What is true Wealth ?

What is true Wealth ?
When can you call yourself truly wealthy ?

You are Wealthy if you can maintain foreever your current lifestyle even though you stop working tomorrow !

How many days could you survive if you stopped working tomorrow ?
In a recent Singapore survey, 62% of people cannot survive more than 90 days ! How about you ?

You are truly wealthy , if you can survive foreever without working, just with one or a combination of the following multiple streams of continuous incomes that can support your current lifestyle :

1. Interest payment from your fixed deposits.

2. Dividends from unit trusts or stock market share investment.

3. Net rental income from real estate investment.

4. Residual income from insurance sales.

5. Residue income from network marketing business.

6. Royalty income from these intellectual copyrights : Music, songs, books.

7.Franchise income from franchised business.

Setiawangsa : My Home and My Business Base

Central

Saturday July 15, 2006

Home is heaven in a gem of a township

By CHOW HOW BAN
hbchow@thestar.com.my

IT HAS been described as a gem of a township that is a pleasure to drive into and this is absolutely true of Taman Setiawangsa in Kuala Lumpur.

A development by Island & Peninsular Bhd (I&P), the housing estate boasts hilly terrain, well-maintained infrastructure, a good balance of commercial and housing facilities and a panoramic view of the city skyline from the highest point in the area.

The tree-lined road leading to the hilltop in Taman Setiawangsa.

No two parts of the 100ha development are the same. Visitors entering the housing estate will be greeted by the serenity of a purely residential area with terrace houses.

Further down Jalan Taman Setiawangsa, one will experience the hustle-bustle of a mature township with a busy commercial area, Giant hypermarket and fast-food chains.

Cruising up Jalan Bukit Setiawangsa, the main road leading to the hilltop, is a pleasant experience as one can see houses at the foothill – matchbox-like in the distance – and great landscaping along the road.

As one reaches the hilltop, the environment changes from a hectic to laid-back and almost rustic atmosphere. There, one can enjoy some of the nicest designs in bungalows and semi-detached homes, get a breath of fresh air and take in the spectacular view of the city.

Visitors can take in a panoramic view of the Kuala Lumpur skyline from the hilltop of Taman Setiawangsa.

Puncak Setiawangsa Residents Association chairman Shahidan Sabu said Taman Setiawangsa was divided into three areas, namely the mixed commercial and housing area at the foothill, Bukit Setiawangsa (mid-hill) and Puncak Setiawangsa (hilltop).

He said the foothill and mid-hill areas were developed in stages in the 1980s before work started on Puncak Setiawangsa, which was completed in 1995.

Since the formation of the residents association, he said, the residents had beefed up security by implementing the guardhouse and patrolling system to maintain peace and serenity in the area.

“These security guards are staff of the Civil Defence Department. They work two shifts daily and patrol each road at two-hour intervals. The system has been effective and there have not been many break-ins and snatch thefts in this area.

Jalan Puncak Setiawangsa 8 ends in a dead-end that offers a breathtaking view of Section 5 in Wangsa Maju.

“Eighty percent of the residents of Puncak Setiawangsa pay their security fee. I would say we have a united and cooperative community,” he said.

“Every morning, you will see residents coming up to Puncak Setiawangsa to jog and the Federal Territories Minister (Datuk Zulhasnan Rafique, who lives there) is one of them.”

He said the area was a popular spot from which city folk watched the fireworks display during the Merdeka and New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Taman Setiawangsa was I&P’s first development project in Kuala Lumpur. Just a five-minute drive from the city centre with easy access to the Ampang-KL Elevated Highway and Middle Ring Road 2, the township has adequate retail outlets and other amenities like a mosque, a recreational field, a hawker centre, two schools and a multi-storey car park and multi-purpose hall.

Many residents enjoy playing football in the only football field in Taman Setiawangsa. The field has been upgraded and is well maintained.

The last phase to be launched is the Tiara development involving double-storey terrace houses. Upon completion in 2007, the entire Taman Setiawangsa development will have an estimated 3,092 units.

Lau Ah Hock, 54, who has been living there for nine years, said Taman Setiawangsa was more a residential area than a commercial area and life there was quite relaxing.

“I enjoy the greenery and it is quite peaceful here. It is the nearest point that people can go for exercise apart from Taman Tasik Titiwangsa and Lake Gardens in the city,

Another resident, Lam Mok Foong, who moved to the area in 1988, however, said development had been rapid and residents could no longer enjoy the vast expanse of greenery that they used to.

