I love the coments from Conrad and Samuel on my last posting. Yes, I agree its really sad to see how spoilt and unappreciate some young kids can be. And I totally agree that it is their parents who unknowingly screwed them up by giving them what they want and taking their crap.

Recently, a mum came for my preview for my kids training program. She wanted to send her 10 year old son as he was lazy, rude and had no interest at all in success. When she asked him if he wanted to go, he screamed at her and said, ‘If you dare to sign me up, I will kill you!’
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A very happy and prosperous new year to all the Chinese friends out there. And to all the non-Chinese, a very happy super long holiday! As I was giving out hundreds of dollars in ang pow money to friends and relatives (luckily I got two daughters to bring back some revenue and help reduce the losses…just kidding), I remembered how important the ang pow money I received over the years has helped me build up my seed money to start all my business ventures as a kid.

I used to collect about $600-$800 a year (I had lots and lots of relatives who were pretty generous) in red packet revenue and by the time I was 15, I had close to $20,000. All this would not have been possible if I did not save every last cent and put it into a fixed deposit account and allowed the money to compound. This was back in the good old 1970’s-80’s when interest rates from banks were 5%-7%!
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One power that has given to us by our creator is the power to choose. The power of free will. I believe that the person you are today is the result of all the choices you have made in the past.

Ten years from now, you will definitely become 10 years older. if you are 20 today, you will be 30 and if you are 30 today, you will be 40 a decade from now. The question is who would you have become? What would you have achieved?

The answer lies in three major choices that you make every single day. It is what I call the three choices that make you who you are.
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I am glad alot of people are enjoying the powerful life metaphor of the elephant trapped by its own beliefs. I would like to share with you another elephant metaphor, except this is about a prehistoric elephant known as a Mammoth.

One of my favorite movies is ICE AGE and ICE AGE 2. In this second installment, there was this female mammoth (again a very powerful creature) named Ally who was abandoned by her herd when she was young. She was raised by a family of possums (rodent like creatures) who taught her that she was a possum. Since she had never met any other mammoth before and the only thing around her were possums, she began to create an identity for herself that she was a possum. Becauae she believed she was a possum, she acted exactly like one. When birds of prey flew near, she would run and hide and even play dead.
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A couple of months ago I went to Thailand with my family (a beautiful country I visit every year) and brought my kids to watch and ride on the elephants there. Watching these world’s largest mammals are really fascinating. Elephants are such gentle creatures and yet so powerful and strong. A large male elephant has the strength to pull a tree down and is able to lift a log with his trunk.

One thing that amazed me is that there are no elephant cages. You have cages for lions, bears and tigers but never a cage for the elephant. Why is this so? How do they prevent this powerful creature (stronger than the tiger + lion + bear added together) from escaping and running away. All they do is to tie a rope (or a single chain) to the elephants leg and secure it to a stake in the ground. Once his leg is secured, he will not run away. Now, do you think the elephant actually has the potential to break the chain or rope if he wanted to? Of course! He can pull down an entire tree!

But why won’t he break the weak rope that holds secures his leg?
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As my first BLOG posting of the year, I would like to wish all my past participants, supporters and readers of this BLOG a very happy and successful new year. Thank you so much for constantly visiting this BLOG and posting all the wonderful comments and emails over the last 6 months. I will do my very best to continue to make this BLOG inspiring, educational and enriching in the coming year.

The last two months have been extremely intense, exhausting and yet extremely fulfilling. I started the first of my holidays camps for teens (I Am Gifted, So Are You!) and kids (Superkids) in early Novemeber and ended the year training 1,450 students over 14 camps across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. It felt great to see so many young children and teens developing the confidence, self-belief and motivation to create a new start in their lives. The toughest part of my year-end training tour was during the last week, where I came down with really bad flu in Jakarta. I guess all the non-stop speaking, continuous late nights, bottles of coke and fried food really started taking its toll. During the last two camps, I was battling a high fever, blocked ears and a running/bleeding nose while giving my usual high energy training sessions. Never the less I pulled through and used the much needed Christmas holidays to sleep it off and recover! Anyway, I am glad to say I am STILL ALIVE and ready to conquer 2007!

I would like to share some interesting insights in my life over the past two months….
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We all know the holidays are coming round the corner so I thought I just do a Christmas Special for you:

I’m slashing the list price of my flagship product, Secrets Of Self-Made Millionaires, by more than 50%!

