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Vision is sight or the power of sensing with eyes. It is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from visible light reaching the eye which results in perception also known as eyesight, sight or vision.

Earlier I have written about vision, and today at this moment, I will write about visual perception which is another form of vision in dictionary context.

Often we man learn from observation which we learn by sight by right. Other living organisms learn either from sight, heat, smell, and touch which spreads into taste and feel in deeper context.

It is often said that “What we SEE is what we GET” but this isn’t always true. Whatever we can see with our own eyes will not necessary convert and means the whole truth in which we learn by talking in a discussion, getting to learn what was before, during and after an incident.

Our very own eyes already give us a bias side of visual perception. If we just depend on relying on our eyes for verification, it will only give us limited information and details of how other people views different events.

Having just watched “Water Colours” from Okto channel, understanding a deeper meaning to vision and the different eyes and colour receptor cones in different species of living beings from human to snakes to octopus, shrimps and fishes, it adds more variations and definition to both context and content giving us more insights to visual perceptions.

Man has three colour receptor cones in our eyes, while fishes have around two to three colour receptor cones in their eyes but with a wider position in the placement among the colour spectrum which enables some fishes and marine animals to view what man cannot view which falls into ultra-violent rays and dark black places.

It is this ability to see visual from different angles which enables us to learn about each other and create a common language in the world today, a common denominator in the language money as a form a survival.

Money is a double edged sword, seen in different eyes and treat differently by people from different social status and class. The same applies to visual perception by marine animals in particular fishes. The reason why marine fishes are so colourful is because in the documentary show, it was said that marine animals uses their wonderful colours not as a camouflage but as using the background to conceal themselves by means of disruptive camouflaging.

In marine world, fishes, rays, shrimps all use their vision, strengths to help one another. Visually poor animals may not be able to able to fend for themselves if they depend on themselves, thus it was shown that a shrimp or crayfish animal depends on a fellow friendly neighbour fish to replace the shrimp’s lack of visual ability. The fish than depend on the shrimp and its strong claws to build a holes of tunnel to protect both the fish and the shrimp from incoming predators. So to speak, both the shrimp and the fish is helping one another to live and survive.

The same should be done on land where man should help one another instead of fighting for the same food. Why not try or help one another find more food to co-exist together in a peaceful manner?

It is this selfish reason in which businesses often take over another business and not to share the pie. It is the selfishness that restricts them from growing bigger.

It is a natural survival instinct which we all must learn to abolish. Marine animals and the deep vast blue ocean is a learning ground which we can model after.

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Arrogance is to be overbearing to the extent that people around them disapprove of their behavior or actions. It is the offensive display of superiority or self-importance without any humility.

Arrogant behavior is when people who are confident starts to show off and think that nobody is having more results, profits and potential than their peers and not thinking that someday there will be somebody who is better than them in everything appearing in front of them.

Such people assume that they are superior towards others, by being insolently proud. If you know of such people, they will only hang around people who are weaker than themselves playing the big brother looking after their smaller siblings while taking instructions from their senior brother behind the scene who is in-charge of him. The senior lets him have all the face, ego and pride, a perfect example, gangsters, loan-sharks who hang around together.

In times of trouble, than you will see each of them running for their own lives and survival in the event of a bigger group of gangsters seek revenge on the weak, particular going after a smaller group of individuals.  In Singapore, you will never ever see gangsters on equal strengths pit off against one another in a fight, it is only in Hong Kong, Japan and other countries than will you see them in the newspapers when titans fight one another.

People who are arrogant simply just display the sign of actually being a coward who depends on a group of people to solve their own personal grievances via revenge. They socialize only among themselves, and is contented with the false protection they enjoy.

Police are the military titans who are not arrogant like gangsters; in fact they just observed them like the big brother, only coming into the picture when they start to stir trouble and problems making the police job difficult.  This is a standard observation from news press all over the world; they just sit by the side and observe which has more benefits than otherwise.

In business sense and perspective, it is easier and preferred to allow your competitors whom you know at the back of your hand to survive, knowing their strengths and weakness by hard than to silence all the competitors they know and give rooms to new competitors that they now have to work hard and gathering evidence against a newly formed group making their job more difficult. Rather than killing all opposition, why not just let them survive, and only show their power when such gangs get out of hand.

The competitors can sort of like be each others allies in one way or another, given the sufficient space to live, they will not clash, than the gangsters who the police know at the back of their hands will help the police reduce their workload by stopping any newly formed gangs from increasing their territory thus in a way, that’s how the society works.

