Tony Robbins Featured in Success Magazine
By Jacklyn | December 15, 2008
I subscribe to many personal development blogs and websites for my personal reading pleasure. Today, the magazine cover of the Success Magazine (January 2009 issue) caught my attention…
“Unleashing the Power – Tony Robbins” ~ Helping people reach their greatest potential. Indeed, Tony Robbins has helped millions remove mental barriers to live extraordinary lives. After reading , I can’t help but want to share some of his quotes:
“The bottom line is that people have within them a force that is so powerful, there is nothing that can keep them from doing, being, sharing, creating and giving whatever they envision in life, …”
“I’d tell anyone that if you’re going to change your life, you have to:
1. Decide what you will no longer stand for and what you’?re committed to. Clarity is power.
2. Take massive action. You have to be willing to do the things you don’t want to do. You have to build a momentum that consistent action produces.
3. Notice what’s working and what’s not working. And when it’s not working, change your approach. And keep changing until you finally achieve what it is you’re committed to.”
“Life is not about success or failure; it’s about meaning. It’s about the interpretation we give to each event in our life—and not the event itself. Meanings are shaped by what we believe and what we value”
“The secret to life is threefold. It’s to understand what season of life you’re in, to understand what season the world is in, and to figure out how to take advantage of it. I teach everyone in my seminars how to find the season they’re in, which is different for everyone, and to take advantage of it. That’s the secret to experiencing an extraordinary life.”
Enjoy personal development… embrace growth!
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The Healing Power of Pets – Scientific Research
By Jacklyn | December 14, 2008
In the past 15 years, scientists the world over have established beyond doubt the therapeutic value of animal companions. In Cambridge, England, researchers discovered that, within a month of taking a cat or dog into their home, new owners reported a “highly significant” reduction in minor ailments.
The Baker Medical Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, showed that the health benefits were more far-reaching still. A study of some 6000 patients revealed that those with pets had lower blood pressure, a lower cholesterol level and, as a result, a diminished risk of heart attack. And American researchers have established that, even after a heart attack, pet owners are more likely than other coronary patients to be alive a year later.
The reasons are simple, experts say. Pets help us reduce our state of arousal, which reduces blood pressure. We are fulfilling our most primitive and basic need – the need to touch.
Dr Yokoyama Akimitsu, head of the psychiatric unit at Kyosai Tachikawa Hospital in Tokyo, says pets can also help us by making us feel less lonely, by creating a feeling of being needed and by encouraging social contact with others interested in animals. They are also a stimulus for healthy exercise, keep us busy and make us feel safe.
When an earthquake devastated the Japanese city of Kobe in January 1995, thousands of people had to be housed in halls and gymnasiums. Despite rules barring animals from public buildings, officials let people bring their pets. “It was an eye-opening experience for everyone,” says Dr Gen Kato, president of the Japanese Animal Hospital Association. “People who had pets were clearly more happy and coped better with the disaster.”
Medical establishments in Asia are increasingly recognising the value of animal companions. An animal-therapy programme run by the Japanese Animal Hospital Association has over 900 volunteers who take their dogs, cats and other animals into 160 hospitals, children’s homes and retirement centres through-out the country each month. A similar scheme in Hong Kong, “Doctor Dog,” has spread to the Philippines, Taiwan and mainland China.
Certainly, the value of companion animals is obvious to anyone who witnesses an animal-therapy programme in action. At the first “Doctor Dog” session in China, the group’s founder, Jill Robinson, watched with the vice-mayor of Beijing, local of-ficials and nursing staff as hospital patients were introduced to the dogs. One young girl with Down’s syndrome, who was extremely shy of strangers, nervously approached. Within minutes she was stroking the dogs and laughing. At the end of the session she sang to the vice-mayor. “She’s never done anything like this before,” the girl’s mother told Robinson.
Health professionals have started to recognise the fact that pets do more than pills for the elderly. A Japanese Animal Hospital Association study of people over 65 found that pet owners made up to 30 per cent fewer visits to doctors than those who had no pet.
Dr John Wedderburn, a Hong Kong-based animal welfare campaigner and medical practitioner, says: “We all crave affection, but sometimes we find we have difficulty obtaining it from other people. Companion animals provide friendship, constancy and love. They’re always there, always happy to see you.”