==> www.SecretsOfSelf-MadeMillionaires.com

So here’s what you will be getting at this crazy low price:
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My much anticipated Patterns of Excellence program in Feb 2007 is now open for registration! In fact, this coming thursday (30 November) will be my FREE INTRODUCTORY SEMINAR on’ How to Achieve Exceptional Results with the Power of NLP) at Amara Hotel, starting at 7pm. If you have always wanted to learn the power of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and how it has helped me and countless of other individuals develop the mindset and winning stratgies to achieve excellence in their personal and professional lives, then come on down for my 3-hour free workshop! You can register online at www.akltg.com and tell your friends who you know will benefit from this.

Why am I informing you so early for something starting in Feb 2007? Well, even before the official registration is open, 30% of the seminar seats are already pre-booked and I expect the course to sell out way before it even begins. So, don’t lose this opportunity of attending what I know is the most powerful life changing program you can ever attend!

A couple of months ago, I talked about writing an entire series of ‘Secrets of…’ books. Given the huge phenomenal success of Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires and the tons of emails I have gotten from hundreds of people who have benefitted from just reading the book, I discovered that there are so many people who want to learn concerete and practical strategies on HOW TO MAKE MONEY through sales, business, investing, marketing etc….

I think people are fed up of all these typical ‘you can make money’ books in the bookshops that give you are the crap, bullshit and fluff about making money WITHOUT actually teaching you HOW TO DO IT. One good example is a recent book written by two world famous gurus who want you to be rich but honestly I felt like puking when I read the contents. No substance whatseoever in my opinion. It was more like a big PR stunt to cross sell all their related products.

So anyway, enough griping! I said a few posts ago that I will write a series of Wealth Books under the ‘Secrets of Self Made Millionaires series’ that will contain real, no bullshit, no holds-barred strategies that I personally use to create my multiple streams of income. The first in the series will be ‘SECRETS OF MILLIONAIRE INVESTORS’ that I am targeting will be launched in bookstores by 24 June 2007. And I know that the only way I will write it is if I put myself ON THE LINE and announce it to ALL OF YOU OUT THERE!

For those of you who think 7 months is a really long time to get a book out, let me tell you the list of things that must be done…

1) Come up with the table of contents (Just got it done!!!!)
2) Write each chapter. I have listed 9 chapters and each will take about a week to complete! This is given that I write 4-5 pages everyday amidst my training schdedule (which you know I speak every day for average of 4-7 hours) and running my companies and spending time with family and of course trading the US and Singapore markets
=> Total time will be about 9 weeks
3) First round personal editing => about 2 weeks
4) send for editing & corrections=> this will take about 4 weeks
5) Get copyright permissions from the websites that I quote from => about 2 weeks
6) Get someone to do illustrations and design the cover and layout => About 6 weeks
7) Select a printer and go through the printing process => 2 weeks
Liase with distributors and bookshops on the launch campaign => 2 weeks
9) Meeting with my marketing team to dream u all the necessary advertising and promotional materials (ads, flyers, contests, book launch, media release, talks) => 3 weeks

Of course, some of these things can be done concurrently but all in all, I see it on the shelves in June 2007! I will you guys updated about the ongoing progress. Cheer me on! I need the morale support!

For you guys who are wondering why I am making this announcement it is becasue I have learnt that over the years, human beings WILL ALWAYS procrastinate on heir goals and NEVER get it done. ‘I will do it later…’, ‘I still have time…’, ‘ even if I don’t finish, it does not matter…’ The secret of achieving a major goal or project is to PUT YOURSELF ON THE LINE by making a commitment to everyone you know. That way it becomes a MUST to achieve and there is no way you can give yourself excuses anymore.

‘ Human beings will never ever achieve anything until and unless it becomes a must for them.’ The main thing that motivated me so much when I was a kid to score straight As and top my school was because I put myself on the line by telling all my teachers, friends and even tutition teacher that I WILL TOP MY SCHOOL and GET INTO VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLEGE. At that time, for a kid like me from a neighbourhood school to dream of getting into VJC seem crazy, but with enough passion and commitment, EVERYTHING is POSSIBLE.

