Friends are people who started off as strangers, to acquaintance, before coming friends, best friends, buddies etc.

But as we grow older, and wiser, our number of friends start to decrease due to change of environment occupation and thus companionship becomes less than important as we all learn the primary importance is money, without it, survivor will be a problem itself.

The rich and poor people all have their own judgement on how to select the friends they choose to hang out with.

As the title suggest, selecting the good friends is important, but maybe only a couple of people will realize this, and more than half the population (poor individuals) never learn nor understand why they need to be picky, choosey when it comes to selecting friends.

Here’s a couple reasons why you (die-die) must know this:

One: Like minded people tend to stick together, and they attract the same people too as well. If you want to be rich, you need to think like a rich, talk, behave, and network with the rich, so one day you will soon be rich.

Two: Your network of friends whom you hang out together often determines your net-worth. It is only natural, and also instinct for man to hang around people on the same level to feel comfortable.

So if you are comfortable hanging out in people earning, entertaining and enjoying themselves with the leisure widely used and patronized majority, than you will remain poor, for happiness blocks a person from moving forward. It is a trap so to speak, that’s why successful individuals are never happy with what they have and always aiming higher. That said, leads us to the phrase “Don’t rest on your laurels”, speaks for itself and gives competitors a chance to overtake the leaders in any niche, something that is tested and proven.

Three: Your results, achievements are directly connected to the network, social circle that you hang out with.

That’s the reason why rich get richer, as they recommend and help each other succeed by helping others, they are helping themselves, having to return favors to each other in future.

The poor on the other hand only takes advantage of each other, and never returns the favor, thus they only get back to worse, it applies even to the intelligent, rich individuals in the wrong crowd will still be broke ultimately.There are only hindrance to each other.  (This happens even in family members living under the same roof, where poor family members would not want you to succeed, because it makes them look stupid not to follow in your path when you success means the people around you are all failures.)

Four: Learn and do the right things, whatever that helps you win, become a champion and succeed in life. It is a route less traveled, since our number of friends are decreasing as we age, grow older, why not start replacing negative with positive friends. The winners takes all, that’s why they always go against the flow where objections are plentiful, and the winner shares credit and rewards with their team-mates. The losers can only take if not fight for whatever is left behind, and never to share anything they get with the others.

In life, we only live once, so do the right thing. Isn’t it what everybody sets out to be successful in our own ways no matter how small or insignificant the success is?

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Timing is everything.

It matters in business, relationships, education and even life itself.

In business, investors, business owners, operators always wait for the right timing before executing their advertising, promotion campaigns in order to capture the highest potential viewership and attention when it comes to buying advertising spots in television, radio, newspapers, mobile marketing using apps.

Examples like: Cashing in on year end sales, especially when Christmas and New Year is round the corner, thus giving more reasons for customers to buy more. As they need to buy gifts, and new furniture, new renovation, repair works to give their homes a uplift for a new year with new look for fresher feeling.

In relationship, both genders will at times capitalize on the best moment to propose the other hand to live together as a couple.

As for education, tests and examinations are always place at the end of each term and closing academic semester respectively. Why can’t tests and exams come before studies? It’s obvious, as they need ample time for students to learn, practice and prepare themselves, getting ready for the examinations.

Getting rich, be successful also requires timing, wait for the perfect moment, but as we wait, get ready, and be prepared when it comes. else when you miss it, the spot will be taken by others who are more prepared than you. (This always happens in sports, businesses and even relationship.) Only people who grab onto the opportunity when presented clinch the top honors, and recognition.

Success must be continuous riding on the momentum and maximizing on the frame to go even higher. It’s a bit like how celebrities using some tricks or two to gain more publicity, so as to become popular and earn more money.

How to seize the moment. It is simple, but again, it is not easy. While you wait for the perfect moment, continue working on other projects, if you have completed one, as you monitor the already success project, than work on slightly bigger project riding on your previous success, as those are only temporary, so work on more projects, so when the time comes, the person/business who is more successful with higher profits (combined) compared with their competitors wins.

