or speaking well so as to impress for the moment. Instead, why not focus on listening well so as to leave a more lasting and favourable impression?
Imagine five friends catching up socially over a coffee. A few have known each other for some time; the others more recently acquianted and inducted into the informal get-together.
Someone starts talking about a pet peeve. He barely finishes what he wants to say. Someone else jumps in with his take on the same subject, believing that he is contributing to the conversation and staying with the flow. Then, another jumps in with her own story. Now, we have three excited people trying to talk at the same time.
The other two, being relatively new to the group or not so adept at speaking up or breaking into an animated conversation, couldn't get a word in. They drift away, find companionship in each other's sense of not quite fitting in, and enter into their own little chat.
Hello, who's listening?
The party ends later and everyone goes home, with dry throats and hollowed hearts.
Now, what if one of the two left out of the conversation, instead of drifting away, listens in closely? He makes a connection with one of the talkers and what he's trying to say. He realizes that there is an interesting story that was unfinished because it was interrupted. So, he speaks up, saying, "Excuse me, just now, what you said about ...., I find that so interesting. Can you please tell me more about that?"
The guy with the unfinished story beams, pleasantly surprised someone was actually listening in to what he had to say, and even wanted to hear the rest of his story. So, he continues with his interrupted story. Now, the polite and interested listener gets the others listening in too.
Do you think this party will end differently?
Do you think there will be at least one person in the party who felt really listened to? And do you think someone in the party of five will leave a good impression of himself on the others and possibly win for himself a deeper bond or friendship than before the evening started out?
The moral of the story? In this world where speaking is over-rated and listening is under-appreciated, it doesn't take much to make a difference and to leave a mark. Let's not worry about speaking up or speaking well so as to impress for the moment. Instead, why not focus on listening well so as to leave a more lasting and favourable impression?
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Why not two mouths one ear
Because we're already bad enough in our communications skills with one mouth and two ears :)
(ok, ok, this may not apply to you. Let's just say I'm speaking in general, about the majority of people. So, don't shut down on me just yet.)
Thinking generally, don't we tend to use our mouths to speak a lot more than we use our ears to listen?
You must have heard the rather common and frequent admonition, "Why do you think we have two ears and one mouth?"
Well, if only we'd listen more and speak less ...
There'd be a lot less misunderstanding among people and nations and a lot more understanding. Now, hang on ... do you realized that we often speak of misunderstanding at work, among friends, at home. How often do we speak of "understanding" at work, at home or at play?
A lot of this lack of listening, relative to speaking, has to do with society, our conditioning and education. Almost all of us are brought up being told repeatedly how important it is to speak well. We hold in esteem those who speak well. (And don't we think there is something wrong with the quieter boys or girls in class?) We pay attention to the art of public speaking, and have all heard about it. Some of us may even have enrolled for courses on public speaking, or would like to? Many have joined clubs that promote effective public speaking. Heard of the Toastmasters?
Debating is often seen as a contest of who can speak better. Have you ever considered that the better debater is the one who listens better, and therefore can rebut more to the point? No?
As a result of social and educational conditioning, what's often missing in our communication skills is the listening.
Whoever have heard of the Art of Public (or Private) Listening? Would you sign up for that course?
(ok, ok, this may not apply to you. Let's just say I'm speaking in general, about the majority of people. So, don't shut down on me just yet.)
Thinking generally, don't we tend to use our mouths to speak a lot more than we use our ears to listen?
You must have heard the rather common and frequent admonition, "Why do you think we have two ears and one mouth?"
Well, if only we'd listen more and speak less ...
There'd be a lot less misunderstanding among people and nations and a lot more understanding. Now, hang on ... do you realized that we often speak of misunderstanding at work, among friends, at home. How often do we speak of "understanding" at work, at home or at play?
A lot of this lack of listening, relative to speaking, has to do with society, our conditioning and education. Almost all of us are brought up being told repeatedly how important it is to speak well. We hold in esteem those who speak well. (And don't we think there is something wrong with the quieter boys or girls in class?) We pay attention to the art of public speaking, and have all heard about it. Some of us may even have enrolled for courses on public speaking, or would like to? Many have joined clubs that promote effective public speaking. Heard of the Toastmasters?
Debating is often seen as a contest of who can speak better. Have you ever considered that the better debater is the one who listens better, and therefore can rebut more to the point? No?
As a result of social and educational conditioning, what's often missing in our communication skills is the listening.
Whoever have heard of the Art of Public (or Private) Listening? Would you sign up for that course?
Monday, April 16, 2007
Why suffer rejection at all?
After more than five years in the Unicity network marketing business, working with many partners who want the business for what it can get for them, I find that the fear, and pain, of rejection continues to rear its ugly head.
The fear of rejection, and the pain that is associated with it, often slows down or stops altogether otherwise capable and confident people from continuing to build their Unicity business.
I find that such a pity. Why? Because that fear is unnecessary, and the pain from the so-called rejections are often self-inflicted, borne out of things we often make up in our minds about people - what they mean when they do or don't do certain things.
Think of the guy who've just got a "no, thank you" and how he might tend to recount the rejection over and over again, making up suppositions and assumptions along the way that serve to make him feel worse and worse about himself.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were no rejections to speak of? Wouldn't it be even nicer if we only have acceptances and success stories to share?
We can do and build the business without being rejected.And I am not suggesting we turn the table on our prospects, and in a somewhat vengeful way, hastily reject unsuitable prospects instead.
We can get around all these fear and pain of rejections, in either direction, simply by approaching the business in terms of "looking for a good fit" - and idea I first picked up from a seminar by John Milton Fogg.
We have great products. But not everybody is going to appreciate that, and see their value or feel ready for them. So, we just keep going out, showing people what we have, and looking out and listening up for a fit between what we have to offer and what some people are looking for.
We have a great business opportunity,which is extraordinary and exceptional in its powers and its rewards. But not everybody is going to see its beauty and recognize its power. Even those who do, may not be ready to step out of the familiarity of their comfort zone to venture into the unfamiliar.
