Life is short. No time to take care all expectations from other people. Existing means knowing who you are NOW instead of predicting who you are tomorrow. Let go nonsense and selfish comments.
True is still true. No matter you want it or not. You still need to drink, eat and breath to survive regardless you are the richest person, the smartest person or powerful person.
No matter you want it or not. You still need to earn money to buy water, meal etc to survive. Unless you have achieved financial freedom.
HOWEVER, you still have a choice to make this place a better place to live. Spending more time in REAL world because you never get rid of your responsibility. Get away from your virtual world.You never ever be the HERO you want in virtual world. Besides, there are lots of things you need to settle in REAL world.
Take care your study. No excuse you should have if you have bad results and cannot further study anymore.
Take care your children. No excuse you should have if your children were abused due to your careless.
Take care your spouse. You do need to bring your car for servicing from time to time. Don't you need to accompany your spouse for shopping or traveling from time to time?
Take care your health. No matter how rich you are.You cannot enjoy your wealth without a good health condition.
Take care your parents. Simply show a respect to your parents is more precious than you give them $$$ every month.
Grass is greener on the other side. But is it?
To Be Yourself. Doesn't mean that you can just enjoy your "life" in virtual world. Watch PPS in the morning, playing online game in the afternoon, reading online cartoon and watch TV in the evening ...Have you ever thought to reduce your burden of your parents? Have you ever thought what kind of person you want to be when you grow up? Are you thinking it is not a problem now since everyone is doing the SAME thing.
To Be Yourself. The first thing is knowing what you want now. Ok, you know that you want to play game everyday. Are you sure? Do you have enough money to buy all essential things to survive? Do you own a car, house, good job, etc?
NO!!! REAL world is too terrible!!! NO!!! OK, restart the life just like any game. WRONG!!! The real game is in your REAL life now. It cannot be restart. But it can be fix with patience and persistence.
NO!!! My TRUE love is GONE!!! OK, restart the life just like any game. WRONG!!! WRONG AGAIN!!! TRUE love never gone. But it need your true heart to discover it in your life.
OK, I have true heart. I give all my saving to my "true love". WRONG!!! WRONG AGAIN!!! AGAIN and AGAIN!!!. TRUE love cannot to be brought by your money because TRUE love is priceless. But you might need to use your most valuable thing to own your TRUE love everlasting. YES, using your precious time to stay together, fight together, overcome difficulty, enjoy life together etc.
To be yourself in REAL life is free and can be done by anyone. You are not required to buy a top-up point card to be a better person in REAL life. You are not required to achieve conquer others to succeed in REAL life. All you need to do is appreciate. Appreciate your food, water and air. Appreciate people who love you, especially your parents. Appreciate time. Appreciate life. Appreciate people who help you. Appreciate people who hurt you.
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Free Access to Exclusive Rich Dad Financial Education Product from Robert Kiyosaki
Most of the available financial education stuff are provided by the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. Here are some of them I found from internet which are free of charge:
1. RichDadWorld.com – Get FREE Access to Exclusive Rich Dad Products (Register required)
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2. FREE community membership to play the CASHFLOW® Web Game (Register required)
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3. Free Online Simulation Financial Education Game for Kids
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4. Financial Education Stuff for Teacher
http://www.richdad.com/RichDad/RichContent.aspx?cpid=35
5. Online Free Book - Conspiracy of the Rich
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6. Online Article - Why the Rich Get Richer
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Robert Kiyosaki says: “My Rich Dad said, ‘All of us have the power of choice. I choose to be rich, and I make that choice every day.’” Personally, I also choose to be rich plus happy. That's why I am so hardworking everyday.
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1. RichDadWorld.com – Get FREE Access to Exclusive Rich Dad Products (Register required)
https://www.richdadworld.com
“Rich Dad World’s goal is to increase your financial IQ, and bring you a world of possibilities, a world of learning, a world of understanding. A take charge world, where you’ll be equipped to take command of your finances and live a Rich life."
Get access to powerful Rich Dad products - an $800 value - yours FREE. The PowerPack includes the Choose to Be Rich online home study course, and much more. This is Rich Dad’s way of helping people succeed financially in this uncertain time. Get yours today and Share With a Friend!
2. FREE community membership to play the CASHFLOW® Web Game (Register required)
https://www.richdad.com/Secure/register.aspx
3. Free Online Simulation Financial Education Game for Kids
http://www.richkidsmartkid.com
4. Financial Education Stuff for Teacher
http://www.richdad.com/RichDad/RichContent.aspx?cpid=35
5. Online Free Book - Conspiracy of the Rich
http://www.conspiracyoftherich.com/
6. Online Article - Why the Rich Get Richer
http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/richricher/257090
Robert Kiyosaki says: “My Rich Dad said, ‘All of us have the power of choice. I choose to be rich, and I make that choice every day.’” Personally, I also choose to be rich plus happy. That's why I am so hardworking everyday.
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Achieve Success via SMART Goal 2011
In order to achieve success, we need to, first of all, set a SMART goal. A SMART goal is a goal which is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and has Time-bound. The first step to set a SMART goal is to know what you want. After setting a SMART goal, we must take action upon it with passion and persistent.
Personally, in order to achieve my ultimate goal, financial freedom, I split my ultimate goal into few SMART goals. The first SMART goal is shown as follows:
1 Specific
– Develop excellent technical skill; enhance personal financial knowledge; maintain spirit (relationship) and health status.
2. Measurable
– Doing research of (7x7) 49 hours per week; Study and investigate stock market of 3x7 (21) hours per day, personal development of (3x12) 36 hours per day, sleep of (7x8) 56 hours per day and remainder of 6 hours for exercising
3. Achievable
– Publish 3 Journal Papers; accumulate 25k investment fund; and have a good relationship everyday.
