Amway Moving Up Seminar (MUS)

After 'surviving' from the doomsday, I attended the event mentioned on 22nd and 23rd December. It was one of the best seminars that I had attended so far as all the guest speakers were all enthusiastic and inspiring.

To most of the people, seminars are considered boring events but that is not the case in Amway Moving Up Seminar. From a youth to a midget, from a businessman to a housewife, people from all walks of life had shared their backgrounds and how they succeeded in Amway business. There is no better motivation than real-life experiences. 

To summarise the two-day event, I will briefly state each speaker's background and the main points of what they had shared: 

1. 翁祥隆 (Founders Platinum, 24, Student)

• Started Amway business at age of 21 
• Gave up the opportunity to study overseas
• Friends who laugh or look down on you, make them regret 
• Life is short, make your parents proud as early as possible

2. 李小玲 (Executive Diamond, 36, Top INTI Graduates & Freelancers)

• Extremely poor family background, started unskilled labour since 4 years old 
• Independent, work multiple jobs to pay for living expenses and university fees
• Started Amway business with her husband (farmer), in heavy debt condition 
• Amway business is the best way to change your destiny, not complaining. 

3. P.W. Chew (Executive Diamond, 67, Interior Design Business Owner)

• Stresses life quality really matters 
• True value of Amway business - can achieve peace of mind
• Have youthful lifestyle despite his age, played the highest skydiving in Australia!
• Hard work should be recognised, not being charitied (被施舍)! 

4. Peter Lee (Crown Ambassador, 60, Owner of 13 Types of Businesses)

• Be suave (潇洒) while doing Amway business, it's the fact that not everyone will appreciate and see the opportunity
• If you are unsatisfied with current condition, find a way to change it instead of keep complaining.
• You have to build your courage to do business
• To succeed, you have to hungry for success and never give up!  

5. 马文觉 (Platinum DD, 22, Student)

• Chinese educated, did not further studies in Taiwan due to unsatisfactory result 
• All family members and friends threw a wet blanket on him for 7 months
• While parents are working hard to raise the family, you are resting and spending their hard-earned money, is that right?
• The speed of success must be much faster than the speed of parents' aging

6. Grace Wong (Diamond, 45, School Teacher)

• The competition between people is not intelligence level, but concept thinking
• In 21st century, your social relationship (network) = business asset = money! 
• The ones who changed their concept thinking faster has become billionaires, e.g. Steve Jobs, Li Ka-Shing, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey etc
• To earn passive income, you have to become business owner or investor, not employee or self-employee (Robert Kiyosaki's ESBI quadrant)  

7.  陈思莹 (Diamond, 44, Housewife) 

• Started rubber tapping with parents since young 
• Did not receive higher education due to poor family condition
• Hated doing direct selling, but wanted to improve her lifestyle badly
• The best gift for your family is indemnity, parents is honor, friends is hope

8. 骆翠玲 (Founders Plantinum, 30, Midget)

• A persons suffer from dwarfism, most inspiring speaker of the seminar
• Being looked down by others, including her family members too.  
• Faces challenges ten times harder due to her physical size, but she never gives up.
• If she can do it, we can do it too!  

9. 林海峰 (Executive Diamond, 44, Nutrition Master)

• World's top nutritionist, currently working with Germany's INUS hospital
• The best way to maintain health is through sufficient nutrition and thinking  
• Whatever that has negative element, let it go. Negativity is the roots of most diseases. 
• Don't conclude your life easily, so that it has lots of possibilities

I hope you have learnt something new. There is no end to learning. =)    

一个可能改变你未来的故事

北极熊的故事：人生不能重来~

你听过北极熊的故事吗？在北极圈里，牠可是沒有什么天敌的，但是聪明的爱斯基摩人，却可不费吹灰之力逮捕牠。

爱斯基摩人是怎么办到的？这就是上帝给人的智慧吧！

他们杀一只海豹，把牠的血倒进一个水桶里，用一把两刃的匕首插在血液中央，因为气温太低，海豹血立即凝固，匕首就结在血中间，像一个超大型的冰棒，之后把冰棒倒出來，丟在雪原上就可以了。

北极熊有一个特性：嗜血如命，这就足以害死牠了。牠的鼻子特灵，可以在好几公里之外就嗅到血腥味，此時牠一定闻到爱斯基摩人丟在雪地上的冰棒，于是迅速趕來覓食，开始舔起血冰棒，舔着舔着，舌头渐渐麻痺，但是还是不愿意放弃这样的美食，忽然血的味道变好了。那是更新鲜的血，温热的血，于是牠越舔越起劲──原来那是牠自己的血。

