PersonalGrowth & SelfEsteem

In a recent survey conducted in Singapore, the findings on the top three goals or aspirations are…to travel, to make money and to learn on self development.
Interestingly enough travel tops the list.
I guess it must be due to the fact that Singapore is such a small country that Singapore citizens just need to move about and explore other countries.
Las Vegas is no doubt one of the popular destinations.
Twelve years ago, when I was there with my family,we selected the hotel only when we arrive there and made our selection just by looking at some brochures.
Nowaday, travelers can get the best deals, thanks to online booking.It is a breeze to book a Las Vegas hotel.
One can compare for the best prices conveniently.
How I wished I had that option previously.

The Kindle is temporarily out of stock. You can’t get it till after Christmas this year.
What do you think about the kindle?
I think it will become such a rage, like the handphone.

The greatest gift you can give to yourself is on educating yourself.Now you can pamper yourself with up to 200 titles in a gadget that is smaller than a paperback size.
What’s more, you can read up to 250 top blogs, on the move ..updated daily!.

For those not familiar about the electronic-paper, here is a product overview:

• Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.
• Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
• Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.
• Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
• More than 90,000 books available, including 100 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers.
• New York Times® Best Sellers and all New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
• Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.
• Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
• Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times—all auto-delivered wirelessly.
• More than 250 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN’s Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post—all updated wirelessly throughout the day.
• Lighter and thinner than a typical paperback; weighs only 10.3 ounces.
• Holds over 200 titles.
• No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments—we take care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read.

What are you waiting for?
Let’s kindle. Watch a video of the kindle in action==> http://hyperlink.to/kindle

While women have plenty of choices to look good, men have much lesser options.One often overlooked gadget is actually to wear nice cufflinks.
While women can change necklace often,men can vary cufflinks just as well.
So get some cufflinks and start looking more successful and more sharp.
Incidentally, if you are born in the year of the rat ( Chinese calendar), wear gold cufflinks to increase your wealth and luck starting the next lunar new year.

Hoo,hoo,hoo….christmas is coming.
I am sure you will be busy thinking about gifts to buy for this coming festive season.
Want some ideas on what gifts to prepare?
Watch tv on the info commercial “as seen on tv”.
Great ideas and great gifts abound there.
Now here is a bonus idea…want to get the same item as above but at a lesser price?
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Gold price is rising.Platinum price is rising too. Festive season is around the corner and you have a hard time figuring what to give as a gift for your loved ones?
How about pearls?
10 years ago, I bought a pearl necklace in Japan for my wife.I do not know how to select pearls so to play safe, I chose one that is not cheap.
Today, while surfing online,I managed to look at a site on pearls and there are valuable advice on how to select pearls.
Fortunately, the pictures shown in the site revealed that I did not make a wrong choice.
All I can say is that the lustre remains as original as the time I bought it.

If you have an online business and is considering selling physical products online, sooner or later the topic of having a shopping cart will surface.
It can be quite a challenge to select the appropriate provider.
Some criteria for consideration are:
History or track record of the provider?
How many features are available?
How secure is it to handle money transaction?
Does it have affiliate program or modules?
Is it easy to navigate?
Is it easy to install?
How about support from the supplier?
Any hidden fees?
Any trial period so that you can familiarise yourself?
Most important being is the pricing affordable, assuming it matches all your requirements?

How about free vs hosted shopping cart provider? Do weigh carefully and in general, even with other services, a paid or hosted service provider is always better in the long term.
Ashop Commerce is a leading provider of hosted shopping cart software. It offers a complete solution for merchants to sell online.

How do you maintain a healthy and anti-aging lifestyle?
I had attended a few seminars on health given by Doctors.
I had paid an average of $50 per seminar. After consolidating all the facts,I can summarize into 4 main points on how to stay healthy and keep sickness away. They are as follow:
1. Exercise daily for at least 20 minutes.
2. Be joyful.It helps to reduce stress.
3. Have enough sleep. 6 to 8 hours of sleep. Body need to recuperate.
4. Eat colorful live fruits and vegetable. They contain a lot of anti-oxidants.

However, being human beings, we sometimes would like to drink alcohol.If you must, do so moderately.And while drinking, why not match your bar stools with your favorite brand of drink?

Personal Growth & Self Esteem

As we search for our ultimate personal growth strategy and improving our self esteem, the bottom line is this…it is all about emotional mastery. Everything we do is literally to make us feel good, feel better, feel more confident etc.

Well, we can say that one of our top priorities in life is to make money. The question then is…what will the money do for us?

Just keep asking yourself ‘what will it do for me’ until you can no longer provide the answer to the question.

Deep, deep down the answers, it is about our feelings or emotions.

For example, the money will provide me with funds to buy a new car. What will the car do for me?..It will make me feel good or it will make me feel successful.

Therefore the formula is: make money= get something to exchange= a higher level of emotion.

Here then is the mother of all questions about how you lead your life…

Are you spending more time to master your emotions or are you spending more time to make money?

Our wheel of life has the same mold. At certain stages of our life we will experience or spend more time in the following main categories…financial, health,relationship,spiritual,emotional.

But all the categories have a common base, which is the emotional element.

So let me ask the question of the century again…..how much time do you spend to master your emotion?

Here is the tip for today on managing your emotions…

There are 3 main pillars that will affect our emotion at any given time.

Alter any one of them, and you can notice a change of state. Alter two or all three at the same time and you get exponential progress.

-Words/Language that you use daily.

-Physiology or how your gestures, body movement.

-Beliefs or your filters that has been programmed into your sub-conscious mind when you were young.

It is very easy to alter your words and physiology. Beliefs require more effort and more knowledge or tools.

For today, think about words that you use frequently…are they empowering or disempowering?

For me, the word ‘problem’ has hardly been used. It has been replaced by ‘challenge’.

For language, do start to be more aware to use questions instead of statements. Excellent communication tool to use to influence people to motivate them or to impart instructions t them.

As an example…if you like to go for a tour and you are thinking ‘I cannot afford it.’ Change it to a question…’HOW can I afford it?’

What happens now? Your mind suddenly seeks for answers instead of deciding that there are no solutions.

For physiology, go to YouTube and search for your favourite model and mimic their gestures, tone etc.

By model, I do not mean those sexy ladies. I mean the role model in each category. So for finance, I’d seek Donald Trump and imitate his gestures.

See if you feel any difference in your emotion when you try to mimic someone.

Enough for today.

Practise raising your standards in mastering your words and physiology for now.

Your personal growth or self esteem or self improvement journey will never be the same again!

Manage your emotions or your emotions manage you.