4. Relevant
- Focus on my research to develop my technical skill, stock market investment to enhance my financial knowledge, and personal development to maintain my spirit (relationship) and health status.
5. Time-bound
– 2010 December to 2011 December
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Personally, in order to achieve my ultimate goal, financial freedom, I split my ultimate goal into few SMART goals. The first SMART goal is shown as follows:
1 Specific
– Develop excellent technical skill; enhance personal financial knowledge; maintain spirit (relationship) and health status.
2. Measurable
– Doing research of (7x7) 49 hours per week; Study and investigate stock market of 3x7 (21) hours per day, personal development of (3x12) 36 hours per day, sleep of (7x8) 56 hours per day and remainder of 6 hours for exercising
3. Achievable
– Publish 3 Journal Papers; accumulate 25k investment fund; and have a good relationship everyday.
4. Relevant
- Focus on my research to develop my technical skill, stock market investment to enhance my financial knowledge, and personal development to maintain my spirit (relationship) and health status.
5. Time-bound
– 2010 December to 2011 December
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Preparing a Powerful Presentation – Using a Script
Presentation skills are very important for us to sell ourselves during a meeting, interview or business. Good presentation will not only help us to build a good impression to our clients, and employers, but also help us to build our self-confidence. Here are seven tips for those, who are less experience in presentation, to preparing a powerful presentation by using the power of script.
1. Preparing a script - The purposes of script preparation are to ensure that the time of presentation is monitored properly, to make sure the flow of presentation is organized well, and to avoid redundancy (unnecessary repetition).
2. Next, you might ask your friend to help you to check your script and give you some suggestion to improve it.
3. Capture, record and review the rehearse of your presentation. It is a good idea for you to know how well your presentation and where can be enhanced, such as, is the speed of presentation too fast and not clear? How about body language? Is your body movement too over?
4. Next, asking a suggestion from your good friend or lecturer or senior might also a good idea to develop your presentation style.
5. Practise your eyes contact and face expression.
6. Do not show off your vocabulary during presentation by using confusing or unfamiliar words.
Last but not least, the gold rule to be a good presenter is: practise, practise and practise. That's all for today. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic or any suggestion about Xaivier Blog. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.
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1. Preparing a script - The purposes of script preparation are to ensure that the time of presentation is monitored properly, to make sure the flow of presentation is organized well, and to avoid redundancy (unnecessary repetition).
2. Next, you might ask your friend to help you to check your script and give you some suggestion to improve it.
3. Capture, record and review the rehearse of your presentation. It is a good idea for you to know how well your presentation and where can be enhanced, such as, is the speed of presentation too fast and not clear? How about body language? Is your body movement too over?
4. Next, asking a suggestion from your good friend or lecturer or senior might also a good idea to develop your presentation style.
5. Practise your eyes contact and face expression.
6. Do not show off your vocabulary during presentation by using confusing or unfamiliar words.
Last but not least, the gold rule to be a good presenter is: practise, practise and practise. That's all for today. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic or any suggestion about Xaivier Blog. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.
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Change Your State to Achieve the Success You Want
According to Anthony Robbin, we need to change our state in order to achieve success. Our state can be changed by changing our focus. This is because what we focus on will subsequently cause what we feel. For example, if we just focus on earning as much money as possible, we might do anything to achieve it. But, if we just focus on thought of earning money is hard, painful, and impossible, then we will end up with what these thought in our life.
Another example likes we just focus on happy, then we always happy since what we focus on it just happy regardless of what we are doing. Pretty simple, huh? However, it is always easier said than done. Therefore, to make it possible, we should make a decision now, that is, “what are we going to focus on?” Besides, we should also know “what does it mean?”
Personally, I make a decision to focus on how to reach financial freedom in my life. It is very important to me since I enjoy my life and I do not want to spend my entire life for earning money. After making this decision, I feel that I have a good direction in my dairy basis. Although there is no magic in real life, I believe that if I keep constantly and never ending focus on what I want, eventually, it will become true.
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Another example likes we just focus on happy, then we always happy since what we focus on it just happy regardless of what we are doing. Pretty simple, huh? However, it is always easier said than done. Therefore, to make it possible, we should make a decision now, that is, “what are we going to focus on?” Besides, we should also know “what does it mean?”
Personally, I make a decision to focus on how to reach financial freedom in my life. It is very important to me since I enjoy my life and I do not want to spend my entire life for earning money. After making this decision, I feel that I have a good direction in my dairy basis. Although there is no magic in real life, I believe that if I keep constantly and never ending focus on what I want, eventually, it will become true.
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Why Establishing Values is Important: 4 Essential Reasons
Values are psychological and intangible in nature. Our value system may be taught to us by our parents or people who matter to us. Our values may be the results of past experiences, education and knowledge or conceived from a religious conviction. Although values are not physical objects that we can easily see or touch, they can be manifested in many other ways. Our personal values are reflected in the way we behave, in our priorities, in how we go about our activities in daily life, in the decisions we make and in how we respond to and solve issues that come our way. Here are four reasons why establishing strong values is important
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1. Values can Affect the Different Aspects of Life
Values can significantly affect the different aspects of your life. In fact, your value system may influence how you make decisions from trivial choices to life-changing ones. For example, you feel satisfied and content when your decisions are consistent with your value system. When you do something that is contrary to what you believe in, on the other hand, you tend to become restless and uneasy.
2. Values Become our Driving Force and Guide
A person’s values reveal what is important. They become an essential driving force in a person’s life and may serve as a guide for him as he goes through with his daily activities. For instance, a man who values his family and his responsibilities to his blood relations will make decisions that benefit the members of his household. His life’s direction and his goals will be in line with his concern for his family. Besides, it is also the same in the case of organizations, that is, a company’s value system serves as a guide for management and for employees to base decisions they make and their approach to work.
