Before i begin , maybe we can ask ourselves how often do we imagine or work our brain juice to think of an idea that will benefit the world?

I bet most of us will say that we are too busy with our work that we don’t have time to day dream and make our minds run wild.Then i must say we are missing alot of opportunities in life that we could have gained from or benefitted others.

Ten Steps For Boosting Your Creativity
In short, the ten steps actually include.

1)music- by Johann Sebastian Bach
2)Brainstorm
3)Handy notebook for ideas
4)Playing with a dictionary
5)Define your problem
6)Go to a different environment
7)Avoid the television
8)Avoid drugs
9)Read
10)Exercise

You can read more from the site link above for a more detailed explanation on how to improve your creativity.

Moving on,today,we can see many new creations on the internet and around the world.People look at creation with different angles.It could be simplicity,sophistication,absurdly different from the rest and many more.

Who would have thought Facebook would be created after Friendster or even Myspace.The next big hit could be just on its way up and then Facebook is being attacked by Opensocial (Google’s idea).Doesn’t it ever get bored to see more social networks being formed over and over again.The features may be different in the different social networking platforms but ultimately it serves the same purpose- networking.

Is it a hassle to handle so many accounts?I feel it might be too.Creativity could branch out from old models and modified to a better one.Or it could be something new.Who knows, maybe one day social networking wouldn’t be the way it is today.

Imagination and creativity once again make the world a better place, with the latest A380 planes, the iphone, the latest gadget and all.In blogging as well, creativity is used to attract readers.

To cut the long story short, ideas are there for us to think and make it happen.It may not be something normal because if it is, it would have been thought of.That is why we need to be creative in our ideas and imagination.Because only then we can learn how to be the best saleperson,the best worker or businessman.

To have an edge above the rest, lets dare to think a different way,take a route less travelled and be the best there can be!!

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Careful spending

Learning to spend appropriately is important so that you live below your means.Do not overspend and keep a sheet that you can keep track of your expenditure is good.The economy is nothing withoutyou spending but still you must watchyour wallet closely and not living a life too hastily that you keep buying things you don’t really need.Keep it in mind.

Save

Good investments allow early retirement.Wise investments allow financial independence.Read books on investment or pick up some tips from the newspaper on financial learning or information.Although you may not have any background, its important that you learn about finance so that you can plan for the future from young.

Education

Knowledge is power.Its food for the brain.No one can improve their life without this and this is attained through reading and taking action.By doing so, we learn from our mistakes and experience we gain from it. Its not just from books and materials that we use our eyes to roll over and over again.

Long-lasting relationships

Relationships. Its a people world and everything you do almost relates with another person.So its important that you relate well to your kind.I’ve realised that there’s a lot of politics in human as well especially when you know them too well.Thats when the journey get tough and thats when everyone shows their true colours.Handle people well and you’ll stand to gain from it because afterall we are interdependent.

Work towards a goal

As mentioned probaby countless of times in my blog about goals.You can read more about them at the goal setting section.To sum it up short, you need to set a goal but no action means no results. So taking the first step to do something is the harder part than setting the goal itself.Don’t set a dead goal, set a live one.

Expect less, give more

Okay, i quite like this one but its hard to do sometimes. However, i think it will get easier as it goes by.Give more to others and expect to receive less. Go to work earlier, leave later.Express your help more and don’t ask for rewards.But we are the selfish and greedy kind.We are born with the natural urge to want to be better and get all we want.So this may not be easy and being the good guy is hard.Still, try your best to model this behaviour and i think it will foster great relationships and credibility with others.Respect is earned.Look for the big fish.Ha.

Live simple

This might not be for the long term i suppose if you started earning the big money.But for the start learning to live simple and not too luxurious may be sufficient enough.Instant gratification is not the solution.Reserve the best for the last, so start living simple.Leading a simple life sometimes could be the happiest times.I know the simplest lives are probably the people that are the happiest on earth and they are the ones that are not in the city where the stress lies.They just lead the “kampong” in Singapore , its a term of which meaning a kind of country side kind of life or the natural way of living with attap house and the like where neighbours are close to each other.

Free from worry

Worries.This is very worrying because i know that this is a psychological attack to humans and can really drain our energy.Its so hard to get rid of sometimes.Hard to battle it is,quick to kill the physique of us too.Handle it well and i’m sure you will have a life of less worry in future.Learn to carry yourself well when worry invades.Do not let it overcome you and make good balance in life by seeing the big picture.Staying optimistic is the key.

