Lesson 1: Success Does Not Happen By Chance…But By Choice

The first lesson I learnt was that success does NOT happen by chance (unless you are one of the lucky few who are born rich). If you continue to live your life one day at a time, doing what everyone does, doing things the way you have always done them, DON’T EXPECT to wake up 5-10 years from now and find yourself highly successful and wealthy.

If you want to be rich and successful anytime in the future, you have to make that choice and commitment RIGHT NOW. Once you decide to be rich and successful, you will tend to make very different choices in your life. You will start to think differently and behave differently. For example, you will start to open your mind to learn new things (e.g. investing, financial planning, business).

You will start to take different actions. Instead of watching TV the whole night, you will start to surf financial websites and read about stock investments. Instead of reading FHM magazine and the sports section of the newspaper, you will start to Fortune Magazine and The Money Section. You will start to discuss different topics and hang around different kids of people. Instead of gossiping and chit chatting about trivia, you will start to talk about business ideas, economics, business ideas etc..

Instead of just doing your minimum at work, you will start to take initiative and do alot more than expected. What will all this do? It will start to move you towards wealth and success and it will only be a matter of time before you begin to see your life change positively. You will start to become more confident, more motivated. You will start to get promoted faster, see your business profits increase and your wealth multiply.

Lesson 2: Success Can Be Learnt.
The second lesson I learnt is that Success is a learnable topic. You CAN learn how to be successful. The best place to learn how to be successful in any given area is to study and model those who have already achieved the goal that you want. By learning from those who have already found the way, you greatly cut short your learning curve and accelerate your results much faster than the average person.

The reason I have been so successful at making money, business, leadership, making friends, relationships, public speaking etc… is because I have constantly sought out and learnt from gurus such as Anthony Robbins, Dale Carnegie, Brad Sugars, Warren Buffett, Donald Trump, Jay Abraham, Michael Gerber etc…

Do you realize what all the experts I learnt from had in common? They were all foreigners to a Singaporean Chinese like me. The challenge was that at the time, they were no Asian experts I could model and learn from. So, as much as the lessons these experts could teach me was powerful, I had to constantly find ways to adapt what they taught to the Asian environment. For example, I had to adapt Warren Buffett’s investing strategies to the Singapore stock market, which doesn’t work quite the same way as the US market. I spent years finding ways to adapt Jay Abraham and Michael Gerbers great business strategies to the Asian business landscape, which is again so different.

If you are a local Singaporean or an Asian (Malaysian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese etc…) for that matter, then I have great news for you. You have a once in lifetime education opportunity that I never had in the past. You have the opportunity to meet and learn from a group of Asian self-made millionaires in a two-day Wealth Expo to be held in Singapore from 22 to the 23 of May 2010. I have managed to get all these inspiring role models to come down and share their knowledge and experiences because they are all close friends of mine. Some of them, I have known for over 10 years!

What makes it exciting is that they have all created tremendous wealth and success starting from nothing. and they have done it in very different ways. Some of them made their fortune in the sales industry while another made his fortune trading in the Forex markets. Some of them have achieved their success at a very young age (before 30), while some having become millionaires after the age of 40. Some of them have first class honours degrees from top universities while others dropped out of secondary school.

Collectively, they prove that ANYONE can achieve tremendous wealth and success, provided they follow the two powerful principles I talked about. #1: Decide and make the commitment that you want to be successful. #2. Be willing to learn and model the success strategies of those of have already succeeded. Of course, there is the third ingredient, which is to take MASSIVE and CONSISTENT ACTION. After all, there can be no sustainable results without hard work.

Let me introduce just a few of my friends who will be at the Singapore Wealth Expo to you…

Yeo Keong Hee, CFA
I first met Keong Hee 13 years ago when we both served in the same platoon during our National Service days in the Republic of Singapore Air Force. He was one of the most brilliant people I have ever met. He is a genius with an IQ of 156 and a member of MENSA. I later bumped into him again at the National University of Singapore where he graduated with a first class honours degree in Engineering and was ranked among the top 3% in the university.

