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As society gets more and more busy, we realize that we are constantly pressured to do more and more in lesser time. Sometimes when we look at the end of each week, we notice that we have put in so much time at work but did not know where it went? Where did it all go and was it worth it?

As a results oriented individual, I’m always experimenting different ways to make myself more productive and efficient. I do not want to just simply put in more hours at work but rather, seek to make better use of the time that I have.

Here are the 54 no frills way of improving your productivity right now!

Habits

1. Hermit Time. You need to allocate a time slot where you will totally be undisturbed and being incommunicable (just like a hermit).

2. Momentum is key! Remember that there is always momentum when you work. It is very important to ensure that the momentum is not disrupted by other things, e.g. phone calls, checking emails, people stopping by to talk to you and etc. Once the momentum is lost, it will take some time to get it back.

3. I-can’t-see-you. Turn off anything that distracts, i.e. Instant messengers, TV, newspapers, facebook, twitter and etc.

4. Stop multi-tasking. There is a white paper that says that it makes you stupid, impatient and reduce your concentration ability. Doing one thing at a time also makes you focused to accomplish a task quickly and to high standards.

5. Stop being a perfectionist. You can take whole day to ensure that small little things are in order, but is that effective?

6. Say “NO”. Taking more things doesn’t make you more focused or effective if you are already struggling with the amount of things to do. There are always more things to do, but it should not be done at the expense of what is the main purpose of your job.

7. Performance Reviews. Conduct self evaluations at the end of each day and ask how you would have done it better.

8. Maximizing “On the go time”. When you are traveling, can you listen to a CD or MP3s to educate yourself?

9. Buzzword is Effectiveness. Remember that activity does not mean accomplishment. You can be doing a lot of things and running around in circles. Strive to be effective first before being efficient.

10. Effectiveness Percentage. Calculate your Efficiency percentage= [ (Time doing Real Work¹) / (Time spent at work²) ] x 100%. Where ¹ is the amount of time you actually spend doing real work, while ² is the office hours you put in. You will be wise to improve efficiency percentage by maximizing your time.

11. Invest in yourself. Read, attend courses or seminars that will make you think faster, make better decisions and improve your gut feel for things.

12. Avoid information overload. Today’s society tends to give us too much information about things that we rarely use. Unsubscribe yourself from websites or reduce reading newspaper content. Read only relevant ones that impact you.

13. Schedule Pit Stops. Even a high performance car in the F1 needs to enter a pit stop to refuel and change tires. They do it so that they will continue running at an optimum speed. You need  your rest so that you can carry on working better.

F1 cars getting a tune up before they race

Daily organization

14. Plan ahead. Create a task list of things to do by the morning. Put check boxes next to them so that it will encourage you to complete them.

15. Finish by 12pm. Do the important tasks as quickly as possible before lunch time.

16. Schedule dailies. If you set aside time on a task or habit, you will tend to finish the long waited book, losing weight or learn an entirely new sport.

17. Spell Deadlines. Give yourself deadlines to everything you do. Remember that deadlines are spelled as deadlines, not datelines. Cross the line and you are dead.

18. Break-up. Break up huge tasks into smaller sizes. This prevents procrastination and getting lost in the immensity of a task. Finishing small bite sizes of work tends to be much easier to manage.

19. Peg time limits to each task. This prevents you from using too much time to finish a task.

20. Keep files for everything. This will prevent you from looking around for lost documents.

21. Prioritize your work. What is urgent may not always be important.

22. Ignore doing, if possible. Before you do anything, ask yourself if you really need to do it? Sometimes the consequences of not doing anything may be acceptable. There are some things that do not even need to be done.

23. P-Cycle. Decide when your most productive time is. There are personal cycles of productivity and you should schedule your most important tasks at that time.

24. Batch your work- If you batch your work into chunks, it might be easier to manage. Think of all the functions of your job scope and complete it a chunk at a time, e.g. make phone calls, run errands or clear administrative work.

25. Be like e good chef. Before a chef cooks, he has all the ingredients laid out before him already. Gather all the resources and tools before you start to work.

26. Cross-pollination. Bring good ideas or best practices from other industries and ask if they can be applied to yours as well.

Emails

27. Stop excessive emailing checking: Check your emails only twice or at maximum three times a day. Excessive checking of emails tends to make you waste time.

