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Every child has the potential to be a gifted child. But the vast majority of parents not only fail to teach their children important information they need to succeed, but also irretrievably damage their child’s future success without even knowing it.

Upon reading the Ebook with titled “Teaching your child success”, I understand that teaching out child have to start with our own self. When we provide a good model of the right behaviour and use positive reinforcement to encourage good behaviour in our child, we are setting the stage for a lifetime of better behaviour.

As parents, our job is to prepare our children for adulthood. So if we want our children to have a successful, satisfying and happy life then there are some fundamental life skills we need to teach them. We can actually teach them ways to manage personal finances, teaching them setting their own goal, ways to manage themselves, ways to work as a team and help our child to get organized.

Sometime when talking with some of the parents and the ways they describe their child behaviour at home, I can somehow understand why the child behaves in certain way. The value that added by the parents to the young can really change the way they behave.

I’m glad that I brought up in a complete and happy family. I have noticed that some of my attitute and the way I do certain things is like my parents and sometime are resemble my siblings. Last time i used to blame of my parents, kept thinking that they are too strict, but now i really want to thanks them as they shape me to become a good person, to become someone that love life and wants to achieve her dream. I really love my PARENTS, and i do hope that next time I can become a successful mother that can raise my child in a happy family and teaching them how to succeed in life.

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“I can’t take it anymore!”

“I really do not know what to do!”

“It’s too much for me!”

These are the sentences that normally we hear when a person is totally out of idea of what to do, or totally not motivated to do certain things anymore. After I make some observations, on myself and others like my students and my friends, I find out there are some reasons why people decide to give up. At least I can categorize them into these following three categories.

1. A person decides to give up when he or she cannot see himself/herself more than whoever they are right now. In another word, a person who gives up easily is a person without dreams. If students only see themselves as students, whenever they face difficult challenges, it is double confirmed that they will say those sentences above. It will be different if the students can see themselves in greater pictures, more than just students. Law students who see themselves as great and famous doctors will surely achieve much better compared to others who don’t.
2. A person decides to give up because he or she doesn’t have any passions on what he or she is currently doing. There are three philosophies that I always believe in: When you do things that you don’t like it at all, even that you have talent in it, the result will still not be good. When you do things that you don’t have talent in it, but you like it so much, the result will still be much better. When you do things that you have talent in it and at the same time you like it, the result will be extremely great! Passion is part of the spirit when you do things in your life. Have passion in what you are doing right now, like it, love it, and it will give you more than you can ever imagine.
3. A person decides to give up because he or she realize that nobody supports what he or she is doing. It is important to let people around us to know what is our greatest desire. I don’t want to be too shy to share my dreams, because when others around me don’t know what am I targeting at, it will be difficult for them to know how to support. They may even do things that will slow down my progress in achieving my dreams. Also, it is very important as parents or friends to show our support to others. It is beautiful when people are supporting in each others’ dream. Let every people follow the voice from their heart which will lead them to their greatest dream!

When people have dreams, they will say, “I can take it, this is small problem for me.” It is because they can see problems as stepping stones to be greater self. When people have passion, they will say, “This is not even a problem for me!”. It is because their love on what they are doing can dispel all frustrations. When people know that they have support, they will say, “I can do it!”. It is because they know that they are not alone.

I can take it more than this… because A is easy, let’s do it!

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Recently I’ve just completed a book by Robert Kyosaki. I’ve learnt plenty of things from there, but I shall just touch on one. It’s a lesson that came up several times in different forms really recently, and I’ll really like to share this with everyone.

The lesson of Be-Do-Have

Many people yearn to have something, or become someone. In order to reach their goals, they plan and organise themselves to carry out steps to get to where they want to be. For example, a student plans his schedule so that he will have time to study to get his A1. He is working in this manner to get his A1 so that he will become an A1 student. In other words, he is following this format.

Do-Have-Be

I’ve met many students like this. Students who take so much effort to plan their timetables and never follow them. Students who leave pages and pages of unfilled answers in tests and exams. Students who exclaim,”I don’t know!” after a 1 sec glance at the question. Students who follow the Do-Have-Be way of studying are usually burnt out quickly and easily discouraged.