Children with mental or physical handicaps have an especially strong bond with animals. A cat named Manis is a favourite in an animal-therapy programme at Selangor Cheshire Home’s Community-Based Rehabilitation Programme, which cares for disabled people. Children who have trouble walking make astonishing efforts to maintain their balance so they can play with him; those whose heads loll uncontrollably from side to side work to maintain eye contact. “It’s very therapeutic,” says Puan Khatijah Sulieman, who runs the home. “The children have an animal they can love, and they feel loved in return.”
In Britain, some prisons now encourage inmates to keep pets – caged birds, tropical fish, even cats. These can be a magical ingredient to bring about long-term changes in attitudes and behaviour, with prisoners often finding out for the first time what it’s like to give and receive affection.
For some people, animals can provide more consistent emotional support than humans. A Warwich University, England, study found that people who are poor at confiding in others, showing love or making friends were able to lavish affection on a pet.
In Hong Kong, Sue Rogers, a former psychology student at Hong Kong University, found that mentally disabled adults became more outgoing and displayed more initiative when “Doctor Dog” animals visited them three times a week.
An intriguing discovery is that some dogs can predict epileptic seizures, apparently by detecting subtle changes in their owners. Andrew Edney, a British veterinarian, studied 37 pet dogs that reacted to their owners’ impending fits. Some became anxious or restless; others nuzzled their owners, stood guard over them or ran to fetch people.
A Briton, John Stoddart, is epileptic and asthmatic. Before he took Bruno, a Jack Russell terrier, into his home, there was the ever-present fear that he would have a seizure and choke on his tongue while unconscious. “But with Bruno around, I know I’ll be safe.”
When the dog jumps up at him and gives what Stoddart describes as “a wimpish yap,” he knows he has ten to 15 minutes to lie down on the floor in anticipation of a fit. “I’ve lost count of how often he has saved me from serious injury or worse.”
Whether we pamper our pets or depend on them, few of us would quarrel with the World Health Organisation’s pronouncement that companion creatures bring us immense benefits. But for some, this comes as a revelation.
Article was published on Aug 2000 Asia edition Reader’s Digest.
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The Healing Power of Pets – Life Story 2
By Jacklyn | December 10, 2008
Shirley Cheung was initially opposed to her daughter, Alice, bringing a dog into their Hong Kong flat, saying she wouldn’t have the time or patience to look after a pet. But when Alice bought a Yorkshire terrier, Shirley warmed to the friendly and playful animal and soon bought a second dog, a Maltese terrier.
A few years later, after Alice had moved out with the dogs, Shirley’s husband died. Grieving and alone, Shirley rarely left the flat. Concerned for her mother’s wellbeing, Alice moved back into the family home, bringing the dogs with her. When Alice went to work, Shirley spent much of her time looking after the animals – fixing their favourite meals, playing with them and grooming them. Playing mother to the dogs, she says, helped her to overcome the pain of her husband’s death.
Alice has since returned to her own flat. But she takes the dogs to stay with Shirley two or three days a week. Echoing the sentiments of many pet lovers, Shirley says the dogs have given her boundless joy and love. “My life is so much better now, thanks to the animals.”
*Story was published on August 2000 Asian edition Reader’s Digest.
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The Healing Power of Pets – Life Story 1
By Jacklyn | December 9, 2008
Lim Hong-aun was severely depressed. A schizophrenic in his mid-40s, he had spent almost half his life in mental hostels in Singapore and Malaysia. Living in a hostel in Ipoh, he barely spoke to anyone and spent long periods lying in his room.
Then Dr M. Mahadevan, newly appointed head of Lim’s hostel, decided that many of his patients would benefit from visiting his neighbouring horse farm. Caring for horses, the doctor reasoned, might help long-institutionalised patients open up and interact with the outside world.
Lim was initially reluctant to leave the hostel, let alone go near horses. But with encouragement from the hostel staff, he began grooming, watering and walking the animals.
Before long, Lim started talking to the horses, telling them his troubles. He would smile when a horse nudged him for more food or acknowleged his presence with a whinny. Gradually, the contact with the animals encouraged Lim to open up to people. For the first time, he started talking to staff at the hostel.
