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Remodeling is a frequently used strategy in business, especially when it cones to attaining success.

It is different from copying that only duplicates and kills any potential deal to the copycat of its creditability nor originality.

Just like models undergoing training, all must go through the basic training for posture, etiquette, question, walking, make-up, exercise fitness, and food information to help them stay in shape. But to stand out, they need to get into the limelight by being slightly different from the rest of their peers from the same batch of models in every new batch to clinch more deals etc.

Just like the picture above, the model is also using her curves (figure) in a photo shoot, but this time, the model did not deliberately use her boobs nor hips as a sex appeal to steal the limelight, but instead capitalizing on her tattoos, with curvy figure to complement as a backdrop (contrast) to be unique that is vital to succeed.

To succeed, one must clearly differentiate and identify the both similarity and differences between these two words that are taught in academic education but not emphasis on for they the education providers know little to nothing about the importance of these two words and how they can help anybody success regardless of the academic qualification in the business industry against employment.

Copying is to direct duplicate every single process, steps, thinking to create an identical copy, whereas remodeling is the process of selective copying, in the process taking only the pros, subtracting the cons, bearing in mind what is not workable so as not to repeat their previous model that’s already giving problems.

Most businesses in fact are just a chip of the old block, taking with them new ideas, strategies, and new creative steps to innovate, and increase productivity of the business when the previous employer refuse to change, than forcing a passionate employee who than before the his/her ex-employer’s future competitor.

Copying is a vital skill yet not taught in academic qualification, in fact it is being penalized, but yet in the working class and in the society, even in business projects, advertising campaigns, one can easily spot similarities among past winning advertising campaigns and projects so to speak.

Yet to successfully copy without blindly copying the disadvantage of the business model is a skill that nobody will teach, except in the sales industry, for they are after a common goal, to make money and grow their wealth, thus that’s the only way whereby anybody can learn the skills to copy.

It is somewhat similar to copywriting, but with slight difference in the mode of application.

But to learn and master the secrets of remodeling, it requires more than skill, it’s a combination of selective learning, knowing our own focus, goals in life, and the mental ability not to be disrupted by honey and other attractions in the process for a comfort zone which will ruin our own individual changes of success at copying a existing model that is working fine and creating successful figures and results.

Yet there is another element of integrity involved in remodeling, the ethics of doing business, not to steal any confidential information, clients from former company, helping ex company grow if possible with your new business, to thank your ex employer for giving you the opportunity to learn the trait. That’s is what separates the real successful individuals, business owners from the copycat business owners who are in only for the short term.

Those are what i personally is using in copying the secrets of the direct sales model successfully, and is currently looking for a company that are interested to leverage on what I’ve learn over the years of examining different companies and dissecting the information in a single appointment. It requires lots of practice but it’s a skill that must be learned if you were to think long term.

That’s the real shortcut to success, but nonetheless, hard work and passion must be the basic criteria before anyone attempts to use this remodeling formula, for it requires sharp hindsight, observation and analytic  skills to decipher the business model of any niche.

Love what you are doing, and you will excel.

Hate and force your way in, and you will bleed to a gradual failure without you even realizing it.

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Vigilance in dictionary terms is to have a sustained attention over long period of time.

In modern days, where employment, job security, plentiful food at our disposal,  man have eventually evolved into a state of laziness to such there’s a lack of natural alertness in majority of individuals these days.

From being alert to problems and solving it by ourselves in the back old days (centuries ago), man today has largely involved into easy preys if man were all to be placed and live on their own in the jungle or forest at the mercy of the animals out in the wild.

Reason being so is primarily due to the contentment with the government, security from lack of predators for our lives, thus we fall into a sense of comfort zone refusing to utilize our natural assets namely our brain, using wits to solve problems. Instead, we turn to officials, politicians, security personnel to solve our problem when we can easily solve it on our own if we just work together.