However, if you take a look at the most successful people, they take a different approach. Take a look at an A1 student. Notice the way he carries himself and puts in his due diligence in his work. It is his attitude that influences the amount of time and effort he puts in for him to secure that A1. In other words, he is working in a format of..

Be-Do-Have.

And it is always the belief and attitude of a person that can really change reality. The beliefs and surety of innovators such as Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, Mark Zuckerburg in their own products have led them to persist and ,as Steve Jobs puts it, make a dent in the universe. A person who adheres to the Do-Have-Be philosophy wouldn’t have lasted long enough to become such phenomenal success.

So in whatever you do, make sure to believe first that you can do it, and that you will do it. Begin to behave as the person you want to be, and eventually you will make decisions and take actions that will make it a reality.

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Some people seem to be lucky and they can achieve whatever they want in life.  They seem to be born smarter and more hardworking than anyone else around them.  Is it because life is just unfair and some people just get a better treatment from god?  To be honest, I use to think that life is unfair too.  However after reading this book entitled ‘the power’, I started to contemplate deeply and I realize that life does not happen to us, life is responding to us.  We might not be born in a good environment or condition but we definitely have the power to change our life! 

Many people especially guys nowadays are really good at playing computer games.  However if we think about it they started off knowing nothing about computer games.  However within a short period of time they become expert in computer games and they just somehow have a lot of games to play.  They will never be short of computer games.  Why is that so?  You probably know the answer, right?  YES, the answer is because they love to play computer games.  It is about love!   They FEEL GOOD when they play computer games.  Just by having the thought of playing computer games, they already feel very excited and therefore they are so passionate in playing their favorite games.  They can spend hours sitting in front of the computer, thinking hard of how to win the game and go to another level.  Surprisingly, despite having to think so much, they will never get bored or tired and the energy they have when playing computer games is sometimes very amazing.  In short, it all starts off when they feel good about playing computer games.  This causes them to fall in love with computer games.  Because they love computer games therefore they put in a lot of positive energy and thus they create good results and this makes them to be more in love with computer games and ultimately it becomes an addiction.

There are many reasons for someone to love something.  Whatever reason is it, one thing for sure that happen to all people is that people have to feel good about something first then only they will love the thing. Many people think that love comes naturally and we cannot be forced to love something.  Is this true?  I used to think so too but now I realize that it is not the case.  We indeed have the power to change our state and feeling towards something and we can even love something that we use to hate!  All we need to do is to put in conscious effort to really feel good about something and get excited towards something.  When you love something, you feel good about something and vice versa!  How to make yourself feel food and love something?  There are many ways, let me just roughly tell you a few.

Life is like a round close mirror surrounding you, whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life.  Give positivity and you receive positivity; give negativity and you receive back negativity.  If you want to be loved you must love someone first, if you want to good result you must first feel good about the thought of getting good result.  Many people feel scared and hesitate when thinking of the effort that they need to put in, the sacrifice they have to make and the possibilities of failing the subject.  Consequently they will not be able to get the good result. 

If you want to achieve success in life, you need to feel love towards thing around you because whether your thoughts and feelings are good or bad, they return as automatically and precisely as an echo.  People who have great lives think and talk about what they love more than what they don’t love.  Love, because when you love you are using the greatest power in the universe.  Your feelings are the power of your words and thoughts.  It’s what you feel the matter.  Life is supposed to be fun.  When you are excited about anything and you feel amazing, capture that energy and imagine your dream.  If you feel REALLY GOOD ABOUT SUCCESS, no matter whose success it is, you stick success to you.  Some people want success but they are afraid of failure.  There is a negative element in their feeling towards success.  How do they fully utilize the power of love to achieve their success?

Lastly, you might wonder, how to give love and feel loved?  It is simple; you just need to be grateful.  Every time you feel grateful you are giving love.

Be grateful for everything you have received in life

Be grateful for everything you are receiving in life

Be grateful for what you want in your life, as though you have received it.

Your gratitude will multiply everything in your life.

May the power of love be with you.

