The Law of Attraction

Recently, I watched a video called ‘The Secret’ and it is a documentary on a very old but powerful concept called the LAW OF ATTRACTION. This documentary has been so powerful and life changing that it was featured recently on ‘Oprah Primetime’ and ‘Larry King Live’. When I watched the video, it reminded me of how I used this powerful law of attraction to attract all the wealth and success that I now have into my life.

The amazing thing was that I began using the law of attraction from the age of 14, way before I actually learnt about it formally. In fact, I first learnt about this law by reading very old wealth books (back in the 1970s-1980s) called ‘The Science of Getting Rich by Wallance Wattles’ and ‘You Were Born Rich by Bob Proctor’.

So what is the LAW OF ATTRACTION?

This law states that whatever you are experiencing in your life (e.g. poverty, wealth, bad luck, good luck, opportunities, problems) is the result of what you have been attracting by your thoughts.
People now know that every thought we have generates brain waves of a particular frequency. In fact, according to Quantum theory, Einstein said that every thought is a quantum of energy that vibrates at a particular frequency.

These thoughts that we generate penetrate time and space, acting as ‘personal magnets’. that reach out and ‘grab’ other similarly charged thoughts, attracting them into physical reality.
In other words, If you think about wealth, success and luck, you will send out thoughts of that postive frequency to the collective consciousness (metaphysical universe) and you will attract wealth, success and luck into your life. Similarly, If you keeping thinking that you have bad luck or keeping thinking of what you DO NOT WANT (e.g. problems, debt, unreasonable customers, dishonest people), you too will attract these elements into your life. The law of attraction is working for you every minute of every day whether you want it to or not!

Have you expereinced a time when you thought of meeting a particular person or a particular kind of person and the next thing you know, he/she calls or bumps into you? FReaky isn’t it? I experience it ALL THE TIME. And this is the law of attraction that is working. Have you ever thought of buying a particular brand of car or mobile phone and you keep noticng it popping up everywhere around you? Again, this is the law of attraction. You attract what you think about all the time.

This law is not new at all. It has been around for centuries. The ancient greeks and babylonians have known about this law and have used it for hundreds of years. In fact, one of the earliest known written formulations of the Law is contained in the 1906 book ‘Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World’ by William Walker Atkinson. Almost all the major religions have talked about this law in one way or another.
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha
‘And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you’.- Luke 11:9

Let me share how amazing this law of attraction has been for me over the years…

1) When I was a teen, I used to see myself on stage addressing thousands of people, and it is part of my reality today

2) When I was young, I would keep seeing myself living in a big landed house driving a convertible…and this is my reality now

3) I used to imagine myself signing autographs at the bookshops and see my books on the best-sellers shelf… and again, it is a reality today

4) Recently, I kept thinking of the fact that I needed to expand my company and programs to different countries, The next thing I knew, I received hundreds of phone calls from people from Australia, Vietnam, Spane, Mauritius, Indonesia, wanting to become my business parter (and I did not even put an ad out!!!)

The example are really endless!!!. So, how can you get this law to work for you? What I suggest you you take a huge piece of paper (e.g. majong Paper) and past pictures of all things that you want to attract into your life. Paste in in a place where you know you will look at it everyday before you go to work. I guarantee that if you look at the ‘DREAM BOARD’ for 5 minutes a day, you will begin experiencing many of these desires coming into your life.

If you want to read more about the Law of Attraction, go to: The Forgotten Laws.

Three Choices that Make You Who You Are

One power that has given to us by our creator is the power to choose. The power of free will. I believe that the person you are today is the result of all the choices you have made in the past.

Ten years from now, you will definitely become 10 years older. if you are 20 today, you will be 30 and if you are 30 today, you will be 40 a decade from now. The question is who would you have become? What would you have achieved?

The answer lies in three major choices that you make every single day. It is what I call the three choices that make you who you are.

1) The People You Choose to Spend Time With

As social beings, we have the tendency of picking up, matching and following the beliefs, attitudes and habits of the people who surround us. If the people you mix with have negative thoughts, complain all the time and lack self-belief, then the chances are that you will become that way as well.

If the people around you constantly think positive, are self-motivated and set high standards, then you will become that way as well. Since we were young, we have been subconsciously picking up the thought and behavioral patterns of the people around us. Haven’t you notice times when you spoke just like your friends or your mother? Have you noticed times when you behaved just like your friends? It is common sense that if you surround a positvely charged magnet with 10 negative ones, the positive magnet will soon follow the charges of the rest.