He later went on to work for the Government Investment Corporation (GIC) of Singapore as an analyst. At that time, he started out trading foreign exchange currencies (forex) as a hobby (with a capital of US$10,000) and as a way to make some side income. Within one year, he mastered the skill of trading and was making more money than his full time job. he had turned his US$10,000 capital into US$300,000. This guys now works a few hours a week from home and makes an average of US$15,000 to US$20,000 a month. At the age of 30+, he bought a huge piece of land and built a multi-million dollar bungalow where he trade at home from. Definitely, someone you want to learn from. find out more at www.keonghee.com. He is going to show you how anyone can learn to trade forex profitably in today’s uncertain financial markets.

Merry Riana
I first met Merry 9 years ago when I gave a talk at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore. She was a 19-year old student engineering undergraduate at the time. Merry’s background and rise to success is truly inspiring. Merry was born to a humble family in Jakarta, Indonesia. During the racial riots of 1998, Merry’s parents feared for her safety and sent her to Singapore to continue her studies.

She studied hard and managed to qualify for a $40,000 study loan to the local university. Besides her study loan, she had hardly enough money for personal expenses. She had less than $10 a week to get by on. She skipped meals, ate instant noodles and wouldn’t even think of shopping or watching movies like her peers. Driven by a strong desire to give a better life to herself and her family, she joined the insurance sales industry upon graduation.

She said that when she heard me speak at her university, she became really inspired to become a self made millionaire herself. She was thinking, ‘if Adam can do it, why not I?’ So she studied NLP and modeled some of the most successful sales people in the industry. Her results were astounding. Despite having no family in Singapore, hardly any friends outside of university and a weak command of English at the time, she closed over $500,000 in sales in the first year and was awarded ‘Top New Advisor’ award by Prudential. She earned over $250,000 in income in that first year and paid off her study loans.

By the age of 26, she was featured in the Sunday Times for Making her First Million at Age 26! Since then, she has started her own company and is now a successful entrepreneur of a multi-million dollar financial services company (Merry Riana Organization). Come and learn how you too can overcome tremendous odds and build your fortune in sales and business. You can read more about her at www.merryriana.com.

Conrad Alvin Lim
I have known Conrad for more than 12 years as well. Conrad used to own a successful outdoor media company in Singapore in the 1990′s. In 2000, during the recession, his company went bust and he was declared a bankrupt. He sold his home and car and shifted into a 3-room HDB flat with his wife and two children.

At the age close to 40, with an incomplete ‘O’ level certificate and a registered bankrupt, he could not find a job. To make ends meet, he became a self-employed videographer and photographer. Then, in 2004, he started to get interested in the stock market and began the process of learning how to become a professional stock trader. Starting with a capital of less than US$2,000, he started trading stock options from his home. From humbly making US$10 a day, he progressively honed his skills and made up enough to finally pay off his debts and was discharged from bankruptcy in March of 2007.

Today, he is respected and reputed to be one of the most successful online traders in Asia. I have managed to convince him to come down and share his story and how anyone, with the right mindset and discipline can overcome any financial setbacks and achieve their financial freedom. He has a blog at www.conradalvinlim.com

If I tell you the personal stories of all these amazing experts and role models, this post will probably become a mini-book. So, let me just summarize who are the rest of the people you are going to have a chance to learn from…

Jason Wee, CFA
Former Head of Research for Small Caps, CLSA
Trainer of Some of Singapore’s Top Stock Analysts
Self-Made Millionaire Investor
Topic: How to Invest in Undervalued, High Growth China Stocks

Patrick Liew
CEO, HSR International Realtors Pte Ltd
(HSR is Singapore’s Largest Real Estate Agency)
Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner
Asia’s Leading Real Estate Investor & Coach
Topic: “Singapore Property Market Outlook: How Much Higher Can It Go?”

Fabian Lim
CEO, Asia Internet Academy
One of Asia’s Top Internet Marketing Specialist
First & Only Certified Search Engine Optimization Trainer in Asia
Topic: How to Create a Six-Figure Income Online, Even Without Experience

Joey Yap
Founder, Mastery Academy of Chinese Metaphysics
One of the World’s Top Fengshui Consultant and Trainer, speaking to an audience of thousands at a time from Frankfurt to New York.
Best-Selling Author of Over 30 Books on Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology
www.joeyyap.com
Topic: Maximizing Your Luck and Avoiding Misfortunes in the Chinese Astrological Year of the Tiger

There are going to be a lot of other speakers lined up to talk about profiting from commodities, smart insurance planning, how to position your investment portfolio for 2010, protecting your investments in the event of another downturn and a whole lot more…

and of course, you have yours truly, Adam Khoo hosting and speaking at this two full day event personally. I am going to be talking about how to select and buy high performing stocks at huge discounts and developing the winning mindset of a successful investor and wealth accumulator.