Breathe fully

This is another interesting point i gathered from that forum i mentioned at the top of this post earlier.Breathing has so much impact on your instant moment of living. You FEEL that moment of time , you breathe in and then out.I don’t know but its hard to explain the course of breathing that affects the self.However, the style of breathing and controlling it affects our state.Keep that in mind.

Smile

Short and sweet.Smile everyday,look into the mirror and smile in the morning.Its not a crazy thing to do if you’re wondering.Its something that is easy to do and yet brightens your day when you start with a nice expression and “thumbs up” feeling.

Share

Like i said, we are selfish(can’t help it) , sharing is so beautiful.Learn to share and share to learn.You can start with small things like when eating your snacks,share with your siblings.Small stuff like these.

Express appreciation

Lol.Express, don’t overdo it though but once in a while learn to make a habit to thank people and tell them how much they have helped or benefited you.Its a small gesture but it does brighten someone’s day somehow!Thats they way it works

I hope you’ve enjoyed the post and carry them out in your life.

To your wonderful life!

Glenn Tan

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I won’t talk much about the training, guess it wouldn’t be appropriate and yet “interesting” unless you participate in it.whaha..

However, there was a few days of “free and easy” there and all i can say is that Taiwan’s a great place to shop and eat.The people are great especially the girls, they’re really pretty

Will continue with the blogging real soon.
Here’s a photo , i’m on the top!

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I came up with that.So a want is actually something that is not a necessity but we desire to have but can live without it.We all have wants and that is unavoidable.How does the want actually come about?Maybe, its based on the success of others, the eagerness to have gratification and comfort.Basically, the wants i’m talking about here are more specifically based on the luxuries that we desire to have and the mindset to achieve it.These things costs us a bomb when we actually can live without it and spend the money on more important things.

Not saying that wants are not needed.On the contrary, having a want is good in the sense that we have a want(goal) which means we will have to work to obtain it.For example, i want to have that bike and so that is my goal. To achieve a want, we will have to activate an action and that is to buy it.Prior to that we will have to think of a strategy,that is, what should one do to buy it meaning to earn the money somehow.

You see , its all like a chain of effects to get that “want”.Interesting.

Since we all have so many wants, we need to prioritise our wants too.Wants that are more important should be given the top position and the rest accordingly.

How do I know what i want?
-write down a list of what you want(as much as you can)
-see yourself in five years from now ( Coincidentally:Now You Can Eliminate Fifteen Years Of Regret)

By writing down a list of things you want, you can see an overview of your desire and easier to work with it.
By seeing yourself in five years, you can discover your true wants.For example, if you see yourself as being a high flyer at your work in some company, you’ll probably want a degree, want to learn about the traits for the job.

Another example, you see yourself as a better tennis player in five years.You will want to improve your strokes through the years and up your level of play.

So Glenn how do i achieve my wants?

Set the goal, craft the strategy and then take the right actions.
Simple as that and you’re on your way to achieving your wants.

You can create a visual board with all the things you want to be pasted or pinned up there on your wall to see each day you wake up.Why?Because it makes you feel like you already have them at your reach and in turn gives you a gentle reminder what you are working for.

Therefore, believe that you can achieve your wants if you really want to and discover them by thinking ahead.Finally, you can’t always get what you want. Do not think that its a smooth journey to obtaining your goals.You need patience and determination too.Motivation is also the key to making your dreams come true.

To your success!

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This is a rather interesting sentence and has so much reasoning and deep thoughts about it.

Things of interest like sports, reading and the like are more of something that people would generally be interested.Personal development may not be something as popular as these because it not some instant gratification that they receive from the hobbies or some form of thrill.That is one such factor i believe that plays a part why all these(e.g sports) are spent with more time than self-improvement.

Talking about personal clubs, honestly i have not really heard about it but the closest i can think of are personal development forums. These forums also act as a place for you to discuss and share your knowledge which can help benefit other’s lives one way or another.Problems that you face can be answered with different angle views by different people.Thus, you’ll have a range of ideas which you can take from to sum up your opportunity.(Problem + Solution = Opportunity)

Personally, i visit the self-improvement section at Mind Warriors, you can take a look as they have quite a good number of topics ranging from talking about internet marketing to The Secret.

But really ,not deviating away, will there or are there already personal development clubs?Maybe there are already available in other countries which i don’t know of.I wonder what the program will be if you set up your own personal development club.

Oh, before forget you can also go to Personal Development Partners to sign up , also a new forum i learnt from Alex Shalman’s blog.

Your Empowering Activity For 14 October 07
If you are the owner of a personal development club, what is one personal development activity that you will want to include in the program you run?I’ld like to hear from you in the comments.

