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

SUCCESS

This is what most of us want but it is so loosely used and many times the real true meaning becomes confusing, unclear and misleading to certain extent. People are constantly finding quick and easy ways to attain it without being able to sustain it. That’s may be the reason why many people enter into rat race. How many of you agree with my humble view? Worst still, its meaning becomes subjective and everyone is trying to give its meaning at their individual’s convenience.  Consequently, it seems impossible to accurately measure the level of success. This issue forms our central discussion of this article?

To measure our progress/of success accurately, first we need to ascertain where is our starting point? It is also the best practice to begin with the end in our mind. Then use our vision and strategy as our means to reach our ultimate end. In this instance, our ultimate end, in the long run, is vague due to our BIG DREAM to achieve perfection  may sometimes seem impossible to achieve.

However, its main function is to serve as an inspiration to help us move forward. What is clear and important is for us to attain or accomplish our immediate target. To move to the next level of success, we need to overcome our immediate obstacles along the journey. These obstacles arise mainly due to our current knowledge threshold and unknown factors surrounding us.

Consequently, we have no choice but to carry out initiatives that can accurately ascertain what are the unknown, based on our testing and not based on our assumptions gathered through our past experiences or bondages. To remove these biases, we need to truly know who we are and effectively solve our immediate obstacles that prevent us from going to our next target condition. In other words, we need to discover what the real issues that we are currently facing before we can overcome them effectively even if it is from our own blind spots. Otherwise, it will haunt us again and again until the real issue is solved.

By now, trust you are able to see the issue of purely relying on our underlying assumptions which may not be true in the new situation. In the nutshell, it is difficult to see our own blind spot. The only way is to carry out experiments to determine the scientific outcome we want before we can then truly reach our next level of success.

By then, the next plan need to be drawn and our next obstacles which are likely to be different from what we initially encountered. Through experiment again we test our assumptions and gather feedback, check and study them again. Finally, we will then decide to adjust or adapt to the new situation. The similar process will be used continuously to improve until perfection is achieved.

For illustration purpose, I use my 3Bs’ business model which I began with Blog at my late 40s. That formed my tangible product to carry out my experiment based on my hypothesis that I can produce what the market’s needs and requirements at that material time.

ABILITY

I have successfully overcome the numerous challenges and managed to get my blog alive and spread it widely to reach my audiences all over the globe. I then move to my next target condition to publish my Book after I successfully overcome many different and new obstacles. Fortunately, my faith and passion truly pull me over all the obstacles to get my first eBook, Better Than The Best, out few years ago. My subsequent books were produced with greater ease as I have expanded my knowledge threshold. The ability is built by doing or practicing it frequently. That’s the way I build my second habit. Previously I always focus on mastering on numbers which help me to understand its story beyond the numbers as I was in the corporate world for nearly 30 years. Now, I stay focus on mastering words and combining my strength of using both numbers and words to make my life more enlightening.

INSPIRATION

In order for me to reach out to a wider audience, I need to overcome new obstacles of getting more publishers in different segments to publish my articles regularly and establish myself in my new and upcoming trade. To keep my inspiration high at all material times, I need to constantly shift my mind to view things at its appropriate perspective to keep me moving forward. In this manner, I do not have to bother much how people look at me. To me, it is far more important for me to see how far I have reached and what I need to do in order for me to head closer to my vision. That is to be who I want to be. I used reflection practice to measure my real improvement by connecting the missing dots backwards. I will then fulfill the true outcome and my achievement in term of numbers of my published books, articles, training programs and networking I had built over these years.

DIRECTION

I trust you are able to see direction is far more important than determination and dedication. We need direction to guide us to moves towards our intended goal. I then realized that I need to expand my current knowledge horizon to cater for next level of height before I can overcome my next bigger challenges. This is the way to acquire a growth mindset, which is the greatest assets within us. This growth mindset enables us to strengthen our health and wealth. However, every successful person needs to pay a price, in term of sacrifices, hard works and perhaps pains and endurance. By adopting the appropriate mindset, we can truly enjoy every moment at each and every stage as it gives you different sensation which is far beyond words.

It is worth for you to walk through the journey yourself to taste this self-fulfillment and satisfaction. To master any skill, we need to basically put it into practice regularly until it becomes part of us and becomes habitual. Knowing is not sufficient, you need to do it. By doing it regularly and you will condition your brain to automatically trigger with no or little thinking.  

In short, I have discovered my new profound formula which can truly measure your success with scientific way and can be even sustained with certainty, as follow:-

S    =   A x I x D

Where as

S =Success
A = Ability
I = Inspiration
D = Direction

INDEBTED TO ALL THESE GREAT MENTORS