Simple things like a theft, can be easily avoided by simply concealing if not hide the valuables, jewelery from view that only encourage crimes to take place. if it’s in the wild, like how the animals search for food, once they successfully hunt and killed it, they will either hide it, and prepare for rainy days, else take a few quick bites before keeping it at a safe place from other animals who will find an opportunity to  snatch away the food. Just like cheetah trying to keep the kill away from lions, hyenas and vultures.

In the urban environment/habitat, while such animals are kept out of man’s reach and harm, there are however other preys and predators, namely man hunting on man, just that it’s in a different setting. Whereby the rich profits from the poor, sometimes, if not majority capitalizing on the gullible, naive employees like how loan-sharks squeeze their debtors dry. The only difference is that business owners, investors conceal and camouflage their  killing/hunting strategies to themselves so as to maintain and hold off any potential impending predators wanting to get a slice of the market where the money is.

One such example that’s happening every day is in the property, insurance, banking and other sales industries. Every year, globally, news articles reports of scams, frauds, business bankruptcies are all signs and tell-tale signs of modern urban war unknown to majority of the people. Failure to be aware of the urban warfare and struggle for food (money) will ultimately lead to more people going broke and end up in debts.

Even another sector/area that majority if not all (except for the health professionals) will over-look falls into taking care of their own health. Failure to do so, results in lost of income with immediate effect, so health should always be the top priority.

Being aware of our surroundings, and know the risk involved in signing any contracts for sales of anything from small gadgets to credit card, bank loans and even loan guarantors will help individuals avoid the falling into the hands of the mercenaries.

Learning the rules, skills to navigate the modern war in urban habitat will increase the odds of oneself in gaining advantage to fight against the percentage of going broke being an employee.

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Charity is commonly known and associated to help the poor and the practice of benevolent giving to the needy.

But as I was approached by an representative from a local heart foundation, during the no-obligation discussion, i realized that there are so many areas that the charity foundation isn’t solving the root of the problem.

While they may seem to want to solve the problem, but they are just educating the wrong group of people. By educating the young, while it’s good to start from young, but from what I understand of the local market, it doesn’t work this way.

It is general knowledge that all kids are in their prime health and are growing, unless until the age of twenty than our lungs stop reproducing new cells, bones start to weaken at age thirty instead of the commonly known fifty years old. (Refer to today’s Mind Your Body article page 2 in The Straits Time).

So while kids are growing, their concern is only fun and education, they will not be bothered by what they learn from a talk as it will not be craved into their mind.

It is only through immediate experience of fellow family members/relatives (touch-wood) facing similar health complications than only will people learn and remember it for life.

Charity education seminar and talk is useless when shared with the wrong group of participants. As their patients are all working adults, and knows exactly the importance of having money, and how difficult it is to earn money, so it should be of a wiser, smarter choice if they target all working adults, newly graduated students walking into working society.

Only by speaking to people who have felt the pain of earning money, and the importance of having a healthy body, than will only people learn.

In short, people are cheap (majority > referring to smokers); They know it’s bad, but can’t quit smoking due to weak mental strength, but once they know that they will die the next day or in a few months time (touch-wood), they can immediately kick the habit out far into the ocean without any signs of draw-back. The same goes to wine/beer drinkers who frequently goes clubbing, pubs to relax, putting their own body at risk, liver cancer etc.

Than the other phrase commonly used is “Prevention is better than cure” makes me think about the essence of having a charity organization or foundation.

Why should we pay and contribute to some charity foundations like Heart foundation, Kidney foundation when they themselves (the patients) didn’t even bothered to take care of their own health in the first place. Only after things happen, than cry for help.

This reflects a negative side of the way charity foundations are created in the first place. To help really the needy. I think the future and the direction of most charity foundations should focus on those really poor, and did take care of their own health in the past, and not help all of the patients (whereby some of them deserved it, learn a lesson from their past actions which i think of it as consequence of their own action)

So more charity foundations should instead focus on kids born in poor families, no ability to even have basic meals everyday, or those born with chronic illness, food allergies, those are the real people whom our hard earned money should be donated to, and not those who didn’t learn to cherish what they had before a healthy body.

Having said that, there’s still so much that can be done to properly educate the masses. But i didn’t see any real person who can actually see the root of the problem, most charities are just filling out a hole on the surface, ignoring signs of leaking which leads to new holes being created.

