Battle is the contest of strength and merits of individuals in a hostile engagement in any environment.

It is not simply a fight, instead it consist of many other factors and hopes pin onto that single or group battle of participants where dreams, hopes, dignity, reputation and pride are on the line.

Emerging victorious from a battle with valour is the pride of the winner representing not only himself, and also the coach, people who believe in the contestant/fighter, the same race and even the country he is representing.

When a contestant is selected, he no longer represents himself but represents all the people and is wearing the national flat in a battle. Living the dream and living up to the nation’s reputation, pushing themselves forward at times even if they themselves want to surrender at times.

That is when moral support, motivation, cheers works on the contestant who represents their dreams to push on and fight harder than before the results are announced.

In the technology era, there is no longer the physical battle. Instead it has all switched to the use of media, wanting to emerge as the winner in respective fields to be acknowledge as the global champion without engaging in fights which is also known as politics.

There are two concurrent wars happening in every single country on earth, the war of politics and government fighting on two fronts but using the same soldiers.

The top cabinet ministers are the politicians wanting to establish themselves as the good person helping other nations in need thus they go for bilateral ties and treaties with respective nations with mutual beneficial terms.

On the other hand, the same cabinet ministers are fighting their own battle with the civilians who are their boss and may pass the rights to run the country to another political group if they fail to satisfy their needs which are employment and ensuring everyone gets paid.

This is what I myself view as a losing battle, one person cannot fight on two fronts, moreover they don’t even understand what the external nations wants with their own country and there they are trying to win on both sides and are sinking on both ships with each leg stuck in a ship each, sinking along with them.

What kind of battle are you up against with? Who are your competitors? Are you representing yourself or your parents or even your own organization? What is it that you seek? Before you even have the desire for battle, what is the purpose?

Battle is the same in business, fighting everyday for profits, sales, clients, and with the objective in mind to win and emerge victorious thus growing rich, affluent into big companies and businesses.

Are you rich or in the process of making it? How do you plan to strategically move yourself up there and where are your alliances? Identify all these to increase your odds of success.

If you don’t plan, you plan to fail.

Failure is not a option but a chance to do self-reflection.

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Unity is to be undivided or unbroken completeness. It is the state of being completed as a whole, combining parts into one with the absence of diversity without and having a common goal or focus.

Together as a whole, in quantity, it translates to quality in terms of strength and a force not to be reckon with. Following the updates of Thailand demonstration that has lasted for the past month, it has come to the attention that even military is helpless against the united group of demonstrators.

While the politicians wanted to capture the red shirt leaders, the red shirt demonstrators successful defended their leaders and even assisted in their escape.

Military going up against the civilians might sounds a strange because one side is fully armed for combat while the other party isn’t, but with time and news reports, it have proved that without weapons, and sheer numbers, military can be push over when people come in numbers as reported in news.

It is the cooperation of all individual demonstrators of the red shirts which made the demonstration successful and cause the military helpless plus tourism in Thailand suffered millions losses in terms of revenue. That is a classic example of unity, and power that represents the people, civilians are the boss of the politicians.

Looking at the model of the boss or employment, while it’s true that we work for money, and our boss are paying us income in return for service, the biggest boss which refers to the politicians and governments of every nation still have to listen to their bigger boss who are paying them their income in the form of taxes, which is ordinary civilians.

Upset the real boss, and politicians will have a tough time clearing up the mess. The real power lies in the people, not the politicians, as they are still serving the people.

Politics and government is a people business, the rich politicians have to listen to their real boss the civilians and their requests else they will be forced to leave their post, especially when votes and elections are being made.

Communication and listening to what our clients wants and needs are important if we want to be rich and successful and at the same time earning the respect of our real boss.

Ironic but true.

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Provocateurs are people who are employed by an entity to act as a undercover and to entice, provoke another person, group or business to commit wrong and rash actions.

It is a strategic and intelligent move by taking advantage of the weakest link.

It is a silent killer in politics everywhere, from home, schools to office politics and even businesses, such people are always around, and how often are you able to spot and identify such people?

They are under-cover agents or spies wanting to frame an individual or a group to achieve their personal gains and benefit from a chaotic situation. An example is the most talked about demonstration in Thailand.

Live ammunition were used in the demonstration, with many eye witnesses saying that soldiers using it while others remarks saying there were people who were from neither the demonstrators or the military force who were using live rounds, instead it was from people who were firing at innocent people form rooftops.

Remarks came from a former cabinet minister Suranand Vejjajiva now a respected political commentator as reported in Straits Time Newspapers.