3. Values Influence How other People Perceive You
The deeper rooted one’s values become, the more obvious they are manifested in the different ways you behave, interact and make decisions. Other people will tend to make impressions of you based on your values. In other words, the impression of your families, friends, co-workers and neighbors will be influenced on whether our values are good or bad.
4. Values Help Make You into a Conscious and Purposeful Being
Without values, we will all function like robots, unfeeling and insensitive to other things beyond our own basic needs. We will not value truths or hold anything meaningful in life, nor will we strive to put purpose and meaning to our existence. Your values define you as a human being and give color and meaning to your life. They make you different from non-living things. Values also give you a sense of purpose and teach you to be responsible for your decisions and to effectively deal with other people.
Although values are intangible, they are actually a very important part of a person’s life. This is the reason why there are many people who are willing to sacrifice or devote their lives to the values that they hold dear. That's all for today. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic or any suggestion about Xaivier Blog. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.
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1. Values can Affect the Different Aspects of Life
Values can significantly affect the different aspects of your life. In fact, your value system may influence how you make decisions from trivial choices to life-changing ones. For example, you feel satisfied and content when your decisions are consistent with your value system. When you do something that is contrary to what you believe in, on the other hand, you tend to become restless and uneasy.
2. Values Become our Driving Force and Guide
A person’s values reveal what is important. They become an essential driving force in a person’s life and may serve as a guide for him as he goes through with his daily activities. For instance, a man who values his family and his responsibilities to his blood relations will make decisions that benefit the members of his household. His life’s direction and his goals will be in line with his concern for his family. Besides, it is also the same in the case of organizations, that is, a company’s value system serves as a guide for management and for employees to base decisions they make and their approach to work.
3. Values Influence How other People Perceive You
The deeper rooted one’s values become, the more obvious they are manifested in the different ways you behave, interact and make decisions. Other people will tend to make impressions of you based on your values. In other words, the impression of your families, friends, co-workers and neighbors will be influenced on whether our values are good or bad.
4. Values Help Make You into a Conscious and Purposeful Being
Without values, we will all function like robots, unfeeling and insensitive to other things beyond our own basic needs. We will not value truths or hold anything meaningful in life, nor will we strive to put purpose and meaning to our existence. Your values define you as a human being and give color and meaning to your life. They make you different from non-living things. Values also give you a sense of purpose and teach you to be responsible for your decisions and to effectively deal with other people.
Although values are intangible, they are actually a very important part of a person’s life. This is the reason why there are many people who are willing to sacrifice or devote their lives to the values that they hold dear. That's all for today. Feel free to give me a comment about this topic or any suggestion about Xaivier Blog. It will be a great support to Xaivier Blog.
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Time Management: 8 Useful Tips for Moms to Manage Their Time
Eight useful time management tips in this post will help every mom to make her time effectively and efficiently in such ways that all domestic responsibilities, kids’ needs, and even tasks at work can be done without affect the relationship with spouse.
1. Get organized
A well organized day will help every mom get away from the stress of failing to remember a number of appointments, unfinished tasks, and forgetting other relevant activities. This can be done by making a ‘to do list’ as a guide of the things that you need to finish during the day.
2. Multitask
Multitask such as doing one simple task with another that needs more focus can be considered as the surest and safest way. For instance, cleaning your kitchen counter top while making a phone call. However, you should stop multitask once you feel that you become agitated by doing two tasks at a time.
3. Delegate household responsibilities
Guess what, just delegating household responsibilities to the entire family members. Simply making a suggestion to your next family meeting.
4. Develop household shortcuts
Think of a way to finish your tasks faster without losing the quality of your work. For example, you can implement your own way of clearing clutter, cleaning the windows, washing the dishes, dusting your furniture, and doing the laundry.
5. Focus on priorities
Just say 'NO' to others' requests if you need to attend to more important things that are top priority to you.
6. Follow a routine
Having a routine is a good idea to prevent any waste of mental energy. For example, you can schedule your time for menu planning, going grocery shopping, running errands, and other essential activities.
7. Be flexible
Besides, you must bend to unexpected situations so you can cope with them. You should bear in mind that there always has unforeseen things that might come up even you have your own set schedule.
8. Indulging yourself
Lastly, do not forget to relieve yourself of stress. Besides having a good night sleep and a healthy diet, you can also spend time alone reflecting, meditating and journaling your thoughts. Indulging in a home spa and engaging in various exercise programs are also good example to relieve yourself of stress.
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1. Get organized
A well organized day will help every mom get away from the stress of failing to remember a number of appointments, unfinished tasks, and forgetting other relevant activities. This can be done by making a ‘to do list’ as a guide of the things that you need to finish during the day.
2. Multitask
Multitask such as doing one simple task with another that needs more focus can be considered as the surest and safest way. For instance, cleaning your kitchen counter top while making a phone call. However, you should stop multitask once you feel that you become agitated by doing two tasks at a time.
3. Delegate household responsibilities
Guess what, just delegating household responsibilities to the entire family members. Simply making a suggestion to your next family meeting.
4. Develop household shortcuts
Think of a way to finish your tasks faster without losing the quality of your work. For example, you can implement your own way of clearing clutter, cleaning the windows, washing the dishes, dusting your furniture, and doing the laundry.
5. Focus on priorities
Just say 'NO' to others' requests if you need to attend to more important things that are top priority to you.
6. Follow a routine
Having a routine is a good idea to prevent any waste of mental energy. For example, you can schedule your time for menu planning, going grocery shopping, running errands, and other essential activities.
7. Be flexible
Besides, you must bend to unexpected situations so you can cope with them. You should bear in mind that there always has unforeseen things that might come up even you have your own set schedule.