Funds made through such non-profit organizations should be better managed by professionals and not average joe who aren’t clear on how to solve the root of the problem. There’s more rooms for improvement definitely.

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For the past few days,

I was writing my first e-book with intention to launch on 27th Jan 2011 for $27/-

With only 2-3 more chapters left, it should be an easy task even the customer support for a product is what comes after the sales which is where the real value of the product comes into play.

During the process, which i’m still in currently, it seems difficult at first, but when you actually settle down, have a peace of mind, empty your thoughts, than it will be easier than what you actually thought it would be..not as difficult as i initially thought to be..

There will still be some stumbling road blocks especially when writing the contents, but after so many years of mentally walking with some many stones..the time for change has come..and its a simple process..

Simply push all the problems aside, clear path way for a smooth journey, problems will always happen, the only way to move on is to execute and minimize problems from surfacing by preventing it from the start and not making detour or beating around the bush hoping the problem will KIA (killed in action = a unhappy client) itself when there’s no hope of solution which most small scale business employ such tactics  as a matter of fact.

Back to subject proper..I hope I can launch the product online by estimated 27th Jan 2011 if not earlier. Lets hope my cold will not affect my progress of completing the book.

The book which I’m writing will help people to cut down on their shopping budget and learn tricks to intelligent shopping trip with proper use of money by making the right choices.

This book will go a long way in helping everybody in saving money in the long run as i specifically wrote this book in a way that is applicable to assist in the sales decision of any and every product being sold without advertising for any product (for obvious reasons since they didn’t pay advertising fees). Plus with this book, it can help you to cut down of time spend on shopping trips in future if you know the tricks to it.

Hope this book can launch on time.

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Answer in dictionary terms has different meanings and it can be a reply to a question; a solution to a problem, a response to something or retaliation when faced with opposition or in defense of oneself.

Over the past few weeks of absence with full use of notebooks, time and thoughts set in with more rooms to think.

As I look back, I’m thankful for the natural life cycle of items, objects and even living beings inclusive of animals of all kinds.

During the absence of a own fully operational notebook, there are times whereby I wanted to continue to write out my thoughts via blogging, but is limited to my situation which I’m in with depleting resources inclusive of money, time and health.

Without money, time and health will not be possible. Without money, my path towards entrepreneurship will cease to exist and so I will remain just like another average joe on the streets.

Having ample time off from the notebook (electronic gadgets) has given me another answer which I would otherwise never will come to realize without the aging notebook due to the shelf life of items.

As I read books, thoughts started flying through my mind, at times floating  and even crawling pass my mind. While the ideas and thoughts are constantly changing, the one thing in particular which I was constantly thinking was how to get rich, and being both rich and right at the same time without compromising on my principles needed for my own personal branding..

As days passed..weeks…months..even while I’m working, being employed (though I once said the last time I wanted was to be employed) but I still got to face reality.

The harsh cruel truth of society, money is essential for almost everything. Without it, nothing is possible, but on the hind sight, money still has its limitations.

Searching for answers and the path (formula) required for success, with the advice and comments from my current boss, I learn quite a few helpful tips essential for success and getting rich.

Face the music is what I could sum it up of.

Face the truth, reality, and never ever live in my own desired world or some say fantasy. The right answer is that there is no model answer.

Here’s a food for thought for readers: How to get rich?

You might think there are numerous ways and different scales to doing it. That’s right, there’s no one definite answer to a question or problem.

What works for you might not necessary work for me so the key to success is to ask yourself what kind of parameters and environment do you want to be in and be ready to compromise on certain things which you might not like.

Flexibility is what makes all millionaires and billionaires rich. With the same goal and destination, you just need to search for a terrain suitable for you depending on your working style, preference and personality, work with supportive people and be in a team.