Unknown gunmen were taking advantage of the hostility between the red shirt demonstrators and the opposition military force compromising of police and army.

From my humble opinion, instead of focusing on the violence, lost of lives, both parties, the red shirt demonstrators and the military police and army should join hands and come to a mutual agreement to save lives.

By having a agreement which is to weed out, capture those gunmen and soldiers caught using live ammunition and bring such provocateurs to justice who are trying to make matters worse by taking advantage of the situation.

While there’s chaos, agreement should be focus on peaceful demonstration and reducing the numbers of lives lost due to such gunmen.  To learn how to handle such issues, just stay tuned to get yourself updated on the news from Channel News Asia.

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Growth is a process, it is a constant.

Previously, I mention about growth in general, today, I will write about growth as a development but towards survival instincts. More about the live or die context. The survival of the fittest!

While every living organism is trying their best to growth brilliantly, showcasing the best of their abilities progressing forward, we man in particular humans are regressing and it is a process which is undesirable.

Living organism, bacteria, plants, animals, reptiles are progressing and moving forward, evolving and changing for the better but man on the other hand is growing but wilting as we grow due to negative competition.

In documentary shows, nature is like a piece of profound art that is so beautiful that words cannot describe it with sight and seeing it for ourselves. The beauty which leads to such natural beauty in the wild, be it on the mountains, forest, jungle, lake, sea or deep blue ocean, it is all done naturally, without human intervention, thus the competition if beautiful as they are there show-casting their beauty  due to their own unique survival instincts be it animals, flowers, marine animals etc.

Among the crowd of natural living organisms, there will definitely be one standing out from the rest of the peers, and that one is the strongest, having grown the best, beautiful elegant in the case of flowers. In the ocean, it is all about surviving and finding food to either grow and become a predator or become a pray to other stronger predators. Earning the rights to be the strongest that alone is a beauty.

Man who has since conquered all elements is regressing in a way that there are tons of negative and unhealthy competitions. People, business, countries, and even nations form alliances just to fight for a piece of meat, making ourselves look so miserable, ugly behaviors so to speak. Instead of fighting among ourselves, we should help one another.

Nature is so beautiful because they wild life, animals, plants, insects, reptiles, birds, and marine animals understand and acknowledge one simple yet complex fact.

That is the world is big enough to accommodate everybody, we are interdependent on each other for survival, it is a big wide food chain that they know which they relay on each other.  Predators pray only when needed, thus in documentary shows, prays are also often video recorded to help their enemies to clean their teeth, and this is most often seen in marine fishes plus birds helping crocodiles to clean their teeth for hygiene purpose.

Man on the other hand are selfish beings so to speak, reducing the living space of wild life at their expense of extinction for our own benefit limiting their space and greatly affecting their chances of survival. Business owners, politicians’ nation wide, all fight for power, influence to restrain one another from being dominant and beyond control. All these are carried out at the expense of taking the food, resources which we should be sharing with other people, wild life, environment and nature to achieve a environmental balance.

To be the leader and earn the respect of groups from other food chain, it is to emerge the strongest in a fair fight without additional help or shortcut, that is why nature is always the elusive beauty secrets that no matter how much money has being put into duplicating a same thing, it will never ever be comparable to the real deal.

Likewise to be a leader of the pack, leading people, and countries, not only do we need to help our own people in our own country first, we also need to extend the help to other people from other countries and at the same time winning them over through ethical legal and fair competition without restricting any of the competitors. That is how we man should compete, but unfortunately, it isn’t always this way.

Man has trample on the weak and build corpse as their stairs in attempt to climb the uphill task of social ladder at the expense of many innocent people in the process. No nations to date in modern times has yet to attain this style of high level respect in leadership status which commands the respect of no only your followers but also the respect from your competitors.

Except for the fact in the past, this has being achieved, only in China, the story of the Three Kingdoms, and one other unique person which lives much closer to us, and that person is none other than Bruce Lee. Respect is not earned by force but by sincerity and the true intention.

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Slandering happens almost everywhere and anywhere. It is a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or a report against somebody usually towards either a politician, celebrity or a business owner or their companies.

It is a wrong intention of business strategic move in attempt to de-throne a existing person/business’s intangible good will which is reputation, creditability and branding. It has being time tested again and again that slandering does not work against reputable politicians especially well know figures and celebrities who commands a strong support from their supporters.

By accusing somebody of a misdeed, the accuser is putting himself/herself at risk of being black-listed, one who can badmouth someone, can also do the same to their own company and leak secrets. Moreover, once the defamation has taken place, the impact and damage done is immediately being thrown back to that person.