Ours is a "lifestyle business" that requires vision, perseverance and personal change - something which many are afraid of!
So, what do we do? We should just keep talking to as many people as possible. Or rather, get as many people as possible to talk to us about what they're doing and what they'd rather be doing, if any. If we listen up well enough, we should be able to find that someone for whom our opportunity represents a God-sent.
Where there's no fit, let go and move on.
Where there seems to be a fit, let's keep exploring until we find the fit.
Where there's a good, ready fit, let's proceed.
Now, where is the rejection in all these?
The fear of rejection, and the pain that is associated with it, often slows down or stops altogether otherwise capable and confident people from continuing to build their Unicity business.
I find that such a pity. Why? Because that fear is unnecessary, and the pain from the so-called rejections are often self-inflicted, borne out of things we often make up in our minds about people - what they mean when they do or don't do certain things.
Think of the guy who've just got a "no, thank you" and how he might tend to recount the rejection over and over again, making up suppositions and assumptions along the way that serve to make him feel worse and worse about himself.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were no rejections to speak of? Wouldn't it be even nicer if we only have acceptances and success stories to share?
We can do and build the business without being rejected.And I am not suggesting we turn the table on our prospects, and in a somewhat vengeful way, hastily reject unsuitable prospects instead.
We can get around all these fear and pain of rejections, in either direction, simply by approaching the business in terms of "looking for a good fit" - and idea I first picked up from a seminar by John Milton Fogg.
We have great products. But not everybody is going to appreciate that, and see their value or feel ready for them. So, we just keep going out, showing people what we have, and looking out and listening up for a fit between what we have to offer and what some people are looking for.
We have a great business opportunity,which is extraordinary and exceptional in its powers and its rewards. But not everybody is going to see its beauty and recognize its power. Even those who do, may not be ready to step out of the familiarity of their comfort zone to venture into the unfamiliar.
Ours is a "lifestyle business" that requires vision, perseverance and personal change - something which many are afraid of!
So, what do we do? We should just keep talking to as many people as possible. Or rather, get as many people as possible to talk to us about what they're doing and what they'd rather be doing, if any. If we listen up well enough, we should be able to find that someone for whom our opportunity represents a God-sent.
Where there's no fit, let go and move on.
Where there seems to be a fit, let's keep exploring until we find the fit.
Where there's a good, ready fit, let's proceed.
Now, where is the rejection in all these?
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
Book that sets record straight for MLM is out!
It has arrived ... the book, "It's Time For Network Marketing - the most remarkable form of free enterprise ever created", edited by John Milton Fogg, in which I have the privilege and responsibility of being one of 52, mostly big-name, contributors.
The 25 copies which I pre-ordered, mostly for a few key associates who paid in advance on my recommendation, arrived a few days ago. The handful of spare copies have since been snapped up on news.
I was excited on seeing the package. I went straight for my article, entitled "Celebrating Network Marketing - the Business of Uplifting People", which I found on pp 103-109.
I read it again, almost couldn't believe that I wrote what I did, and am pleased with myself for what I said :) It had all flowed out in a moment of inspiration, after days and weeks of hard thinking.
In general, the 351-page, book looks and reads good. Literally and visually, red hot! I know those who pre-ordered the book, long before it was published out of belief and my personal recommendation, will be glad they did.
This morning, over breakfast and my cup of "teh C kosong", I started to dig into the rest of the red-hot book, and what a thrill I had :)
Hey, this book doesn't just define our industry. It sells the entire network marketing industry - very well, very elegantly, and very efficiently.
After working through the foreword by John Milton Fogg, and the first 13 articles, I found them all to be easy reads and profound ones at the same time.
Thinking about the breakfast read on the drive home, I realized that when you ask someone with loads of experience in doing something to share his thoughts or experience in a really short article, you can expect a power-packed piece loaded with the best gems.
What happens when you ask a big bunch of people to do the same? Mega-tons of gems!!!
Imagine ... no need to plough through a whole book to get to the gems. Just two to twelve pages per author. Talk about short cuts!
I strongly recommend the book as a personal development and belief-building tool. It'd also make a good prospecting tool. Offer it to someone who is curious about our business, but for various reasons, wouldn't come to meet your uplines or attend a presentation to find out more, but whom you have a feeling will fall in love with the business if only he knew how classy, professional and fulfilling this business can be.
I am proud to be part of this international now-published effort to set the record straight on what's right and what's good about network marketing.
The book costs US$25 a copy before shipping cost, and cannot be found in the bookshops, at Amazon or Borders. You will have to order online at www.RemarkableNetworkMarketing.com. It's worth the effort and the wait.
The 25 copies which I pre-ordered, mostly for a few key associates who paid in advance on my recommendation, arrived a few days ago. The handful of spare copies have since been snapped up on news.
I was excited on seeing the package. I went straight for my article, entitled "Celebrating Network Marketing - the Business of Uplifting People", which I found on pp 103-109.
I read it again, almost couldn't believe that I wrote what I did, and am pleased with myself for what I said :) It had all flowed out in a moment of inspiration, after days and weeks of hard thinking.
In general, the 351-page, book looks and reads good. Literally and visually, red hot! I know those who pre-ordered the book, long before it was published out of belief and my personal recommendation, will be glad they did.
This morning, over breakfast and my cup of "teh C kosong", I started to dig into the rest of the red-hot book, and what a thrill I had :)
Hey, this book doesn't just define our industry. It sells the entire network marketing industry - very well, very elegantly, and very efficiently.
After working through the foreword by John Milton Fogg, and the first 13 articles, I found them all to be easy reads and profound ones at the same time.
Thinking about the breakfast read on the drive home, I realized that when you ask someone with loads of experience in doing something to share his thoughts or experience in a really short article, you can expect a power-packed piece loaded with the best gems.