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It is truly amazing to know that we can master anything with just 7 steps. As I was reading through the different steps, everything seems to make a whole lot more sense. When I was much younger, I remembered very clearly that whenever my teacher taught us, it is always so much easier when I relate it back to my daily life. I remembered one particular Primary School Science question very clearly. She asked us, “What is the temperature of steam?” I did not know the answer to the question at that point of time and shouted out “Room temperature!” After she revealed that the answer is 100⁰C, I really wanted to find out the reason behind it. I remembered then, an incident when I was cooking instant noodles, I accidentally scalded my hand as I was mixing the noodles. These two pieces of information left a deep impression in my heart that till today, I can still remember the temperature of steam.

Mapping out the information that I received helps me to understand how the different topics are related.  A lot of things will be running through your mind when you are jotting down all the information so it is important to list it down and find the common link. Things will then start to fall into place and make more sense. With all the information written down, you will get a clearer idea of the bigger picture. This is an especially useful skill to me considering that my learning style is kinaesthetic learning. When I share this knowledge with my students, I will have a stronger conviction of why learning to draw maps is a very important skill. It not only helps students with similar learning style to learn better, it will also help them to remain alert in class as they will constantly be in motion.

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Even the tallest building in world is made up of uncountable number of small bricks.  Cherish all the small little things in your life because it is these small little things that make up your life. 

A meaningful video to  share with you all. 

I love this line, “In the end, it’s the small thing that you remember, the little imperfections that make them perfect, for you.  Find yourself s partner who is beutifully imperfect to you”

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Are you an Advo kid or an Advo coach?  Have you  forgotten Advo core values or have you never known what are Advo core values?  Let me bring them back to you now!

Advo core values are … … …

DISCOVERY ~ Have you discovered your potential, your passions, your dreams, your values, your strength, your weaknesses and everything about yourself?  Sun Tzu, an acclaimed military strategist once said to know oneself is half the battle won.

EMPOWERMENT ~ You know where you want to go; You have a dream; Have you started equib yourself with all the skills and tools to achieve the success?

GRATITUDE ~ Be grateful.  You will find life is wonderful when you are grateful.  Be grateful for everything you have received in life.  Be grateful for everything you are receiving in life.  Be grateful for what you want in your life, as though you have received it.  Your gratitude will multiply everything in your life.

BALANCE ~ Life is beautiful, wonderful and colourful.  Life is short, fully enjoy different aspect of life.  It is important to balance various aspects of life to live a happy and balanced life.

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Let’s face it, who else but geeks love to take exams? But for the normal people, (unfortunately, the overwhelming majority) exams are things to loathe about being a student. It’s just too hard to concentrate on studying for tests or exams when there’s this new video game you haven’t finished playing yet, or there’s this new band who’s going to be having a concert and you badly want to see them play. In short, there’s just too many distractions that easily can lure you out of studying. But you know what? There are some ways to combat these distractions and if you just do them, you can surely get your chances of passing any of your tests and exams up a lot higher. Curious as to what these things are? Here they are:

First of all, you have to make sure to find your own compelling reason to learn and pass your tests or exams. This is the foundation of an individual’s study habit so it’s needless to say that this is the most important of all the study tips that you can read in this article. Your success will be deeply rooted in your motivation to learn. Many kids at school do not want to be there and can’t be bothered to try which is often times the reason why they fail. However, it does not mean that they are unable to learn, it is just that they have not surrendered themselves to the task at hand. In short, knowing and understanding that people are driven by emotional needs and not logical ones is the key. So once you accept that fact, you have to find a deep emotional reason for achieving success as a student.

Next tip is to plan carefully the way you use your time. Schedule things in such a way that you have a balance of studying, taking breaks and having fun. Balance is the key in having a successful and rewarding life. And the same can be said when you are a student. You could spend every waking hour reading every book you could find and learning everything you could and pass exams easily this way. But it would surely not be a fun ride, this could easily lead to you not having any friends and you would definitely be burnt out and out of balance. In short, there’s nothing wrong with taking breaks and giving yourself some fun as little rewards when you have learned something new for your exams. It is actually vital for your success. This is because it keeps you in balance and gives you a degree of variety that keeps you fresh and alert. Yes having a night out with your friends is good for you – but only if it is as a reward for doing good work and is as part of your overall plan.