8. Indulging yourself
Lastly, do not forget to relieve yourself of stress. Besides having a good night sleep and a healthy diet, you can also spend time alone reflecting, meditating and journaling your thoughts. Indulging in a home spa and engaging in various exercise programs are also good example to relieve yourself of stress.
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Time Management: 5 Helpful Tips to Manage Your Time
Good time management skills are needed for us to accomplish target on time effectively. This is an crucial skill for us to perform better at home, school or work. In this post, five helpful time management tips will be presented in such ways that you will have a better idea to become more efficient and effective with your time.
1. Avoid Being Idle While Waiting
Doing something that you can do while waiting is a good idea to optimize your time. Bring something, such as a report that needs reviewing or notes that you need to go over, that you can work on while you wait.
2. Identify Your Time Wasters
Bad habits such as (1) be glued to the TV set when you are supposed to be finishing homework and (2) be surfing the internet when you are supposed to be working on a business proposal should be eliminated. In order to keep yourself from falling prey to these time wasters, you should be conscious of your behavior and identify what activities distract you or make you unproductive. After that, you can remind yourself by asking yourself "What I am supposed to do now?" when you find yourself doing these time wasting activities.
3. Write Set Your Priorities
As you probably know that sometimes multi-tasking can have bad effects on the quality of your work done. In fact, devoting your time to a few urgent tasks is better than trying to accomplish everything at once. Besides, you will not only end up with less stress, but also perform well in your work. One of the ways to set your priorities is writing down your tasks for the day and arrange them according to their urgency. After that, you can start doing your tasks begin from the most urgent in the day.
4. Allocate Appropriate Time for Each Task
Next, after listing your tasks for the day according to their urgency, you should allocate your time properly. For example, you can set your own deadline for each task and keep track of those tasks constantly in such a way that you will not lose your grip on all the other tasks waiting to be done.
5. Manage yourself
Finally, you should bear in mind that nobody can actually manage time. In fact, what you can manage is only yourself, your habits, and the ways you spend your time.
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1. Avoid Being Idle While Waiting
Doing something that you can do while waiting is a good idea to optimize your time. Bring something, such as a report that needs reviewing or notes that you need to go over, that you can work on while you wait.
2. Identify Your Time Wasters
Bad habits such as (1) be glued to the TV set when you are supposed to be finishing homework and (2) be surfing the internet when you are supposed to be working on a business proposal should be eliminated. In order to keep yourself from falling prey to these time wasters, you should be conscious of your behavior and identify what activities distract you or make you unproductive. After that, you can remind yourself by asking yourself "What I am supposed to do now?" when you find yourself doing these time wasting activities.
As you probably know that sometimes multi-tasking can have bad effects on the quality of your work done. In fact, devoting your time to a few urgent tasks is better than trying to accomplish everything at once. Besides, you will not only end up with less stress, but also perform well in your work. One of the ways to set your priorities is writing down your tasks for the day and arrange them according to their urgency. After that, you can start doing your tasks begin from the most urgent in the day.
4. Allocate Appropriate Time for Each Task
Next, after listing your tasks for the day according to their urgency, you should allocate your time properly. For example, you can set your own deadline for each task and keep track of those tasks constantly in such a way that you will not lose your grip on all the other tasks waiting to be done.
5. Manage yourself
Finally, you should bear in mind that nobody can actually manage time. In fact, what you can manage is only yourself, your habits, and the ways you spend your time.
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2 Helpful Time Management Hints for Graduate Students
1. Employ a to-do-list
A to-do-list will remind you about daily tasks that you need to accomplish to attain your goals. It would be even better for you to have a template of to-do-list.
- schedule a time for research daily – make a time for your research daily even for just 20 minutes.
- practice flexibility – to cope with any unexpected thins, it is recommended that your daily tasks should comprise only 50% of your time.
- prioritize your list – rank each item by its importance. Work from the most important down to the least important items to save time from unnecessary things.
2. Employ a calendar system
In grad school, you need to have a wider perspective when it comes to the use of your calendar. You need to have a yearly, a monthly and a weekly calendar.
- yearly range - long term deadlines for the next two years should be incorporated into this yearly calendar. The calendar should still be divided into months for easy tracking. Conference submission, financial aid, and grant proposals are some examples of long term goals.
- monthly range – this calendar will usually include test schedules, paper deadlines, and important appointments. It is advisable that you use an academic calendar which contains the academic year from middle of August to July.
- weekly range - work schedules, course meeting times, due dates, study time and social schedules should be included in your weekly planner . An academic planner is highly recommended since it utilizes a weekly range of measurement. It can be reached at any book store or internet.
Time management skills is necessary to become a successful graduate school student.
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3 Basic Guidelines for Making a Personal Development Plan
A personal development plan serves as a blueprint to an individual as he makes his journey through self-enhancement and development. Here is a list of things you should do to make a personal development plan specifically for you:
1. Recognize your present state
First, KNOW yourself. It means that you have to know your present condition in life, which include knowing where you are and what you are like. This is vital during the process of making any self-improvement. Identify your strengths and weaknesses, then classifying your capabilities and shortcomings. Besides, you should also recognize what skills you have and skills you lack.
2. Identify your goal
Second, IDENTIFY your goal. Goal setting is a must for success.In personal development, your goal is to know where you want to be in the short and long term. To achieve your final goal, you must figure out the things you need to develop, improvement needed and the way to reach the next stage in your personal maturity. Be concrete and realistic.
3. Work your way to success
ACTION. List out steps needed to achieve your goal. Always keep track of your improvement. A clear and practical list of resources should be prepared to help you in meeting your target. Identify kind of support you need. If you want to have a better computer skill, buy a computer first. Never be easily contented with the first few improvements. Rather, keep challenging yourself to move forward. If not, you might stop improving altogether and end up with nothing.