What happens when you ask a big bunch of people to do the same? Mega-tons of gems!!!
Imagine ... no need to plough through a whole book to get to the gems. Just two to twelve pages per author. Talk about short cuts!
I strongly recommend the book as a personal development and belief-building tool. It'd also make a good prospecting tool. Offer it to someone who is curious about our business, but for various reasons, wouldn't come to meet your uplines or attend a presentation to find out more, but whom you have a feeling will fall in love with the business if only he knew how classy, professional and fulfilling this business can be.
I am proud to be part of this international now-published effort to set the record straight on what's right and what's good about network marketing.
The book costs US$25 a copy before shipping cost, and cannot be found in the bookshops, at Amazon or Borders. You will have to order online at www.RemarkableNetworkMarketing.com. It's worth the effort and the wait.
Monday, March 05, 2007
"Don't Worry, Be Good, Work Hard"
Those are the Three Rules that this gentleman would recommend to whoever wants to become worth more and wants to get paid what they're worth.
This is Aaron Webber, a gentleman whose life and choices up to now have repeatedly revalidated and reaffirmed what we represent and what we do in our network marketing venture with Unicity.
Consider this: What would be good to do for someone who have had the opportunity to co-own and run a top 10 MLM company as its top executive?
Surely, someone in this position will get offers to helm other MLM companies as the CEO or CEO of a new division. Or, he'll be offered to take the 001 position of an ambitious start-up? If necessary, he'd be offered millions of dollars cash to allow his name to be used?
Well, not surprisingly, Aaron received all of those types of approaches soon after he decided to step down as CEO of Unicity Int'l in Jan 2006 to make way for Stewart Hughes, the most successful field leader who had left the field to serve as President at that point, and let Stewart take full control.
Out of curiosity, Aaron checked out some of the offers and came away with one conclusion: He wants to take to the field, and only with Unicity - a company he believed in, and had helped build up and led for some years.
He wants to be a Distributor, a business proposition which he had been promoting to thousands of people in thousands of meeting in the almost 10 years that he was a senior to top executive of the company.
His decision reaffirms and revalidates the business model and the company.
On Thusday, March 1st, Aaron showed up in Singapore on our invitation to share with us his journey from the corporate side to the field and his insider's perspective of the business.
He is eminetly qualified to address the field leaders. In about half a year, he went from a distributor with a Senior Manager rank to Presidential Diamond, the top of the compensation plan. He bought the Senior Manager position; but worked for and earned the Diamond status in exemplary time.
He shared with us several insightful observations about leadership and the business.
Aaron's Seven Observations of Leadership:
1. Keep doing what it was that got you to where you're at. Don't stop doing the right things.
2. Leadership is about those who're doing it now (not the "been there, done that" has beens who've stopped working and stopped setting the right example).
3. Too many leaders focus on what used to work, not on what works. We need to move with the times. One good way to stay in-tune is to be in the market doing, not advising.
4. Too many leaders worry about "what ifs" and "what might happen".
5. Be good - not just in building the business and in skills but more importantly, be good at heart. Don't make a promise you can't keep - the best way of never ever breaking a promise.
6. Be a good follower - for good followers make good leaders. Learn to take feedback, advice. Following someone good helps me sleep better.
7. Live thankfully. Work at being thankful, being grateful.
Speaking of being thankful, this is what he suggests we have to be thankful for given the opportunity to do network marketing with a company like Unicity:
1. We get to work only with people we like - people we'd love to go on vacation with.
2. We get to earn what we're worth and what we want. We get to make ourselves worth whatever we want, through continuous self improvement.
3. We will get to enjoy Time Freedom one day! ... And if your cheque is not yet whatever you want yet, use your time to make yourself worth that first.
4. We have in Unicity a company with rich traditions and history: we have what other people are looking for e.g. great products, track record, good people in charge, the certainty of the arrival of our monthly cheques.
5. The Products - we have the "cure" for the No 1 health problem in the world - cardiovascular disease - with a fantastic side benefit: it also helps people with diabetes which is the fastest growing disease in the world.
He shared a number of other principles or "articles of operations" which he lays down for whoever seeks his help to build their business e.g.
1. We believe in Direct Selling (and will not try to pretend that it is anything else);
2. We believe in Good People and know that good people will lead and can do good things;
3. We have no room for negative people
4. We believe in hard work
5. We believe in setting great goals and making plans
6. We celebrate and honour leaders
7. We believe in teamwork
8. We never ever give up
And if all that are too much to absorb and digest, he suggested three simple rules to work and live by. That is ...
Don't Worry. Be Good. Work Hard.
Great man, Aaron. Insightful perspectives. I appreciate you and am glad you've chosen to stay on our side :)
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Prosper & Bless Thy friends!
Relaxing on a solid armchair, next to an auspicious calligraphy proclaiming "Prosperity" ... and admiring one of many pieces of artwork adorning the walls of the enchanting Seletar Hills dream home of an enterprising couple, Ong & Marilou and their 4 year old daughter ... with whom I've had the privilege to become acquainted and become friends in the course of our personal nutrition business.
This picture is taken by Alice Yim - the person who made the connection and through whom a number of us, belonging to the same wellness network, were invited over for a French-style "designer breakfast" on Saturday, 3rd March 2007 - the second last day of the 15-day Chinese New Year celebrations.
We are advising the Ongs on health and wellness. He is excited about what Bios Life is doing for his cholesterol profile while for the first time, making his blood look healthy and clear for the first time!
Ong also shared with us how he was "a little concerned" about how effective Enjuvenate Plus has been for him. The anti-aging drink - a protein and amino acid complex - worked overnight, and made him feel a lot more alert throughout the day! He wondered what might be the hazards of taking a product that work so well.