Every time before you begin a study session, make sure to warm up by doing some gentle exercise to relieve any tension in your body and to get a rush of healthy oxygen flowing to your brain. To elaborate, there are two things that happen when you physically warm up before studying. First, you get rid of any physical tension that will create stress in the body and mind and secondly, you will get a rush of oxygen to the brain which will help you think more clearly.

You should quickly skim through your text books and study materials before you read them in depth. Why do this? It is to help you get more feel for the contents and give you an overview of the subject you are going to be studying. The whole process shouldn’t take you longer than ten minutes. After that, as you read in greater depth, some of what you have got from the quick skim through will help put into context that information and allow you to make the necessary links in your mind and memory. By doing so, it will often prevent you from getting stuck at any point because you will have a flavour of what is to come later in the book and this added preview can help the understanding of earlier information.

Last but not least, always see to it that you review your notes regularly to reinforce whatever new things you have learned. This is another very simple but really great tip. The experience of most students is that the learning that takes place in the classroom is really an information gathering exercise. If at the end of each day, each week and even each month you quickly scanned what you have learned so far, made a few key notes and then reviewed those notes regularly, you would be amazed at how much you could remember.

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Excuse is something easy to make. There are a lot of different variety of excuses  from the most “lame” or “nonsense” excuses until the most logical excuses. Why do people make excuse? A simple sentence to answer is “Because they miss the target!” Consciously or subconsciously, when people miss the target that they should accomplish, they will think of an excuse to justify what they have done so that the consequence for them will not be  so severe.

I understand that when people miss their target, it will not always be on purpose. Sometimes it is because of certain things that beyond their control, in which we call it by accident or unexpected things such as natural disaster, sudden illness, etc. With this I also agree that not all excuses are unacceptable and lame. Yet, whatever excuse it is, the fact is that the target has been missed, and what’s done is done, but there must be actions taken to rectify the situation.

I am not expert in excuses, but instead of giving excuses, I learn to be honest with myself. I found out that when I started to give excuses for things that I have missed, not only to others but also to myself, it will result in no improvement or maximum is a very small improvement only. When I am being honest to myself, meaning dare to admit my mistake, and commit an action, it will result in at least a significant improvement of the previous situation. When I accept excuse as a justification, subconsciously I will think that I have done nothing wrong as well as there is nothing wrong for missing the target. Honesty is the first step to rectify the situation whereby we admit that it is something that is not supposed to happen and we must do something about it.

During the days when I started to exercise, a friend of mine introduced to me a concept of “mind over body strength” that he got during his army days to help me exercise, whereby even when your body is weak/tired, but if your mindset is there to complete the task, you will not feel the weakness of your body again. I feel that this concept is not only helpful for exercise, but also perfect for our daily work. When our mindset is there, result will definitely show up!

During our journey to achieve our dreams, when we are tired of running, jog… when we are even too tired of jogging, walk… just don’t stop moving! Even when we are walking, we are one step closer to the target! A is easy, let’s do it!

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Everyone is special and unique, yet we share similar interest for instance hobbies, food, fashion etc. These are all simple entry points to communication, perhaps connection between people, be it strangers or friends. What are strangers anyway? Strangers are merely friends we have not met. It may or may not be easy to pin point these entry points, but if one bothers to take notice and break the ice to get to know the person more, it is definitely a step forward.

It never did come across my mind that asking people for help is a way to make friends. It is almost nature to me to not ask people who are not close to me for help, thinking that it may be too cumbersome for them. Little did I know, it is doing them a favour by giving them space to showcase their ‘talents’, thus making them feel powerful and important.

I always recall how good I feel when people give me their best smile and/or remember my name. I know that as I’m feeling this way, others will feel this way too if I were to do the same to them. Talk about making friends, this is the most simple gestures. Talk about customer services, this is the most basic gesture. Such simple gestures are so applicable to our daily lives and we shall start doing so if we haven’t.

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Why do we need goals? We need them so that we know where we want to go towards, right? Without goals, we are basically wandering around in the darkness hoping that we reach the right place. But goals can help us in another way, and that’s being a motivational tool that will give us that boost of energy to work towards them.

If you ask any motivational speaker, one of the key points they will tell you to achieve success is to write down your goals. But wait, there’s more to this story. There is a secret when it comes to goal setting but remember that writing down your goals is not enough to give you that energy boost that you need to achieve success.