What Is Your Investment for This Rare Learning Opportunity?
If you ask me, the years of experience and accumulated knowledge that these people have is worth millions to anyone willing to learn and apply their secrets. Even if you could learn from all these financial experts individually, it would probably costs you thousands of dollars. Yet, the investment for this two full day event from 22-23 May 2010 (9am-8pm) is as follows:

PRICING DETAILS
VIP SEATING: SGD199.00 …Seats are Going Fast
GOLD SEATING: SGD69.00…Sorry. SOLD OUT
GENERAL SEATING: SGD29.00…I don’t know how long the seats will last
Venue: Singapore Expo Hall 2

P.S. The reason why we are able to price the tickets so low is because this event is heavily subsidized by sponsors

If You Want to Grab a Place Before It Is ALL SOLD OUT, book online right here.

You can also call my Singapore Office at 65-62740105 Immediately (during office hours of course) to book your seat. If the lines are all jammed up, send an email to info@akltg.com and someone will call you back.

Hopefully, there are still seats left by the time you have finished reading this BLOG post.

See You There!

So the question is how do you motivate yourself? And not only that… but how do you motivate yourself effortlessly and naturally? So you don’t have to struggle and “use your willpower” just to achieve your goals in life.

So if you’re looking at ways to motivate yourself naturally and effortlessly, then you’ll definitely enjoy this read.

Click HERE To Download Now!

This is just a quick announcement that I have launched a brand new BLOG, www.AdamKhooWealth.com that will be focused on investing strategies, tips on money management, ideas on creating multiple streams of income etc..

It is specially for those of you who are passionate and committed to take charge of your own finances and achieve financial freedom and independence. I hope you enjoy it for the years to come. You can also get there by clicking on the ‘Wealth Tips’ tab on the top menu bar

Finally…my latest book ‘Secrets of Successful Teens’ is out at all major bookstores in Singapore. Plans are underway to get the book translated and available in Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Malaysia and online at Amazon.com soon.

Empowering teens with the mindset and tools to achieve success in school and in life is one topic I am extremely passionate about. As a previous underachieving teen and student myself, I understand how tough it is to grow up nowadays. Teens face peer pressure, nagging parents, unreasonable teachers, stress, demands to perform well, make friends etc…

I have specially created this book to help teens to achieve success and happiness in all the areas of their life: their studies, their social lives, relationship with parents and personal peak performance.

Here are some of the highlights:

- Discovering the Power to Take Charge of Your Life
- How to Handle and Overcome Tough Challenges
- How to Get Along With Parents & Win them Over
- How to Make Friends and Be Popular
- Dealing with Peer Pressure & Nasty Friends
- The Ways to Overcome Laziness & Motivate Yourself
- Loving Yourself and Boosting Your Self-Confidence
- The Secret of Acing Your Exams with Minimal Effort

Look out for it in all major bookstores or visit Secrets Of Successful Teens for more details.

Now what you want in your life will determine your strategies, your actions, and your beliefs will also determine what you will do when you fail. Do you trigger it as feedback or do you give up? You see, your beliefs are like the operating system of your brain. They determine how we perceive the world and how we respond to what happens. They determine what we will or will not do or what we will or will not try.

So if you have disempowering beliefs about yourself, your business, or your relationships for example, then the actions you take will be negative and unuseful. Which then causes your business or relationship to FAIL. Which then solidifies your original disempowering belief! And the cycle goes on…

On the flip side, the same is true for empowering beliefs! If you have positive beliefs about yourself, your business, and your relationships, you will take useful and positive action to grow your business or to treat your partner with more love. Which will most likely cause your business to succeed even further and your relationship to blossom some more. Which then solidifies your originals EMPOWERING belief! And the cycle goes on…

Are you starting to see how POWERFUL your beliefs are?