I asked him to consider what he thinks the impact would be on someone who suffers from malnutrition and was suddenly given a good dose of complete nutrition. Would the impact be felt incrementally or dramatically? He got the idea :)
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
The pleasures, beauty & power of a P2P biz
Settling down for a cozy and homely barbeque party in the cool night air of Kowloon Tong, Hongkong are Helen (host), Christina (my wife), Alice (my business partner and tai ka qie or big sister of Helen) and Meng Meng (Helen's son). At the BBQ pit, and not in the picture, are Helen's husband CK and my son Jia Wei.
This photo captures the beauty and pleasures of the P2P (people-to-people) business that I'm building with Unicity.
We're in Hongkong for four clear days (not counting the night we flew in and the morning we flew out) mainly on business and also for leisure. I went with Chris and the two kids!
Alice, a Hongkonger who's settled down in Singapore and introduced to me and the network middle of 2006 by one of my top business partners Sunny, has been connecting family and friends in Hongkong since she embraced the Unicity business several months ago.
Now that she has a nice little nucleus of customers and potential business builders, she asked me to join her on her latest homecoming trip, to help her talk to her potential business builders and show Bios Life, our flagship product, to them and their friends. It'd be both my pleasure and my purpose so I readily agreed. Alice is one capable woman and a natural networker, and I knew she has done the legwork. Besides, a conveniently located accomodation would be provided. So, here we are in Hongkong.
This BBQ, thoughtfully arranged by Helen to bring the families together, followed an afternoon tea presentation for more than 10 people gathered at Helen's home. Almost everybody who said they'd come came. That speaks volumes for the quality of the connections or relationships.
Over tea, I showed the computer graphics which illustrates how Bios Life reduces bad cholesterol in the human body. The crowd was suitably impressed and Alice proceeded to enrol a number of guests as VIP customers. Some of them were to follow up later to add to their orders.
We certainly had cause for celebrations. The tasty well-marinated meats barbequed just right added to the joy.
During the 4+ days, Alice set up a few breakfast or lunch meetings for me to talk to friends and family, two on one, so that I'd have enough business to keep workaholic me happy.
Beyond that, there was ample time to enjoy local food, sightseeing and do some shopping. The ladies, joined by our good friend Jonie who lives in Happy Valley, even had a day out in Shenzhen. I was happy to baby sit for a change.
On Sunday, Feb 4th, I took the family out to HK Disneyland and felt satisfied and relaxed enough to enjoy being there all day from noon to 9pm, taking many many kiddy rides with the kids, taking in the Disney Parade, and staying back until well after the fireworks lit up the sky on top of Sleeping Beauty's Castle.
Yes, I'm talking about a business trip with a large dose of family pleasures.
Only through the power of leverage that network marketing offers can someone linguistically limited like me - I speak no to little Cantonese or Mandarin - build a people business in a Cantonese speaking city like Hongkong.
Only through the power of leverage can I have the pleasure of getting to know beautiful people like Alice & Helen & Family up close and personal, in their living rooms and balconies - on the first meeting!
Only in a business which is truly my own, where I am boss, can I do as I like - go on a business trip with the whole family in tow, and pack in a visit to Mickey Mouse Town as part of the itinerary, without any bossy or HR disapprovals.
Ahhh!!!! The beauty and pleasures of being in business for ourselves, the network marketing way ....
(If you'd like to know more about the fun and fortune of this wholesome people-to-people business, email me at enghlim@pacific.net.sg)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
A chance to be your own boss
What would you do if offered the chance to be your own boss, with a personal franchise that you can build at no financial risk into an exceptional income stream worth tens of thousands of dollars, or more, per month?
Would it matter if you could do so, partnering a time-tested company led by good people and producing world-class nutritional and personal care products that work - that people, who used them once, would come back for more?
Would it help if you didn't have to do it all by yourself, and instead can leverage on many people for advice, support and training?
If learning to take better care of yourself and your family is at the heart of the business, would that be fine with you?
That opportunity - Unicity and its Bios Life Franchise - is now and here. I've seized it. How about you?
Would it matter if you could do so, partnering a time-tested company led by good people and producing world-class nutritional and personal care products that work - that people, who used them once, would come back for more?
Would it help if you didn't have to do it all by yourself, and instead can leverage on many people for advice, support and training?
If learning to take better care of yourself and your family is at the heart of the business, would that be fine with you?
That opportunity - Unicity and its Bios Life Franchise - is now and here. I've seized it. How about you?
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Me, a Rotarian: "Service above self"
On 5th January 2007, after being associated as a lunch-time speaker and a frequent guest of ex-banker friend Ms Caroline Phua over 2 years, I became a member of the Rotary Club of Pandan Valley.
My installation as a member of this club of over 30 distinguished ladies and gentlemen, comes 30 years after I first became associated with the Rotary "Service Above Self" movement, through its junior wing, the Interact Club movement. I joined the Interact Club of St Mark's Secondary School in Penang, Malaysia in 1977 and became its President for the term 1977/78.
Caroline, thank you for your kind invitation, guidance and introduction.
At last Friday Jan 5th's installation ceremeony, the club secretary, lawyer Ong Ying Ping introduced me at some length while President Benedict Soh formally welcomed me with formal words and a beautiful Rotary pin. I had to respond by reading the Pledge and Declaration of Rotarians. I cannot remember ever being in such an officious, ceremonial occasion.
To help him prepare for the formal introduction, Ying Ping emailed me a few questions the day before. I thought those were good questions and I took the trouble to respond to them, the best I could. Here, I'd like to share those questions and answers, because I believe I have a number of messages to share in my responses.
He asked, What is your proudest achievement?
I replied, "All that I am, all that I do and all that I have become today ... where work and life have become one complete and balanced package".
He asked, What most makes you feel your life is complete?
I replied, "Jesus, my mentor and coach".
He asked, Your favourite part of Rotary meetings/projects is ..
I replied, "good people making great conversations and sharing good thoughts over good food".
He asked, the person who's had the greatest impact on your life is ..
I replied, "My mother, who raised a family of 7 children, sent me to university, reinvented herself many times from laundry woman to seamstress, tontine leader, baker and a chef, who could single-handedly cook up a 10-course dinner for tens of tables of diners, and then unfortunately, died young of cancer at 50".
