Words by Richest Man on Earth

Here is a good one from the richest man on earth!


As hard as a lot of people might find the content below... I'm drawn to it
as a lesson I'd like my daughter, nieces and nephew to get from somewhere.

: Bill Gates

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this!
To anyone with kids of any age, here's some advice.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things
they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how
feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids
with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for
failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will
expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about
yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school.
You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it
opportunity.

Rule 6: I f you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine
about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they
are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your
clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you
were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of
your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but
life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and
they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer.
This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off
and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF.
Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually
have to leave the coffee shop a nd go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

PS: Sounds true for some huh?, as you read through. Bill Gates is indeed a practical and market driven person. Let's learn something from him.

Inspiring Movies - Rocky Balboa

Managed to get hold and watched Rocky Balboa..a movie that is acted by 60years old Syl..and highly recommended by viewers.....indeed an Inspiring Movie, that teaches us that Fear is not a Factor, when you aim to succeed and to Win!

"It is not about how hard you hit, but about how hard you get hit, and keep moving forward. It is about how much you can take, and move forward. If you know what is your worst, go out and get the worst, but you gonna be willing to take the hit....In Order to WIN!!!"

Mind Simulating Quotes #2

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us

You should not comply something due to fear, You should believe & trust what you are doing is right

If only everything in life is as precious as you!

You make each working day exciting

The different colors of your personality makes this world an exciting place to be in

We make things happen instead of waiting for things to happen. A proactive mindset is one factors that differentiates us

Cheers,
Sean =)

Mind Simulating Quotes #1

You don't Face your Fears, You should Stand Up to Them

The Future belongs to those who believe in the Beauty of Their Dreams

The Man who has no imagination has no wings to fly high

We cannot control the directions of the wind, but maybe we can adjust our sails

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a Team, but one Man cannot make a Team

When you bring a single light of Peace, It will brighten up wherever you go

Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly

The most Important thing about Motivation is Goal Setting. You should always have a Goal

To be Successful, you need to develop the hunger for it

Teamwork is the catalysts that yields excellence from shared thoughts

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible

Cheers,
Sean =)

Inspiring Movies - Most Influential Speech!

Yet another great contribution by Warriors.

Check this one out! Rudy is the name of the movie. This movie certainly presents one of the most influential speeches available...Put yourself in the shoes...Feel it.....

Inspiring Quotes from Dutton in the movie:
"When are you the Quitting Type???"
"There are greater tragedies out there.."

"PROVE WHAT!!!??? In this lifetime, you don't have to prove to anybody, except yourself. And what you gone through, if you have not done that by now, it gonna never happen..."



Inspiring Quote from Coach:

"You long know what you have to do...Remember: No One, and i mean No One comes into our house & pushes us around. This is your game now, gentlemen. Last game for seniors - You will remember it for life."

Attracting, Retaining and Developing Gen Y – The twenty-somethings:

I was busy preparing for an executive presentation for some strategic plans for company where i came across an article from FORTUNE Magazine that was shared by a co-colleague on Managing Gen Y - The Twenty-Somethings.

I had made an executive summary of it and had presented it to my management team. Here, i would like to share with those that are either managing this Gen Y or aspiring to move into management levels.

Characteristics:
Ambitious, Demanding, Question everything, Unapologetic.

Demanding- They want productive tasks to do from the first day of work, and people they work for, notice and react to their performance. They have high expectations, but they have the highest expectations first and foremost of themselves. They are determined to live their best lives now.

How they look, how spoiled they are, to what they want – even demand of work, they do think they are special. What makes them different is their willingness to talk about it, without much shame & with the expectation that somebody will help figure it out.
No one joins a company hoping to do the same job forever. These days even your neighbourhood bartender aspires to own the place someday.

Good News – going to be the most high-performing workforce in the history of the world. They walk in with more information in their heads and fingertips.

Retention:
They want what their parents have given them – Love, Encouragement and Rewards.
In corporate terms – Support Network, work that challenges more than it bores, and continuous feedback. The loyalty of twenty-somethings is really based on the relationships they have with those directly above them.

Business cards are an easy way to make young employees feel valued. Letting them shadow older employees helps, as does inviting them to a management meeting now and then.

Development:
Need to build tools that not just about retention, but about having people develop skills faster, so that they can take on larger opportunities – a long term goal.

For Short term goal – we need to harness Gen Y energy.
Because something that comes out of their mouth is going to actually outside the box, something that none of us have ever thought about. Give them opportunities. Maximise Resources, Unleash their Potential. They thrive when given Real Responsibility. We need to tap and use 100% of their innovation, enthusiasm, energy, and fresh perspective.
Twenty-something wants to know that they’re on a career path. But it’s not just a question of where they’re going, they want to know how you’re going to help them get there.

Adapted from: FORTUNE May 28 2007 Issue, Pg 38-47

Top 10 Inspiring Movies - Cinderella Man

Cinderella Man

This is the 5th nominations and well contibuted by a friend from US.

This is an Inspiring Movie that is based on the true story of Jim Braddock, a heavyweight boxer.

