Breakthrough Personal Development Training

Are you stuck in areas of your life and feeling like powerless to change? Or are you searching for something and deserve a breaktrhough... There are indeed powerful breakthrough training available. But ultimately it is how you choose to be, take action, and use that determines the results and the life you will have. (In other words, if you do nothing with the breakthrough you got, you end up having NOTHING!)

I just took Landmark Forum. So, the success or failures so far I got have nothing to do with it. But I found it funny, that many things such as BE-DO-HAVE I talked about (that I thought I always know), they were teaching. Guess great people think alike ;)

Anyways, here is my view of how all these different personal development training have worked for me. Just my view (it is not true or universal views; i.e. different people get different things out.)

I thank God for all the opportunities he provided me to get where I am and will take me where he wants me to go.

1. Through Great Life Foundation, I got my Heart Back so I am ALIVE
2. Through Landmark Forum, I got my MIND Clear and gave me VOICE in this LIFE
3. From the Grace of God, HE saved my SOUL and prepare me for EVERYTHING and ETERNAL LIFE and be HUMBLE and OPEN.

In each of these process, like a butterfly emerging through a coccon, I had to struggled and even be taken completely apart and then put everything back. Well worth the process.

For Landmark (since it's fresh now), specifially the values I got (different for different people) is this:

it taught me how to listen and speak in ways I wasn't aware of and gives me the tool to work with LIFE NOW in an effective and powerful way.

So despite some people saying they are the same: Great Life and Landmark are completely DISTINCT for me. Read More about Landmark. Read More about Great Life Foundation.

There's value being an "E"

Just a comment about Jobs and the E quadrant ("Employee"). I know there's a whole movement from RDPD (Rich Dad Poor Dad) to encourage one to move from "E "to "B" or "I". ("Business Owner" or "Investor"). I don't disagree esp. if you are in your 40's or 50's and still is an E without a Pension Plan; btw.)

However, there's value being an "E". Read More.

When lost in business, focus on value creating!

Often time I observed people busy, overwhelmed, or at lost at work whether as employee or as owner. Or that people complained they have lousy company, terrible boss, or that they have lousy employees or co-works...

Have you ever felt uncertain about where you are, where you business is going? Or overwhelmed with works from all different directions? Watching cashflow. Doing PR. Going out to network. Catching up with the latest business book. Coaching a junior staff member. Talking to customer. Researching an issue. On and on. All seems to be urgent at the moment.

Then you might want to ask yourself whether as an employee or as an owner about this:

"What value am I creating" or " what value am I adding by me being here?" or " how else can I add value or create value?" And :to whom am I creating value for?:

Sidebar: What's "valuable"? That's a whole different topic but for now suffice to say to let the consumer of your value creation be the judge. In other words, let those who is willing to pay for your value creation determine how valuable or not. If no one is willing to pay, it's NOT VALUABLE - as we all learned from Web 1.0 the free internet stuff.

Example #1: if you are a fund manager, you consumer would be your investor who receives your value creation and pays your management fee and carry. What value are you creating for your investor? Higher return? More safety? Less risk? Better Control?

Example #2: if you are the sales rep. for your company, your consumer is both your company who pays your base + commission and your buyer who indirectly contributes to your commission. What value are you creating of the tasks you are doing right now? The book you are reading. The network you are going to. Did you create value for your company so the profit margin and revenue growth would be more sustainable? Did you create value for your buyer so they feel they get a good deal and a good product that they want to refer other clients to you? They feel they want to be a repeat buyer?

Too often, we are too focused on entitlement mentality. Instead of focusing on value creation, we complained we are not gettting what we ought to get from others or this excuse or that. If we focus instead on value creation, not only the business become more sustainable and you will get what you want.

So if you want to be recognized as “valuable” teamplayer or “valuable” employee or an owenr of a a “valuable company”, would it not make sense to first focus on create "value"?