He asked, You were drawn to Rotary Club because ...
I replied, "the camaraderie and relaxed, no-airs socializing among members".
He also asked about my hobbies.
I replied, "When I am not working ... , I am attending to my family - wife Christina and two lovely children, a boy and a girl, and affairs of the 623-household condominium called Pandan Valley ..."
You'll probably wonder, as I did, what's the connection between the Rotary Club and the condominium of the same name. Ying Ping, a lawyer who reads widely and strikes me as a philosophical type of a guy, who digs deep into matters that interest him, could throw light on the question. In our after-lunch walk and chat, he shared with me findings from his research. He said, when the club was first founded in 1983, many of its founding members were expatriates who lived in Pandan Valley! Ahhh!!!!
Interesting coincidences. I'm happy and proud to be associated with both the club and the condominium of the same name, and all the fine people therein :)
Monday, December 25, 2006
Christmas in Pandan Valley
On Friday, 22nd December 2006, we celebrated Christmas in Pandan Valley with "an evening of food, wine and song" ... "in appreciation of the fine people of MCST 581".
To make sure we get "the movers and shakers" of the condominium community to show up, we sent out personalised invitations to over 130 residents-cum-owners - people who have served in Management Council or attended a general meeting at least once in the past 6 years, offering them two complimentary admission tickets each.
We also invited a handful of new resident-owners who had bought into Pandan Valley in the past 6 months.
Others had to pay S$10 per admission ticket to attend the function which cost S$20 per head to put together.
Here in this photo, you see new resident-owner Mr George J Palathinkal, CFO for AT&T (Asean/India), warmly welcomed by Condominium Manager Laurence Chen, Management Council treasurer Annie Tok, MC secretary Koh Foong Yin and myself, as MC Chairman.
It was a fun and happy function. The food was good. The live music from the strolling musicians - and a guest performance - added much to the atmosphere, lending the evening a touch of class. The wine was good too, in a few ways.
See that glass of wine in my hand as well as Laurence's too? It lifted spirits, and contributed to a good cause - an orphanage in The Philippines - as S$1 out of every glass sold at S$5 went to charity. We had a charity auction too, where we auctioned off bottles of champagne, wine and whisky and household goods like a Cornell Microwave Oven sponsored by the condo's service providers!
It was great having an event like this for it breaks the pattern of people meeting or coming together only when there are issues or problems to be dealt with.
Thank God for Christmas!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
"To feel good, do good"
Last week, at a regional leadership training seminar in Bangkok, I enjoyed a feast of learning and ideas. (Never mind that right after the seminar, Bangkok saw its first military coup in 15 years against now-deposed Prime Minister Thaksin. It went so smoothly it hardly troubled anyone.)
One of the most simple yet powerful ideas came from one of the most successful people I've ever known personally, Stewart Hughes - the 51-year-old CEO of Unicity Int'l.
While talking about habits of success, Stewart spoke of how we should use our actions to determine our feelings instead of the other way around.
"What kind of life would it be if your behaviour is determined by your feelings? What an emotional roller coaster! What a terrible way to live.
Let your actions control your feelings, he urges us on.
"If you do good, you will feel good."
It did not take long for someone else to jump on the idea and add: "We can do so much good with Bios Life."
That is Stewart Hughes' "crusade material" for the past 15 years, and now, Unicity's answer to today's global health epidemic - cadiovascular disease, the No 1 cause of death in the world, in the US, and in South-east Asia!
Indeed! We are on a mission - to eradicate heart disease, naturally!
Do you know of anyone in your family or among your friends who has a problem with high cholesterol?
I can help. Check out the information in www.bioslife.com and then contact me, if you too would like to do good, especially to the people who matter most to you.
One of the most simple yet powerful ideas came from one of the most successful people I've ever known personally, Stewart Hughes - the 51-year-old CEO of Unicity Int'l.
While talking about habits of success, Stewart spoke of how we should use our actions to determine our feelings instead of the other way around.
"What kind of life would it be if your behaviour is determined by your feelings? What an emotional roller coaster! What a terrible way to live.
Let your actions control your feelings, he urges us on.
"If you do good, you will feel good."
It did not take long for someone else to jump on the idea and add: "We can do so much good with Bios Life."
That is Stewart Hughes' "crusade material" for the past 15 years, and now, Unicity's answer to today's global health epidemic - cadiovascular disease, the No 1 cause of death in the world, in the US, and in South-east Asia!
Indeed! We are on a mission - to eradicate heart disease, naturally!
Do you know of anyone in your family or among your friends who has a problem with high cholesterol?
I can help. Check out the information in www.bioslife.com and then contact me, if you too would like to do good, especially to the people who matter most to you.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Fighting the terrorists within
Hello there,
In line with my cancer prevention business, I will like to highlight on this blog an email article, on "useful information on one of the deadliest diseases of our time: cancer", from a business associate in Penang whom I gathered received it from somebody who in turn got it from somebody who .... and so on.
Like so much information circulating on the Internet - both the good stuff and the quacky or quirky ones, this article had no attribution nor author's name nor source. It'd have been better to have that information so people can assess for themselves the authority and reliability.
Last week, I received a similiar email article from another associate, similarly non-attributed.
However, I have decided to highlight this more recent one because, coincidentally, it focuses on very much the same points that I've picked out from my research for a Cancer Prevention talk that I have been "commissioned" to do in Malaysia.
To give you a preview of that presentation, which I have tentatively entitled "Cancer Prevention: Fighting the Terrorists Within", let me share with you the 8 basic strategies to prevent (defeat) cancer that I will be promoting in the talk.
