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Almost three quarters of 2009 have passed and it is already the mid of September. Time is really passing very very fast, at least to me. It is so fast until I don’t really have the time to sit down quietly and think of what I have and have not done.

I remember I did set a target of reading 12 books within this year. So, on average, I have to read one book per month. I think this target is reasonable as I don’t want to be too harsh on myself by forcing myself to read 36 books within 12 months.

I know some people who do speed-reading can read up to 65 books a year or 5-6 books per month. This is only possible after mastering the speed-reading skill. So, I doubt most people can do that especially when you are having a full-time job.

Even if you are a housewife, student or unemployed person, you might have the time but you might not want to commit to yourself by reading 5 books within a month and consecutively every month, right?

Maybe there are people who read a lot of books but I seldom come across people who set themselve a target to finish reading how many books within a year even though they might love to read. I think I don’t have any bookworm friends either 🙂

As for myself, I have finished reading 3 books so far and 3 books are half-way through 😛 One of the unfinished books is on stock investing, one on eBay selling and the third one on public speaking. And I have started a new book on NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) just 3 days ago 😉

You see, my interests are very broad and I’m hunger for knowledge of different fields. If I’m diligent enough, I think I shall be able to meet my target of reading 12 books by the end of this year. Hmm…..we shall see.

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A friend of mine has forwarded an email to me pertaining to the local national library is organising a Book Exchange event. The purpose is obviously to encourage people to exchange used book in a way to save our trees on this planet.

The procedure of doing the book exchange is quite straight forward. Just three simple steps to exchange your used books for new reads. All you need to do is to bring your used books to any public library on the specified date, time and place. 

Then, you just need to drop off your used books and get a book exchange coupon indicating one-for-one exchange for the books accepted. After that, bring your coupon to redeem for the used books dropped by other book lovers.

Of course, there are terms and conditions apply that you need to follow before exchanging the used books. Otherwise, you are just wasting yours and other people’s time.

I love to write as well as love to read. I have bought many books since my school days and I’m still keeping them in my bookshelf. Most of the older books have turned yellowish and smelly after all these years. 

Despite this, I still keep the old books with me and will take them out if I wanted to look for some information for my writing. I have the habit of writing down the price, date and place of purchase on the last few pages of the book. 

It helps to bring back the good old memory of the past whenever I take out the book and do a quick flip-through. The books have some sentimental values to me so I don’t think I would want to participate in the book exchange event.

Even if the books are so old, yellowish, smelly and torn, I would rather keep them in my bookshelf than to let them go. I enjoy the process of reading and I will not forget about the books have had brought me joy.

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I bought Adam Khoo’s book entitled “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” in October 2008. I really enjoy reading this book as I find that there are many good tips and resourceful information for anybody who wishes to start up his/her own business.

There is a course associated to this “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book and its name is “Millionaire Business Academy” program.

I saw AKLTG was advertising this MBA program in the newspaper last year but I was just too busy with my work although I was very interested to attend the free introductory preview of the Millionaire Business Academy seminar.

I missed the last MBA preview in December last year and I thought it will resume in January this year. However, to my surprise, AKLTG didn’t continue with the preview until April. I didn’t know that it took them so long to start the free introductory preview of the MBA seminar again.

This week, I’m so delighted to see AKLTG is advertising the Millionaire Business Academy program again in the newspaper so I quickly marked the date in the desk calendar to remind myself to attend the free MBA preview since I like the “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book so much.

So, I’m not going to give the free introductory preview of the Millionaire Business Academy seminar a miss this time round.

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I had published a Blog post on 09 Jan 2009 pertaining to the purchase of the AKLTG’s newly-released book entitled “Profit from the Panic” at a pre-launch price. This book had finally been officially launched on 20 Jan 2009.

The 3 authors, namely Adam Khoo, Conrad Alvin Lim and Ryan Huang, had been interviewed by the news anchors of the Channel News Asia recently as the “Profit from the Panic” book was featured on its prime-time news.

Here is the interview of the “Profit from the Panic” authors by CNA :

As mentioned in my earlier Blog post, 100% of the authors royalties will be donated to charities. So far, there are 2 charities being identified and they are the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund and the AIDHA. 

The ST Pocket Money Fund was initiated on 01 Oct 2000, ie. Children’s Day, by the Straits Times English newspaper. The aim is to raise the awareness of the plight of children from low-income families who were attending school without proper breakfast or pocket money to sustain their day in school.

AIDHA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of low income migrant women through financial education.

Buying this “Profit from the Panic” book is in a way helping the children and migrant women from the low-income families. Besides goodwill, you can learn how to gain profit from the panic in the current bearish stock markets as taught by the profound experts and national best-seller authors such as Adam Khoo, Conrad Alvin Lim and Ryan Huang.

I would say this is killing two birds with one stone if you pick up the “Profit from the Panic” book. Adam Khoo and his co-authors share the secrets on how you can earn money from the financial crisis. The choice is yours to make but please make a wise one.