28. Act on all emails immediately: Do it by deleting or replying to them. Do not try to read an email first and then decide to reply later. This makes you waste time in re-reading emails.

29. Short and sharp. Reduce the length of emails so that other people do not find it too daunting to read and you will also save time in the process of crafting it as well.

30. Boilerplate. Use them for frequent questions or repetitive proposals. Boilerplates are essentially templates to typical questions or proposals without having to constantly reinventing the wheel.

31. Craft subject lines clearly. Since most people decide to open emails based on subject lines, it is important that you need to write relevant and descriptive subject lines.

32. Number your points. It helps to ease reading and guide others to reply according to your points.

Communication

33. Quick Chat. Strive for the quickest and most effective way of communication. A one minute conversation one-to-one phone call can deliver the better results than you making a lengthy reply through emails or Short Messaging Service (SMS).

34. Clarity of speech. Be clear on your thoughts and purpose for every conversation. Most people don’t communicate well because they do not know what they want to achieve from every conversation. Communication is considered effective only when the recipient receives your intended meaning.

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Meetings

35. Do I need to be there? Always ask if you really need to attend the meeting before hand. Some meetings are just for information and you can just read the minutes after the meeting.

36. Agendarise everything. Ensure there is an agenda in all meetings. This is to make meetings purposeful and clear.

37. Time Limit. Decide that you will end the meeting at an appointed time. This helps reduce unnecessary conversations.

38. Homework. Before you do anything new, consider talking to people first. You can save precious time from avoiding mistakes that other people have committed.

Work Environment

39. Conducive Environment. Maintain a work environment that encourages you to work. Distractions from people or a messy table might affect you. Think through about what items need to be close/far from you to encourage you to work better.

40. Adequate Lighting. Ensure that there is enough lighting to avoid eyestrains.

41. Good ergonomics. Ergonomics is defined as the science of measurement and a person’s relationship to it. You should have good posture in everything you use. This includes desk, height of computer, distance of the computer from your eyes, your feet resting comfortably flat on the floor and etc.

Outsourcing or Delegation

42. Value Generation. Consider out-sourcing or delegating part of your work out if you feel that it does not bring generate the most value for your company. Can part timers or personal assistants help? Anything repetitive can usually be outsourced easily.

43. Need a freelancer? You can outsource your work (almost anything can be done there) to professionals from other countries at a reasonable price. Try elance.com or getafreelancer.com.

44. Hire good people and get out of their way. Be clear on their job descriptions and how they add value to the company. Coach them to succeed and empower them to make decisions so that they can improve your company’s effectiveness.

Personal motivation

45. Hang out. Stick with people who inspire you to take positive action in life. Identify friends or colleagues that inspire you to take massive action to improve your life. I’m sure that if you were to hang around with Bill Gates, Warren Buffet or Steve Jobs, you will want to do something significant with your life!

46. Get pumped up. Staying motivated is extremely important in getting you to complete long duration tasks. Realise what keeps you motivated and constantly remind yourself of it.

47. Mantra Mantra. Recite “Do it now” again and again until you are too tired to hear another time and get it done.

48.Get a personal mentor or coach. They will help you identify your blind spots and coach you to overcome them and focus on what you do best.

49. Reward yourself. Give yourself a reward when you achieve certain milestones in your work. This will give you incentive to work harder the next time.

50. Practice makes permanence. The more time you spend in doing something, the better you become. This reduces the amount of time to do it again. Hey, being good at something also pays well too!

Computer Techniques

51. Better software skills. Consider upgrading your software skills and learn short-cuts and hot keys to finish a task faster.

52. Email consolidation. Programs like Gmail has the ability to consolidate several email addresses into a main account. This means that you can avoid logging into too many email accounts and asking yourself if your email is placed in which account.

53. WPM. Improve your typing speed (measured in Words Per Minute). Secretaries to learn how to touch type (which means typing without looking at keys) and tend to be faster than anyone else. You can type faster by memorising the keyboard and using all your fingers.

54. Use updated tools. Ensure that the software and hardware tools are all updated so that they can function at an optimum speed. A computer with a good processing speed and internet connection speed is essential to ensure that it does not impede your work.

PS: If you have new ideas that you think should be included in this blog post, do leave your comments here. Do share about which one above you feel resonates within your soul.