Start to dream again, and this refers to the dreams you had when you were little and saying things like wanting to live in a mansion when you grow up, not the kind of dreams that you have when you sleep at night. Dreaming big is not something you should be afraid of because chances are, if you only reach half way if you dream big, then that’s still half way farther than if you didn’t dream at all.

Ok, so let’s talk about your mansion. Writing down a mansion in your Goals list isn’t enough, is it? The details should be written down as well. Determine what kind of architecture it would be. Perhaps you want it to be a fairy tale type castle. Or maybe you would prefer it to be an Italian Villa. How many bedrooms? Having an indoor pool is a great idea as well.

Another secret to goal setting is to find images of some of the things you want so that you can picture them clearly in your mind. Unlike if you were just thinking about the word ‘mansion,’ doing this will give your goals a sense of realism. Find some pictures of Italian Villas or indoor pools or whatever it is that you want and just imagine yourself in there.

You may have a few cars on your list if you are a car guy. Right now, it’s not enough for you to drive your BMW. You can add Porches, more BMWs, and even Ferraris if you want because in order to hit it big, you have to dream big. The colors that you want and all the options that each car provides is what you need to know about. It makes it much more real when you get down to the details.

So, you can start with making a list of your goals but you need to go farther. Attempt getting into the details. So is finding images. Picture yourself owning those items already. Helping you in whatever venture you choose to go with is this kind of thinking.

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I am not yet a father, but by coaching my students I learned a lot how to be a father and a friend at the same time for them. I observed that those students, in their innocence mind, especially for Lower Secondary students, are very sincere and sensitive to actions that we, adults, have done for them.

In term of friendship, they are much more sincere to their friends. Sometimes they get into quarrels and arguments, but I notice that they will forget about it soon, and forget means as like those quarrels have never happened a first. I also observe that when they give something to their friends, they give it “by all means” and without expecting things in return. This kind of sincerity is my first take back from my coaching session with the kids. As an adult, I realize that our mind is often tied to the norm of give and take, means that losing something to get greater things. This is not wrong, in fact this is something that we have to do to invest in our future. We spend our time, money and energy to get bigger things that are our dreams. But the negative impact is that sometimes adult people forget the limit of using this norm, therefore it becomes lack of sincerity. This will cause another “bad impact” if adults do this to children, because they are very sensitive to sincerity. Parents invests in their children education, but at the end they force their children to pursue something which is against their dreams. As a result, the children become not motivated enough to learn, because they know that at the end the success is ONLY for their parents to enjoy. If the parents are sincere enough, they should be proud on their children’ success in the path of their children’ dream.

Lower Secondary students, they are physically teenagers, but they are still children in mind, and as children they are very sensitive to the existence of love and sincerity. When I coach them, they will be able to sense whether I do that sincerely and with love or not. They will be able to sense whether I just coach them for the sake of their future, or just for the sake of doing my duty as a coach. I trust with sincerity, not only it will make good rapport and relation, but with those, it will also produce much better result not only in their grade, but also in their character building.

Realizing the level of sensitivity that the students have, I must keep learning and learning how to be more and more sincere in educating my students and also more and more sensitive to their needs. The students’ success is my success as well, and their happiness is my happiness also, even more. I believe that a small amount of love and care for them will change them a lot positively!

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On July 4, 1952, Florence Chadwick was on her way to becoming the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel. She had already conquered the English Channel.

The world was watching. Chadwick fought the dense fog, bone-chilling cold and many times, the sharks. She was striving to reach the shore but every time she looked through her goggles, all she could see was the dense fog. Unable to see the shore, she gave up.

Chadwick was disappointed when she found out that she was only half a mile from the coast. She quit, not because she was a quitter but because her goal was not in sight anywhere. The elements didn’t stop her. She said, “I’m not making excuses. If only I had seen the land, I could have made it.”

Two months later, she went back and swam the Catalina Channel. This time, in spite of the bad weather, she had her goal in mind and not only accomplished it but beat the men’s record by two hours.

For many of us who are going to take our exams, let us all keep our eye on the ball! Aim and go for that A1! The moment we lose sight of our goal will be the moment we lose the results that we want.