Mamak restaurants with giant screens are the only places for residents to hang out in Taman Setiawangsa.

Although she felt that the area lacked recreational facilities as there was only a football field, a basketball court and a community hall, she was nevertheless happy with its strategic location and accessibility.

She noted there were now fewer illegal street hawkers as the local authority had successfully relocated them to the hawker centre in Jalan Setiawangsa 13.

Shahidan said everything ranging from road signs and landscape to rubbish collection had been good.

“Taman Setiawangsa is a strategic place with well-planned development, beautiful scenery and conducive living environment. It certainly fits the description of rumah syurgaku (my house, my heaven),” he added.

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Healthy Diet For Busy People

Another category that I am excited to blog is titled as Healthy Diet for busy people.

This blog would chronicle time saving solutions,tips,thoughts and opinions that the novice blogger Wong Tooi Giap and his wife Leong Bee Bee endeavour to get healthy diet for the family of four, despite living a very busy life.

We have two wonderful twin sons Wong Qinyang and Wong Qinyuen, both age 19, who had recently completed their A level exams.

We have no mate at home.

Both of us work fulltime running a stationery shop from 10.00am to 9.30 pm daily.I am a general insurance agent as well. We are working on Herbalife network marketing as independent distributors.

Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy

Seven Self-Motivators by Brian Tracy (excerpted from the Success Mastery Academy)

Here are seven Self-Motivator reminders for you to review on a regular basis.

#1 – Get Serious. Make a decision to go all the way to the top. Up to now you’ve thought about it. Up to now, it’s passed your mind. Many of you made the decision, and you’ve made up your mind to go all the way to the top, and your lives have taken off. It’s the most extraordinary thing. Your life is one, like in the shadow going up the dark side of the hill until the moment you decide that “By gum, I’m gong to be the best at what I do. I’m going to be in the top 10 percent.” And suddenly you rose into the sunshine, and your life is forever after different - wonderful. Get serious. Don’t fool around anymore.

#2 – Identify Your Limiting Step to Sales Success. What’s your limiting step? What’s the one skill area that’s holding you back? What’s the skill? What’s the quality? What’s the action? Ask other people. Find out what you need to become good at. Sometimes it may be only one skill. If you became really, really good on the telephone, you could maybe double your prospecting effectiveness and double your sales. If you became very, very good at getting the order at the end from qualified prospects, you could double your sales. If you became very, very good at managing your time to really, really manage your time well, you may be able to double your face time and double your income. Find out what’s holding you back. What is the critical limiting step that’s determining your success today?

#3 – Get Around the Right People. Who are the right people? The right people are the people in this room. Get around winners. Get around positive people. Get around people with goals and plans, people who are going somewhere with their lives and have high aspirations. Get around eagles. As Zig says, “You can’t scratch with the turkeys if you want to fly with the eagles.” And get away from negative people. Get away from toxic people that complain and whine and moan all the time. Who needs them? Life is too short.

#4 – Take Excellent Care of Your Health. Take excellent care of your physical health. That means good diet, good exercise. Everybody knows they should eat better foods, get regular exercise and especially lots of rest. That’s very important. If you’re going to work hard 5 days a week, go to bed early 5 days a week. Get a good night’s sleep. Be fully rested, and tonight get really rested. You don’t have to watch the Letterman Show…

#5 – Positive Visualization. See yourself as the very best in your field. Remember, all improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures. Visualize yourself, see yourself as the best continually. You are the best. Isn’t that right? So therefore, see yourself as the best.

#6 – Positive Self-Talk. Talk to yourself positively all the time. Control your inner dialogue. And what do you say to yourself? Say, “I’m the best.” Say it. Say I’m the best. I like myself. I can do it. I love my work. Yes, that’s how you talk to yourself. And the more you say it to yourself…someone may say, “Well, what if you say those things to yourself and you don’t believe them. Isn’t that lying to yourself?” No, that’s not lying to yourself. It’s telling the truth in advance. Because it doesn’t matter where you’re coming from – all that matters is where you’re going. Talk to yourself the way you want to be, not the way you just happen to be at this moment. Remember, you may have gotten where you are today largely by accident. But where you’re going in the future is purely by design.