Recently, one of my graduates from Patterns of Excellence Program (who also happens to be my personal insurance agent) achieved her Court of the Table (COT) (an award given out to the top 1% of insurance advisors in the world). BTW, COT advisors typically earn at least over $300,000 a year in income. Although she achieved the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) for a couple of years (which is no big deal), she was never able to hit the COT, which requires a production of triple that of the MDRT. Like most people, she lost her momentum after a while. So how did she finally achieve her COT after my program? Well, she put herself on the line by making a personal commitment to her team mates and support group. I also put her on the line by constantly announcing to everyone that she WILL ACHIEVE COT last year and this year. And guess what? She did it! Her name is Lorraine Koh from Prudential.

Stay tuned for my next post on the progress of my latest book!

In one of the last few posts, I talked about 72-year old Lim Tow Yong who re-emerged from bankruptcy to rebuild his million-dollar fortune at age 82. Here is another really inspiring story of a friend of mine who bounced back from bankruptcy and is now earning US$5,000-US$7,000 a month from the comfort of his own home. His name is Conrad Alvin Lim and he is now a full time professional Options Trader.

I first got to know Conrad 4-5 years ago when he was still in the media & advertising industry. He was a free lance videographer who did work for my advertising agency. Little did I know at that time that he was struggling to provide for his family.

For over 20 years, Conrad was an independent commercial producer in the Media & Advertising industry. He became the first and only privateer to own and re-sell national television airtime through a series of self-produced TV programs.

However, after a series of life changing failures from the Asian Financial Crisis and recent recession, Conrad went into bankruptcy. As a former business owner nearing his 40s, employment as a bankrupt was hard to come by so he took on ad-hoc and freelance work to make a living for his family.

As the free lance media work became more competitive, Conrad decided to explore trading (Options & Stocks) to create an alternative source of income two years ago. He joined Options trading workshops conducted by a number of the so-called ‘Gurus’ in Singapore. However, when he started applying what these mainstream options gurus had taught, he lost even more money (close to US$5,000) and his already meager savings has been further thinned out. So why did he lose money when he followed strictly what these gurus had taught?

He found that most of the investment gurus currently in the market now, made their money in markets like the tech boom and post recession spike. Their methods of trading are based on those types of markets and on their psychological backgrounds. For the last two years, the market was nothing like the ones the gurus had back in the days of the solid bull run. Also, the Options workshop he attended did not equip the participants with enough fundamental and technical analysis training so crucially required in trading for a living.

Instead of being disillusioned and choosing to give up, Conrad resolved to give up his media career to concentrate on learning the art of trading for a living. He vowed to master this craft and to make back his losses as soon as possible.

He spent days at the library pouring over any and all material available, he blazed online for hours and attended more respectable workshops to refine his art. He identified the failures from his first attempt and the weaknesses of certain strategies he had learnt. He started to craft his own unique trading strategies (like the 5-day Pre-Earnings Game and Intra-day Scalping) that could make him consistent profits in bad markets as well as good. And most importantly…in a very safe way.

Within less than a year, he managed to make enough consistent profits of US$5,000- US$7,000 a month (with just US$5,000 in capital) to not only pay for his monthly expenses, but to pay off a huge part of his debt that he owed from his business failure 5 years ago. One of the reasons he impresses me so much is that he had the tenacity to fight on and to master a skill, even though he met with painful setbacks at the beginning. This is the mark of a successful people. So many people I know start a new career/income startegy like trading, Internet marketing, insurance etc… The moment they don’t see huge returns in the beginning or if they lose some money, they start to give up and blame the whole world. Well, I believe that nothing comes easy and God will test your faith and resiliance before bestowing on you the fruits of your labour.

In fact, I was totally blown away when I saw Conrad earn over US$1,600 in just under 6 minutes through his strategy of intra-day scalping. I thought I was good at making money investing, but this dude takes the cake.

I have always believed that the key to building a pwoerful company is to indendtifying great talent and to invite them to join you. After much persuading, I am happy to announce that I managed to convince Conrad to join Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group as our Investment Strategist. Conrad will be speaking at our next Wealth Academy Seminar as well! He also conducts very personal coaching sessions for those who are serious about become a full time trader or individuals who was to use trading to create a viable source of additional income.

If you want to check him out, go to his forum at www.patterntrader.proboards106.com. I personally go in every night to steal some tips and ideas before I enter the market to take some US$ from the Ang Mohs! Ha ha Ha