Know who your allies are and who your enemies are. Mutual cooperation is needed even if there’s a conflict of interest for survival.

“War/Business is not risky, being unprepared for war/business is risky” – Robert T.Kiyosaki.

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Freedom is the ability to do anything without being held back by the powers or ability or influence of anyone.

It is the ability to do as we wish without any limitations or obligations.

The older and wiser we grow up with time, the more freedom we seek. Freedom comes with a price, a heavy expensive price.

Expensive price is the reason wealthy and successful businessmen than can have the freedom.

People who are poor are trapped in their own invisible prison they built themselves. Working hard for a job, just getting paid peanuts, benefits being utilized greatly by employers it’s like rearing an elephant that can do so much work but only feeding it the required food and nothing additional beyond their diet.

People travel to break away from their barrier or prison which they built themselves. When they can’t afford for luxury items and expenditure, than will it be of a misery for such people.

When they are not able to fulfill their goals or give up, their determination changes to despair and with that feeling engraved in their mind, they than resort to negative methods to get what they want or they pay more than what they can afford to resulting in crimes and bankruptcy.

What hobbies you like determines the lifestyle you will live. It is similar to a pet owner buying a pet which he/her likes. With time and observation, you will notice that it is not coincidence that a pet owner purchases a pet displaying similar behaviors and habits like their owner. It is like a spoilt brat is all due to the failed upbringing of their parents who failed terribly to discipline and instill proper education to their children.

Look at the older generation of uncles in Singapore, those people who enjoy keeping singing birds in cages, taking them out on weekly basis to an area for singing birds to sing and show off their birds to others, thus making friends, deals of transaction etc. Hobbies to me are not only a simple affair, it is the reflection of your inner desire, the subconscious and your thinking, it has to do with psychology.

If you seek an expensive hobby and have strong desire and urge to realize it, than network and meet up with successful businessmen who can help you achieve your dreams of realizing your expensive hobby. It is only when you speak up your true desire, than your mind will really take it into serious consideration and the natural law of attraction (as shown in The Secrets) will automatically comes to you with opportunities, provided you must grab it tightly.

Only when you hang around with people who have attain such results deem impossible by many, than the odds of success increases and is on your side, because the successful people will not only encourage you, but also give you a helping hand when you show with actions and trust with time and commitment, the delegation to helping yourself first before anything else.

To the successful and wealthy businessmen, anything is possible as long as you work towards your goal whereas for the poor people, everything is impossible and beyond their reach plus the common phrase they always say, don’t be crazy, stop day-dreaming which only put them one more step closer to living with regrets and misery.

Do you want to fly like the eagle in the sky or do you want to craw on the ground like a centipede cutting each others throat for survival? Be magnificent and be admired or be a beautiful poisonous creature that nobody wants to avoid?

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Rush is a movement to move in a certain direction with speed. Rushing Is an habit cultivated over time on everybody who has gone through the same education system regardless of nationality, race, religion age or gender.

Rushing is a habit forced on us as we study in schools, slowly getting used to the momentum of school life, than followed by working life and the rush to earn money.

Rushing is not wrong but it’s definitely also not right in certain ways. Look at the successful businessmen. Ask and interview anybody who are successful in the past, present and future down the road, and you’ll realize something that they all had in common – patience.

Successful businessmen don’t rush into businesses, they take time, effort, to understand and master the industry, know everything they can before committing themselves and their capital into whatever their niche is.

The people, who do rush, are normal people like you and me, but I’m slowly but surely learning how to reduce my pace and learn from the successful businessmen. Just look around you, simple observations will tell you a lot of things which will give you more wisdom adding bits by bits to your success which will come to your with time and at the right opportunity.

Look at the bus and MRT passengers, how often and common can you spot people rushing into and out of the public transport, in and out of their work place especially on Fridays whereby everybody will be super effective and efficient when it comes to this day if the company or business has a five day working week. At 5pm, all work and task will be allocated nicely in order for next week. 5.30pm or at 6pm, most of the employees will be rushing back home and than enjoy their weekends.

Look and observe all around you. There are so many observations to be made, but do you even have the time and can afford to slow down your pace to just observe? The rich don’t rush, they have all their schedules planned and appointments made in advance.

The poor, rushing day in day out, getting the same results without continuously pay increment despite working and slogging so hard to increase the company profits.