This is why there are some people who get all motivated and positive after going for a personal development training but soon go back to their disempowered ways? When they leave the seminar, they go back to a negative environment where people tell them all day that life sucks and that things are hopeless. A seminar can immerse you in a powerful environment for 4-5 days, but the wrong friends will immerse you in a damaging environment for the rest of your life!

Let me ask you this think about this… Write down the names of 5 people you spend most of your time with. Now look at these names and ask yourself: Do these people bring out the best in me? Do they inspire me?

Do they challenge me? Do they uplift me? Or do these people make me feel lousy and bring me down?

Think of the beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and standards that these five people have for themselves. Are these the beliefs that I want for myself? Are these the attitudes that will help me succeed? If the answer is yes, then GREAT. If the answer is no, then it is time you change who you spend time with. If you want to succeed, you have to mix with people who are successful (or who aspire to be successful). If you want to be highly motivated, you have to mix with people who are highly motivated.

The main reason why many of the participants from my programs (e.g. Patterns of Excellence, wealth Academy etc…) create powerful and long lasting changes is because of the new friendships that are forged during the program. I have developed and implemented a system where program graduates form into success groups where they keep each other in check and develop a powerful new group culture where wealth and success in the norm.

2) What You Choose to Put into Your Mind

The second thing that makes you who you are is what you choose to put into your mind! What are the books you choose to read? What are the magazines you choose to read? When you read the newspapers, which section to you focus on? Which websites do you spend time surfing on? What bookmarks are in your web brower? What seminars do you choose to go to?

I often find it very funny when someone tells me that they want to increase their wealth. Yet, they read FHM and sports magazines (instead of SmartInvestor, The Edge and Fortune). They spend their time surfing entertainment sites (instead of moneycentral.com, sgx.com, cnn.com). They read Singapore ghost stories (instead of business & financial books). They rather spend their time and money watching a movie or going on holiday than attending financial management and investment seminar. They input negative thoughts like ‘why am I so poor?’ instead of focusing on thoughts like ‘ how can I learn the strategies to become rich?’

So the second lesson is that if you want to excel in something (e.g. health, success and wealth), you have to invest in your education and learn everything you can about it. Fill you mind with knowldege and thoughts of wealth and you become wealthy.

3) The Dreams You Choose to Have

People who become better and better every day and move towards their goals do so because they have big and inspiring dreams that fill their minds the moment they open their eyes in the morning. If you have big dreams of becoming the best in your field, building a church/mosque/temple, sending your children to the best schools, buying a landed property, building your own business, then you will live each and every day with passion, focus and a sense of purpose. Every decision you take and every action you take will be purposeful. As a result, you will move closer and closer to you goals every day.

However, if you have no dreams that inspire you out of bed. If you have no goals that fill your mind every moment, then you will tend to follow the decisions and actions of others blindly. You will tend to go in all directions with little sense of purpose. You will live your life day by day, without much meaning. And where you will end up 10 years from now will not be by YOUR plan, but by the plan that others have set for you.

Cool Business Ideas

I was surfing around the web and I came across this pretty neat blog called Cool Business Ideas where they showcase, well… cool business ideas from around the world.

As a businessman myself, I’m always interested in how people can come up with new wacky, out of the box ways to do business and make a profit. And so I found myself browsing through the blog learning about the many new and different products and ideas that are pooping up everywhere. People are simply amazing.

Now I know there’s a handphone for diabetics which helps measure and monitor blood sugar levels, there’s a fridge which now allows you to make phone calls, listen to music and watch DVDs on it. My fridge is just a fridge!

In all, I found it a very interesting and entertaining read. If you’re looking for inspiration or ideas about business or products, Cool Business Ideas is a pretty good place to start in my opinion.

Have a look see: Cool Business Ideas

Masterminding Your Way To Success!

I know I wrote the book called Secrets Of Self-Made Millionaires but really there’s no such thing as a “Self-Made” millionaire. You see, I’m actually a “TEAM-Made” millionaire! And it’s true. I couldn’t have got to where I am today if not fo the people I have around me.

We all have different strengths and weaknesses and instead of wanting to become a hero and tackle everything yourself, isn’t it so much smarter to ally yourself with partners who can help you where you are weakest at?

For example, a lot of people often ask me how do I manage to find the time to run and manage 3 full-time businesses which generate over $20 million in revenue yearly?

