Hi Friends

During my NLP Training last Sunday, one of my trainee told me a story and the story goes like this – there was this man who wanted to climb up a flight of stairs with 100 steps with a door up at the top. He carries with him the key to open the door, and a few important baggage with him. As he started his journey up the stairs, he gets more and more tired. After 20 steps up, he decided to drop a baggage as it was too heavy though it was important. He continued his journey up. After a flight of 40 steps, he dropped his next baggage as it was too heavy though it was important. He continued his journey. After a flight of 60 steps, he dropped his LAST baggage as it was too heavy though it was important. He gets more tired. When he reached the 80th step, he realised that he has left the key, the MOST IMPORTANT item needed to open the door, right at the bottom of the staircase. But it was too late to back down there to take the key as the time left was not enough.

Pease ask yourself this question – have you left your Dreams behind and have you drop your Dreams along the way in your life as you grow older?

Just to share a real life story about how 5 Taiwanese, with an average age of 81, still hang on to their dream and making their dreams come true. Watch this video:

The real video of their journey is in this video:

Do you know what are you living for?

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Cayden Chang
Founder & Director, Mind Kinesis Management International
BSc(Hons), MSc
Lifelong Learner Award 2008 Honouree
Co-author, “Do You Have What It Takes To Be BOSS?”

Hi Friends

A Blogger who previously attended my NLP Workshop wanted to share some parts of my life with her readers. The following are some of her answers and my reply.

Happy Reading and hope that it inspires you.

1) Why did you choose this profession and what do you love most about what you do?

I have always loved teaching as a teenager because I simply could not stop talking once I started (just kidding about the part where I could not stop talking). It all started when I need to make some pocket money during my high school days and I started with the only skill I had – to give tuition. I continued with this part-time through Junior College, army days and my undergraduate days in National University of Singapore (NUS).

It wasn’t pure passion at first. I just needed money to survive especially during my undergraduate days because I had absolutely no money to pay for my food, not to mention my tuition fees. What I did was that I took a loan from DBS and POSB to take care of my 4 years of studies, then studied full-time and worked part-time to take care of my food, books, bus fare, etc. Life went downhill when my father passed away during my 3^rd year. Subsequently, my mother was diagnosed with terminal stage lung cancer when I was in my honours year (ie. 4^th year). The series of episodes taught me the importance of life and money. It prompted me to ask myself this question – is it possible to live our dreams doing what we absolutely love and don’t have to worry about money at the same time? The answer came when I came across NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) accidentally during my undergraduate days.

Yeap, the dots connected later on – to train (since I love teaching), flexibility of time (to spend time with family and do charity work) & unlimited income (I have been working previously as an employee for 10 years). I took the leap of faith, quit my last job as an Assistant Vice President of a listed company, and started my company Mind Kinesis Management International LLP (http://www.mindkinesis.com & https://nlp1.myguaranteedseo.com) and recently started Mind Kinesis Value Investing Academy at (http://www.investment-in-stocks.com). The 2 main focus of my company now is to train NLP Tools and Value Investing Methodologies so that people can live the life that they have always wanted.

What do I love most about my profession? I HAVE 100% CONTROL OVER MY LIFE. We spend more than 1/3 of our life working for someone, with the remaining 1/3 sleeping and the last 1/3 doing what is supposedly important. Since we need to work anyway, why don’t we use this 1/3 of our life to fulfill our dreams instead of other people’s dreams?

2) What is your mission in Life?

I like this question – it’s  “To Motivate and Empower People to Reach their Destiny”. I have this personal mission printed on my name cards and my company’s website.

3) You’ve built up your business and co-authored a book. What’s next?

Paiseh! I felt that I have not built up my business yet. Long way to go. In terms of long-term focus, the business will expand from NLP and Value Investing to US Property Investing (in which I already own properties), Entrepreneurship and Publishing. In terms of publishing, more books will be coming for sure including personal development kits. My company has already published what I called a ‘Success Journal’, the only journal with a system incorporating NLP tools to systematize how one should manage their time to reach their goals. That’s good enough for me. Don’t have to be super-rich like Bill Gates to make me happy. Most IMPORTANT thing is to spend more time with family. That’s more important to me than making too much money.

4) What are some of Life’s lessons that you would want to share with your daughter as she is growing up?

Just ONE KEY LESSON, an extract of Steve Job’s 2005 Commencement Speech in Stanford University – “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Well, I have just survived Renal Cancer this year.  (Read my story in Straits Times at https://nlp1.myguaranteedseo.com/inspiration-story/a-story-about-death-to-share-a-story-about-life). Never assume that we are going to live until 70, 80, etc. We only have ONE lifetime on this planet, do what is truly IMPORTANT to us and live the life that we have always wanted, not what other people expect of us.

5) What is one memorable experience you’ve had with helping a client find his/her purpose and mission in Life?

There were many. One of them is that one lady participant quit her job as an engineer and brought forward her 10-year-later dream of working with children in a learning centre. Now, she works in a Learning Centre teaching children as well as working as a Real Estate Agent. The key thing is that she is absolutely happy with what she is doing now. For every batch of my NLP Class, there will be at least one participant who will quit to do something else that will make them happier. If you have a dream to fulfil, why wait until tomorrow? “Screw It, Let’s Do It” ~ Sir Richard Branson.

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Cayden Chang
Founder & Director, Mind Kinesis Management International
BSc(Hons), MSc
Lifelong Learner Award 2008 Honouree
Co-author, “Do You Have What It Takes To Be BOSS?”

Hi Friends

Happy NEW Year to all of you and welcome to a Great Monday where all of you move towards your Dreams and Goals again.

