ANOTHER MILESTONE IN JUNE 2016

As per our normal practice we are pleased to inform you of another blessed month in June 2016. How lovely and wonderful life is and I hope it is the same for everyone? You reap what you sow and we believe we can play bigger roles in grooming larger magnitude of people to get what they want. We will continuously help others along our journey to thrive for better results. 

On this note, our articles were featured in the 3 local magazines namely Money Compass, Property Insight and Entrepreneur Insight at who-is-an-entrepreneur/ apart from our book review which was published in the Journal of Wealth Management and Financial Planning. I am deeply grateful to Miss Kamini Raja Singgam for given me such an opportunity to publish my article in her esteemed on-line magazine.Thus this help us to achieve another milestone in our history.

                                   

                                          Money Compass Jun-Jul 2016

                                                   

                                                  Property Insight, June 2016

Please obtain a copy of the magazines and journal and tell us more how we can improve further.

We also kicked off several self-developed courses for the year of 2016 which we have announced from our link at http://jamesoh2003.blogspot.my/p/training-programs.html. Please circulate to those you  think can benefit from them.

It has been a while since I last wrote about our journey. The emotions, growth, self-reflection and friendships that have occurred over the years have fueled me to write and update you with our new development.

Many thanks to the people who were part of our life over the years. Thanks to our family for continuing to trust us, all our strategic partners who moved with us through a roller coaster ride, my editor cum partner for believing in the journey and hustling non-stop, the customers for the continued trust in us with their returning visits and our budding entrepreneur friends.

 Stay tune for more exciting stories ahead. I can sense much more blessings coming along and I shall report to you guys as usual, from time to time. To me giving is receiving. The more you give, the more you received.

James Oh

jamesoh2003

Value Creation Specialist 

FINANCE MAVERICK, SPEAKER AND AUTHOR  

THREE IMPORTANT LAWS WE CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO KNOW

The law of consistency: Inspiration gets you going, discipline keeps you growing.

The law of contribution: growing yourself enables you grow others 

The law of trade-offs: in order to go up you have to give up

Do they make sense to you?

SEE MY NEWLY BIONIC EYE

Today June 28, 2016 is another sweet and memorable day to undergo my first laser surgery to remove cataract In my right eye. Journey was smooth and thanks to all the staff at Tun Hussein Onn Eyes Specialist Hospital who have given me their professional and dedicated services. I must say that I have truly received the first class service from all level of staff and give a thumb up for their management.

I recalled the very first day I came in to examine my eyes after I received feedback from my optician that I have cataracts that caused my poor vision last Friday.

Without delay my daughter sent me to the hospital to do the necessary in the next following morning. They took the lengthy process and procedures to ensure that I am fit to undergo such surgery which I patiently abide to all their required procedures.

They took all the effort to give me the earliest feasible slot for me on the following Tuesday as the lens are from US and need minimum two days to be available.

Thereafter, they updated me with messages even on a Sunday that my operation booking date is confirmed and advise me to come this morning at 9 am to wait for the other two patients ahead of me.

By about 1:20 pm  the entire surgery was successfully completed. I fell asleep in the midst of the operation and had no idea what was happening immediately after I heard the voice that the specialist would drop a gel and I suppose to see black Color with my eyes open.

Precaution to be taken during this two weeks

This is really another great experience to go through. Thank God for given me the comfort and peace that calm me with ease,

One thing I am sure is that my faith is gaining strength and I can easily overcome challenge with ease. That is the blessing for being a trainer and speaker who have overcome much greater challenge. For those who know me well that this must come from the above not from me of introvert character.

So have faith that everything is under His control. Whatever happen to us for good reason. I'm sure this instant surgery is meant to strengthen me and definitely not to destroy me. I should celebrate with joy. In short life is ironic. What cannot kill you make you strong. This is another excellent example for me to shift my mind appropriately.

WELL HANDLED CASE

It was a crowded flight and a beautiful lady aged around 40 years boarded the flight as the passenger. She searched for her seat and found her seat was next to a black man.

She showed that she wasn’t in a hurry to take her seat as she found it too hard and awkward to sit next to a black man.

Feeling disgusted, the beautiful lady called the air hostess and asked her to change her seat.

The air hostess requested for a reason why she would like to change the seat.
She replied, “It is impossible for me to sit next to a black man, I hate it! 

The air hostess was shocked to hear these hard words from the one who looked so dignified and composed.
She again demanded her to get her a new seat. The airhostess said she would do so and requested her to wait for a few minutes. 

The air hostess went in search of an empty seat for the lady. The air hostess told the lady, ‘I’m afraid Madam, there is no vacant seat in the economy class and the flight is almost full! However, we do follow the policy to fulfil the desires of our passengers to the maximum extent possible. So, give me a minute, I will check with my captain and get back to you, as we feel it is not fair to force a passenger to have an unpleasant seat!’

The lady waited for a couple of minutes and the air hostess came.

The latter replied, ‘Madam, sorry for this inconvenience. We don’t want to make your journey unpleasant by making you sit next to someone with whom you aren’t comfortable. There is one seat available in the First Class. Although we don’t allow any passenger to move from economy class to first class, to make you a happy customer, we are doing this for the first time in our company’s history. Our captain agreed to shift from economy class to first class.!’