He who succeed, and thinks it is his/hers, will not win. Just think of the the rabbit and the tortoise story and you will understand.

Winners never take break, losers take lots of break.

So what if you want to take a small break, make sure you have an edge/advantage on your competitors, take a break, rest yourself, and get back up fast before your competitor is within your sights (radar), you will continue to take the lead. By that, it means always be aware of what competitors are doing, thus you can take a break as long as you continue to let them play be the chasing pack, while you lead the chase.

Never rush, plan your time properly and you will be one step closer to success, it is just round the corner.

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Compete is to outdo another for acknowledgment, prize and supremacy. It is the rivalry of two or more parties.

The most competitive industry in the employment sector will be Wall Streets in the USA. If you don’t know anything or what it does, watch Channel News Asia “Chinese woman succeeding on Wall Streets” and you will get what I mean.

In employment, it is the most competitive employment for employees where sky is the limit, and like what is said in the show, anybody who can survive in Wall Street for at least a year is already earning more than others. They have five times higher wages than others in the world. A hedge fun manager can easily earn up to a billion dollars of wages if he/she is successful.

In business, Forbes ranking list is the most competitive place for businessmen and entrepreneurs. In the past, being a millionaire will be sufficient to be among featured in the Forbes List, since few years back, Forbes List has changed and it takes at least a billion to climb into the list, thus the competition is intense.

Unlike employment, business is easier and much more fun and happening, if you enjoy what you are doing, something that is your passion, you are already ahead of your competitors because there is no classification between work and play for people who are working on their passion as business thus passion is a critical factor in business.

Competition is everywhere, it is the survival of the fittest for our own lives, we cannot depend on anybody except ourselves for a living, no even our parents, although parents are willing to give up their lives for us, but that is something that’s not good.

We should learn from the wild rogue nature of animals and beast, the instincts are kept inside each and everyone of us and will only surface in desperate times for survival. Clueless on what I’m talking about, watch Okto Documentary shows and you might learn about related stuffs.

Wild animals only protect their babies until they are fully independent and able to hunt on their own before leaving them on their own and carrying on with their own lives. This is seen and practiced by Western countries which is good but not in Asian countries thus contributing to Asian weakness in survival instincts.

Go for more natural outdoor sports and advantage, you don’t need to go into the advantage and sports full time, just a one time experience will do if you can catch and remember the feeling, experience at the back of your hand and recall it easily. If not, put in some effort into it and experience what nature and what is required for success.

Entrepreneurship is all about independence, and it come from freedom, breaking away from parents, care and protection and standing alone by yourself beating the odds and be the champion.

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Female is any living organism, it can be plants, animals, reptiles or man. I will be writing about ladies in particular today as a classification.

Ladies fall into various different classifications. Virgin or non-virgin, young or old, rich or poor, all of them have got their own terms.

Young virgins are called girls usually used to describe child or adolescent. Old virgins are called maid and generally women is used to identify adult females regardless of age. (Source from Wikipedia)

Woman is a term which ladies used in the past to describe only for girls who have had sex, but these days it is no longer this way teenage girls having casual sex to satisfy their early puberty due to chemically processed food, external influences and curiosity. Instead, woman is used to describe ladies who are matured in thinking, know their priorities, and taking responsibility for their own actions unlike teenage girls.

A clearer classification of woman for themselves is that a woman who is married, with a blissful family and has given birth to a baby than only will she be considered as a completed woman. It does not stop there, in fact woman seeks to climb the ladder like males do, and thus the next higher position is to become a businesswoman.

Businesswoman is one who can excel and juggle between the differences in handling people especially the different gender communication and rapport in teambuilding. To be a leader leading a group of people is what everybody regardless of gender seeks, to be the leader of the pack.

There is another higher level and that is to become a successful businesswoman who is recognized by both genders and not just leading guys in her group with their hearts completely against a female leader. It is not gender biasness, but it is time tested and proven that guys are objective and will draw a line clearly unlike ladies who might bring their personal feelings into the business thus making a biased decision. It is in the genetics that nobody can alter but with practice, ladies can overcome this obstacle.