No matter how rich and successful a individual is, the wealth he/she now holds are a collective effort of all the other individuals who are helping those in the limelight contented with what they have

Ask yourself and find the different answers. The truth of the adulthood is that there is no such thing as good or bad, whatever brings in results is considered good. (A far cry from what’s taught in schools, but that’s a cruel fact of life)

Start asking yourself questions and try out different answers. Even if it’s wrong, it is also an answer which you have tried, you just need to identify those suitable answers and assemble them accordingly to make it function and together with a framework, it will than become a formula of your own.

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Debt is a liability and a obligation to pay for something.

It is created by allowing an individual to use repayment with the intention of using future purchasing finances for a purchase.

It gives both individuals and businesses a alternative and convenience to get they want creating mutual beneficial situations.

The client gets his/her hand on items they want to owe with the use of financing of installment options, allowing clients to buy more with a single source of income spread over the number of months as per stated by the installment agreement.

The banks/businesses will be happy too as they have more sales and profits form the service charged billed to the business operators.

Should the client sign up more installments, the business will be happier, but if it exceeds the client’s threshold/financial capability of repaying, it will turn into debts. Banks will than set into the picture and charge clients an interest for debts incurred on compiling basis monthly.

Having the banks calling up the clients who are now debtors to the bank owing them money is not a pleasant experience nor would anybody want to be in that shoes.

To avoid such situations, it is best to avoid paying in installments, as accidents can happen (touch-wood). When it do happens, sudden lost of income will mean the lost of use of all un-paid items, in the event of inability to repay the banks, items will be auction to recover the repayments of debts.

Failure to repay all liabilities or debts will result in bankruptcy.

It is best to enjoy shopping paying using cash or using debit card or spending with monthly budget so to prevent any unwanted negative debts.

To properly manage debts, one has to know the difference between good and bad debts.

Good debts are mostly used and embraced by the rich individuals or business owners. It happens when they pay for items on installments similar like the majority of clients but with a twist. The only twist is that the rich has another stream of income to supplement, off-set this installment payment and even calculated to profit from the installment as a positive Return On Investment (ROI).

Bad debts are widely used and practiced by individuals and such problems always surface among the poor. They only pay and opt for installment options without additional external sources to offset the repayment scheme and yet keep on increasing their burden of repayment by buying more items on credit without working within their budget or considering if they can afford to pay off the bill thus problems are created in the process.

For better money management and free advice, doing it yourself is the best way possible. Simply using simple add, subtract, multiply and divide to calculate the working budget/income.

Identify all input of money (income, contributions from family/relatives); payments such as insurance, medical policies, monthly expenses for food, transportation and entertainment. Inclusive of amount of money meant for savings and investment and label them as expenses.

So that when you have a clear picture of how much money you have after deducting the necessary expenses and investments and savings which you will not touch, than you will have your working capital or the remaining as your budget to spend on. This way, you will not overspend your money and incur unnecessary debts for nothing.

Spend and plan your money wisely.

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Loan is the act of lending, a grant of temporary use of something. It is often associated with financial related as a type of debt, a financial assistance between the lender and borrower.

There is a agreement between the lender and borrower, usually money loaned out with interest charge attached. Banks and Loan-sharks charge interests but what differentiates them is that the former is legal whereas the latter is illegal.

People often seek temporary loans to meet needs before pay-days without interest as it is between trusted friends and family. This is a simple transaction that seems harmless, but should it become a habit, it will reflect a worrisome trend, poor money management which is what majority of the people have.

Using this month’s income to pay for last months bills and expenses billed to them inclusive of their daily general expenses such as food and transportation expenses. The banks being the smart business owners, than introduce credit cards to allow majority of people to by pass this problem of not having sufficient money to spend.

While this credit card solves a temporary solution to the problem, it in fact creates a much bigger problem that is snowballing up in damage and image if not managed wisely.

That problem in particular is the interest incurred during the use of credit cards for overdue loans which has since converted into debts adding to the woes of employees who are the majority without sufficient money cash-flow also known as cash liquidity in accounting terms.

Loan is a double-edge sword, when used correctly, it will help individuals, businesses increase their wealth, cash-flow liquidity, and thus more money earned. But if used wrongly, it will speed up the problems and have it erupted like a volcano with magma flowing up from the source… Magma in this case refers to the snowballing debts compiled and made worse by interests.