Look around and ask yourself what kind of life you want to lead. Seek advice and better make sure you ask the right people who have being there, done that, and make sure he/she whom you are positive about it, and successful.

You don’t not ask a failure to give you a positive reply that allows you to be successful because its common sense that a person who has failed will only share the experiences and being a act Mr-Know-How to act like they know everything when in fact they know nothing except being failures themselves.

Failure can’t wait to drag you down together to hell with them for more companionship.

Last but not the least, as the right people; get the right coaching, advisers and successful businessmen.

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Habit, is an acquired behavior pattern which we learn since birth or maybe even when we are already inside the mother’s womb.

We are what are learn the moment our live starts. We are influenced by the education that is imparted to us by our parents, caretakers and teachers. How we think, react and response depends on what we learn by observation with family and friends.

Example: A family of four, dad, mom, brother and a younger sister. Both the kids grow up in a violent family filled with arguments and fighting, than the kids will grow up to be an similar if not identical duplicate like their parents, who could only teach they what they know, which is the cause for more and more families in poverty, much faster than the rate of people climbing up the social ladder becoming influential and wealthy.

We are the result of our own habits which we picked up as we grow up. Our results of way which we live are limited to what we know thus the same problems e.g.: violence can’t be solved by just reducing the problem from the surface. It should be removed from the root, the upbringing and likewise for majority if not all of the other problems which we are facing presently and problems which will be surfacing in future.

Habits lead to behavior, and behavior is a result of our upbringing and the values imparted to us as we grow which is directly associated and limited to the people who we learn from.

Habits = Behavior = Results of upbringing

The next time you want to improve and upgrade yourself, learn from someone you look up to or aspire to be. Network around, read and learn more information about the person and how he/she thinks, does things and carry him/herself in functions, events etc.

Duplicate and model after your desired role-model and one day you will be like them with time and effort.

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Appreciation is a feeling which only both parties understand. It’s a feeling between the giver and the recipient of the value and the services involved. It’s a unbreakable sense of appreciation that converts into a sense of satisfaction and thus translate value and profits.

Feeling of appreciation and being appreciative is a value of service that brings both parties involved to be mutually beneficial. The rewards between both parties and even in businesses will also reap handsome profits. Looking at the 5-star and 6-star hotels, what value do they offer to their customers?

What makes the customers coming back for more? How to create a mutually beneficial proposition? When to offer such value added services to customers? Who will deliver the services and bridge up the gap to create the feeling to have the customers feeling appreciative? Why would such businesses and families want to let their customers and children feel happy with what’s being offered? Where will the services be offered to allow a win-win situation between both parties?

Actually my inspiration for this entry comes right after watching a channel 8 show on heirloom dishes. What it offered to and the ideas was to create the connection between family and increase the bonding among family members but all this was disrupted having to walk into a room filled with smoke which I detest most except to bear with it. The above second paragraph wasn’t what I had in mind but it just came to me as I was trying to find and piece back what I lost in terms of ideas on blogging thanks to the stressful damaging effect the smoke filled room give me as I retrieve my laptop.

Appreciation between families should be fun, happy and looking forward to it. Don’t get me wrong, don’t look forward to being appreciative by praising, although it’s a must do step, but it’s the process of positive feedback and constant practicing and self-improvement which translates into better cooking skills thus bridging family bonding stronger and closer.

Cooking should be fun, and makes people look forward to the same dish over and over again. The only possible option to allow people to look forward to same dish is only made possible in a family. Not even hotels or business can replicate the feeling because it’s the ambiance of home and the bonding between your love ones that makes it especially close to the hearts of individuals.

There’s only so much businesses can do but there’s more that home business can do and profit from just that home based housewives aren’t equipped with the knowledge of know-how to expand their ideas and increase their wealth generation methods via using smart tools, which is why related education to financial success is important. While I might not be somebody now, but if by the time you read this and should decide to find out more about going digital also known as internet marketing, feel free to contact me via the contact page. Not sure if I can be trusted, no problem, feel free to ask me for my previous works of discussion in forums, there’s dates as proofs. Evidence can’t lie.

Pardon me for the self-advertising…but that’s what business is all about. If you don’t know how to sell yourself, than you can’t succeed, it all starts from you and what you’ve got to offer to others.

Perhaps there are only two paragraphs of this blog entry which really came from the idea but the extra contents came not from the idea but also from my observations over the years thanks to different experiences.