Carolyn Kepcher, the co-star of Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice” is the perfect example which leads me to the highest position in the corporate ladder that any woman can climb.

Successful businesswoman is a lady with a blissful family with kids (a son and a daughter), successful in business negotiation, building businesses, brings in projects and revenues for the business and is independent with the ability to be given complete authority over a business. She knows when to be the businesswoman, housewife, mother, colleague and as a friend.

All of the above are skills essential for any ladies who aspire to climb up the ladder, instead of demanding for it using the women’s charter in Singapore Law to their advantage at the expense of the company and their increase their colleagues workload (for ladies residing in Singapore) which doesn’t works in business which is why politicians and businessmen always cannot co-exist and work in partnership because their thinking is different.

If you’re a lady, and wants to learn from a successful business woman, you can read up more about Carolyn Kepcher, she has written a book “Carolyn 101: Business Lessons from The Apprentice’s Straight Shooter” with clear instructions on how she went on from employment to doing business with Donald Trump.

If you’re a guy who wants to know how to spot a potential successful businesswoman for business and other reasons etc, that book is a good choice too. It not only tells you how a woman should work like in business and also how they can work with guys, if you’re worried about the competition for the next manager position in the company, you will definitely need to read this book. In fact it is a must for you to read it so as to prepare yourself for incoming businesswoman who means business.

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Privilege is a special right, immunity, and exemptions granted to individuals by a authority or government. It is for a person to enjoy more than and beyond what is considered to be an advantage.

It is like a key that opens to a window of abundance of exemptions and immunity at different places.

Like celebrities have privileges like private invitations to fashion shows, events from big companies due to the relationship they have with media.

Successful businessmen enjoy better privileges than other people, shortcuts from banks, people, and different treatments. Look at the airlines and the difference in service treatments if you need an example.

Privilege is far more exclusive than having an advantage. An advantage can be anything, by just knowing a new strategy other a fellow business competitor, that is consider an advantage.

Having privilege means to have lots of shortcuts, crash course to the top faster saving time, effort and minimizing losses which is the most important with the right advice from fellow businessmen.

Do you have to have an advantage or are you looking forward to have a membership which has its own privileges?

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Leverage is the use of a lever for advantage over something by using lesser effort. It is to use a small initial investment to gain a high advantage in relation to one’s investment, and to reduce one’s own liability for any loss. It is creates a win-win situation for both parties. If it’s a group investment, it will benefit all of the participants and getting a fair compensation at both sides.

Wealthy people always leverage do helping their partners to earn more wealth together, but the rich people always and only will use people exploiting them for maximal advantage for their person gains.

To succeed and generate wealth instead of money, hang around and get to network with people who are most willing to help people who are willing to be help. Gentle reminder, to succeed and hang around with such people, if you have any hidden agenda or want to steal their business secrets and strategies, you will be plucked out before you know it, people especially them have high level of sensitivity when it comes to deciding who to work with and select at business partners.

Even I thanks to years of exploring and doing direct sales have acquired the high level filtering process of choosing people, what more can you expect from people who have being there, done that?

To have win-win situation, don’t doubt with people who you work with. If you doubt them, don’t bother to even try working with them.

Seek to form alliance and network with people who will guide and lead you by hand and not to exploit and make use of one another cutting and killing each other.

用人不疑，疑人不用。

Don’t doubt a person you’re working with, if you must doubt, don’t work with such people.

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Use is to employ for some purpose, to take unfair advantage of, to exploit people, animals for their personal gains and benefits.

It is a word for people who are witty but not intelligent who employ such tactics on people who are not as witty as them. Boss will only use employees for their own benefits. Giving employees a market rate pay and keeping most of the advantages to themselves thus there is unjustified

Employers will only exploit employees who are willing parties to overwork and get paid a small sum. In the corporate sector, benchmarking is a bad practice for us the ordinary people for people like you and me to ‘think’ that it is right for us to be paid so a tiny fraction for working so hard. There’s no right and wrong, there is just do you think you deserve to earn more and much more than the others?