The start of the volcano in the making is the lack of proper financial knowledge. What caused the magma to shoot up is the temptation of shopping, advertisements and the urge to keep up with trend and be sociable thus money is spent.

To learn proper financial management skills, it starts from young and in fact, there is no need for professional financial management, all of it boils down to proper understanding and the contribution of experience for people across the globe.

Learning professional financial knowledge management is a skill for use and application in big companies with deep pocket, thus it is like a crash course to educate and impart a complete rookie who knows nothing about financial management to somebody who knows all the crucial and critical pointers as advised by lecturers and professors during the learning.

Either way, the most important route to success is to start off with the proper basics of sound financial management skills.

Are you in a having nasty problems with your money? Simply do a simple chart which calculates your input and output of how your money are spent and you will get a better understanding of where you money is wasted on before coming up with your own plan to better managed your own money.

Money management is important but do not forget it is a double edge sword. Handle with care.

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Restrain is to hold back, suppress, keep back, limit or to keep something in control. It is this restrain in the form of protection which parents provide to children which greatly suppress and limits the creativity entrepreneurship of children while they are still in the growing.

Children are creativity and can be either a dreamer or visionary depending on the kind of protection restrain which parents provide to their kids.

Poor parents trying their best to meet ends needs will suppress their kids’ dreams, advice and persuade their children to be practical and avoid falling in their mistakes so as to converse and save money for a rainy day thus kids bought up in such a protected environment will naturally be poor.

Poor children were never encouraged to do something on their own, and instead encouraged to follow orders, advices and value experiences from their elders and seniors, living in people’s shadow through out their lives. It is like putting a collar on the neck of their children, while they might think it is for their own good, but in fact it is doing their children and themselves a de-service instead and adding on to their problems and worries as their children grows up.

The poor are getting poorer because children are asking their parents for money, dependent on their parents like a unlimited cash machine thus they are poor.

Rich parents on the other hand will encourage and push their children into the open, let their children make as much mistakes as possible during their childhood and growing years so as to let them learn how to be independent and depend on their own.

Only when mistakes are made by individuals, than will it be appreciated when a senior or elder shares the similar experiences which value adds onto the mistakes, enabling children to grow up smarter, wiser and being street-smart instead of just purely academically smart.

Compare and identify the differences in how the rich and the poor protect their children.

The rich only share their experiences and advices when they meet problems which enrich their learning curves, while the poor teach everything and restrict their self learning, and that is a fatal mistake made by parents globally.

It is easier to control a loose child than to control a loose adult who has the same intelligence and physical strength with parents who are on the losing end. Instead of letting their learn only in adulthood where the mistakes could cost thousands to millions in terms of failed or wrong investment decisions, why not let their growing children learn from mistakes, at least the learning cost is cheap and within parents ability such as form few dollars to just hundreds of dollars for toys, food etc.

If you want the best for your children as they are growing up, than let them learn to stand on their on without assistance, like how babies learn to stand and walk on two legs in just months.

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Obstacles are things which obstruct the path and hinder a process. It stands in the way of the flow attempting to delay or block something from being done.

Depending on the position and size of the obstacle, it will carry different impact. An obstacle in the air path will result in a lack of air thus causing death, similar a blood clot is equally lethal. If it is just a wall of maze to position a person or animal in, it is non-lethal and will properly just result in time wastage with no significant impact or life threatening situation.

As I was trying to do product creation during these few weeks upon long dragging, when I have started writing it, obstacles just keeps on coming, excuses find their way up to me, I find myself just not in a conducive environment which gives me so many disruptions.

Enough of the grumbling, at the end of the day, I know all these written are just excuses which I created and tell myself to give myself more reasons not to do product creation making myself only poorer than I already am, plus dragging me away further from my goals.

I am not sure how long I will overcome all this nonsense in my mind despite going through so many excellent training, coaching and mentors, but I will find my way.

After all, I want to move out of my current environment, and free myself from all liabilities either forced onto all males or those liabilities which I created myself. I will write them out..and sell the products for money to solve all my problems..