#7 – Positive Action. Get going. Move fast. Develop a sense of urgency. A sense of urgency is the one thing that you can develop that will separate you from everyone else in your field. Develop a bias for action. When you get a good idea, do it now. Only 2% of people in our society have a bias for action. And if you’re already in the top 10%, you can move yourself in the top 2% by resolving that whenever you have an idea or something, do it now. And the faster you move, the better you get. And the better you get, the more you like yourself. And the more you like yourself, the higher your self-esteem is. And the higher your self-esteem is, the greater your self-discipline. And the more you persist, then you ultimately become unstoppable.

Remember, You’re the best!

Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is the author of The Success Mastery Academy which is part of this week’s special, The Five Day Seminar Package Blowout Offer — at 80% off the normal retail price, free shipping*, two additional Bonuses and a payment option! For more information or to purchase go to http://5day.jimrohn.com or call 800-929-0434.

50 Rules To Make Money In Network Marketing

1. USE THE PRODUCTS/SERVICE – regularly

2. Make a TOTAL COMMITMENT for at least one year to do your best.

3. SELL YOURSELF first – on the company, the products, and the compensation plan.

4. Spend 90% of your business time with distributors, customers and prospects.

5. TALK to at least ONE person daily on the products and opportunity. RECOMMEND the products and business to them. Be Sincere.

6. LET EVERYONE KNOW what business you are in. Promote what you love to do!

7. Make “UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE” more important than product knowledge.

8. DUPLICATE your EFFORTS and make distributors independent of you.

9. MOTIVATE YOUR GROUP MONTHLY by offering money, travel, recognition and other rewards for specific achievements.

10. PRAISE YOUR DISTRIBUTORS’ ACHIEVEMENTS, at every opportunity.

11. MINGLE WITH TOP DISTRIBUTORS and ASK HOW they made it.

12. BE PERSISTENT – only one out of every 20 people you approach may get serious about the business or be interested in your products. It’s a numbers game!

13. LEAD BY EXAMPLE. Never stop recruiting, training and retailing. Your distributors will duplicate what you do.

14. KEEP IT SIMPLE: Do things others can easily duplicate and copy.

15. KEEP IN TOUCH – communicate by newsletter, meetings, weekly calls, postcards, voice mail – and pass on pertinent information immediately.

16. Conduct SIMPLE, brief and dramatic presentations. Facts tell, stories sell. Show people how to succeed by example.

17. LISTEN 80% of the time, talk 20%

18. Satisfy ALL complaints immediately.

19. CONCENTRATE on what you can do for your distributors and customers, not on your profits.

20. ASK FOR REFERRALS from your best customers… for daily cash flow.

21. GIVE CUSTOMERS MORE than they expect. Everyone loves a free gift.

22. Develop at least 100 retail and/or wholesale customers… for daily cash flow.

23. Ship all orders out within 24 hours.

24. BELIEVE IN YOUR PRODUCTS/SERVICE so much that you know every person you talk to is going to buy from you.

25. Tell your customers how much you APPRECIATE their business.

26. DON’T ACCEPT “NO” as a final answer – follow-up each prospect monthly with new information. Situations change daily!

27. Send customers monthly promotional information. Don’t forget your customers and don’t let your customers forget you.

28. Always SPEAK ENTHUSIASTICALLY about your business and products.

29. Work on TOP PRIORITY projects that produce the highest returns.

30. BUILD YOUR LIST of contacts daily while building a solid reputation.

31. Approach former TOP PRODUCERS of no longer existing multi-level companies. They may be open to a new venture.

32. Fit the NEEDS of a prospect with the BENEFITS of your products and/or business opportunity. Always focus on benefits.

33. ORGANIZE YOUR FILES so you can locate any piece of information in 30 seconds. Time is really money.

34. Use an ANSWERING machine or service and return all calls within 24 hours. Use a cellular phone for best service.

35. Set daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly GOALS – and DO WHATEVER IS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THEM.

36. SUBSCRIBE to network marketing magazines. Read self-help books. Keep learning daily.

37. LISTEN to cassette tapes on network marketing tips from top earners. Constantly improve.

38. DO NOT PASS negative rumors downline! Check out the facts yourself.

39. Commit to your people who make a commitment to success.

40. TELL OTHERS what they are interested in knowing, not what you think they should hear. Be interested more than interesting.

41. SPEND MONEY on things that will make you more money. Minimize unnecessary expenses.

42. SCHEDULE important tasks at the time of day when you are at your best.

43. DELEGATE – do those things only you can do. Save yourself for critical projects.

44. READ BIOGRAPHIES of successful people to be inspired by their lives.

45. AIM TO SPONSOR people who can give you the best return on your investment.

46. Plow some of your PROFITS back into build your business. This is a real business! You alone are responsible for the success of your business.