Whether we are students or working adults, this philosophy still applies. The moment we entertain the possibility of attaining our goals and dreams, we will be able to achieve miracles.

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Majority of people have dreams. For instance, many want to be millionaires, and they embark on activities like betting on lottery, being easily attracted to “easy money” job etc, hoping that they will be rich, someday, somehow. How many eventually are?  This Ebook addresses what’s missing in their lives: Plan we shall, and then can us achieve our goals.

However, in my personal opinion, this article doesn’t address the real issue. I do not deny that we need plans to succeed, but what I’m more concerned about is why do we even want to have such goals in the first place? Such is the root to what causes us to want what we want; such is the road to self-motivation.  For instance, some people set money as their goals. But, why do they want money? Many of a time, they are hoping that with money, they can buy happiness, for themselves and the family. Therefore, the root is the yearning for happiness. In knowing, it allows us to trust ourselves, to push ourselves. By setting our intentions, then can we execute these plans to the fullest. Hence, achieve our goals that we set forth.

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A lot of people spend far too much time looking for the perfect opportunity or the perfect timing to do something. Yeah…I know.”Patience is a virtue.” True. But it’s also true that “he who hesitates is lost.” Translation: Get up off of your butt and get it done.

Patience and procrastination are cousins that look a whole lot alike and when people get them confused valuable time and opportunities are lost.

Patience is taking a well-calculated risk. Procrastination is avoiding risk.

Patience is making the time and putting in the effort to learn what to do. Procrastination is being too lazy to make the time and put in the effort to learn what to do.

Patience says, “This will be done by_____.” Procrastination says, “Eh…sooner or later.”

There are countless tips for getting rid of procrastination. Many tips are complicated, but here are three simple ones:

1. Take full advantage of momentum.

Building momentum is a lot easier when you first think of an idea or start on a task. Create some small steps that you can take immediately. These steps will help you measure your progress.

2. Have a sense of last minute urgency all the time.

Have you ever noticed that normally people finish a task just in the nick of time? This is because a task will expand to the allotted time. Think about that.

It seems like a person can have two months to do something and finish it in two days-the last two days before it’s due! Last minute urgency can create an incredible amount of energy, drive, and of course, stress.

3. Weed out worry.

In the “Fog of Worry”, Earl Nightingale provided a good breakdown of what worries most people:

*40% of the things you worry about will never happen.

*30% of the things you worry about couldn’t be changed by all the worrying in the world.

*12% of your worries are needless worries about your health.

*10% of your worries are about petty, miscellaneous things.

*8% of your worries are about real and legitimate concerns.

What all of that means is: 92% of your worrying is a complete waste of time.

In conclusion, here’s one last thing to keep in mind:

Opportunities simply move on to next recipient. They don’t disappear. If an opportunity that comes your way, there’s a good chance that it was an opportunity that someone either procrastinated or passed on. If you pass up on a good opportunity, someone else will take advantage of it.

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THERE is too much information in this world and we can’t know everything. After reading the article about the “Instant Learning”; the ways to learn anything fast and make it last”, I realised that why some of the people take years to learn certain skill and knowledge, but some of the people can actually learn in a faster way and permanently retain any knowledge and skills about any and all subjects.

I have a good example of myself, during the exam period in secondary school time, I have noticed that one of my best friends can always play and enjoy himself in the class while the rest of us were study hard and keep doing assessment book. Something weird happened, very time when we got back our result, I have noticed that he is always the Top 5 in the class. I’m really curious about that, keep thinking that smart people don’t even need to study hard will still get a GREAT result. I started to ask him about his study skill and got him to guide me in learning, here starts our study group. I have noticed that his study skill is totally different from every one of us, he has his own study method, he spotted questions; do research on the different type of questions that set by the examiner, from the questions he started to write down the possible answer in his own notes. WE study together and search for the questions and answer, create our own colourful notes with funny pictures and here starts our relationship…hahaha…it sounds like love story. But the main idea that I want to emphasize over here is the method in learning.

Most of the people study without knowing what they are study for, they have no idea what is the effectively way of learning and permanently retain any knowledge and skills about any and all subjects. Some of the people study by memorizing the facts without understands about the real meaning behind. Learning is not about being smart. It is only about STRATEGY, and once you know the strategies, you can choose to learn anything at any time. Learning how to learn is your key to Instant Learning for a lifetime of learning success.