They hold the KEY to your success and happiness. The question is now:

1. How do you break out of negative beliefs and thought patterns?
2. And then how do you create empowering beliefs that will help you achieve your goals?

Download this FREE 20-page report now to find out!
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But before you do that, I thought you deserve a special bonus and so I decided to allow my blog readers and list subscribers download the 1st chapter of the new book for FREE.

Click HERE To Download the 1st Chapter FREE!
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That’s right! There are no strings attached. Simply download the 1st chapter of Secrets Of Self-Made Millionaires for FREE today. Check the product out for yourself for as long as you want and once you’ve gone through the material, I’m positive you’ll want to grab the whole book for yourself!

Click HERE To Download the 1st Chapter FREE!
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To your financial success,
Adam Khoo

www.Millionaire-Book.com (DON’T purchase this yet. It’s still the old version)

I’ve updated the content and revised it to meet the financial and economic conditions of 2009 and beyond, and I’m pretty sure you will find this new version extremely useful.

- The Seven Steps to Financial Abundance

- The Nine Habits of Self-Made Millionaires

- How the Rich Manage their Money

- How to Massively Increase Your Income Without Quitting Your Job

- How to Create a Money-Spinning Business from Home

- How to Manage your Money & Reduce Your Expenses by 20-35%

- How to Build a $6m Fortune by just Investing 10% of Your Income

- How to Achieve a 12.08% Return from the Stock Market Near Risk Free

- How to Build Multiple Streams of Income through Business, Investing and Intellectual Property

- How to Design Your Millionaire Master Plan

So watch out for my post for details on when the new Secrets Of Self-Made Millionaires is released.

Our small students to teacher ratios ensures every child gets the attention they deserve

Conveniently located at Novena Square and Tampines Street 11, AKLC has become one of the most sought-after English and Math learning centres in Singapore. For the recent PSLE Exams (2008), We recorded one of the HIGHEST PROPORTIONS of students scoring ‘A’s and ‘A stars’ among other established learning centres.

Actress Ivy Lee with her daughter at Adam Khoo Learning Centre. On the right is our teacher Adeline.

Unlike other learning centres who reject ‘lousy students’ and only take in good students, we believe in giving EVERY child a chance, regardless of how he/she has performed in the past. On of our recent students, Timothy got ‘25 marks’ for his Math Prelims and was told by his teacher that he would DEFINITELY FAIL his PSLE Math. After ONE MONTH in our intensive Math Mastery program, Timothy scored a ‘C’ for his PSLE!

English Mastery Program
We believe that every student can develop strong reading and writing skills when they are taught using proven strategies that engage their interest and passion. The English Mastery program we offer is a multi-sensory, interactive learning system that uses the Strategic Readingâ„¢ and Strategic Writingâ„¢ models developed by English Expert Dr. Cheah Yin Mee.

Dr. Cheah Yin Mee, M.A. (Stanford), PhD (UC Berkeley)
Head, English Curriculum Research
Over 20 Years Experience in the Teaching & Research of English
Mentored hundreds of English Teachers in NIE (Masters Course)
Author, Oxford English Series Guide

Students who attend our English Mastery Programs will be able to:

1. Learn the 9 strategies that will make them better readers and better at comprehending a range of texts. These strategies include: determining important ideas, visualizing, summarizing, predicting, making inference, monitoring, synthesizing as well as skimming and scanning for information.

2. Learn how to tackle tough comprehension questions and give the best possible answers to these questions

3. Develop effective strategies for handling cloze passages

4. Understand different text types and how to use these to help them understand the text better

5. Understand how to annotate a text meaningfully to leave tracks of their thinking

6. Deduce word meanings from contextual cues

7. Build a strong vocabulary through accelerated learning techniques

8. Improve on their use of such conventions as spelling, punctuation, and grammar

9. Learn 6 specific strategies to score top marks in narrative writing, report writing, exposition writing, factual recount and procedural writing.

10. Achieve top marks in composition writing, answering comprehension questions and summary writing.

Math Mastery Program
We have helped hundreds of students to score ‘A’s in Math. We believe that every student can develop strong Math skills when they are taught in a fun, easy-to-understand and effective way.