They are:
1. Work on your sleep - and let your body rest so its natural healing powers can be activated
2. De-stress your life - ideally, reduce, or eliminate them, and there are a few methods to achieve that
3. Restore your pH balance - cancer cells thrive in an acidic setting (and also body with low oxygen and low energy)
4. Detox your body - cancer risks rise when the body suffers toxin overload
5. Oxygenate your body - by exercising regularly and taking supplements that strengthens your oxygen carriers - the red blood cells
6. Energize your body - again with exercise and energy-boosting supplements
7. Boost your enzyme intake - through supplements since we can't get them from over-processed, over-cooked and junk food
8. Boost your immunity with the best antioxidants you can find
You may read more about these 8 strategies and the background to them when the work is done :)
Meanwhile, please read the article below, so as to be better informed and inspired to do the necessary to stay well.
Be Well, Be Happy, God Bless.
enghai
------------
Subject: Fw: Cancer Information
PLEASE READ AND FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT
Useful Information on one of the deadliest diseases of our time: CANCER
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show
up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When
doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their
bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the
cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be
destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental,
food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and
including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and
also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow,
gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver,
kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and
damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce
tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not
result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and
radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed,
hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and
become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer
cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding
it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important
food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,
Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural
substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts.
Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour.
Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk
and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is
acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef
or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones
and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains,
seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline
environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans.
Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed
and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance
growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy
cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean
sprouts)and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are
destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.
Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties.
Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and
heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes.
Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads
to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining
from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein
walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the
cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,Essiac,
anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own
killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E
are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and
positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger,
unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic
environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to
relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.
Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen
down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means
employed to destroy cancer cells.
In line with my cancer prevention business, I will like to highlight on this blog an email article, on "useful information on one of the deadliest diseases of our time: cancer", from a business associate in Penang whom I gathered received it from somebody who in turn got it from somebody who .... and so on.
Like so much information circulating on the Internet - both the good stuff and the quacky or quirky ones, this article had no attribution nor author's name nor source. It'd have been better to have that information so people can assess for themselves the authority and reliability.
Last week, I received a similiar email article from another associate, similarly non-attributed.
However, I have decided to highlight this more recent one because, coincidentally, it focuses on very much the same points that I've picked out from my research for a Cancer Prevention talk that I have been "commissioned" to do in Malaysia.
To give you a preview of that presentation, which I have tentatively entitled "Cancer Prevention: Fighting the Terrorists Within", let me share with you the 8 basic strategies to prevent (defeat) cancer that I will be promoting in the talk.
They are:
1. Work on your sleep - and let your body rest so its natural healing powers can be activated
2. De-stress your life - ideally, reduce, or eliminate them, and there are a few methods to achieve that
3. Restore your pH balance - cancer cells thrive in an acidic setting (and also body with low oxygen and low energy)
4. Detox your body - cancer risks rise when the body suffers toxin overload
5. Oxygenate your body - by exercising regularly and taking supplements that strengthens your oxygen carriers - the red blood cells
6. Energize your body - again with exercise and energy-boosting supplements
7. Boost your enzyme intake - through supplements since we can't get them from over-processed, over-cooked and junk food
8. Boost your immunity with the best antioxidants you can find
You may read more about these 8 strategies and the background to them when the work is done :)
Meanwhile, please read the article below, so as to be better informed and inspired to do the necessary to stay well.
Be Well, Be Happy, God Bless.
enghai
------------
Subject: Fw: Cancer Information
PLEASE READ AND FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT
Useful Information on one of the deadliest diseases of our time: CANCER
1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show
up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When
doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their
bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the
cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.
3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be
destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumours.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple
nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental,
food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and
including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and
also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow,
gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver,
kidneys, heart, lungs etc.
7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and
damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce
tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not
result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and
radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed,
hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and
become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer
cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding
it with the foods it needs to multiply.
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important
food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,
Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural
substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts.
Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in colour.
Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the
gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk
and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is
acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef
or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones
and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains,
seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline
environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans.
Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed
and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance
growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy
cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean
sprouts)and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are
destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine.
Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties.
Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and
heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes.
Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads
to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining
from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein
walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the
cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence,Essiac,
anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own
killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E
are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's
normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and
positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger,
unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic
environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to
relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment.
Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen
down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means
employed to destroy cancer cells.
Monday, June 26, 2006
Making a difference in the "hi & bye" world
Two Sundays ago, after church, at one of the high-traffic escalators in busy busy Suntec City, I came across an ex-colleague from my newspaper years (1986-89). We remember each other well, spoke for a few minutes, exchanged contacts and agreed to stay in touch.
A few days later, I followed up with an email, suggesting "kopi or teh?" because I wanted to find out more about her part-time job, getting paid to edit travel stories.
She replied today, suggesting a time, a day and a place to meet.
Her opening remark though made me think and "blog": "Hi Eng Hai, real glad to hear from you. I thought it is one of those where the hi and goodbye ended at Suntec ..."
We do live in a "Hi and Bye" world, where we often talk about catching up over lunch or coffee but almost just as often fail to do so.
I'm sure the failure to follow up with those lunches we often talk about on the fly is not for lack of sincerity. Most likely, it is due to a disease (read dis-ease) of a lack of time - often real, but sometimes imagined, in which case, the fundamental issue may simply be a clash of priorities, where non-core relationships get neglected. That, refers to most relationships with the thousands of people each of us know.
I must admit that if not for the business that I do, I would likely suffer from the same disease too. It wasn't that many years ago that I was living and operating under the "hi and bye" syndrome.
So, am I glad that I am in the business of meeting people ... finding out as much as I can, and as they'd let me, about them; then helping them get whatever it is that they're looking for - either by suggestion, connection or action; and where I discover a good fit between what they're looking for and what I have to offer personally, well, I'll make them an offer and invite them to consider.
Only yesterday, I was at it again - going beyond hi and bye. After a catch-up lunch with one of my business partners in the financial district, I walked past two familiar faces seated at a sidewalk cafe. In the past, I'd have taken a mental note and walked on. Yesterday, I turned back, said hello, and took a seat in between them when invited to do so.
