Nicholas Yeap - Live With Passion!

I have a very closed friend who told me that my written english is really bad. And my speaking english just so-so.

Yeah, of course, she told me after reading my blog.

What can i say? I replied.”Yeah, that’s me!”.

It is not that i am proud of my broken english, it is just that i am being myself. The way I write in this blog is the same way that you see me speaking to friends and even in my workshops. You might be asking me now, aint i have to improve myself? I am definitely improving myself each and everyday. I guess those who know me realize this changes.

Just Be Yourself

You must be wondering why i wrote this article. I should’nt be condenming myself and let the whole world know that i am not good right? Well, to me - humility and honesty are very important, especially I am using this blog to express myself to my reader. I am sure you want me to be as direct as possible. This is exactly the same thing that you will expect when you meet up with me or perhaps attending my training workshop.

What i have learnt is when someone told you about your weakness, do the followings:

1. Admit it !

2. Ponder about it and be humble to take up the challenge to CHANGE !

3. Be teachable & Improve it each & everyday !

I have done my part. What about you? Have anyone told you about your weaknesses? Let me be very frank with you, people will normally tell you the RIGHT answer but NOT the TRUE answer!

It’s time to challenge your fellow friends to be TRUE & HONEST with you.

Encourage them to tell you the TRUTH!

Once they open up their heart and tell you - be GRATEFUL as not many are DARE TO STAND UP!

Whatever it is, just relax & have an open mind !

Remember - Just be Yourself!

As we are approaching Year 2009, i believe many of us are taking this special moment to reflect upon our life for the entire year of 2008. 

What have you been achieving for the past 1 year? Is there anything significant that you have done for your life? 

I suggest you to take a moment to list down your “ACHIEVEMENT” for 2008. Yeah, only the “achievement” or success”. Forget about the failure for the time being. It is no longer important. It’s over. Stop focusing on it and blaming yourself for not doing what you suppose to do.

The important thing now is to do what you need to do - that’s why the entire planning for year 2009 is so important. 

I have come across this program from Dave Dee and I would like to share with you the simple Ultimate Success System that he has laid out …

He has used this system to increase his profif by 1000%. He even paid off his $ 14,000 credit card debts, bought a new house, a new car and started to earn the kind of money that he used to earn in a year in a month. Wow! That’s amazing isn’t? 

The 5 key system are :

1. Know Your Outcome

2. Get the Knowledge that you need

3. Plan Your Action

4. Manage Your Time (He prefer to call it Manage Your Outcome)

5. Test, Monitor & Adjust 

I personally find Step 3 & 4 very much important and I highly suggest you to take a closer look at it. 

Thanks to Dave Dee for offering the complete system for FREE over here as he used to sell this for $14.95. 

To download your copy, click here

I wish you a Merry Christmas & Blessed New Year!

Are you excited about your life? If not, you got to continue reading …

I am into the business of coaching people the find out their purpose of life. Yeah, most of the people know that they need have a purpose because living a life without a purpose is meaningless. But just by having a purpose alone is not good enough, you need to have a GREAT PASSION too! This is extremely important so that you have compelling reasons to wake up every single day.

Living a life with purpose and passion simply means living your life whole heartedly.

It does not matter what you do, the important thing is how you do it! Life is just too short too “play safe”, you got to be all you can be and pursue the kind of life style that you meant to be. To live a life with great passion / enthusiasm, you can’t just read some books and meditate and expect some miracles to happen.

I have many clients that come and told me, why i folllow what “The Secret” told me but nothing seems to happen. Even it happens, it does not last long. Very simple. The complete law is called “The Law of Vibration and Attraction” not just “Law of Attraction”. You can’t attract until you vibrate.

This means you have to constantly do what you need to do eventhough there seems to be nothing is happening. The moment you start doing (in our term - when you start to move, you start to vibrate) and you are going to send lots more energy and tell the universe what you want in life. The more you vibrate, the stronger the signals are - then the quicker and easier for you to achieve what you want in life.