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There is one trait that totally sets successful people apart from the rest of the other people. This one trait made them rise above the rest and is very well respected by many people. What is it?

The trait that I am talking about is Single-mindedness. All successful people know what they want in their hearts, are very purposeful and single minded in reaching their aspirations. Few people actually know what they want, fewer people actually stay true to their purpose. They get caught up with many other things in life that they lose sight of what really matters and give-in to everything that shouts for their attention.

Why be single-minded and focused? Let me share with you reasons why you cannot afford not to do it:

1. It keeps us disciplined.
The ability to say “NO” to the distractions around you and being clear to move forward is extremely important. This helps you to be focused and clear the clutter on what inattention brings. We also become very purposeful in setting aside time to what’s most important and continue to see it through. It is my firm believe is that you can only say NO when you have a clear strategy/purpose.

2. It yields results.
Being single-minded is not being inflexible, but knowing that you have very clear on the end goals. When I first started my business in training, I wanted to do everything. I started training in eight different topics and this got me nowhere. Much later, I understood the importance of concentrating in being the best I could be and I literally struck off many programs to just concentrate in two core areas; motivation and teambuilding. The results were astonishing! I started to be noticed by magazine writers, newspapers and even was had the chance to speak and train in six different countries around Asia. You need to hold on to your firm convictions and not be easily swayed. Keep working on it and find out how to make it work!

3. It pays well.

Jim Collins, in his book, Good to Great, highlights how companies moved to greatness by just perfecting what they are good at. Their generated cumulative stock returns from end 1975 to 2000 outperformed the market by 15 times, beating great companies such as GE, Coca-Cola and Intel. By just concentrating in relocating all their stalls into convenient locations, using clustering methods (sometimes up to nine stores in a mile), drive through pharmacies and even high margin photo processing services, they increased the profit per customer visit. More convenience led to more customer visits and when multiplied with the increased profits per visit, it threw cash into their company.

Conclusion:

I hoped I have given you compelling reasons to start being single-minded. Start small by deciding to keep to the things you have decided and not waiver on them. Then move on to bigger decisions which involve your life, family and career.

PS: Hope to also hear from you on what are the steps you have decided to take after reading this article.

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Work is everywhere around you and sometimes it is hard to find time to do everything. Let me suggest ways on how you can significantly be more effective.

Here are 6 simple steps to dramatically boost your performance at work in any field and achieve the more success in what you do.

1. Focus is Key

Focusing on what’s important and urgent is the essence of work effectiveness. Never lose sight of your goal. Don’t allow yourself to get distracted by unimportant and urgent things happening around you at the workplace. Remember that there will always be things that are urgent but it important issues MUST NEVER be compromised for it. Set your goal for the day and achieve it no matter what. This helps you create trust in your own abilities to see things through. I personally feel that Focus is also about choosing what you wish to do and what you should be doing lesser.

2. Visualize

When you set your goal for the day, visualize yourself go about the work. Think about how focus you will be, how well you will do it and how much satisfaction you will from it. Great sportsmen often employ visualization techniques to help them overcome the emotional and physical challenges from their sports. It’s only a five-minute exercise but one that is most effective in helping you achieve your peak performance.

3. Make it a challenge to do every task better than before

This is definitely the most effective way to achieve peak performance at work. Rather than going through the motions, choose to perform every task better than the previous and in lesser time. Seek for 1% increments rather than vast improvements. Use your creativity to bring about improvement in whatever you do, no matter how mundane it is. There is nothing more fulfilling and profitable than sharpening your strengths.

4. Investigate your flaws

Look closely at your flaws and things that reduce your efficiency at work. Always ask is there something you should not be doing or do lesser? Find out the improvements that you need to make in your personality or work ethics. When you strive not to commit the same kind of mistakes again, your performance at work will skyrocket.

5. Master your mood, do not be a slave to it

Enthusiasm is the lifeblood of success. Infuse inspiration in yourself by grabbing hold your mood. Your thoughts are more powerful than your mood; use them to good effect and master your mood to make it dance to your will.

6. Look at Role Models

Find out who inspires you the most. Look at the exemplary performers who consistently give their best and reach top positions from the bottom rungs. Study their work ethics and follow in their footsteps. Success always leave trails and it is better to learn from successful people rather than the commit mistakes yourself.

Peak performance is a choice and it starts with an intrinsic willingness to do what is best for yourself. Make a firm commitment to yourself that in everything you do, you will always do it better.