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Detective is a word that is used to describe someone skilled and trained to analyze and make key observations based on what he/she see hear and feel from the surroundings.

As I was watching a repeated telecast of a television board-cast of a movie, the police was retracing the procedures of which the assassin made at the crime scene without much questions asked.

An individual is trained to such an extent just by making observations and asking a few key questions before coming to a conclusion and a detail break-down of the steps which was used.

As I was watching the show, I was reminded that I too was able to play detective, but don’t get me wrong, I’m not that smart enough to break down crime scenes, just that I’m experienced enough to conclude and have a detail break-down of any sales company and the culture the sales agents was being bought up/trained in and the methods they employ during the introduction closing etc.

Thanks to watching shows, I am able to reflect on myself and realize what soft skills which I’ve picked up over the active participation in MLM over the number of years going around different companies exploring analyzing and testing the sales agents knowledge in some ways necessary to cross-reference and justify what I’ve heard from rumors or gossips that’s being spread around.

Having the skill of being a detective actually can be easily picked up but if an individual wants to learn the art of this skill immediately, it is a near impossible without any active and in-depth training of customer and agent interaction prior to learning this skill.

I only realize this when I was reporting back to my uplines, when each reporting and their probing, than I am able to come up with my own set of deeper in-depth analysis and observations to enhance my theory and findings to justify, cross-reference to make sure I didn’t make any inaccurate judgments. Of course like many others, I only share information I deem as open common secrets thus holding those key observations to myself and no one else except to share it once in a while during conversations.

With so much to learn, why are there still to much stigma with regards to this industry, what I can say is because they either focus too much on bringing in the cash and forget about learning forgoing cash in the process – genuine learning through participation.

Follow me via this blog to learn more without even having to participate in MLM to learn without having to pay a single penny. With so much to gain, nothing to lose except for few minutes reading..what more can you lose?

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Leadership is a skill which can be picked up by observation and learning else are blessed with natural leadership roles.

As I was watching a repeated telecast Korean drama show just now about a conquest to be the king, this topic came into my mind and here I am writing about it. It’s not easy being a leader neither is it difficult to begin with.

All that is required to be a leader is just to have at least two or more people willing to be the followers. What attracts people to follow them? Money, Wealth or Power, there’s differences among the three reasons which I’ve just mention.

Money can be used to buy over almost all the things like position, fame and honor. As long as the person who pays have the ability to continue his/her up-keeping of the people who are willing to be paid, than it’s no longer of a problem if both sides agree with the status quo. There’s however a existing problem with this type of money bought over leadership. In the event of a company problem, or personal problem which is serious enough to go against the law, the followers who was being bought over using money will be someday eventually be bought over to the other side whoever pay a higher fee. This type of leadership is a failed leadership role, but such leaders are still around in Singapore. An example will be the gangsters. All their fellow man below the leaders are all being paid with money for every single thing that they do which violates the law. Without the influence of money, who would be stupid to get themselves into trouble? If you think there isn’t, you’re wrong, there’s really such people who like to poke their nose into other people’s business even if they got nothing to gain and I’ve met such people.

As for followers who follow the wealthy individuals, I can only say that these followers have made the right choice, to be able to follow somebody who can guide them to increase their own wealth is a skill which not many know of and so if you who is reading this right now ever come across somebody who’s always full of ideas and plans, try to follow them, learn and absorb while at the same time exchange ideas, who knows there might be extra benefits to gain. This might sounds like making use of one another but from my point of view, it’s to leverage on one another strengths and work together to scale a higher mountain. No mountain is high enough not to be reached by man as long as determination and with strong will power, nothing is impossible.

As for leaders who rule the group by power, this is the most dangerous type of group. A leader, who instills FEAR into every single person within the group, is like a volcano waiting to be erupted at any point of time. It’s a good short term controlling tactic used on a day to day basis but not applicable in a family or on adults because when used this method on people who can think with their brains, someday it’s going to be pay-back time be it one person or a whole group who go against the leader. Examples of such are happening every month in neighboring countries, just look at the number of riots whereas civilians going against the arm forces. By nothings even without the use of weapons, civilians will eventually win in the long run if nobody goes to work at the influence of the riot leaders.

So when it comes to being an entrepreneur, one has got to be claim and maintain his/her composure in face of crisis or an immediately problem that needs immediate rectification. Panic and being lost of direction in face of adversity of the whole group will cause a leader to surface and take charge. Leaders can be taught and trained up but there’s hardly any practical training thus to be a leader, the core foundation of oneself has to be there. Be claim and composed like a mountain taking everything against it like nothing has happened.