Make a different in your life today and start to learn to follow your heart and live the kind of life that you meant to be. In order to do so, you just need to change your approach to life!

Yes - Just Change Your Approach to Life!

Instead of focusing on the issue/problem/challenges that you are facing now. Focus on the solutions.

Instead of asking yourself why all these bad things happen in my life, start asking what you can learn by simply facing those challenges.

Instead of keep on planning for your life, start living your life NOW and make changes and decisions along the way. Always begin with end in mind.

Instead of blaming yourself for what you have not achieve in life, start asking yourself how you can improve yourself just 1% each and everyday.

The choice of word that you use is extremely important. 

Do you see the glass “half full” or “half empty”. It is your choice. And Life is a Choice too!

Do you have something that you think you are good at? Or something that people think you are good at?

I believe everyone have some kind of talent. 

Or

Do you have something that you USED to be good at?

And just because you have not use the gift or practise it for a while, it become rusty / you no longer good at it.

I want you to think about it for a while. What is the thing that you are good at?

It could be playing musical instrument (eg. guitar/piano), public speaking, communicating in certain language/dialect, teaching, driving etc.

When is the last time you use the gift? 1 year ? 5 years? Or more than that … ?

I used to be good at singing or I would rather say many of my friends will ask me to sing for them each and everytime there is a function. In fact, I also think that I am good. 

Now, I would say - I used to be good!

Today - during the Christmas Caroling Practice, there is a request to sing solo. And everyone is given a chance to perform and they will choose the best from the group. I thought I was good. 

To the fact that I have not been practising my singing skill for several years, I start to loose the voice that I used to have and also the confident. It is the same go to my stamina and skill in badminton too. 

A small incident like this had just impacted me.

If you have something that you are good at but you have not been practising it for awhile due to your busy schedule, I suggest you to set apart 2-3 hour a week to polish up the skill again.

If you think you are good - think GREAT because “Being Good is the number 1 enemy of being GREAT”.

Never compromise!

I had been a christian since 1997 and i was never baptised and served in any church - not even my local church (Wesley Methodist Church Kepong). Yeah, for those who have known me for long, I was serving in Boys’ Brigade - The Oldest Uniform Unit in the World - for the past couple of years (i joined the organization since 1992). I am currently serving in 12th Kuala Lumpur Company. 

Recently my mum just accepted Christ, about 3 months ago and she was going to be baptised on 31st Dec 2008. What an amazing transformation? There had been a truly blessings for my mum the first day she accepted Christ and now she is walking very closely with God. Did her quiet time and spending most of her time with God. I am happy to see her transformation. In fact, I am proud of her.

Last Sunday, it was my first time serving in Church Sunday Service @ Glad Tidings PJ (Cantonese Service) and I thought it was easy to just handle the projection of song lyrics and ppt presentations. To my surprise there is so much thing that i’ve learnt just over a short service. The best thing is my mum is already serving as a backup singer while i’m clicking the projection of song lyrics. She is even moving faster than me (in fact her understanding about Christianity is more in-depth than what i knew). 

The reason why i shared this story with you is that it does not matter how long you are in the things that you are doing now (or the industry/business you are into).

The key thing is are you doing it right and consistently?

Are you building a solid foundation in your business and especially in your life?

If not, you are just too busy moving around without proper direction and strategy. I suggest you to spend a full day with yourself to rethink about what you are doing right now and revisit your strategy for the entire year 2008. 

Set goal and focus your strategy and planning for 2009.

This is the best time now!

Never say you are too busy and you have no time. Otherwise you’ll just wasting too much of your time.

Are you doing the right thing or just doing the things right? 

Sit back ! Relax and Enjoy your day!

Today I accompanied my mum to hospital as she was not feeling well for the past few days. Finally she made up her mind to see the doctor. Early in the morning, she asked me to send her to Government Hospital which in my mind, it will take VERY LONG TIME! The que is going to be very long.