Here are more articles on getting more results and being effective in your life:

Being Effective Without Putting In More Time

Effective Goal Setting For Personal Development

Being Pro-active in Life; Getting Ahead When Others Don’t

Are you Efficiently Effective?

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Have you ever failed in your goals?

Have you given up on things that matter?

I may have a reason why this is happening and after reading this, you will want to act on it.

If you have failed before, my question to you is this “Are you committed to it?”

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There are many times we want to do something, however, when times are difficult, our habits or weaknesses overcome our desire to do it. Wanting to do something may not be compelling enough to overcome our natural desires to be lazy. I have heard many times that people WANT to lose weight, WANT to lower their cholesterol, WANT to be more disciplined. But nothing sustainable happens.

If you belong to the majority of the population, most likely you will fail. Why? This is because we are simply NOT committed to getting results. What do I mean by commitment? Let me share with you more by asking some more questions:

Have you ever been absorbed by a task and were committed to finish a project by a deadline that you did not have your meals?

Have you ever seen a lady holding 2 jobs in the day and night simply because she is a widow and has 3 kids to feed?

In every one of the descriptions above, I have seen people really being committed to what they do. They are willing to give up short term gains, simply because they have committed themselves to achieve certain results. They know that there is a price to pay for everything. Hard work and discipline must follow through to get the results that they need. I’m not advocating that we should skip our meals, but I just want to highlight that there is a deep level of commitment to what we have set out minds to do.

Without commitment, you will fail. You will just WANT, but NEVER achieve. I’m sorry to be harsh, but this is the truth. I realised that most of my recent success in corporate training is because I was extremely committed while the first few years of my business was not eventful because I was not committed to myself, staff and my family.

If you are sick and tired of NOT getting the results you want, maybe its time to be committed? If so, what price will you pay for it?

Do leave your comments and your commitments down; I hope to hear from you.

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Are you constantly struggling to find more time to finish your work?

Do you constantly lose focus and get impatient when things are slow?

Do you feel that you are ineffective sometimes and do not bring results to whatever you do?

If the answer YES to any of these statements above, this article might just change your life!

Everyone is busy nowadays. There are more things to do and problem is that we still have the same 24 hours! Being an entrepreneur and a business owner, I constantly find myself doing a lot of different things that demand my attention.

Everyone and everything seems to be so important or urgent that I almost felt that I was going to break down. There was even a time when I could not sleep for four days in a row, thinking about work and the stress of not getting enough sales.

However, when I understood the following principles, my life started to restabilise and I felt in control of things. These are some of the things that are taught in my training and let me share with you my experience and lessons learnt:

1.    Decide On what NOT to do

Most people know there are many more things that they have to do, however, not many actually know what NOT to do. Time is limited and therefore we must always ask ourselves, what is something I can do less?

For me, I seek to eliminate ineffectiveness in my life (this was what I was), eg. checking emails 8-12 times a day, doing little or no value work, writing ideas on loose sheets of paper instead of putting everything in a note book, constantly finding things. I realised that elimination is important to remove clutter in my life.

One great way I saved a lot of time is to only check emails thrice a day. Morning at 10am, 1pm (after lunch) and 4pm. This helps to clear things in a quick matter and not being constantly distracted and seeing if anyone has emailed me.

2.    Outsource part of your work

Once I got rid of the inefficient things in my life, I started to look at the quality of work that I am paid to do. I decided that anything repetitive could always be outsourced. Anything that was logistics and administration in nature (preparing files, name tags, attendance confirmation of participants and etc), I tried to out-source them to part-timers to do simple filing and even hired someone to look after this portion of my business.

Consider using strategic partners to help you in your work as well, eg. courier services, programmers, marketing collaterals, design work. I realised that successful people often outsource work that are not within their core business, while ineffective people often want to do everything! The internet offers a large variety of options and good prices for out-sourcing options. Check out elance.com or getafreelancer.com or ideas on what can be out-sourced. Almost EVERYTHING can be out-sourced, including bathing your cat or buying flowers for your wife!

3.    Master The Art of Delegating your work

Delegation is an important art that most people do not understand. We delegate work out and monitor results and not actually how work is to be done. People that we delegate to should always have the freedom to choose how they want to do it without being micro-managed by their supervisors.