One of them asked if I have time for a chat. I said, "Sure, I'm my own boss, working at my own time and for my own target." And she said: "How nice. We're still only employees, working according to other people's time and targets...." Incidentaly, these two happen to be friends from my journalist days too.
Later, after a good chat, finding out the latest from each other - from work to family, ane exchanging contact cards, we shook hands, parted company and on the way to the MRT, I was tapped on the shoulder by somebody whom I had said hi and bye to only last week - but only because she was coming out of the train to go to work, and I was stepping in to go somewhere else.
This time, I offered to walk her back to her office, and she agreed. We enjoyed a good long chat. She's just happily become a grandmother, enjoying the newborn grandson in Sydney from afar, with the powers of the Internet - at least until she visits in September. At 59, having wrestled with the troubles of being diabetic for years, and living with a husband who stopped working years ago because of mental depression, she's philosophical about life, talking nonchalantly about death and disease. She's working 5-hour workdays because she needs the money for her modest lifestyle and her second mortgage. I've known this charming, energetic lady since my newspaper days too, when she was a valuable news source, and I a rookie reporter out to make a name for myself in the world. I was even happier to listen to her yesterday, in our new capacities, until in the end, she had to excuse herself. "Hey, I better run, or we'd go on and on."
It feels real good to have the time for people, to really hear them out, especially in a world where people are generally too busy for each other, and have little time beyond the hi's and the bye's. It feels even better to know that eventually, I will get paid for that ability to listen to people, for that is now my vocation, my lifestyle, for life.
Back to the ex-colleague whom I met at the Suntec City escalator. I look forward to meeting her because in her brief email, I get that she's looking for advice and I may be able to make a contribution.
"Maybe you can help me plan my retirement with the pittance I am getting each month. I need to save up to book myself into an old folks home!"
In my reply, I said: "Perhaps, when we meet, I can really help you with your retirement planning. I believe we can do better than prepare to end up in an old folks' home, unless that's what you really want ;-> See you next week!"
A few days later, I followed up with an email, suggesting "kopi or teh?" because I wanted to find out more about her part-time job, getting paid to edit travel stories.
She replied today, suggesting a time, a day and a place to meet.
Her opening remark though made me think and "blog": "Hi Eng Hai, real glad to hear from you. I thought it is one of those where the hi and goodbye ended at Suntec ..."
We do live in a "Hi and Bye" world, where we often talk about catching up over lunch or coffee but almost just as often fail to do so.
I'm sure the failure to follow up with those lunches we often talk about on the fly is not for lack of sincerity. Most likely, it is due to a disease (read dis-ease) of a lack of time - often real, but sometimes imagined, in which case, the fundamental issue may simply be a clash of priorities, where non-core relationships get neglected. That, refers to most relationships with the thousands of people each of us know.
I must admit that if not for the business that I do, I would likely suffer from the same disease too. It wasn't that many years ago that I was living and operating under the "hi and bye" syndrome.
So, am I glad that I am in the business of meeting people ... finding out as much as I can, and as they'd let me, about them; then helping them get whatever it is that they're looking for - either by suggestion, connection or action; and where I discover a good fit between what they're looking for and what I have to offer personally, well, I'll make them an offer and invite them to consider.
Only yesterday, I was at it again - going beyond hi and bye. After a catch-up lunch with one of my business partners in the financial district, I walked past two familiar faces seated at a sidewalk cafe. In the past, I'd have taken a mental note and walked on. Yesterday, I turned back, said hello, and took a seat in between them when invited to do so.
One of them asked if I have time for a chat. I said, "Sure, I'm my own boss, working at my own time and for my own target." And she said: "How nice. We're still only employees, working according to other people's time and targets...." Incidentaly, these two happen to be friends from my journalist days too.
Later, after a good chat, finding out the latest from each other - from work to family, ane exchanging contact cards, we shook hands, parted company and on the way to the MRT, I was tapped on the shoulder by somebody whom I had said hi and bye to only last week - but only because she was coming out of the train to go to work, and I was stepping in to go somewhere else.
This time, I offered to walk her back to her office, and she agreed. We enjoyed a good long chat. She's just happily become a grandmother, enjoying the newborn grandson in Sydney from afar, with the powers of the Internet - at least until she visits in September. At 59, having wrestled with the troubles of being diabetic for years, and living with a husband who stopped working years ago because of mental depression, she's philosophical about life, talking nonchalantly about death and disease. She's working 5-hour workdays because she needs the money for her modest lifestyle and her second mortgage. I've known this charming, energetic lady since my newspaper days too, when she was a valuable news source, and I a rookie reporter out to make a name for myself in the world. I was even happier to listen to her yesterday, in our new capacities, until in the end, she had to excuse herself. "Hey, I better run, or we'd go on and on."
It feels real good to have the time for people, to really hear them out, especially in a world where people are generally too busy for each other, and have little time beyond the hi's and the bye's. It feels even better to know that eventually, I will get paid for that ability to listen to people, for that is now my vocation, my lifestyle, for life.
Back to the ex-colleague whom I met at the Suntec City escalator. I look forward to meeting her because in her brief email, I get that she's looking for advice and I may be able to make a contribution.
"Maybe you can help me plan my retirement with the pittance I am getting each month. I need to save up to book myself into an old folks home!"
In my reply, I said: "Perhaps, when we meet, I can really help you with your retirement planning. I believe we can do better than prepare to end up in an old folks' home, unless that's what you really want ;-> See you next week!"
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Smile :) We're in Showbiz!
Show and tell, show and sell.
Presenting my family and some of my business partners, coming together happily for two days on 17 and 18 Dec 2005 to show off our franchise and a few flagship nutritional products at the Pandan Valley Christmas Fair.