Product creation is the one and only way I have to work on. As I was writing, I realized something; obstacles are also part of the learning curve for success, without these difficulties, winning will not be a sweet victory worth celebrating.

People who succeed always celebrate, and the day will come when I pen down my books and sell them to my network of friends who needs the books which I am about to write to increase their sales, profit and business makeover.

The books will be a winner but ..Sigh..no buts..I’ll just have to slog things out, straighten my thoughts and kill all negative thoughts hindering me than doing me good at this point.

If you don’t want to be poor, seek your own course or path towards success, need a plan, feel free to ask me for free advice. If I can help in any way, do let me know.

As long as there’s a will, there’s a way.

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Survival is skill. It is the process of surviving unusual circumstances, dangerous situation or even natural disasters.  It is the techniques to provide basic necessities like food, water and shelter to get help.

Under certain conditions either as mention above or when chased out for a community, a person or any living organism will try their very best to live, that is a genetic system build in most of the living organisms in particular man.

In the documentary show on Okto “Is It Real: Federal Children”, it highlights different previous cases of children who were left in the care of animals, learning their language and some eventually landed up in mental institutions as their caregivers give up.

To survive and live on means to find food, water and shelter, it is already being programmed in our mind. Inside the mom’s womb, in the case of a twins, they will fight for survival in food and space, thus sometimes, moms give birth to twins of different size and weight due to food and space competition.

After birth, the mind is fine tuning the brain wires to learn and accept whatever knowledge and education in the crucial few months to first few years of life.

Before and after birth, the first few years are critical in picking up new skills and knowledge, in this documentary case example, it is the ability to learn and master human language since the federal children are being bought up by dogs, wolfs or relatives from the money family.

Brain is a wonderful organ, which can also rewire itself to adapt to changes which explains why people either upgrade or downgrade themselves in terms in intellectual wisdom and behavior by mixing and learning from the group of people they hang around with.

A person who once experienced a accident, causing bones fracture and damage to the brain thus during the healing process, the body needs to relearn how to walk in road accidents cases. This is when the brain will retune and rewire itself to adapt to learn new things unless that particular learning section of the brain is damaged.

Before I side track too much, lets get back to the topic on survival, as it suggest, our brain are programmed to seek for necessity to give us food, water and shelter. In particular to shelter, this covers the area of attention, care and concern which is just being discussed briefly in the show which I will write more in depth about it.

Shelter to my understanding thanks to the documentary show is defined by care and concern being showered to a infant/child by showing love and attention. When this attention and love is missing from the equation, which maybe a result of abusive parents or lack of attention from both working parents, it will lead to more complications which we see in Singapore these days which is sexual related problems.

Sex itself covers a wide array of topics. The core fundamentals of sex boils down to love and attention, when people will start searching for love and attention from whatever source available which will give us what we seek thus the reason why these days, boys and girls often get into boy-girl relationship.

Reason is simple, to compensate for the lack of attention and love from their caregivers who are their parents, grandparents or relatives and adoptive parents.

Children are being neglected due to intensive global competition for money which converts to bread and bacon for the family thus parents as care-givers have no choice but to seek employment for income to bring the bread and bacon back home.

Looking at the perspective of adults and parents, they are not wrong, and it is their mind, the already programmed system to seek for food, which comes from work to get money thus sexual related problems which we have in Singapore and in other countries is a global problem and is not exclusively to a country.

It is the basis of survival, in order to tackle the problem of sexual related issues, we need to go back to the basics, provide attention and love to the children which are near impossible given the competition from both local and foreign talents for the same piece of pie.

There are many ways to go about and provide a solution to sexual related issues to cut the roots of the problem, but that I will keep it secret till the time for me to offer it as a business product and services for the solution.

If you who is reading this post is a parent, try your best not to neglect your children else problems will gradually crept up to you for your ignorance and those problems will only show up when your children grows up. So if you know the cause already from my post, start showing more attention and love to your children.

Work towards having a blissful family which will solve the root of the problem.

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