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First, KNOW yourself. It means that you have to know your present condition in life, which include knowing where you are and what you are like. This is vital during the process of making any self-improvement. Identify your strengths and weaknesses, then classifying your capabilities and shortcomings. Besides, you should also recognize what skills you have and skills you lack.
2. Identify your goal
Second, IDENTIFY your goal. Goal setting is a must for success.In personal development, your goal is to know where you want to be in the short and long term. To achieve your final goal, you must figure out the things you need to develop, improvement needed and the way to reach the next stage in your personal maturity. Be concrete and realistic.
3. Work your way to success
ACTION. List out steps needed to achieve your goal. Always keep track of your improvement. A clear and practical list of resources should be prepared to help you in meeting your target. Identify kind of support you need. If you want to have a better computer skill, buy a computer first. Never be easily contented with the first few improvements. Rather, keep challenging yourself to move forward. If not, you might stop improving altogether and end up with nothing.
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Self Improvement Tips: Treat Yourself as Your First Company
Success leaves clues. There are several common attributes of every successful companies, such as clear vision, effective mission statement, discipline, and willing to change. I strong believe that if we, personally, can treat ourself as a company, and then organize it like any other successful companies, the saying "nothing is impossible" will always be true in our life. I will further explain why we need to treat ourself as our first company here.
Sometime we are too busy in "our job" and keep managing our "company business". We have spend at least eight hours per day and 5 days per week to organise and manage "our company". However, how many hours you have spend on yourself to organize and manage your personal development? How many hours you have spend for your family to build your relationship? How many hours you have spend to just make your life more happy and relax? Don't you think that are important in your personal life? I believe that most people know about them but few people do them regularly.
Next, what will happen if all the employee did not go to their company punctually everyday? What will happen if all the employee did not try their best to help the company to find more customers? What will happen if a company did not have a clear vision, effective mission statement and policy? What will happen if a company did not want to change their point of view to suit their customers?
Besides that, it is quite often to hear someone around us who want to start their own business but lack of financial support, friends' support, family support etc. Are that the reasons they cannot start their business? How about start managing yourself a your first company? Are you discipline enough? Have you able to state out your vision and mission of your life? Try it first before you tell anybody you want start your own business.
Therefore, start treating yourself as your first company and thinking about your future today.
Written by: Xaivier Chia
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Sometime we are too busy in "our job" and keep managing our "company business". We have spend at least eight hours per day and 5 days per week to organise and manage "our company". However, how many hours you have spend on yourself to organize and manage your personal development? How many hours you have spend for your family to build your relationship? How many hours you have spend to just make your life more happy and relax? Don't you think that are important in your personal life? I believe that most people know about them but few people do them regularly.
Next, what will happen if all the employee did not go to their company punctually everyday? What will happen if all the employee did not try their best to help the company to find more customers? What will happen if a company did not have a clear vision, effective mission statement and policy? What will happen if a company did not want to change their point of view to suit their customers?
Besides that, it is quite often to hear someone around us who want to start their own business but lack of financial support, friends' support, family support etc. Are that the reasons they cannot start their business? How about start managing yourself a your first company? Are you discipline enough? Have you able to state out your vision and mission of your life? Try it first before you tell anybody you want start your own business.
Therefore, start treating yourself as your first company and thinking about your future today.
Written by: Xaivier Chia
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Self Improvement Tips & Tricks: The Excellent Learning Process
It is quite often for us to pursuit an excellent learning skill. How to remember all the important points before go through the exam? How to get distinction in every subjects? How to survive in university? How to learn a new skill immediately? How to keep competitive in this world? etc. After few years research and practising, I have successfully found out what I call that "the excellent learning process".
There are 4 steps to achieve this excellent learning process.
1. Feel good and be enthusiastic - Try to take a long breath now. Telling yourself that this subject is very amazing and fantastic. I just want to learn it now. It will total improve my quality of life and broaden my knowledge. I love challenge, I know I will conquer it in the next second. This step is extremely important because we need to open our mind first before putting any effort on learning.
2. Study it seriously - Open your mind, study as many relevant materials as possible. Searching it from internet, library, or asking an expert. Do everything you can in your daily basic. Writing down all important and relevant points in a note book. Bring that note book everywhere you go and keep update it everyday.
3. Remember it - Using memory tools such as mind map to summarize all your note and study. Try to figure out all the patterns and relationships from one chapter to another chapter, from one technique to another technique. Build your frame work to suit their patterns or relationships.
4. Practise, practise, and practise - Repetition is the mother of skill. If you are seriously to learn a new skill, you must practise it every single day. Nothing is harder than be discipline and keep trying and practising your skills constantly. Repeat the third step if you have found out that the frame work is not suitable and adapt it immediately.
Last but not least, believe in yourself that you can do it and try it everyday. You will feel amazing once you are in the right direction in your life.
Written by: Xaivier Chia
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There are 4 steps to achieve this excellent learning process.
1. Feel good and be enthusiastic - Try to take a long breath now. Telling yourself that this subject is very amazing and fantastic. I just want to learn it now. It will total improve my quality of life and broaden my knowledge. I love challenge, I know I will conquer it in the next second. This step is extremely important because we need to open our mind first before putting any effort on learning.
2. Study it seriously - Open your mind, study as many relevant materials as possible. Searching it from internet, library, or asking an expert. Do everything you can in your daily basic. Writing down all important and relevant points in a note book. Bring that note book everywhere you go and keep update it everyday.
3. Remember it - Using memory tools such as mind map to summarize all your note and study. Try to figure out all the patterns and relationships from one chapter to another chapter, from one technique to another technique. Build your frame work to suit their patterns or relationships.
4. Practise, practise, and practise - Repetition is the mother of skill. If you are seriously to learn a new skill, you must practise it every single day. Nothing is harder than be discipline and keep trying and practising your skills constantly. Repeat the third step if you have found out that the frame work is not suitable and adapt it immediately.