Lim eventually moved to a nearby halfway house, where he continued to receive care but was free to come and go, then took a job helping to run Mahadevan’s home in Kuala Lumpur. “Hong-aun’s life has improved dramatically,” Mahadevan says. “There’s no question the horses brought him out of his withdrawn state.”
Story was published on August 2000 Asia edition Reader’s Digest.
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The SMART Seminar
By Jacklyn | November 24, 2008
At last, I settled down to enjoy more of the SMART seminar photos. It does brings me back to the wonderful time I had in Kuala Lumpur, moving around together with the speakers’ team. Eating, shopping and drinking together… When I read about them from the internet and see their photos before meeting them personally, I always wonder what kind of lifestyle these millionaire gurus live. Do they sit right in front of their computers all day long? Are they themselves another ‘computer’? How hard they have worked to be who they are today? Proud? Friendly??
Well, after a few days of interaction with them, they have convinced me how friendly, warm, caring and genuine they are. They enjoy life as much as anyone else, if not, even more. It is truly what this statement mean: It is who you must become first, before earning those millions you desire.
Does successful people really work that hard? I guess so. But working hard alone will not lead to success. What I see in them is really the right name chosen for this event – SMART! Though the name S.M.A.R.T represent Systems, Marketing, Alliances, Revenue and Traffic (the main fundamental elements for an internet business success), I bet thinking and working in the smart way will definitely bring us faster and closer to our online success.
I think one of the fastest way to reach our online success is through mentoring or coaching programs. Have you sign up any program offered by this spectrum of successful speakers? Most of them flew many hours to reach us here! One of my friend has signed up 3 coaching programs and is still considering the 4th one! My SuccessNetworkingTeam has signed up 3 programs (I got to know only after my return from my training camp!).
Congratulations to all who has taken the first step (or another step, for some) to our online success! If you’ve missed this year’s SMART seminar, too bad. Make sure you get yourself a ticket for SMART 2009. The end of the SMART seminar 2008 only means that it is the beginning of our plans with massive actions. I believe with the correct attitude and commitment to our own success, many will bcome the testimonial stories of SMART 2009!
Here are some of my proud photos with these outstanding successful speakers.
Anik Singal is most known for having created Affiliate Classroom, a multi-million dollar web-based marketing education company focused on teaching others how to succeed on the internet with their own internet business.
Lee and Robin Collines are top promoters, affiliate managers and business strategists. Created their own line of products on various online and offline business models, Hybrid Marketing and associated time-proven, profit-certain techniques.
Lee Colins and Jacklyn.
Stuart Tan is Singapore foremost licenced NLP trainer and peak performance specialist.
Best selling author of 4 books: Secrets of Internet Millionaires, secrets of eBay Millionaires, Secrets of Millionaire Students and Master Your Mind, design Your Destiny. Stuart interviewed dozens of millionaire internet marketers all over the world, and utilized that knowledge to generate for him a six-figure revenue from online sources alone.
Donna Fox is best selling author of From Credit repair to Credit Millionaire. Donna gives you the tools and insight to see how to impact women in your marketing and get them interested in your products and services without the hype that will have them clicking away before even considering buying from you.
Robert Puddy ~ “Sales is about meeting people and building relationships.”
Mike Morgan was involved in a 7-figure buyout for his online website in 2001. Known as “Million Dollar Mike” after his first mega-successful million dollar, he’s a world class marketer, product creator, coach and consultant.
Simon Leung made headlines after he left Google as an Editorial Specialist. He had set up most of the Google Adwords accreditation program. In his first year in business, Simon built a half a million dollar company, and hit the million dollar mark shortly into his second year in business.
Ewen Chia is a world famous and highly-respected marketer. he is often called upon for his ingenious marketing advice – especially in the areas of business integration, profit leverage, product creation and online branding. He is widely known as “World’s #1 Super Affliate” and his name is synonymous with affiliate Marketing.
Mark Widawer is an Internet Marketer, Traffic Conversion specialist, Google Adwords qualified professional, and successful ebook author. Mark is best known for his best selling ebook, the Landing Page Cash Machine, which brings the mystery of website sales and traffic conversion to the masses. He is also the creator of The Million Dollar Template Landing Page Template System, and the List Power course on list building.