47. KNOW THAT; “If others can do it, so can you!” Challenge yourself daily.

48. Give yourself a REWARD for reaching your goal and a penalty for falling short.

49. HAVE SO MUCH FUN IN YOUR BUSINESS THAT OTHERS WILL WANT TO JOIN YOU. Promote how much fun you are having.

50. Be always driven to: DO IT NOW!

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Manufacturers spend billions to ruin your diet

When foreigners visit the United States, very often they will comment on the enormous serving sizes of foods offered in restaurants and featured in advertising. Here are some examples listed in the Georgia HealthLine Magazine

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Network Marketing Stigma.

Network Marketing Stigma.
The stigma :
You are always not welcome by prospects.

The dilemma :
To build up a huge network with better qualified prospects , you need to see many people to filter out the higher potential people.
However due to misinformation, network marketers are always not welcome.
People cannot see the benefits of meeting you.
We tend to spend long hours talking to people, people feel that you are wasting their time if they cannot see the benefits.
The solution:
The spin-off of your activities in network marketing is that you would have good network of people from all walk of life, some from your customers, your friends, your downlines and people from your network marketing company.

You can turn your strength in doing network marketing to this aspect.
You have huge network, leverage on it.
Use your network resources to
1. help to increase people revenue.
2. help to solve people problem.
3. you have connections.
The actions :
1.How to publicize your networking resources ?
1.1 Select a no. of organizations to join and publicize through them. Eg BNI, use it as a sprint board.
1.2 Write.
1.3 Speaker.

Do what you can,with what you have, where you are.

Do what you can,with what you have, where you are.

The Concept is simple but real poignant, real practical,  a street wise piece.

We are so often paralyse by our tendency to be perfect, ideal, before we overcome our procrastination for action.

We are waiting for the timing to be perfect, our mood to be perfect, our preparation to be perfect, our relationship to be perfect, before we take action.

This is the fallacy of the perfectionist syndrome.

This tendency really obstruct the towering requirements of network marketing to take massive and consistent actions in our prospecting and sponsoring activities.

Massive action is best  supported by a Daily Action Commitment.

Donald Trump opinion on network Marketing

Donald Trump opinion on network Marketing

In one of the OPRAH talk show, with Donald Trump as the guest,

she asked him “if you go bankrupt again what would you do?”

he replied: I will start a MLM business, and then all the audiences started to
BOOOOOOOOOO

and then he said: “That’s why you are sitting there and I am sitting here”

I believe MLM is a powerful concept,but it has been misused. Unfortunately most of the people can’t differentiate MLM from PYRAMID SCHEME,
just go to the website below to see what is the definition of PYRAMID SCHEME

http://www.dsam.org.my/pyramid.html

10 Ways To Transform A Pessimist

10 Ways To Transform A Pessimist
Into An Optimist by Harry Pound

It can sometimes be other people that get us down, and mean that we are less happy in out job than we might otherwise be. Do you work with anyone who is a complainer? If so, see how many of the following you can use this next month.

The Top 10 Ways to Turn a Complainer into a Positive Person.

1. Point out to them that they are complaining. Most complainers are oblivious to the fact that they whine or complain ‘that’ much.

2. Point it out vs. tolerating it. Ask people to simply change their complaint into a clear request. This is incredibly easy to do! Just remind them to do it the moment you hear them start complaining

3. Ask them to become a completely positive person when with you. They’ll look at you funny, but better that than putting up with complaints.

4. Find out what is really bothering them. A complaint is usually a symptom.

5. Hear every complaint from clients/potential customers as a way to make more money. This is more than a mind set — it’s really an effective way to increase profits if you’ll just hear the complaints as a consumer wanting to buy more or buy more easily.

6. Stop complaining yourself. When you stop, others stop.

7. Let people know that you don’t do well with complaints. Bob, I’m so bad at hearing complaints. Let’s focus on something that you’re excited about, okay?

8. Hang out only with naturally positive people. Sometimes, it’s just not worth trying to change people…

9. Focus the other person on an outcome that they really want. Say something like: If you could have it exactly as you want it, tell me what that would look like.

10. Look surprised when they start complaining and say something like: why, Tess, I never knew you to be a complainer! This must really be bad!