Last but not least, believe in yourself that you can do it and try it everyday. You will feel amazing once you are in the right direction in your life.
Written by: Xaivier Chia
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Self Improvement: Study Skills - Study Physics effectively
In order to score in Physics or any other subjects or even everything in your life, habit plays an crucial part on it. Success leaves clues. Three techniques, which will increase your learning level, are understand the concepts, memorize the core of formula and its concept, and practice the problems everyday.
1. Understand the concepts
The step to understand the concepts of physics is apply them in our daily basic. How? Observe all the nature phenomenon around us such as when will something fly? When will the rainbow appear? When will the wind blow from the sea? After observe all the nature phenomenon by asking when, ask why and how those natural phenomenon will exist. Repeat this everyday to nurture this habit. This is not only for the sake of your result, but also broaden your horizon and the ability to think creatively.
2. Memorize the core of formula and its concept only
Some students or even teachers may say why do we need to memorize all formula since those formula will be given during exam. Trust me, most of the top students have very strong memory to memorize all of the relevant information in order to score during their exam. Nothing difficult but just memorizing. However, the important thing is just memorize the core instead of their branches. For instance, what is inertia? Inertia is a phenomenon of an object to resist to change of its state. An object is rest will remain at rest and an object is moving will remain keep its moving with a constant velocity and so on. So how to memorize inertia? The core of inertia is an object to resist to change of its state. After that, refer back to the part 1, understand its concept, and try to link inertia to your daily basis. Enjoy your learning and cultivate your knowledge.
3. Practicing the problems everyday
No pain, no gain. Repetition is the mother of skills. Practice the problems everyday is the only way to sharpen your knowledge and skills. This is very important for those who want to finish his or her paper within time given during examination. Without seriously emphasize this way to boost your knowledge, time will never be enough for you to answer all of the questions during exam. Besides that, it will also build your self-confidence during exam as well. It will let you feel more comfortable with the questions and more determinant to give an answer upon it.
In fact, there is nothing secret but just keep hardworking toward the correct direction. I hope these three "directions" plus your hardwork will help you to score your physics exam with a enjoyable journey eventually.
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1. Understand the concepts
The step to understand the concepts of physics is apply them in our daily basic. How? Observe all the nature phenomenon around us such as when will something fly? When will the rainbow appear? When will the wind blow from the sea? After observe all the nature phenomenon by asking when, ask why and how those natural phenomenon will exist. Repeat this everyday to nurture this habit. This is not only for the sake of your result, but also broaden your horizon and the ability to think creatively.
2. Memorize the core of formula and its concept only
Some students or even teachers may say why do we need to memorize all formula since those formula will be given during exam. Trust me, most of the top students have very strong memory to memorize all of the relevant information in order to score during their exam. Nothing difficult but just memorizing. However, the important thing is just memorize the core instead of their branches. For instance, what is inertia? Inertia is a phenomenon of an object to resist to change of its state. An object is rest will remain at rest and an object is moving will remain keep its moving with a constant velocity and so on. So how to memorize inertia? The core of inertia is an object to resist to change of its state. After that, refer back to the part 1, understand its concept, and try to link inertia to your daily basis. Enjoy your learning and cultivate your knowledge.
3. Practicing the problems everyday
No pain, no gain. Repetition is the mother of skills. Practice the problems everyday is the only way to sharpen your knowledge and skills. This is very important for those who want to finish his or her paper within time given during examination. Without seriously emphasize this way to boost your knowledge, time will never be enough for you to answer all of the questions during exam. Besides that, it will also build your self-confidence during exam as well. It will let you feel more comfortable with the questions and more determinant to give an answer upon it.
In fact, there is nothing secret but just keep hardworking toward the correct direction. I hope these three "directions" plus your hardwork will help you to score your physics exam with a enjoyable journey eventually.
Written by: Xaivier Chia
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Self Improvement: Brainstorming Technique- Optimizing Meeting and Discussion
To be successfully optimizing your business meeting, project discussion, communication and idea organization play an crucial part in our daily basic.
Brainstorming has a meaning of getting a large number of ideas from a group of people in a short period of time. Therefore, Brain Storming technique, indeed, is a very powerful tool in many area of our life. It is quite often to be used in a meeting to avoid conflict and optimize the ideas generation in a minimum period of time. Basically there are several type of brainstorming technique as stated below:
1. Classical Brainstorming:
All participants agree to the rules and express ideas verbally. They are not really restricted and can express themselves freely.
2. Mitsubishi Brainstorming method:
Participants are required to write down their ideas in a silent period before verbal contributions begin.
3. Phillips 66 method:
A large group is separated into several small groups. Each small groups would be given six minutes to generate their ideas and then share their idea in the large group. The six-minute brainstorming period can be repeated several times in order to generate more creative ideas.
Today, I will share with you about the Classical Brainstorming technique.
The basic principles of this brainstorming technique are stated below:
1. Everyone must postpone their own comment to any presented ideas during the brainstorming session and delay the judge to every single idea in order to produce a productivity atmosphere and encourage all the group members to contribute as much ideas as possible.
2. The main purpose to use brainstorming technique is getting as much ideas as possible.
3. All the members are encouraged to think freely by using their imagination to produce or generate ideas.
4. All the ideas can be combined, modified, expanded, improved and amended.
5. The period of time for brainstorming is about 15 to 30 minutes only in order to avoid the group members feel tired and hamper.
6. Brainstorming activity is a group work. However, the recommended number of members per group is not more than 15 people. Otherwise, the process of brainstorming will be difficult to be handled or controlled.