Just to share after training more than 15,000 people and conducting hundreds of personal development workshops, a common observation among participants is that most of them are focus on their carreer and wanting to increase their income. However, most wanted to get-rich-quick and not driven to put in EXTRA HARDWORK in addition to the amount of time that they are spending. Even though there are some shortcuts to success such as having a mentor, attending courses, modelling other successful people, etc., all these shortcuts still require addition effort on one’s part. That’s when having a CLEAR GOAL and keeping yourself in a MOTIVATED and PEAK STATE is important to keep you moving forward.

Do read today’s Straits Times (under Life’s Section) on Foodcourt King, Mr Pang Lim, how he started his business from being a dishwasher. In addition, pls also read about how a dynamic friend of mine, Ms Rachel Wong, who grew from a teen hairdresser to the BOSS of an engineering firm at http://tinyurl.com/6293×93. Rachel’s full story is also featured in my book ‘Do you have what it takes to be BOSS?’ (see Book Cover Below).

There was a quote that I have read somewhere which goes like this: ‘There is NO elevator to SUCESS, you will have to take the STAIRS’.

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Cayden Chang
Founder & Director, Mind Kinesis Management International
BSc(Hons), MSc
Lifelong Learner Award 2008 Honouree
Co-author, “Do You Have What It Takes To Be BOSS?”

Hi Friends

As I was walking in Shopping Malls today, I realised that almost all the Christmas Trees have disappeared and some shops have already started selling Chinese New Year Decorations. What was missing was probably the Chinese New Year songs 🙂

Well, I have always appreciated time as that’s the only thing that we have and money can’t buy. This is more true after I was lucky to survived Renal Cancer. It was an unforgetable year in 2010 more so for me. Now I have 2 birthdays to celebrate now. My original birthday and my 2nd ‘birthday’ (10th Aug 2010, a day after National Day) where I had my surgery to have my tumourous left kidney removed.  I felt as though I was reborn again. It was a good reminder what’s important in our life. I am going to have this reminder for the rest of my life just by looking at the 20cm wound after the surgery whenever I bathe. I looked at it positively. I remembered that before I was discharged from the hospital previsouly, another patient by the name of John, in the same ward told me – ‘I believed that after you have walked out from here, you will inspire others with your story’.

In NLP, Values (what’s important in our lives) drive us and motivates us. I have encountered too many people who have problems with procrastination, fear, worry, etc. One important factor that can helped them is for them to know EXACTLY what’s important to them. If it’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT and one’s life or a loved one’s life depend on it, all expectation and fear will just fade away. If it’s UNIMPORTANT, procrastination and giving up is a common phenomena. Don’t waste your time then. Do something else that is more meaningful and makes you happy. In addition, our Values will change across time. Most apparent is money. As we grow older, yes, money is still important probably to maintain our lifestyle and our health, but what we may find more important is our health and family. If health and family is more important, these became our focus and our activities will surround these focus.

A few days ago, I came across this TV Show called ‘Life Reconstructed’ on Channel U. I watched the 1st episode and you can watch the online version here: http://video.xin.msn.com/watch/video/life-reconstructed-episode-1/1gqz83lev. This is another reminder of what may be important in our life. Salute to the lady, Tania Hoaching, who started the non-profit organization home for the unfortunate children. She knows exactly what’s important in her life and how her work will change the lives of others.

Do you know what’s important in your life?

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Cayden Chang
Founder & Director, Mind Kinesis Management International
BSc(Hons), MSc
Lifelong Learner Award 2008 Honouree
Co-author, “Do You Have What It Takes To Be BOSS?”

Hi Friends

Finally, year 2010 is coming to an end and it will be a FRESH and NEW start for everyone in 2011. Time flies and it’s time to harvest what have you achieved this year.

Let me share with you 2 of our graduates who has made one of their dreams come true after attending our NLP Training – being an AUTHOR. I believed at any point of time in your life, you must have thought of being an entrepreneur, a millionaire, a doctor, scientist, an author, etc, and the list goes on …… Have you moved towards that dream yet or are you still thinking about the dream?

I have attended numerous NLP Certification Courses previously and lots of hype-up training. It’s good to be hype-up, it’s just that once the trainees are out of the training, life bounced back to normal after a few months. If you want to know whether is there a Return-of-Investment (ROI) out of your training, ask yourself these 2 basic questions: 1) Do you know what is your goal for different areas of your life?, 2) Do you know how to get there step-by-step? If you DON’T know, then how is possible to get there? Isn’t it time to know what you really really want in year 2011?

Let me share with you the success stories of the 2 graduates that I have mentioned:

1) Sean Seah – one brilliant young man who has a 1st class honours from Nayang Technological University & his 1st book titled ‘Winning the Money Game’ (http://winmoneygamebook.com/seminars_education.html)

He was invited to speak at the recent Popular Book Fest 2010 also on how to generate multiple sources of income. See photo below:

2) Mark Chew – another super positive and dynamic young man who has also recently published his 1st book on Leadership.

Well, how about myself? Yeap, my book is shown below (I’m the 2nd guy from the left) which is published by my own company. Well, I can’t train someone to be an author unless I am one myself. No big deal, just achieving a little childhood dream.

So are you taking action to achieve your dreams?

Let me share with you how you can make your dreams come true by attending our Free NLP Workshop NOW!

Check out what they say about my NLP training.

Cayden Chang
Founder & Director, Mind Kinesis Management International
BSc(Hons), MSc
Lifelong Learner Award 2008 Honouree
Co-author, “Do You Have What It Takes To Be BOSS?”