If employers are exploiting employees, but only when employees are willing to be exploited and sign by the contract, than it’s a willing party and no blaming should take place at all.

In the world of poor people with poor mentality, it’s more of a dog eat dog society, fighting for the same piece of meat, that’s the world of society from people who are near millionaire but not yet to people who are extremely poor and really is hard up for money to meet daily three meal problems.

In the world of wealthy and successful businessmen filled with billionaires, multi-millionaires and millionaires, it’s like the lions, tigers, cheetahs, jugulars and leopards helping their own species to grow and share food together which makes them king of their own territory.

By working together, growing stronger together is better than cutting and slaughtering each other, growing up weak with lots of scars and flaws so visible to on-lookers.

You are what you think.

It is often said “You reap what you sow” which is wrong. This phrase only applies to people who are being exploited like how farmers exploit cows, bulls for farming etc which is silly and dumb getting satisfied for peanuts.

You should carve this into your mind “You reap much more than what you sow” which is what employers are doing, to have a equal chance of opportunity to get wealthy and successful.

Throw away the wrong education and knowledge which brain-wash us to work like a slave getting peanuts. Put on your thinking cap from now onwards and start to think on how you can reap much more than what you sow to succeed.

If you want to know how to reap much more than what you sow, I have just what you’re looking for, all you need to do is to contact me.

Good luck and build wealth.

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Posers are people, who put on a false, fake impression of success, who are actually in financially tight situation.

People want to look good, have big cars, house, live in style, walk with style and want to look like a rich person who can easily be done, but they cannot and will never ever mimic a wealthy person filled with nothing but success with an aura surrounding successful wealthy people. Anywhere they walk, heads will turn even if they are in causal attire, eyes will be cast on these individuals and their presence is felt.

Look at the society we are living in right now, so many posers using ‘fake’ products to pass off as real products wanting to look good and feel good.

My definition of ‘fake’ is those brands and labels that are genuine products but they cater to general majority with average price tags yet wanting to give people the look and feel of a luxury brand which is impossible. No matter how hard these brands try, they will never ever get there, thus it’s why I say ‘fake’.

Just talk to any one who wants to buy a car, brands will be replaced with characters as precaution of lawsuit.

Question: What car do you like? F or S?

Response: I will choose S, just pay lesser, put on turbo, and pick up speed already faster than F. Why be so stupid to pay so high for F when I can have S running faster than F?

When I hear this type of conversation, inside my mind, I only see them as hypocrites who not only want to deceive themselves but also trick others into believe it is.

I feel that it’s not even worth comparing, a low class brand car comparing against a luxury sports car which cost at least a million. There’s nothing to compare to being with, but the poor people just want to have, ego thus they make such a comparison which to me only rings one word “losers” inside me and I’m sure I certainly don’t want to be associated with such people.

Just look at the car industry, how many low class affordable car brands are coming up with designs that portrays class, and wants to mimic the style of the luxury branded cars? There are many but they can keep trying and they will never ever able to reach there, solely because they are bluff themselves that they are living the lifestyle they desire by just seeking a look-a-like not knowing how to go about achieving it, nor accepting facts.

Cars are for the middle class status people.

Low class status people also have their own ways to tricking themselves not wanting to accept reality which is why they are always the group complaining asking for help expecting to be helped without first helping themselves.

Look at a average family. People who wants to assume a higher status in the family, will start to buy bigger television, bigger cups, bigger house upgrade and taking bank loans to stretch their loans to just nice afford it wanting to look like they deserve and have no problem paying it but in fact are struggling miserably. I will spare the details since I myself am from a middle class lowest level status, but I once used to be a middle class, with high class status family relatives.

Having experience all different classes of lifestyle, their home, I know how they work, what they think etc. Just observe and it’s all shown in the actions without any words needed.