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Having just watched World of Thieves by Andy Lau, the end was a tragic ending. Andy Lau stood by his promise to his wife at the expense of his life in an attempt to protect a lamb (prey for a dumb naïve and innocent guy with 60,000 yuan who was on his way back to his village to start a family) hoping to do the right thing to give a proper answer to his unborn child. With the ending song, although it’s a normal lonely song when pieced with the tragic ending it was a perfect combination causing me to shed nothing but tears. I’m glad I didn’t took the wrong path leading to greed. Thanks to a wonderful variety of negative experiences and hardship which fine-tuned me into who I am today and in future.

Inside the show, Andy Lau was actually nicknamed the ghost thief for his heartless theft behaviors which earned him his nickname. He who was very insistent on stealing the 60,000 yuan from the lamb to wake him up from his dream believing that there’s no bad people. That moment, it reminded me of my inner struggle and the lure of greed towards James Phang back than Sunshine Empire who was the King of Scams within South-East Asia. Having to go through his lessons and learn directly from him only to realized he’s the real ghost even deceiving his students to cast a wider net. That scene which Andy Lau exchanged conversation with the female lead who acted as his wife. That moment left a heavy impression on me. Thoughts just came flashing back on how I made the choice of turning a new leave leaving the unpleasant journey of MLM, sales and marketing tactics which I learnt. I’m happy that I’m no longer greedy to go after such materialistic needs.

Thanks to the first nasty blow of experience when I first started my path down MLM at the age of 16, that made me want to learn more and more, exploring what’s right and wrong, making who I am today, with the ability to immediately see through a MLM company be it their vision or direction with just one full complete tour of the company with proper explanation. Such skills and eye observations skills can be learnt but not many really pay much attention to such a skill to begin with in the industry since they are after short term profits and not looking ahead of them.

Having watched this movie, which made me went through a lot of self reflection, I can proudly say that I didn’t regret going into the depths of MLM companies and learning from them inside out wanting to know their secret of brainwashing people and the secret to large sales.

In the world of business, when it comes to entrepreneurship, it’s all about sales and marketing. Once the position and frame work is all set in place, sales will follow you without you being the salesman. All that is needed is to brand yourself properly as the consultant in that particular niche you’re about to venture into. Giving your potential clients value for money explanation to help them understand more about themselves and what products are suitable for them.

There’s more to the sales than sales itself. Selling a product is simple, marketing product to a blind audience to a big unknown group is difficult but the returns are huge. That’s where position, branding, market awareness and marketing comes into play before huge chunk of sales are created in an instant or over a short period of time. More will be shed when the time comes.

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Hunger is something made us to eat three meals a day without fail. Hunger can be filled up with either a simple meal or a extravagant meal. It all matters within the choice of each individual. The way which we eat on a daily basis can partially tell you how an individual’s style of doing business.

The way we eat, how much we spent on food for each of our meals and even on festivals and special occasions determine the way which individuals manage their businesses. Different eating style and beliefs is a direct interpretation of how an individual will manage his/her own business.

For people who have a simple decent meal enough to fill up the stomach, the individual will just be looking for the normal a decent income to meet just the daily needs. This will tell you that the individual is just an average joe otherwise known as a normal person without any entrepreneur mindset or any urge to become a boss. They might just be the normal day to day people who pay themselves to be boss after lots of years of savings.

For people who have a bare minimal meal with little ingredients just to satisfy the stomach, there are two possibilities to these. 1) The person is having difficulty trying to meet day-to-day needs and have problems with their financial aspect. 2) The person is trying to save every single penny amount of money possible to accumulate their first pot of gold (capital) to either start their own business or to do a joint venture.

For people who spend a huge potion of their monthly income on food, it will reflect on the individual’s beliefs. These people believe in living for the moment and not for the future. They do not make preparations for the future.

There are many other cases whereby we can observe a person to check for suitability before engaging them as business partners. Today the above contents which I’ve mention are only meant to filter out those people who are looking for business partners. The contents are meant to be used as a basic guide line only. More observations based on food related will be mentioned when the time is ripe.

There’s a saying which are being used by two types of people

1. We live to eat
2. We eat to live

Give it some thoughts and ask yourself which class you fall under.

To refine your thoughts, ask yourself if you choice of food does matter in the two phrases above.

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