This is my perception towards local government service. So I decided to bring along my notepad and newly bought book “The Starbucks Experience” and I guess I’m going to read at least 5 chapters before we can go home.

Shame on me!

Before i can finish the 2nd chapter, we’re done! We spent less than an hour there (which originally I thought we gonna spend at least 2-3 hours there).

I have underestimated the Government Service again despite the great improvement I experience at Bank Negara yesterday.

Lesson learnt: Do not pre-judge a book by its cover. Or I should say - Future is never equal to Past.

Yes, many of us had bad experience with the government and it has been always in our mind - when you go to government department, you are sure to get slow service. You will end up being frustrated. Yes, that’s what i always have in mind. 

But …

Everything has changed. 

Three incidents / departments have changed my perception towards the government service. 

1st is my encounter with MATRADE at Malaysia International Trade & Consumer Fair @ Mines Exhibition Hall.

2nd is my encounter with Bank Negara.

3rd is my encounter with Klinik Kesihatan, Taman Ehsan.

Many of us had been surrounded by some bad experiences in the past and it is very tough for us to continue to move forward in our life. It is even tougher if we keep on thinking about those bad experiences. Yeah, it is easy to say but during my service as a life coach - many of my clients are just too busy thinking about their past hurts and problems.

Take a strong courage today to just shift your mind a little bit towards the things that you want to achieve instead of living in the past.

These are the few steps you can use when you have some bad feelings / discouragement in your life:

1. Talk to your mind / yourself - “Thank you for Sharing! Let’s move on!”

2. Take a deep breath. (Method Count 6 - Breath In : Count 2 - Hold : Count 4: Breath Out)

3. Focus on a Positive Energy Thought e.g. What a wonderful world, picture of your love one, your achievement in life, something you want to achieve in the future, a picture of you smiling etc.

4. Smile (Laugh out loud even - this really works)

5. Affirm a Positive Statement e.g. I Can Do It, I am a Success Warrior, I have a Millionaire Mind etc.

6. Ask yourself - What’s Next ! (This is to continue your momentum on the positive energy).

Always remember to cheer up & live your life with passions.

To your success!

Something interesting pop up from my mind, yeah while i was taking a shower today.

I used to fill up the tub - full of water (100%) but today I wanted to just fill up 50% of it. Other than just saving the water, i found out that even I have lesser water but the whole process is the same and it basically took the same time (or slightly lesser).

Well, it strikes me.

Most of the time, we never complete stuff that is given within the time frame. Or if i can relate to it, most of us only study when the time is nearer to the exam time instead of diligently doing our revision on a daily basis. Does that sounds familiar to you?

In fact we can complete many tasks even with lesser resources.

Today i was browsing through the Funds and Schemes for Small & Medium Enterprises promoted by The Government of Malaysia. Not to my surprise, alot of funds are made available only to Bumiputras. Despite the lack of funding for non-bumis, I still find that we can excel in many ways we do. Eventhough there are not many funds available for non-bumis, but it is sufficient enough to kick start a business.

I suggest you to go to Bank Negara to find out more information.

Thanks to Cradle Investment Program and also MSC Malaysia for the RM 150,000 start-up grants too.

Besides, listed are the few websites that worth checking out for more grants & loans made available for SMI & SMEs …

1. http://www.smeinfo.com.my 

2. http://www.cgc.com.my

3. http://www.smidec.gov.my

4. http://www.matrade.gov.my

5. http://www.mtdc.com.my

6. http://www.smebank.com.my

Never use the excuse that there is not enough funding or resources to help you to start your own business. You just have to ask for it. Infact there are so many options available even though you are non-bumis.

It is time to reflect upon yourself. Stop blaming and Start Working!

Before you consider to look for funding around - do you have a great idea? Start building a good foundation in your business and trust me, the rest of the thing will just come naturally.