Decide on what results you want and be clear about it. One simple question I constantly ask myself is “What are the signs that I have to see in order to know whether he/she has achieved the results?” This forces me to be clear about my expectations and also manage people according to results.

Conclusion

Outsourcing and Delegation has become the buzz word of the 21st century. The question is not why, but when. Take charge of it right now so that you can be effective and concentrate on what you do best! This will result in more satisfaction in your life and money pouring in!

Remember, the DOD principle; Decide-Outsource-Delegate!

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Honestly, what I am about to share may provoke you. But I feel that it is rather important to let you know this at the expense of our relationship. Therefore, I will risk offending you in the process.

I hope to provoke you to consider why you might need to relook in the way you set goals.

Why do people not see success over the years? Well, here are some reasons:

1. They set BHAG (Big Hairy and Audacious Goals) with NO track record

One of the best ways to disappoint yourself is to set BHAG goals and not achieve anything at all. There are tons of people who ask you to set BIG goals. Nothing wrong with that, it is just that if you do not have a track record of achieving them, you are just setting yourself up for major disappointment. For starters, I usually set low hanging fruit goals which I know I can handle. This helps to build momentum and faith that I can achieve small things easily. The goal then gets bigger and more audacious over time. Consider breaking your yearly goal into quarterly goals. It is much easier to manage and achieve.

2. They can’t remember what goals they have set

Previously, I recall setting so many goals that I can’t remember them all. This leads to not achieving any one of them. To force myself to remember them, I placed my goals (which have been reduced to a few) all over places that I will frequent. Even at home, you can see it next to my work desk, mirrored cabinet, wall of my bedroom and even the toilet.

Remember: Out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Therefore, keep your goals in sight!

3. Do not bother to review their goals

If you not review your goals, how will you know where you are currently? During my university days in Australia, a group of friends and I will usually travel to a different state every semester. We will constantly take rest stops to just check out where we were and whether we were headed in the right direction! There were a couple of times when we made wrong turns, but this was quickly corrected simply because we reviewed our progress! Progress helps to determine whether you are reaping the RIGHT things in your work, rather than just focus on activity.

4. They do not give a compelling reason to achieve it

Most people make goals that just look good or exciting to them. However, the drive behind it is really the main crux. Why do you need to achieve it? What will happen if you do not achieve it? Will there be any consequence? I strongly feel that we must identify our drive to action. I made a decision at one critical point in my life and it changed me. One of my mentors said: If your WHY is big enough, you will naturally find your HOW to do things. The bigger your WHY, the more likely you will succeed.

Conclusion:
Make this year a great year for you! Set your goals and take massive action!

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert Heinlein

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Trust IS the most fundamental element in all relationships. It is essential to business performance, sales, managing people or even just relating and sharing with loved ones. To build your trust-worthiness, here are some things that you really need to keep in mind.

1. Trust starts from a perspective

It starts from the very perspective that you have of other people. If you view people with suspicion most of the time, the chances are that you had a very bad experience in your past with people. You tend to treat most people with suspicion, whether they are trust-worthy or not. However if you have a perspective that most people are trustworthy, you will tend find them and people will reciprocate your view points. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a great poet, shares “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.”

2. Trust means to say what you mean and mean what you say

Trust basically starts from yourself. If you want people to trust whatever you say, you have to first start with being consistent with your words and then honouring them at every moment. Our personal character is the first place to start before we start on our relationships. Here are some questions that have to be answered: Is my character solid? Do I follow through in what I say? Am I honest with the way I live my live?

3. Trust knows no boundaries in the different areas of your life

Cheryl Biehl once said that if you can’t trust people at all points, you can’t truly trust him or her at any point. There are many times in my life where I find it a struggle to be consistent. One of the earliest problems I had was being late every time I meet people and it became a trust issue to other people. They could not believe that I could ever come early. It was only after a long struggle, that I learn to honour peoples’ time and strived to always arrive early. My take on this is that if I cannot even honour my punctuality in meeting with people, they will find it difficult to trust me in other areas of my life.

4. Trust is like an emotional bank account

Trust is like a currency that we deposit with other people’s emotional bank account. Everytime we honour our words, we make a deposit. Every time we dishonour our words, we withdraw with (with interest) from them. The problem is that deposits are usually very small, while every withdrawal tends to be very large. Therefore, strive to make frequent deposits every day, while avoiding withdrawals.