Our Math Mastery Program is a revolutionary whole brain learning system that uses the ‘Arrow Transfer Model (ATM)’ and HEIR™ models developed by Math Expert Dr. Peter Yan and PSC Math Scholar Ms Susan Siew.

Dr. Peter Yan, PhD
Head, Math Curriculum Research
Over 20 Years Experience in the Teaching & Research of Math
Developer of the Arrow Transfer Model (ATM)
Author of 8 books on Mathematics

By using a ‘whole brain learning’ approach, the learning of Math extremely easy to understand and remember. Students are able to solve all Math Problems in less than five steps. Our Students are able to:

1. Develop speed and accuracy
2. Make Math relevant, logical, creative and adventurous
3. Acquire powerful inquiry, exploratory mathematical skills
4. Eliminate careless mistakes
5. Confidently tackle tough problem sums
6. Understand difficult concepts
7. Score distinctions in their tests and the PSLE

These are what some of our students and their parents have said:

Math Teacher Yuan Yee (YY) with student Andrea

So if you have what it takes to join our team of teachers or know of anyone who is perfect for the job, send your resumes to info@akltg.com or 10 Hoe Chiang Rd #01-01 Keppel Towers, Singapore 089315 (Attention Fredrick).

This post is dedicated to one of my students who I am truly proud of! He is the typical example of how anyone , regardless or age and experience can realize their dreams if they simply just use the right strategies and take massive action. His name is Adam Wong.

Eight years ago, I was invited to give a talk at one of the Singapore polytechnics about achieving success in life to 500 final year students. At the end of my talk was a Q&A session. After replying to lots of typical questions from students, one student raised his hand to ask the final question of the day. On that fateful day, Adam Wong asked the question, ‘ Mr. Khoo, will you be my personal mentor?’

Now, at that time, I could not possibly say ‘no’ in front of 500 students looking on. I would have looked like a real ass! So I said ‘yes’, thinking that he probably wasn’t serious anyway. To my surprise, Adam Wong (AW) called me numerous times to allow him to come see me to ask questions about what to do with his life.

He asked me all sorts of questions like: ‘how do I get started?’ ‘how do I build confidence?’ ‘How do I make my first million?’ ‘How do I set myself apart?’. After answering as much as I could, I told him that if he really wanted to learn all my strategies, then he should sign up for my PATTERNS OF EXCELLENCE program. Sure enough, he borrowed the few thousand from his parents and attended the entire program. At the end of it, he even borrowed more money to attend my Wealth Academy program in 2005.

What really impressed me about AW was that after the programs, he took massive action and applied everything I taught him, He did not hesitate at all. He decided that he did not want to get stuck in a normal 9am-5pm job like everyone else and eventually decided that he would become an entrepreneur as an Internet Marketer. Most important, he was willing to pay the price.

When he applied himself whole heartedly, the results he got were truly inspiring. Within two weeks of launching his business, he generated US$10,011 worth of sales. Within a year and a half, he hit a record US$21,154 a month in December. He continued to build his online business until today, it generates a six figure income while he just works four hours a day from his home.

All his friends call him a LUCKY BASTARD to have such a great life with a great income. So, he decided to write a book (which honestly is a VERY GOOD READ) to teach people exactly how he did it and how anyone can achieve the same success he has on the Internet.

Although I will say that AW is a LUCKY BASTARD, he created his own luck! I believe we all create our own luck through the choices we make and the actions we take. The harder you work, the luckier you get. 8 years ago, in that polytechnic class of 500 students, anyone of them could have been the lucky one to be mentored by me. They ALL had the same opportunity. What made AW lucky was that he took action on the opportunity.

Here is a chance for you to download the first chapter FREE and see how great his book really is. So go and create your own luck by grabbing opportunities whenever they come!!!!

As we are fast expanding the ‘I Am Gifted’ Programme around the world, we are looking for dynamic, passionate and committed individuals to join our team.

What does it take to join us? You have to be a role model (amazing academic results and be highly successful in your field) and have excellent leadership and presentation skills. Most importantly, you must have a love for helping people and making a difference in their lives.

Send your resumes to our Singapore Head Office:
10 Hoe Chiang Road #01-01 Keppel Towers, Singapore 089315.

May 2009 be awesome for you!