Personal Development Blog – Top 3 Reasons Why It Is The Best Decision?
It has been a while since my last article and many things had happened. So I’m back here what I’ve learned to love doing and that is writing. It has been also more than a year since I started this site after attending an Internet Marketing Boot camp by Fabian Lim. I actually started my personal development blog just after 2 months from the course since we did an exercise on creating a landing page.
Why create a blog in the first place? It was a great start for me to start on my journey about internet marketing and learn how to use wordpress at the same time. Now, why blog about personal development and not about internet marketing or make money online? During those times I was actually doing network marketing and I’ve immersed myself a lot about self improvement materials. So I made a commitment after learning it from Tony Robbins Unlimited Power about this word ‘CANI’ which means Constant And Never-ending Improvement. This inspired him to create an English version of Japanese term kaizen that means improvement or change for the better. The closer meaning is continuous improvement since I’ve worked with Japanese manufacturing company for several years. That’s how I came also about my never-ending personal development story. Oh by the way, I’ve ranked number 2 on google for the keywords – personal development story.
I believe that personal growth is the best decision that I made. Here are some top 3 reasons why.
1. The person I become – tremendous changes have happened to me ever since I took this path. If you can ask my mother, before I think I have a very negative attitude among the 4 siblings even I was the eldest. Now, it’s the other way around, I have a positive mental attitude as the most dominant. I see my environment as a reflection of myself. I am more open and expanding my view to the world of unlimited possibilities.
2. Attract and inspire – If I developed myself ten times more imagine how much I can affect my family and friends. Just recently, I gave lots of personal advice and some inspirations to my brother who was at his crossroad after failing an exam for 3 times. After sometime he was very thankful to me for introducing him to Jim Rohn and other inspiring references. A friend of mine was also inspired and started his own blog after reading some of my posts. I must say that the law of attraction really works. Here’s a great attraction, someone from Michael E. Gerber Company (He is the best selling author of the E-Myth books series just for your information) contacted me to do a joint venture in one of his projects. How cool was that?
3. Time Value – time is the most important and precious resource that we have. I have a television in my room but I seldom turn it on. I spend most of my time on reading books but more often listening to audio books from my iPod. It has been a habit every time I travelled on a bus or MRT (Mass Rapid Transit here in Singapore) to listen to my audio books, even in my workplace. Also I love to spend my time in the public library every time I have run out of audio books to listen.
Personal Power
Here are some few powerful things that I’ve learned while listening to an audio book of Anthony Robbins about Unlimited Power.
Personal power is the ability to act or take action.
There are 3 steps for personal power;
1. Energy – Physical vitality to take action. Physical, intellectual and spiritual energy to take action to make the most of what we have. Need to maximize physical vibrancy.
2. Skills – a. specifically define exactly what it is you want and
b. specifically define exactly what others want and fill the needs elegantly.
skills can be learned and developed through a technology called NLP (Neuro Linguistical Programming). It is the science of personal achievement. The key to NLP is modeling successful person’s beliefs and actions.
there are 3 fundamentals steps to any form of human excellence.
1. model or duplicate their belief system
2. duplicate the person’s mental syntax – sample is,” The dog bit Johnny” or what if say, ” Johnny bit the dog” so you get what does this mean. This is just basically changing the order of sequence and that is syntax.
3. duplicate the person’s physiology – is posture, breathing pattern, tonality, facial expressions,mascular tension. it determines the person how they use their brains.
challenge is to become a modeler.
“Control your thoughts they become your dreams
Control your dreams they become your actions
Control your actions they become your habits
Control your habits they become your destiny”
3. Turning Fear into Power -
There are 7 Disciplines of Success
1. Always act from Personal Power (the ability to take action).
key point: I realized that there are no failures; there are only results or outcomes.
you always succeed to get results.
2. I am totally responsible for my world or I create my world.
key points: responsible, taking charge
3. I am always stretching (if you can’t you must)
and there are 3 keys to stretching
i. commitment to do something beyond the present ability.
ii. make a public declaration or commitment
iii. model someone who is already producing the results
iv. do it! follow the model…act as if you do it.
4. I am committed to unconscious competence (flow and produce the results) rather than cognitive understanding (details).
5. I always act from personal integrity (wholeness, true to themselves).
I always lie (our own beliefs) with integrity.
6. The meaning of communication is the response you get.
7. I am committed to do WEIT. (What Ever It Takes to Succeed) caveat: without harming any person. goal is from interest to commitment (to make it happen).
There are 7 Character Traits to become Successful
1. Passion – juice that makes your life
2. Beliefs
3. Strategies
4. Values
5. Energy level
6. Bonding
7. Develop your communication skills