"In the time of the Great Depression, there stood a father....
And his passion is to lead his family through the country's most emotional years..
He did that using his hands, his gloves, his passion, his determination and his dreams..."

"He was given something no man could ever decline...........
A SECOND Chance.............
And he made no 2nd thoughts on it...
Cos he Believes that we have got some sails over our lifes........."

Struggles makes you Stronger!

This story has a very valuable moral lesson. It was shared by Michael from Warrior Forum and i find it so meaningful that i have seeked his permission to share with my viewers.

Struggles makes you Stronger!

"A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day he saw a small opening in the cocoon. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no further... so, the man decided to help the butterfly.He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But, it had a swollen body, and small shrivelled wings. He continued to watch the butterfly, because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shrivelled wings. It was never able to fly.What he had done in his well intentioned kindness and haste, he did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If "God" allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as we could have been...... and we could never fly....... Have a great day, a great life, and struggle a little... remember... "Universe" wants you to fly!"

So often we want to take the easy way out with everything. But real growth comes from persevering through adversity, not by avoiding it. Each obstacle that we overcome, makes us stronger.

Inspiring Movies - 4th Nominations (Be Inspired!)

Akeelah and the Bee

Akeelah and the Bee was a film which truly inspired me as an Individual. A film in which shows a young black girl coming from an urban neighborhood, raised by a single mother, but still motivated and inspired to use her gift of spelling to the highest degree. During my time watching this film, my emotions were overwhelmed with a sense of positive energy in which inspired me to be motivated to continue doing my best in life, and not settling for excuses for where and how I grew up, and the failures I encountered and taking every bit of my not so positive past to strengthen my positive future.

Following are some Powerful & Mind-Busting Quotes that i captured and realised in that movie:

"In a place where dreams are hard to come by, one girl will start a journey...."

"When odds are a Million to One......and Talent is only a Beginning......"

"Our Deepest Fear is not that we are inadequate. Our Deepest Fear is that we are powerful beyond measures...That means we should not be afraid..Afraid of What?? Afraid of ME..Myself!"

"It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

YOU CAN'T BELIEVE IN A DREAM..UNTIL YOU CAN BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!

BIGGER Network, BETTER Sales

Been thinking of what i have achieved and learnt for my past 2 and half years working as a Product Specialist in a global chemical company. Time really past, and as a sales cum technical specialist, life is also full of challenges. Was looking in my scrapebook diary and decided to share following thoughts as a Salesperson with The World!

Contrary to popular belief, marketing and sales are not entirley about successfully selling a product or service. Most of the time, it is about coping with rejection from customers (and sometimes internally in office). This is an experience i am sure all people in the sales profession are most familiar with. It is naturally not easy to cope with rejection.

The uncomfortable feeling of disappointment comes at once when a saleperson sees the expression of boredom or doubt in a customer's face. Yes! This happens even when they know you are working in a well-known company. Yet, we are expected to keep up a cheerful look, in spite of the fact that much effort and time spent in promoting our products or services have come to nothing.

We, Singaporeans, are educated from young to always work towards successful endeavours, and not hesitate to sell our labour to achieve that. This is evident right from primary school, when little children put in many hours of study and practice on assessment books to prepare for an upcoming class test. Clearly evident now in the way my nieces are studying.

Yet in Salesmanship, hard work does not always translate into a successful deal.

A dedicated salesperson, who gives 100% in his work, can still expect not to seal any deals nine times out of ten. Callous as it may sound, that is indeed a fact of life, as success in sales is measured by how many business deals are actually sealed in reality.

Hmm. Does that mean that hard work and labour are a waste of time in the Sales & Marketing Profession? Simply, No! Bcos, if a salesperson adopts a defeatist attitude, then it is certain that not a single sale will be made, bcos the first step towards sealing a potential deal is making sales pitches to clients.

We need to build on the goodwill and reputation created by advertisements (Marketing) and branding (Pioneers of company) for our products. What Salesperson needs to work on is our NETWORKING Skills. Networking is crucial in Sales & Marketing. I SAY It is KING!!!
Of course we still need marketing tactics, our eloquence, and personal charisma to convince potential customers that they needed or wanted our products. We need to spend time building a relationship with our perspective customers and find a way to convince to buy with us.

Since there is no way to avoid rejection, building a vast network of contacts can reduce the chances of being rejected. It can also help you build a reputation as a trustworthy salesman.

A Salesperson needs to start with at least once customer who is willing to listen to him and purchase his ideas and trust. This might eventually become a Key Opinion Leader that speaks for us.

So the next time YOU are rejected when you are trying to sell your product or services, take it in your stride. The once deal that you can manage to seal out of 10, or even one out of a hundred, still counts as a success.

A true sales professional should have determination, passion and willingness to sell a challenge.

Take home message:
"Rejection is an everyday occurence in the life of a Sales Professional. Learn how to cope with it"

You Can Do It Too! Passion Wins It!

You will like this one. Newest Sensation from Britain Got Talents competition where Simon Cowell is one of the judge.

Not just a sweet and lovely smile - But i see a 5 years old girl, full of PASSION and DETERMINATION of what she wants!

You gonna love this one...Be Inspired!!!



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