Let me leave you with a quote:

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” Frank Crane

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I’m curious. Have you ever heard of people who call themselves “self-made”? For example, I’m a self-made millionaire….

Honestly, I don’t believe that statement is true at all. I mean, is there such thing as that you alone made yourself famous/rich/successful/___________ (fill in the blank)? For every person that ‘made it’ there are actually tons of people around this person supporting him/her.

Let me prove to you:

People who are successful in business, usually have a team of people who are working with or for them. They don’t do everything themselves.

If you are very rich, its because someone has probably mentored you before, or shared successful principles to your very soul.

Before you ever think you are ‘self made’, I hope you consider 3 these 3 groups of people who are rooting for your success…

1. People who are infront of you (your mentors or people who have imparted wisdom to you)

2. People beside you (your spouse, partners or colleagues)

3. People who are behind you (your staff)

There’s a saying:

If you want to go fast, go alone
If you want to go far, go together

Hope you remember that self-made people don’t exist, only successful people with strong teams do. Therefore, build great teams and you will be great too!

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Trust is one of the most important things in the world that all of us need before we can ever start any relationship or build any team. However, most people fail in this area. Allow me to ask you a few questions to see how trustworthy you are:

1.    For the past month, have you ever promised to do things and not fulfil it?

2.    Do you come late for meetings/appointments (yes, even 1 minute late is still considered late!)

3.    Does your family member or spouse doubt your words?

4.    Are there times when you have behaved inconsistently in your life?

If you have answered “YES” to any of the above statements, you really need to work on your trust level. I know that it has very high standards, but hey, people do judge you by what you say or do. Sometimes they will also judge you by what you DO NOT say or DON’T DO.

To ever build trust in the team or with people you love, it boils down to just this word.

Before any teams can actually reach their peak potential, they must first be consistent in how they approach each other and do things. This means that if I were to tell you that we will meet at 3pm, let’s start the meeting at 3pm. If we ever start late and it happens quite a few times, you will start to doubt my words. A few more times, you will start to doubt the entire team in just doing one small thing. When you cannot even have faith in the small things, how can we ever talk about the bigger things?

Therefore, to build Trust in the team, we have to be always mindful of making small agreements and keeping to them. Be faithful in the little things, before we can do the bigger things. I strongly feel that we need to work on our characters and ALWAYS say what we mean and mean what we say! This creates consistency and people know that they can always trust us to be consistent with what we say or do (or don’t do as well).

This is very important especially when we have made promises, eg. rewarding the team when they achieve their targets, letting people go home early because we said they can when they have worked hard or even sending a quotation to a client on time, just because you said so!

So… in conclusion, can I trust you?

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How Does A person Change Him or Herself? That is one important question that I received from Facebook and I hope to share with you my insights on Change. Do read on the message exchange below… (I have edited the message slightly to explain more)

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Hi Kenneth,
We met years ago in Adelaide OCF… Just want to let you know that I’m really inspired by your writings. I just have a question – how do you change yourself, because there’s a saying that a leopard cannot change its spots.

Thanks a bunch!

Jon

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Kenneth Kwan
June 8 at 1:29pm

Hi Jon,

I can still remember you after so long.

One of the ways to change yourself is first understand what is the problem or thing you want to change. Next, you want to be emotional about it, if you don’t feel the need to change, then its pointless. However, if it continues to make you feel disturbed, frustrated, then you will have to make a decision; to change or go back the same place where you started.

For example, if you want to lose weight, You must understand why you want to do it, not just in your mind but in your heart as well! There are many people who want to change, but they do not want to pay the price of change! One way to effect change is to get emotional…. I do not mean crying over it, but having something stir your heart.

Back to the example of weight lost, you may feel that you had enough of walking around with people calling you names, feeling frustrated at they way they look at you, sick and tired of doctor telling you that anytime you might suffer from a huge stroke or diabetes. When you are emotional, you WILL WANT to do something about it. You may shout, “Enough is enough…. I’ve had it with all the things that are happening in my life!”

Here’s my secret formula (no big secret now after sharing to thousand over readers):
Emotions + Compelling Desire + Consistent Action = Change

This is not the only way to change, but a way to stir your heart. I hope that it will stir your heart and create a compelling desire that leads to consistent action. All this will result in Change!

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