Standing left to right are Julia and husband Kian Seng, Annie Tok and daughter Joyce, Sunny (the one who prompted me to get this blog going), myself and son Jia Wei, Kelly and mom Lola. Seated at centre are two Christina's - one my business partner, Christina Lee and the other, my wife, Christina Chan.
Out of the scores of products that our corporate partner Unicity has to offer, we chose to feature two fast-moving healthy drinks - alfafa-based Super Chlorophyll and Bio Reishi Coffee.
From showing and selling these drinks, we got to share our business opportunity with customers and fellow Fair participants who showed interest in what we were doing. More than the products on offer, I believe it was our generally cheerful disposition that was a major draw :)
While for most stall operators, business began and ended with the two-day fair, for us, business has kept growing.
With the seeds planted during the Fair, we've extended our franchise and market reach within the 623-household Pandan Valley community in the past 6 months. The most inspiring recruit has been the enrolment of 21-year-old speech and hearing impaired Stephanie, with the full and enthusiastic support of her retiree-parents Margaret & Leong. Margaret, who operated the stall at the next lot, has been looking for a business suitable for Stephanie, given her handicaps.
So, Kelly introduced her to the book, How to Make $4000 a Month Working From Home. She asked to borrow the book, read it on the spot - finishing it within an hour, and bought a bottle of Super Chlorophyll to try and check us out. The conversations continued after the Fair, with Kelly following up closely on interest.
Fast forward to today ... Through the steady enrolment of relatives and family friends to use the products or to do the business, Stephanie has since been recognized as a Senior Manager, having achieved the rank in 3 months, and within 5 months, made it to the exclusive Business Builder's Club for having recruited 10 people within a 3-month period.
Her success has inspired many others, including her sponsor/upline, Christina Lee, who was encouraged to step up her efforts, overcoming personal limitations to also climb the ranks to become a Senior Manager herself in May.
Julia, who witnessed the initial approach and subsequent partnershipping, had this to say about the success of these two ladies:
"I can't help but be touched by yet two more success stories of how the company and the team transform lives and build people ... I am in awe of how our business builds people, transforms lives and changes the world."
Well said, Julia. Indeed. What a blessing this experience has been, and will continue to be, for us.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Let the Filipino children have their mothers back
Yesterday morning, I sent off a departing Filipina domestic worker (a.k.a. maid) at Changi Airport.
She is happy to be leaving her S$320 a month job and very excited about her future back in the Philippines.
She can't wait to reach home and to get started with her home-based business, where she gets to build a business of her own, "be my own boss", and work from home, close to the family she loves.
She has a personal franchise with an international reach, with backers providing coaching by Internet and committed to fly in to her hometown when she is ready.
The franchise allows her to 1) buy a wide range of nutritional supplements and personal care products, with a wide range of budgets, and sell them wholesale for a 20-25% profit, and 2) sponsor other people to do the same, whereby she'll get to earn a 3-10% commission of their sales, and the sales of their people.
The first phase of her business involves moving US$50-100 of products every month and bringing in at least 5 people who will do the same - moving US$50-100 of products a month and bringing in 5 people of their own.
She is not limited by geography, and is not confined to her hometown or even the Philippines. Already, she has someone in the USA who will be opening an account under her - the first of her First Five! Her brother!
With this franchise, she expects to achieve a monthly income of US$1,000 a month in a few years. The first, more immediate, objective is to make US$200 a month and inspire others to do the same - stay home or close to family and build a personal business worth hundreds or thousands of US$ a month.
With that kind of money, Filipina moms won't have to leave their children behind in the care of relatives to take care of other people's children in faraway lands. We can start worrying less about the implications of an entire generation of Filipino children growing up without the nurturing and psychological support of their mothers.
I've been looking for a long time for one right person to lead this mission. I've been looking for someone bright, with ambition, a burning desire to be in business for himself or herself, and a willingness to learn and most importantly, to stay the course and never ever quit till the mission is accomplished.
I am optimistic for my Filipina partner, who left Changi Airport with about S$250 of products; five copies of the book "How to make US$4,000 a month working from home"; and one simple advice to always remember and abide by: Whatever the odds or difficulties, NEVER GIVE UP.
All the best "Abigal".
She is happy to be leaving her S$320 a month job and very excited about her future back in the Philippines.
She can't wait to reach home and to get started with her home-based business, where she gets to build a business of her own, "be my own boss", and work from home, close to the family she loves.
She has a personal franchise with an international reach, with backers providing coaching by Internet and committed to fly in to her hometown when she is ready.
The franchise allows her to 1) buy a wide range of nutritional supplements and personal care products, with a wide range of budgets, and sell them wholesale for a 20-25% profit, and 2) sponsor other people to do the same, whereby she'll get to earn a 3-10% commission of their sales, and the sales of their people.
The first phase of her business involves moving US$50-100 of products every month and bringing in at least 5 people who will do the same - moving US$50-100 of products a month and bringing in 5 people of their own.
She is not limited by geography, and is not confined to her hometown or even the Philippines. Already, she has someone in the USA who will be opening an account under her - the first of her First Five! Her brother!
With this franchise, she expects to achieve a monthly income of US$1,000 a month in a few years. The first, more immediate, objective is to make US$200 a month and inspire others to do the same - stay home or close to family and build a personal business worth hundreds or thousands of US$ a month.
With that kind of money, Filipina moms won't have to leave their children behind in the care of relatives to take care of other people's children in faraway lands. We can start worrying less about the implications of an entire generation of Filipino children growing up without the nurturing and psychological support of their mothers.
I've been looking for a long time for one right person to lead this mission. I've been looking for someone bright, with ambition, a burning desire to be in business for himself or herself, and a willingness to learn and most importantly, to stay the course and never ever quit till the mission is accomplished.
I am optimistic for my Filipina partner, who left Changi Airport with about S$250 of products; five copies of the book "How to make US$4,000 a month working from home"; and one simple advice to always remember and abide by: Whatever the odds or difficulties, NEVER GIVE UP.
All the best "Abigal".
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