Accuser must come up with facts and rock solid evidence to back up whatever he/she said against somebody or a business. Without facts, most of the time, the accused emerge victorious when law suits are being carried out and the accuser learn his/her mistake the hard way by paying the compensation for slandering someone or the business, the lawyer fees, lost of own reputation, creditability on the long term.

Most importantly, all these leads to one thing, lost of business clients which translate to lose of business revenue permanently and that will make potential clients think twice if they want to engage the services of someone who was taken to court for slandering.

Think twice the next time if you want to speak, first go through your mind if you are speaking to somebody who is a celebrity, business owner or politician and even to rich affluent friends. Do not get into unnecessary trouble.

What you cannot enforce, do not command. – Sophocles

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Politics, a group of people within the government that makes key decisions which will affect and implicate many parties involved.

Politicians function and operate differently from businessmen. Politicians are like the parents of a big household, with the responsibility of taking care of every single person under her care, respect is given and once they are successful in winning the votes. Businessmen on the other hand is like a adult who has just moved out and is going independent, without wanting to rely on others, thus those who make it successful often gain wealth and authority thus earning respect.

Politics is a fun topic to learn, but not a good employment to be in due to its complexity and the laws associated with it plus mountains of restrictions and limitations, thus businessmen never ever get into politics. Thaksin is an exception who has since paid a hefty price for breaking the culture of not doing both politics and business together.

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Growth is a constant which we experience everyday and every second.

It refers to an increase in quantity over time which can be physical or abstract. It is the gradual increase and the act of process.

Man, animals insects and living organisms are growing every second and growing positively, but why are there so many people who seek growth negatively?

With growth, comes wealth, following closely behind will be success and power. We grow up wiser and smarter with time and it is a gradual process.

Are people really growing positively or negatively?

Wealthy and successful people are doing it correctly but the poor are totally learning, embracing teachings, education which is completely wrong thus the negative growth into debts, problems, and requesting for help and assistance.

Look at those who are educating the poor, people should learn from their elders, follow what they are doing and not doing what they are telling.

Elders refer to the government, politicians, even terrorists who are guiding and telling their followers what to do. They are getting rich (but not wealthy and successful), so to get rich, we need to do what they are doing, instead of doing things which they tell us to do, which are things that they are not doing it themselves.

If you want to get rich, copy what the rich is doing, do not do what they are not doing. It is a simple recipe to duplicate success.  If you want to be wealthy and successful, get a mentor and proper coaching who can guide you in the right direction. If you find a wrong coach, you are screwed!

We all need to grow and constantly improve, not to make ourselves in worse situation. Make sure you learn from the right people.

“Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?” – Ray Kroc, MacDonald’s Entrepreneur.

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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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Festival is an event staged by local community centers on the unique aspect of the community.

There are many types of festivals across the globe, from religious to arts, food, entertainment and seasonal festivals. The most talked about regardless of nationality will be the various religious festivals of respective countries.

Time and time again, religious festivals have being board cast on television shows numerous times and showing different types of religious cultures and festivals. Christianity and Buddhism are the most commonly featured on the media due to the yearly festival across the world.

Media telecast of religious festivals is to neither a good nor bad thing, it’s just another piece of news and allow people to get updates for people to follow up with.

Buddhism has quite a number of religious festivals that has being shown on television and in other media channels. With its deep roots and influence from all around South-East Asia, all the way from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and in Singapore. With different religious practice and worshiping of different gods, generally we are all from the same roots, Buddhism just that our way of celebrating festivals might deter from among ourselves.

The scale and magnitude of how a country practice their own religious goes to show how united they are actually. I’m not trying to promote any religion here, but just that I was watching a Chinese show this afternoon and it help me understand the importance of culture, generations, unity,

Celebrating festivals is good way to build bonding, unity and getting to know one another of the same belief. Example like what I watched in the show, the dragon boat festival also known as the 端午節(Duan Wu Jie) is a good way to let people among the community interact with one another.

Dragon boat festival is especially successful in this aspect. Due to the involvement of lots of people, competition among respective dragon boat teams (different communities pit against each other) thus getting to know and understand respective cultures thus encouraging mutual understanding.

With a common celebration, it is not limited to a small group but it is done a big scale. Making of the dumplings in the kitchen increase the family bonding when the cook, and the assistance on a small scale.

Within a community, the village will work towards preparation for the dragon boat festival, all the festive practice; beliefs will be passed down to the next generations with participation and involvements thus strengthening the bonding among them.