Andy Huang has extensive years of professional experience in online & retail channel marketing. Andy now devotes his time teaching internet Marketing, PPC, SEO strategy and brand development consultation for online and offline businesses.
That’s right… that is my POE coaches team and Success Networking Team. (from right to left) Kit Tay, Jacklyn Ker, Poh Eng, Xinyi Chen, Joel Yeo, Oliver Tan, shawn Soo and Wei Ping. Oops.. where is Lois, Mike, Joe and Adelene??
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First Light
By Jacklyn | November 23, 2008
Have you catch the latest play by Toy Factory Productions Ltd ~”First Light”~ at The Esplanade?
E.Excel Singapore being one of the premium sponsors of the play, invited all E.Excel Ambassadors and committee members to enjoy this play after our new product launch today. All of us were carrying high spirit after our beloved founder and president, Dr. Chen, shared with us her new research on Nutritional Immunology.
Back to “First Light”. The whole play takes about 1 hour 40 mins. Throughout the whole show, I was fully captured by the story and the performers. Plenty of humour along the way and yet I teared a few times on different scenes. A play I would strongly recommend if you cannot answer this question at this moment of your life: “What is the most significant moment in your life?”…
Synopsis: If all the world’s a stage, what scene of your life would you offer as a last encore?
Trapped in a limbo between existences, seven deceased Singaporean are reading their own obituaries. A postman, a teacher, a grassroot leader, a businesswoman, an actress, a taxi driver and his wife – seven elderly strangers with little in common in Life, now find themselves together as they face the greatest adventure of their lives ~ DEATH. Before this wait is over, they must each revisit, relive, re-enact the most significant moment in their life. Only then can they move on.
At turns funny and profoundly-moving, “First Light” is a thought-provoking new devised play that invites you to step beyond the veil to discover how sometimes, it is only after death that you really begin to live.
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Learn NLP: Character Instead Of Cash
By Jacklyn | November 22, 2008
Article by Stuart Tan ~ Licensed NLP Trainer
Do you desire financial freedom and fame? If you do, I have news for you. NLP can help you model after those successes! However, you might have a lot of catching up the, not just in financial success, but also in terms of knowing where you are where you ought to go. If you’re one of those people who have great financial success, but are complete jerks, don’t read this. I have people whom I care about whom I want to succeed, not you.
So guys… you want success. Yet, some people have great financial success but are these blamers, whiners and complainers. They are rich in cash, but poor in character. Somehow, these morons seem to get away with it, don’t they? It seems somewhat unfair, that they have it and you don’t.
If you are hardworking, honest, and have a sense of responsibility in the things that you do, all it takes is a little fire and passion and drive you toward greater success. I think these are the things that are necessary for you to forge ahead and build any kind of success that you want. But you must be willing to take the hits.
The worst thing that can happen for you is that you ONLY take credit for everything that goes right, and fail to improve from the things that don’t go right. Take responsibility. When I mean responsibility, I’m really talking about the ability to take charge of one’s own decisions, instead of blaming someone else and making excuses. If you don’t achieve something, for heaven’s sake don’t blame anyone else for it.
You need to learn this. Responsibility is one of the most important key facets in NLP. I found that accepting responsibility actually allows yo to develop a greater sense of learning through feedback.
So, if you’re not wealthy yet, take responsibility!
If you don’t have a great family yet, take responsibility!
If people don’t like you yet, take responsibility!
If you were made bankrupt… (the list goes on, by the way)
Learn something from it.
Once you take a look inside yourself instead of outside of yourself and looking for something to blame, you’ll find that there’s a lot more that you can do to grow as a human being. You become more fulfilled, and experience a greater sense of lightness so that things get better in all aspects of your life.
The basic strategy for taking responsibility is to observe all comments, a visual stimulus, or any other form of sensory feedback and process that by asking the question: “what could I do to improve this?”
The moment you ask this question, it presumes that you already have a clear enough outcome. For most people, the outcome is unclear. You definitely want to have some clarity of your outcomes in order to know how to exactly improve. Once you’re there, you can activate resources that lead you to where it is that you need to go.
I certainly hope that you focus on character instead of cash, wisdom instead of fame, integrity instead of blame. I know that once you’re there, it will definitely help you to make yourself as cash rich and famous as you choose to be.
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