7. The main objective of brainstorming is to produce and develop an abundance of ideas.
Process to launch a brain storming:
There are basically 3 session in a brainstorming activity as stated as follow:
1. Choose a leader who every group members agree and support with. After that, the leader is required to deliver a talk which doesn't relate to the topic in order to amuse all the group members. If the members haven't known each other, the group leader must use a suitable approach to introduce all the group members in a short time.
2. The brainstorming will be started after the topic or title is introduced. The crucial part is the topic or title must be particular and specific. Otherwise, it will be so difficult to be discussed in the group.
Next, write down the topic on a piece of Mah-jong paper or white board in order to let all the group members see it clearly. After that, the group leader is required to invite all the group members to present their ideas to the topic. A secretary must record all the presented ideas. All the comments or suggestions to the ideas must be postponed regardless whether it is logic, confusing, or not practical during this session. In the meanwhile, all the participants are also encouraged to add, to combine, or to expand all the presented ideas. When the time limit is over, the group leader should close this session and read all the recorded ideas from the secretary. After that, all the group members are given 5 to 10 minutes to relax and make their mind clear.
3. After 5 to 10 minutes time out period, the next session is to evaluate all the recorded ideas from the session 2. This is very important session to determine and choose suitable and applicable ideas. The group leader will lead the group members together to discuss all the ideas in order to choose the best ideas. The remainder ideas can be use as sub-points or supporting points to the main point.
The physical requirement of brainstorming activity:
Location and circumstance play an important part to smooth and optimize the brainstorming activity. In an atmosphere and the circumstance which is far form the noise and busy will help the participants to be more focus on their thinking in order to produce or generate creative and innovative ideas.
Some suggestions for physical requirements are suitable meeting room, comfortable chair, one circle shape table for 15 people, pencil and paper for each participants, suitable size of white broad or mahjong paper, maker pen with several color, and recorder to record the activity of brainstorming.
Written by:
Xaivier Chia
Reference: pengenalan pemikiran kritis kreatif, Mohd. Azhar Abd. Hamid (2001)
Brainstorming has a meaning of getting a large number of ideas from a group of people in a short period of time. Therefore, Brain Storming technique, indeed, is a very powerful tool in many area of our life. It is quite often to be used in a meeting to avoid conflict and optimize the ideas generation in a minimum period of time. Basically there are several type of brainstorming technique as stated below:
1. Classical Brainstorming:
All participants agree to the rules and express ideas verbally. They are not really restricted and can express themselves freely.
2. Mitsubishi Brainstorming method:
Participants are required to write down their ideas in a silent period before verbal contributions begin.
3. Phillips 66 method:
A large group is separated into several small groups. Each small groups would be given six minutes to generate their ideas and then share their idea in the large group. The six-minute brainstorming period can be repeated several times in order to generate more creative ideas.
Today, I will share with you about the Classical Brainstorming technique.
The basic principles of this brainstorming technique are stated below:
1. Everyone must postpone their own comment to any presented ideas during the brainstorming session and delay the judge to every single idea in order to produce a productivity atmosphere and encourage all the group members to contribute as much ideas as possible.
2. The main purpose to use brainstorming technique is getting as much ideas as possible.
3. All the members are encouraged to think freely by using their imagination to produce or generate ideas.
4. All the ideas can be combined, modified, expanded, improved and amended.
5. The period of time for brainstorming is about 15 to 30 minutes only in order to avoid the group members feel tired and hamper.
6. Brainstorming activity is a group work. However, the recommended number of members per group is not more than 15 people. Otherwise, the process of brainstorming will be difficult to be handled or controlled.
7. The main objective of brainstorming is to produce and develop an abundance of ideas.
Process to launch a brain storming:
There are basically 3 session in a brainstorming activity as stated as follow:
1. Choose a leader who every group members agree and support with. After that, the leader is required to deliver a talk which doesn't relate to the topic in order to amuse all the group members. If the members haven't known each other, the group leader must use a suitable approach to introduce all the group members in a short time.
2. The brainstorming will be started after the topic or title is introduced. The crucial part is the topic or title must be particular and specific. Otherwise, it will be so difficult to be discussed in the group.
Next, write down the topic on a piece of Mah-jong paper or white board in order to let all the group members see it clearly. After that, the group leader is required to invite all the group members to present their ideas to the topic. A secretary must record all the presented ideas. All the comments or suggestions to the ideas must be postponed regardless whether it is logic, confusing, or not practical during this session. In the meanwhile, all the participants are also encouraged to add, to combine, or to expand all the presented ideas. When the time limit is over, the group leader should close this session and read all the recorded ideas from the secretary. After that, all the group members are given 5 to 10 minutes to relax and make their mind clear.
3. After 5 to 10 minutes time out period, the next session is to evaluate all the recorded ideas from the session 2. This is very important session to determine and choose suitable and applicable ideas. The group leader will lead the group members together to discuss all the ideas in order to choose the best ideas. The remainder ideas can be use as sub-points or supporting points to the main point.
The physical requirement of brainstorming activity:
Location and circumstance play an important part to smooth and optimize the brainstorming activity. In an atmosphere and the circumstance which is far form the noise and busy will help the participants to be more focus on their thinking in order to produce or generate creative and innovative ideas.
Some suggestions for physical requirements are suitable meeting room, comfortable chair, one circle shape table for 15 people, pencil and paper for each participants, suitable size of white broad or mahjong paper, maker pen with several color, and recorder to record the activity of brainstorming.
Written by:
Xaivier Chia
Reference: pengenalan pemikiran kritis kreatif, Mohd. Azhar Abd. Hamid (2001)
Self Improvement: Change your life with the Power of Quantity
Do you know the quantity plays an crucial role from personal development to businesses throughout the world. It just like any natural rule, unchangeable, undeniable and always exists regardless of your awareness and your belief. It is quite unbelievable for many people until their paradigm is shifted. Two example, business and English language, will be shared here to clarify the power of quantity.
