Trainer, public speaker.
CEO, Leader, Expatriate.
Women: Graceful, wise, gentle, supportive, independent, pro-active, kind.
Wine, land, properties.
Audi A5
Your Worth
Before an audience of nearly 10,000 people. Gary, a platform speaker,held out a crisp 50 dollar bill and asked them,
“Who would like to have this 50 dollar bill?”
Hands started to go up everywhere.
“I’m gonna give this bill to one of you.” he said.
“But first, let me do this..”
He proceeded to crumple up the bill, then he asked,
“who still wants it?”
The same hands went up in the air.
Well, he continued,
“what if I do this?”
He dropped it on the ground, and started grinding it onto the floor with a shoe.
He picked it up. All crumpled.. and dirty.
“Now. Who still wants it?”
Again. Hands went into the air.
“You have all learnt a valuable lesson” Gary said.
“No matter what i do to the money. You still want it. Because it doesn’t decrease in value. It is still worth 50 dollars.”
Gary’s simple illustration underscores a profound point. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the dirt by the decisions we have made, or the circumstances that have come our way. We may feel as though we are worthless. Insignificant in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. But no matter what has happened, or what will happen. We never lose our value as human beings. Nothing can take that away. Never forget that.
The year i was homeless
Becky Blanton planned to live in her van for a year and see the country, following the death of her father. It all turns out well until her freelance job ended, and depression set in. Her camping trip turned into homelessness. In this intimate talk, she describes her experience of becoming one of America’s working homeless.
Why you do what you do, and how you can do better
Tony Robbins discusses the “invisible forces” that motivate your actions — and high-fives Al Gore in the front row.
Towards and Away Values
Towards Values
Freedom
Control
Respect
Happiness
Vitality
At Your Age..
Feel like you’re underachieving for your age? Well, at your age so did these 5 guys… and now they’re killin’ it
SIMON COWELL, At your age of 30…
” Although he grew up in the privileged home of a wealthy real estate agent and music executive, Cowell had trouble in school. In fact, after attending — and sometimes being thrown out of — several schools he finally chose to drop out when he was 16.
When Cowell was in his late teens and early 20s he could be found drifting in and out of college and working a number of humble jobs. It was then that his father, an executive at EMI Music Publishing, managed to secure him a job as a clerk in the mail room. This is where he remained until the early ‘80s and founded E&S Music and later, Fanfare Records.
At this stage of his life, Cowell was hardly earning the estimated $45 million a year that he pulls in today. A few years after founding the record label, the mother company for Fanfare folded and forced his label to close down. At age 30, the future king of the harsh critique was so broke that he had to file for bankruptcy and he landed back at home living with mom and dad.
If you only audition in front of Simon Cowell, you’re doing better than he was at your age.”
Click the link below to read the rest of the article, next in line is RALPH LAUREN, At your age of 28…
1 in 100
1.26 is the percentage of millionaires in Singapore in 2009, if you divide the 61,000 individuals with assets in excess of 1 million dollars excluding house, cars and collectibles, over singapore population of 4,839,400.
We have probably the highest millionaire per capita in the world.
The median annual income of per household in 2009, according to salary.sg, stands at $52,350.
Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man
Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value — and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life.
Inside the minds of the superefficient
Lessons from 16 super-efficient and highly-productive entrepreneurs including Caterina Fake of Hunch and Flickr:
Click link: America’s Most Productive CEOs.
“If I think something is going to take me an hour, I give myself 40 minutes. By shrinking your mental deadlines, you work faster and with greater focus.”
Krissi Barr is the founder of Barr Corporate Success, a business consulting firm in Cincinnati.
People Die, People Live.
You don’t fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.
People die. That is the essential truth that you learn. And after you learn it, all other matters seem irrelevant. They just seem small.
But there is another truth, too. People live. It’s an equal and opposing truth. People live, and in the most remarkable ways. When you open your eyes and see, you’ll see more beauty and triumph and truth in a single day than you ever did.
Ideas Worth Spreading 