Just before the lady said any word as a reply, the air hostess humbly requested the black man and told him, ‘Dear sir, would you please shift your seat to first class? Please retrieve all your personal items from your seat and our captain would like to move you to first class as we don’t really want you to have an uncomfortable journey sitting next an unpleasant person, with an ugly mind!‘

The lady was quiet and frozen! A few of the fellow passengers were happy and gave huge applause for the flight crew!

Kindly read this awesome story - its little lengthy but truly touching.
Also like to request you  to Fwd to all right-thinking people who detest discrimination based on colour, race, caste and religion.

FAIL EARLY, FAIL OFTEN, BUT FAIL SMART!

At age 5 his Father died.
At age 16 he quit school.
At age 17 he had already lost four jobs.
At age 18 he got married.

Between ages 18 and 22, he was a railroad conductor and failed.
He joined the army and washed out there.
He applied for law school he was rejected.
He became an insurance sales man and failed again.
At age 19 he became a father.
At age 20 his wife left him and took their baby daughter.
He became a cook and dishwasher in a small cafe.


He failed in an attempt to kidnap his own daughter, and eventually he convinced his wife to return home.
At age 65 he retired.
On the 1st day of retirement he received a cheque from the Government for $105.
He felt that the Government was saying that he couldn’t provide for himself.
He decided to commit suicide, it wasn’t worth living anymore; he had failed so much.
He sat under a tree writing his will, but instead, he wrote what he would have accomplished with his life. He realised there was much more that he hadn’t done. There was one thing he could do better than anyone he knew. And that was how to cook.


So he borrowed $87 against his cheque and bought and fried up some chicken using his recipe, and went door to door to sell them to his neighbours in Kentucky.
Remember at age 65 he was ready to commit suicide.
But at age 88 Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Empire was a billionaire.
Moral of the story: Attitude. It's never too late to start all over.

PRO-ACTIVE RECOGNIZE OPPORTUNITY THROUGH CREATIVE THINKING SKILLS

Pro-active Recognize Opportunity Through Creative Thinking Skills

Synopsis: 

To thrive in an uncertain, complex and volatile world, pro-active recognition opportunities through creative thinking lens is a must. The good news is that this skill is learn-able and trainable. This workshop should assist the participants enhance their efforts to systematically find sustainable solutions and learn new ways to recognize new opportunities. Hence, its main intention is to cultivate systematic and scientific thinking to expand the individual’s current knowledge threshold through a series of games and activities. By honing this skill, the individual will be able to internalize with little or no thinking.

Deliverable:

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

1.     Pro-actively recognize opportunities with new lenses of enhancing value from the customer’s perspective in line with the company’s business objectives

2.     Readjust their radar for new opportunity, if necessary.

3.     See the invisible link of the mindset with behavior and culture

4.     Identify key ingredients involved in “creative” thinking cycle

5.     Understand blind spots and mental blocks that inhibit creative thinking

6.     Practice creative thinking through a series of exercises, activities and games

7.     Internalize with creative thinking skill

8.     Use Target Condition to overcome challenges that can expand their individual knowledge threshold

9.     Recognize the importance of using creative thinking for further improvement

10.  Use creative visualization to overcome challenges

11.  Prioritize the core challenges that prevent you to reach your next target condition

12.  Use 5 Whys to iron out the roots cause of the issues

13.  Use matrix to shape their behaviour

14.  Use Value Stream to solve the roots collectively

15.  Define the real cause that is closely associated with value arising from both the internal and external changes

OUTLINE
Day I

Icebreaker

MODULE: 1

Thinking & Innovation

Thinking is a skill

How to cultivate thinking and Innovation?

What are the tools and techniques we can use to develop thinking skill?

Exercise of Spotting Opportunities

Recognise opportunities through 5Rs

What are 5Rs?

How those 5Rs being employed through Innovation Implementation?

Games

MODULE: 2

Causes and Consequences

Seeing the invisible

People, Process and Performance

Outcome and Process

Define Opportunity

Games

Value Stream Mapping

Metric shape behaviour

MODULE: 3

Expand Your Current Knowledge Threshold

Use Moving Target as Direction

Metric measurements

Identify Core Challenges?

List down what are the likely possibilities

How to reach to the next level

Games

MODULE: 4

Thinking, Action & Habit

Understanding deeply about the relationship between the above

Mind our business

Conscious Competencies to Unconscious Competencies

Learn and Grow

Games

MODULE: 5

Mental blocks that prevent Creative thinking

What is creativity

Detailed discussion of those blocks

Blind spots

Bondages

Past Experiences

Exercises

Sum up / Q & A / Discussion

MODULE: 6

Mindset and Attitudes

The following issues will be covered:-

      a.   Problem Solving Skills

      b.   Empty your mind

c.              Pursuit of perfection

d.              Culture of empowerment

e.              Conscious to unconscious competencies

f.                Innovative, multi- dimensional perspectives

g.              Creative Visualization technique

MODULE: 7

Embrace Change

Repetition is the key to mastery

Mastery, Departure and Breakthrough

Games

Sum Up/ Q & A

Key take-back messages

END OF DAY 2