Cheers!
Glenn Tan

P.S I will not be blogging from the 20 of October till about 10 November as i’ll be going overseas(Taiwan) for my army training, hoping to seeing you once i’m back!

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Fail to plan and you plan to fail.

Everybody needs to know the importance of planning and it should be inculcated from young.Although most people force themselves start to plan when dealing with top priority stuff,instead,we should plan for almost all that we do.This helps to make our lives more systematic.Furthermore, it will help us reach our goals sooner as our work is more clear to us.

Keep A To-Do List

Break down your tasks into smaller ones so that you can manage them more easily.

Then, sort out the priority of the tasks and rank them accordingly.

Now, that you have plan your work, you need to work out your plan.

You should know that you can plan as much as you can but if you do not carry it out, its useless.So refrain from planning to much and do just the required amount.

Carrying out the plan is also pointless if you dive it in the wrong direction.It means that you have not used the plan well to bring you to your goal.You need to amend it here,redo and re-act. (more…)

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Sending an invoice to your intentions by Steven Aitchison

Are you an article clipping addict ? by Lorie Marerro

Examining your core beliefs  by Key To Abundance

These are some of the quick posts that i thought would be a good read for you to improve in these aspects in life.Success is within your rich reach.

Unfortunately, we have lost one of the Earth’s greatest people - Anita Roddick,founder of The Body Shop.

Dame Anita Roddick, 1942-2007

You can read more about here bio and also in memory of her right here.

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Wikipedia’s definition of worry : “Worry refers to negative self-talk that often distracts the mind from focusing on the problem at hand. For example, when students become anxious during a test, they may repeatedly tell themselves they are going to fail, or they can’t remember the material or that their teacher will get mad at them. This thinking interferes with focusing on the test as the speech areas of the brain that are needed to complete test questions are being used for worrying.”

To read more, you can pop by at this link.

The reason i’m writing about worry is because i know how worrying can be tiring and also that i believe many do worry quite a bit.

So maybe i can share a few or at least a good idea to reduce worry.

One way i think we can use to reduce it is to postpone the worry.Shifting the worry to a later date or timing will reduce the present pressure on you.

Such as if i’m worrying of something now, and i feel that it can be thought of later, might as well push it away first.Its no use using all your brain juice to ponder if it ain’t going to work right.So leave it in the air temporarily.

Another way or killing your worry is enjoying a sport.It can be a hobby or just a form of exercise.

You can read more about worry right here too.

Don’t worry.

Get this secret to your success here and no more worries!

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It has probably been about nine months of blogging already and i’ld like to recap about the experience i have about blogging here at My Empowering Chime.

What have i learnt?

Before i begin, you might want to read more about me at “About Glenn” .

The reason i took up writing this blog at the start was that i wanted to do some form of blogging to venture out to start earning online.Hence, i took quite some time to decide what i wanted to blog on and personal development became my area of interest and at the same time benefit others.The online business wouldn’t have been the main issue but going for the heart of the audience would be the core, i believe.

In the past, i had always thought blogging was a waste of time and energy especially with all the ramblings one would give at the pesonal level.Maybe thats not my arena of blogging.I’ld prefer the more professional blogging style.That is, earn,blog and create a community.

First, i started blogging on a wordpress free version blog and started to get the hang of it and then transferred to this blog after that.

Throughout the process, i’ve realized the virtual connection between blogs and how much fun it can actually gather.Certain blogs derive certain attention and it means bringing your blog to a higher standard is like a game in which you want to move on to the next level.That is the case in my blogging experience.

Second,making friends in blogging is easy and fun at the same time.

Making new pals from the blog visits we exchange ,be it in the same niche or not, its good friendship.However, you can differentiate from the heavy weights in the blogosphere.There is a classification between the popular bloggers and the norm.

Honestly, i’ve gathered some reflection and feel that i’m probably taking the blog to lightly or that the information sometimes are not up to standard.Hence, i might change in my style of blogging anytime soon for the better.But i greatly require the audience effort to contribute their views to help me improve.

Also, i’ve discovered so many great blogs that i wouldn’t have known if i had not venture into blogging.These blogs are not just some kind of journal but on an advanced level that teaches you.

In a nutshell, the purpose of me posting this is to have you know a brief overview on the going on for the past nine months and how else i can improve by giving your comments on the content and professionalism of the blog.Please do speak your mind and criticise if you have to.

Finally, i’ld like to thank all regular readers here for your continuous support.

Cheers!
Glenn Tan

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