事实是：牠舔到一个程度，已经舔到冰棒的中央部分，匕首画破了牠的舌头，血冒出來，但是牠的舌头早已麻木，所以沒有感觉，但是牠的鼻子还很敏感，知道新鲜的血來了，加紧舔食的结果就是，舌头伤的更深，血更多流失，通通吞下去自己的喉咙里。

最后是北极熊失血过多，休克晕厥过去，爱斯基摩人就走过去，几乎不必花力气，就可以轻松捕获牠。

在我们的生命中，追求幸福的过程里，我们也很可能是一只北极熊，如果你所抱持的是错误的观念和看法的话。

很多人，他们工作時间超长，因为他们认为事业上的成就，对他们的人生而言，是最重要的，他们赚了很多钱，真的很多，可是沒有時间去花，说实在的：即使他们有了時间，他們很有可能也不知道如何花这些钱。

他们虽然赚到了钱，却失去很多东西，可能是人生更重要的东西，他们的家人和他们极少互动，他们的儿女不认识他们（我的意思是他陪着孩子长大，花時间与孩子相处）他们沒玩过，沒休闲生活，也不曾帮助任何一个人。

有人在他们的事业高峰時，忽然心肌梗塞，失去生命，有人忽然中风，失去行动能力健康，有人有一天忽然发现家人全都离他而去。

美国一个周刊 TIME : 做过一个调查，针对世界百大企业的退休CEO，请他们填一份问卷，其中前十大企业的老板，对其中一个问题都有相同的答覆，这个问题是：

如果人生可以重新来过，你会希望什么是你绝对不能错过的？

这十个大老板都说了同一件事，即人生可以重來，他们一定不放过陪伴孩子一起成长。

很多人说他们一旦做決定就不会后悔，问题是他们做決定之前，沒想清楚，到最后还是后悔！

让我们现在就想清楚：你是那只大北极熊吗？

你正在吸自己的血，享受幸福的感觉吗？人生只有一次，过去了就不再回来，请不要当大北极熊，以生命为代价的事业，很可能最后是赚得全世界，却失去了你最宝贵的生命！

December 2012!

It's exam month. Will only finish my last paper on 19th. But exam is not going to stop me from I'm planning to do this month. I will do what I do best - cram and pass! xD

Everyone is talking about the end of the world at almost everywhere. So do I with my friends. I'm an optimistic person. I believe the world is not going to end. I haven't seen the world clearly and enough yet. 

If the world is really going to end, well, so what? There is nothing we can do and we will be vanished ALTOGETHER. So afraid no more as you will have lots of company. lol 

Whether the world ends or not, do appreciate your life and the loved ones around you. =)

Revisions, exams, caroling jobs, business meetings, appointments, family trip, seminars, nutrition classes, 21% bonus...... loads of things to do in the last month of the year. No time to think about the end of the world already. 

Life still goes on. Ciao~ 

A Wonderful Day

Ya, I know. It's been awhile since I last updated my blog. I wonder if this blog still have visitors. My stories are kinda boring and not as interesting as those famous bloggers, and I'm too busy to write a new post. =P

Well, today is definitely a good day.

While I'm stressing out at music composition (MIDI editing) this afternoon, all my groupmates suddenly turn up and together we make a SO-CALLED not-so-bad music. To others (especially very pro in music composing), our final composition might sound awful but who cares, we still have the great sense of accomplishment! After all, we aren't expert in music knowledge.

During the completion of the assignment, received a call from a friend saying that she has a business deal for me. I get a contact number from her and immediately I call the prospect. I manage to close the deal on-the-spot and get to know more new people behind the prospect. Business starts to grow a little and I'm really happy about it, because it means profit/bonus is coming to me very soon. LOL

After sending the stock and servicing the customer at night, I head to business centre for meeting even though it's already late. But I never miss the best part of the meeting which is the leadership talk. Diamond (a pin level in Amway) is sharing with us what kind of a mindset a successful entrepreneur should have when facing many challenges. After the talk, all of us are requested to stay back at the centre to learn how to dance 'Gangnam Style' for an upcoming event - Eagle Project Graduation. Everyone, yes, I just said EVERYONE in the centre, regardless of their age and status (many are professionals or high pin level), are all learning how to dance 'Gangnam Style'.

Everyone gets high and is having fun. Well, you might be surprise that Amway has this kind of stuff. A lot of people think that Amway is merely a direct selling company, or begging/persuade people to buy products. But it has something much more than that. This business is really great and I hope people around me are able to see Amway in a different way - always having fun and being happy! =)

Good night. I still have some shits to clean up for my assignments. xD