Let’s discover your preferred learning style (Visual, Auditory, or Kinesthetic) NOW, and ask yourself what style will be used to test your knowledge. Match your learning style (input), memory style (storage), and testing style (output), and learning becomes a breeze.

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Having read the E-book titled A State of Abundance, I couldn’t agree less with “majority of the people are holding on too tight in fearing that they might lose out if they give and share”. Being brought up in Singapore, I personally experienced how it is like in a “kiasu” society where children are brought up in this hedonistic, self-centred, competitive society where one has to strive to survive, often neglecting others. Such upbringing led to a selfish culture where one embraces taking and shuns the art of giving. As such, they have lost the art of giving, which in fact, allows them to gain more than taking it from others.

I personally adore and would like to share this phrase :

Think of yourself surrounded by a mirror. The mirror is round. You send out poison, hatred gossip and selfishness. Whatever you send out is reflected in the mirror, because the mirror is round, everything may be reflected several times before it comes back to you. Everything we give away comes back to us, just not from the direction in which we gave it. It may come back years later and may come back from a completely different person or experience. But they never fail to come back.

So what are you waiting for? Let’s start giving!

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When you enter the exam hall, what is in your mind? What results do you expect you will get in this subject?

Some of you might think: “If I pass the exam, I’m happy already.”

Some might say: “Well, I just want to sustain my previous result. As long as I don’t fail.”

Or, “It will be great if I get an A2, but I think I am not going to make it.”

Or even “I have no idea. Depends on my fate.”

Guess what will a smart student think before he enters the exam hall?

“I WANT TO Get my A1, no matter how tough it is, no matter what it takes from me. I deserved to have my A1!”

In order to get an A1, the first criteria is how confident are you when you enter the exam hall. You must entertain the possibility to get an A1. Only in the right state you can have a calm mind to read the questions carefully and understand what the questions want.

Some students have the habit of asking friends around him what they have revised before entering the exam hall. Will that help you? Definitely no. Reason is when you ask around usually you will find that your friends have studied certain topics but you didn’t. Then you will start to panic. You will start to blame yourself why you forgot to study that topic. You will start to worry if the paper will come out the topic you can’t answer it. Everything becomes wrong. Your mind started to defocus. When you are in the exam hall you can’t read the questions properly. Not careful mistakes started to appear in your answer sheet.

Is that familar to you? It does not help you at all. It will only drive away your focus. You will focus on the place that you don’t want. Based on Law of Attraction, you are sending the negative energy to the universe and attract things that you don’t want. High chance it will happen in front of you.

Therefore, at least 30 minutes before the exam, you should start to prepare your mind to be in the right state for the exam. Tell yourself you are well-prepared for the exam. It does not matter how other people prepare for the exam. Walk into the exam confidently. You are thinking big. As what Anthony Robbin says, your state change your physiology. Your physiology change your energy. And your energy change your results!

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Everybody wants to put in the least amount of effort to get the best result they could get.  However, 99% of the time they will not get the best result they could get.  In fact there is not fixed definition for best result because the best result depends on the quality of what the different individual thinks. 

People who want to put in the least amount of effort to get what they want normally have a limit in their thinking and they normally only achieve mediocre results.  These people are always measuring or gauging the outcome per unit amount of effort they put in.  They think that they need to conserve energy to do some other things!  This simply means they think they have limited amount of energy just like the fossil fuel that will be used uo one day!  Consequently, just like what they think they will in turn have limited amount of energy and they always feel tired when doing work!  Now you know why you always feel tired although you almost sleep 12 hours a day?

Remember, if you think you are weak then you will settle for low quality work.  The best result that you think you could get might be just a C5 or B4.  Subconsciously you will put in the C5 or B4 effort thinking that is the best you could give but in fact you can do much more than that! 

Thus, from now on, always have the mind set that you have infinite amount of energy flowing out from your body and it will overflow if you do not use it.  In fact, this is a true statement.  Human body can do wonders.  Since you have so much energy why not put in 101% in doing everything?  Since you have so much energy why don’t go an extra mile?  Anyway the energy will overflow if you don’t use it, right?

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