Being in a lower status doesn’t mean there’s no possibility of upgrade and move to high class, but it’s a long difficult process, and often people say, whoa, this lucky bastard made it overnight without knowing how much effort, time they put in.

Read my other blog entries, it took me a long, long time to change my mindset to be like a rich, without the mindset change, nothing is possible. It took me years, but when I make it, I am most happy to share the steps I took. If you want to join my growth together with me, there’s more advantage now than when I’ve made it.

Helping one another is what I like most, and having people who are open to accept help makes me most happy.

Do you want to be a poser or the real deal? You decide who you want to be and who to learn from.

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Fairness is what every poor mindset people think of only, to have a fair game, no advantages or biases towards anyone.

Advantage is what wealthy successful people neither seek, which does not and neither looks nor sounds fair to majority of the poor mindset thinking majority.

Decades and centuries have proven that there’s no fairness in this world, the strongest and fittest wins, the natural order of life.

All babies do start of on the same footing, having the same equal chance of survival, but there are other factors which babies can’t control, their family background, their genes, the blood line of heritage they will inherited etc. These are the unfair advantage of born in different family backgrounds.

Poor often say if I have this amount of money, I also can make it big and successful like those super rich with my business ideas. Some people even claim that they steal their ideas, when the fact is they neither know each other nor spoken to each other, let alone even know of each other existence, so how can the poor mindset person say their idea of success was stolen?

Throw them the people with a sudden increase of money, in a short period of time, they will be reduced back to the same old person, it has being proven countless times without anybody purposely sabotage or anything. It just happens.

How many times have you read news articles, know of people who suddenly became rich from being lucky with lottery, TOTO, 4D and hitting the jackpot can maintain their sudden surge of money to the next generation? No one has ever done it, even those who said they wanted to invest also failed to roll the money bigger.

The reason that is holding the truth to this, is the belief, mindset what is in their head, their financial literacy, how much do they know about wealth management, investment that will help them to get wealth not rich not money. It is only when you change your thinking, than only your wealth status quo will change as you increase your mindset towards being positive and learn plus apply and perfects it.

If you understand the essence of this blog entry, than start looking for your advantage, and don’t expect the world to have fairness, even if there is, you have choose to abandon the equal chance presented to you when the opportunity was there presented to you, but you just rejected it.

Don’t blame others, blame only yourself not even your parents for the result you’re getting now.

Get this into your head. “Life is not fair, it’s about having an advantage”

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Foresight is the foreseeing into the future. With the relevant knowledge, linking up what events, society trends, lifestyle is heading towards in the form of trend and to look forward more by just a few years ahead of business rivals and competitors to gain the competitive advantage of manufacturing, producing gadgets which will whoa customers, cool geeky, sleek, information technology enthusiast will want to get their hands on.

Foresight need not decades of planning, it just requires two-three steps ahead of business competitors. Look at Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs one who revolutionalized the new era of computers, notebooks, and other electronic gadgets for maximum portability.

No longer is it a necessity to have a CPU (central processing unit), monitor and keyboard plus a mouse to make a complete set of operational computer. Now all it needs is a tablet, with touch-screen keyboard, monitor, CPU and even mouse all integrated into one single product which is an excellent idea for maximum portability, convenience for the consumers.

Giving what the customers wants, convenience, portable, cost efficient and productive and multiple functions for convenience and easy storage is exactly what information technology is all about.

From computers to notebooks to palm-top, MP3, MP4, PSP to 3G phones to iPhones. All those are just a natural progression of product cycle life. Innovation and foresight is so important that you can’t do without it. So observe what’s happening around you and who knows you will have a billion dollar idea which you can capitalize on when the time is ripe, with all the right ingredients, soil, elements, environment, farmer, water, right and timing.

Be at the right place at the right time and you will be the next winner. Opportunities are everywhere and anywhere, it solely depends on how you capitalize on your ideas for profit and how it benefits the people around you and the community.

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