Firstly, in business, the quantity can be in term of money, cash flow, market share, man power and so on. I believe so much there is a fine line to be reach in order to obtain such power or influence in business. You should have enough quantity in order to negotiate with your business partner or threaten your competitors. If you are serious about your business, you should put more effort on how to increase your quantity.
Next, why the English language become the most common language throughout the earth? Everyone is crazy about it in order to stand in "competitive". Even my blog is written in English while my mother tongue is Mandarin. It is because language is a popular and convenient tool for us to know, to share idea and knowledge, and to communicate with each others in order to avoid conflict and achieve win-win situation. Since the English has reached the fine line of language, it is quite hard for other people to promote or encourage majority in this earth to learn their mother tongue in order to form another "international language". Mandarin, however, will be an exception due to the quantity users in China.
In the nutshell, there may only less than one percent of each category can be over its fine line and become "out standing". For those miss the opportunity to be "out standing" in their category, to corporate and team working with each other will be the only way to survive and to prepare for next opportunity in the future.
Firstly, in business, the quantity can be in term of money, cash flow, market share, man power and so on. I believe so much there is a fine line to be reach in order to obtain such power or influence in business. You should have enough quantity in order to negotiate with your business partner or threaten your competitors. If you are serious about your business, you should put more effort on how to increase your quantity.
Next, why the English language become the most common language throughout the earth? Everyone is crazy about it in order to stand in "competitive". Even my blog is written in English while my mother tongue is Mandarin. It is because language is a popular and convenient tool for us to know, to share idea and knowledge, and to communicate with each others in order to avoid conflict and achieve win-win situation. Since the English has reached the fine line of language, it is quite hard for other people to promote or encourage majority in this earth to learn their mother tongue in order to form another "international language". Mandarin, however, will be an exception due to the quantity users in China.
In the nutshell, there may only less than one percent of each category can be over its fine line and become "out standing". For those miss the opportunity to be "out standing" in their category, to corporate and team working with each other will be the only way to survive and to prepare for next opportunity in the future.
Self Improvement Tips: 4 essential skills to master your life immediately
Mastering one own life by oneself will always be possible if and only if you believe it. According to top motivator guru, Anthony Robbins, that are four keys points to master our life:
1. Raise your standard
2. Change your limiting Belief
3. Model the strategies that work
4. Increase your emotional intensity to train and build up your emotional muscles.
I believe so much on them which not only give me a continuous momentum to push myself from one level to another level, but also grow my quality of life gradually.
Sometime we do know what we should do today. For instance, we know that we should study because the exam is coming soon, the result of the exam is important, education can change our life and so on. But the reality is a lot of people fail in their exam and finally give up and start suffer from their regret throughout their life... Therefore I hope this article can inspire you to change your life.
Raise your standard. What happen to our life if we change the "should" to the "must" from previous example? Are there more people pass their exam and further their study? Sometime people fear responsibility, commitment, and promise. A man who fear to said "I love you" to his love one, for example, will cause his love one lose secure and finally divorce become their "solution". If you love your lover, you must tell he or she how much you love he or she instead of thinking that he or she should know it in last few years. Therefore, try to change "should" to "must" now in your life.
Change your limiting beliefs. The beliefs are so powerful and have power to control your life. Let's imagine you believe study is very important to your life. You will, of course, focus on study because you believe it is very important. Next, you also believe constant study is a proved way to achieve good result, you will have a habit to study everyday instead of last minute study. As a result, you result will improved and this improvement will directly or indirectly increase your belief upon it. The stronger your belief, the more effort you will put in to your study. Guess what, you because a top student just change your belief.
Model the strategies that work. Success leaves clues! Try to adopt the habits of successful people such as hardworking, patience, keep doing, willing to help and so on.
Increase your emotional intensity to train and build up your emotional muscles. I believe so much everything in our life can be trained just like muscles. The only difference is the period or time it needed. You may take up to 2 years to train your body muscles, so how about your brain muscles? Have you ever train it before?
1. Raise your standard
2. Change your limiting Belief
3. Model the strategies that work
4. Increase your emotional intensity to train and build up your emotional muscles.
I believe so much on them which not only give me a continuous momentum to push myself from one level to another level, but also grow my quality of life gradually.
Sometime we do know what we should do today. For instance, we know that we should study because the exam is coming soon, the result of the exam is important, education can change our life and so on. But the reality is a lot of people fail in their exam and finally give up and start suffer from their regret throughout their life... Therefore I hope this article can inspire you to change your life.
Raise your standard. What happen to our life if we change the "should" to the "must" from previous example? Are there more people pass their exam and further their study? Sometime people fear responsibility, commitment, and promise. A man who fear to said "I love you" to his love one, for example, will cause his love one lose secure and finally divorce become their "solution". If you love your lover, you must tell he or she how much you love he or she instead of thinking that he or she should know it in last few years. Therefore, try to change "should" to "must" now in your life.
Change your limiting beliefs. The beliefs are so powerful and have power to control your life. Let's imagine you believe study is very important to your life. You will, of course, focus on study because you believe it is very important. Next, you also believe constant study is a proved way to achieve good result, you will have a habit to study everyday instead of last minute study. As a result, you result will improved and this improvement will directly or indirectly increase your belief upon it. The stronger your belief, the more effort you will put in to your study. Guess what, you because a top student just change your belief.
Model the strategies that work. Success leaves clues! Try to adopt the habits of successful people such as hardworking, patience, keep doing, willing to help and so on.
Increase your emotional intensity to train and build up your emotional muscles. I believe so much everything in our life can be trained just like muscles. The only difference is the period or time it needed. You may take up to 2 years to train your body muscles, so how about your brain muscles? Have you ever train it before?
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