Beyond community level, they cheer each of their own community to spur each other community to fight for the dragon boat championship thus increasing the tolerance for other communities with a common goal united as one.

Organizing a festival is hard-work but the rewards far exceed the cost of the festival strengthening themselves with their own country’s identity, culture and unity.

That is something which we all can learn from, to understand each other’s religion and practice instead of condemning and trying to stir up conflicts which results in only more signs of trouble etc.

Tolerance and mutual understanding is the way which we all should work towards together as a whole. Like wise in business, instead of trying to cut each other’s throat with reducing profits, getting into a price war competition, why not work together, spilt profits, and have win-win situation?

At times, when I read and watch news and getting to know businesses trying to fight for a bigger slice, it just amuse me to know how much they lack in terms of mutual respect and cooperation.

Most businesses outside are just dumb in my personal perspective, why can’t they learn a simple thing like cooperation like the politicians, government, helping one another? Although it’s true that businesses are making much more money than politicians, but they are killing each other instead of helping one another.

Businessmen should instead learn from entrepreneurs who are successful than businessmen themselves.

Festival is the way to go, respect, tolerance, and understanding is needed to build a relationship and a mutual beneficial business for profits and not losses seeing red figures.

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Balance is about equilibrium with equal distribution of weight distributor to achieve balance.

Everything must be balanced, and there must not be biasness on any side but in reality, it isn’t possible to strike a balance unless we control our own source of income, wealth and time by working for ourselves and not for our boss.

At work, government across and all over the globe always talk about having a balance working life, which is nonsense, if they want to get paid via tax thus they have money, they have to think of ways to allow business to have more employees thus more tax will be received from everybody making them richer but not wealthier since government are not experts at wealth and financial management.

The true experts of wealth and financial management are the billionaires and multi-millionaires. Millionaires are not included in my theory because millionaires can be done alone with hard work while multi-millionaires cannot.

News reports of financial crisis, great depression, stock crisis, commodity shortage thus causing sky rocketed cost of food and basic ingredients such as sugar, salt, and oil at times are the solid proof that government leaders are just ordinary people like you and me in the streets. They know nothing about real wealth management. They can make mistakes and push the blame to somebody else by military or keep it within the walls of each respective country as top secrets etc, and the best part, they don’t get fired because they need to retain ‘talents’ who are just sadly ill-trained professionals who knows only theory but not practical experience whatsoever.

Such people in the government do not and will not know how to balance the equilibrium and will continue to make mistakes than push it to others, got let somebody be the scapegoat taking the blame while opening a back-door to the person who help them take the rap.

The Lehman Brothers is a typical example of ill trained professionals who cause the world economy to share the rap and consequences of their actions, sparking a crisis with more problems in western countries than Asian countries.

With US government using tax-payers money to bail out the companies that didn’t do a proper job to save employments, when this happens, it is debt sharing, and passing the debt to the majority of the people. Take the total sum of money USA used and divide among the US population, and you know on average how much a US citizen helps the government to pay off the debts, which is why the US presidential election is all about, getting the consent of every citizen for approval by votes.

In Asian countries, it is run with a slightly different practice, because of the lack of politicians, and leaders, whatever mistakes they made, it will be compromised because there are no successors to take over thus they can continue making mistakes and nobody can do anything because they lack the higher appointment to veto the politician out immediately. Business and politics will never be able to work together due to a conflict of interest and why Warren Buffett initially decline President Obama request to lead the US in terms of investment options.

At work, health and family, it is all about striking a balance but it is not possible to do it because not possible to do so as business is all about profits and family work balance must be compromised in order to meet quota set by the company and the management else face the risk of being fired.

The only possible way to attain work life and family plus health balance is to work for ourselves, and find alternative income source to have flexible work time, have a business system to have it running on automatic basis so to allow equal balance.

The alternative is via internet marketing, and multi-level marketing (MLM) which requires no boss, no fixed timing, efforts and pay are justified by the amount of commitment they put in which is why news articles in Singapore have mention successes in blogging stay home young mothers who are IT savvy. MLM however has created tremendous success that can’t be overlooked but it is treated with negativity thus people are not receptive to it.

Education is all about helping ourselves to earn more money, but why and how did people think that it’s only right to help boss earn money and not help themselves? Are you slapping yourself in the face? Wake up to the reality and face it. If you at any one time want to deny facts, you will be a loser and loser will only suffer in misery and nothing else.

Do you want to seek balance in live which will encourage good health or do you want to continue to work your guts out risking your health helping your boss get rich, and not helping yourself?

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