The answer is I don’t!
My partners are actually the ones who run and manage the company and I don’t really handle a lot of that at all. You see, my passion is NOT in managing and running a company. My passion and strength lies more with speaking, creating new ideas and products for the company. That’s where I add the most value to the business.

I could run the company myself, yes, but I would be doing a poorer job than what my partner is doing now. You see, his strength is in managing and running a business. That’s where he adds the most value.
So you see, it is because if this superstar team that I have around me that has enable me (or us) to grow our business even faster and more successfully.

And we would have never been anywhere near this good if all of us individually attempted to do all of it by ourselves. Most likely, we would have gotten nowhere!
Don’t underestimate the power of a TEAM.

You too must learn how to create a team if you want to become successful, because like I said earlier, I’ve never really seen a “self-made” millionaire before. If you did, he probably just won the lottery and nothing else.

Discover how you can harness the power of a team and Mastermind your way to success!

From Bankrupt to Bankroll

In one of the last few posts, I talked about 72-year old Lim Tow Yong who re-emerged from bankruptcy to rebuild his million-dollar fortune at age 82. Here is another really inspiring story of a friend of mine who bounced back from bankruptcy and is now earning US$5,000-US$7,000 a month from the comfort of his own home. His name is Conrad Alvin Lim and he is now a full time professional Options Trader.

I first got to know Conrad 4-5 years ago when he was still in the media & advertising industry. He was a free lance videographer who did work for my advertising agency. Little did I know at that time that he was struggling to provide for his family.

For over 20 years, Conrad was an independent commercial producer in the Media & Advertising industry. He became the first and only privateer to own and re-sell national television airtime through a series of self-produced TV programs.

However, after a series of life changing failures from the Asian Financial Crisis and recent recession, Conrad went into bankruptcy. As a former business owner nearing his 40s, employment as a bankrupt was hard to come by so he took on ad-hoc and freelance work to make a living for his family.

As the free lance media work became more competitive, Conrad decided to explore trading (Options & Stocks) to create an alternative source of income two years ago. He joined Options trading workshops conducted by a number of the so-called ‘Gurus’ in Singapore. However, when he started applying what these mainstream options gurus had taught, he lost even more money (close to US$5,000) and his already meager savings has been further thinned out. So why did he lose money when he followed strictly what these gurus had taught?

He found that most of the investment gurus currently in the market now, made their money in markets like the tech boom and post recession spike. Their methods of trading are based on those types of markets and on their psychological backgrounds. For the last two years, the market was nothing like the ones the gurus had back in the days of the solid bull run. Also, the Options workshop he attended did not equip the participants with enough fundamental and technical analysis training so crucially required in trading for a living.
Instead of being disillusioned and choosing to give up, Conrad resolved to give up his media career to concentrate on learning the art of trading for a living. He vowed to master this craft and to make back his losses as soon as possible.

He spent days at the library pouring over any and all material available, he blazed online for hours and attended more respectable workshops to refine his art. He identified the failures from his first attempt and the weaknesses of certain strategies he had learnt. He started to craft his own unique trading strategies (like the 5-day Pre-Earnings Game and Intra-day Scalping) that could make him consistent profits in bad markets as well as good. And most importantly…in a very safe way.

Within less than a year, he managed to make enough consistent profits of US$5,000- US$7,000 a month (with just US$5,000 in capital) to not only pay for his monthly expenses, but to pay off a huge part of his debt that he owed from his business failure 5 years ago. One of the reasons he impresses me so much is that he had the tenacity to fight on and to master a skill, even though he met with painful setbacks at the beginning. This is the mark of a successful people. So many people I know start a new career/income startegy like trading, Internet marketing, insurance etc… The moment they don’t see huge returns in the beginning or if they lose some money, they start to give up and blame the whole world. Well, I believe that nothing comes easy and God will test your faith and resiliance before bestowing on you the fruits of your labour.

In fact, I was totally blown away when I saw Conrad earn over US$1,600 in just under 6 minutes through his strategy of intra-day scalping. I thought I was good at making money investing, but this dude takes the cake.
I have always believed that the key to building a pwoerful company is to indendtifying great talent and to invite them to join you. After much persuading, I am happy to announce that I managed to convince Conrad to join Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group as our Investment Strategist. Conrad will be speaking at our next Wealth Academy Seminar as well! He also conducts very personal coaching sessions for those who are serious about become a full time trader or individuals who was to use trading to create a viable source of additional income.

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