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Again, AKLTG has published another book entitled “Profit From The Panic“. This book is written by 3 authors namely Adam Khoo, Conrad Alvin Lim and Ryan Huang. 

Adam Khoo is the Executive Chairman and Chief Master Trainer of the AKLTG. Conrad Alvin Lim is the full-time Pattern Trader and trainer of the Wealth Academy program. Ryan Huang is the journalist of the Channel NewsAsia of Singapore.

Being a graduate of the Wealth Academy program, I’m entitled to purchase the “Profit From The Panic” book at a pre-launch price of SG $25 which is about $7 cheaper than the retail price of $31.90. Furthermore, 100% of the authors’ royalties will be donated to the charity. 

In other words, buying this book is in a way to give me the opportunity to do a good deed at the start of this brand-new year by helping the less fortunate. So, why not take up this offer to learn something from the “Profit From The Panic” book and at the same time helping others? So, I went to AKLTG to pick up my book this afternoon since today is my off day.

One thing to highlight is that this “Profit From The Panic” book is written within 30 days. It may seem like a very rush work to produce a book in such a short period of time. However, if you know that the authors are Adam Khoo and Conrad Alvin Lim who have written a few national best-seller books before, you would have no doubts in their new book. They are great trainers and they know their stuff well. 

Furthermore, Ryan Huang is a journalist who has done reporting on the rallies at the Speakers’ Corner over the failed Lehman Brothers-linked financial products and the donation by Singaporean tycoon Oei Hong Leong after his gamble on one million AIG shares. 

In my opinion, it is not impossible to produce a book of high quality in a very short period of time. The first thing that you need to do is to use a right strategy such as getting a few experienced, credible and knowledgeable authors together to split the jobs. 

I guess the reason as to why this “Profit From The Panic” book is written in less than 30 days could be a reactive response to the world economic downturn. It captures the psychology of most people who are in a panicky state so this book comes in on time to help those who would like to gain profit from the panic.

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There are a lot of useful information found inside the “I Am Gifted, So Are You!” book written by Adam Khoo. It lays out the information on the super memory and super learning strategies to the point with clear illustrations both in words and in pictorial forms.

This book is basically divided into 4 main sections, namely :

Section 1 : I Am Gifted, So Are You

Section 2 : Super Learning Strategies

Section 3 : Your Personal Driving Force

Section 4 :  Examination Strategies

I particularly like the chapter teaching about “Super Memory for Numbers” under “Super Learning Strategies” of Section 2. As we all know that numbers are abstracts that cannot be visualised, not like words. It is especially tough to remember long numbers such as bank account, credit card number, brokerage account, handphone numbers, etc.

One way to overcome this obstacle is to use the number system by assigning a key visual image to represent each number using phonetic sounds. In this way, the numbers can be remembered easily by visualising them as images.

I used to have the problem in remembering two of my sisters’ handphone numbers as their first 4 digits are so close and I find them confusing. After applying the technique taught in the number system, I’m not confused anymore. It’s just amazing!

I always think that there must be a way to learn something efficiently and effectively in order to get the most out of it. Otherwise, it is going to be quite tough and bored to learn new skills, new information, new languages and so on.

Sad to say that most of these super memory techniques are not taught in schools to enhance the students’ learning ability. In my opinion, it is not wise to stuff the students with information without teaching them how to apply the right study techniques in their studies to get good grades.

I find that Adam Khoo’s “I Am Gifted, So Are You!” book is a good book to teach people on how to have a super memory. I recommend you to pick up this book or any other good books out there if you want to enhance your learning ability by having a super memory.

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I bought Adam Khoo’s book entitled “I Am Gifted, So Are You!” recently and I have finished reading it within 2 weeks. The purpose of buying this book is to find out the ways of teaching my niece and nephews to have a super memory by studying more effectivey.

Of course, the ultimate aim is to help the children to score good grades in their tests and examinations by enhancing their learning ability. In my opinion, knowing the correct study method by mastering the study technique is more crucial than sending the children to attending too many tuition classes.

Otherwise, it will cause the children to study too hard rather than study smart and overload them with too much homework. It will also help the parents to save some money by cutting down on the number of unnecessary tuition classes.

In this “I Am Gifted, So Are You!” book, you can really find some very good study techniques by applying the SUPER LEARNING STRATEGIES as follows :

• Power Reading for Information
• Mind Mapping : The Ultimate Note-Making Tool
• Super Memory for Words
• Super Memory for Numbers
• The Pattern of Memory
• Mastering the Art of Application

The study techniques and super learning strategies are not only helping the children and youth to study smarter, I find that these methods are also beneficial to the adults who want to enhance their learning ability for their career as well as for personal learning.

Wouldn’t your boss be impressed by your super memory for remembering the numbers well during meeting and presentation? The Halo effect for others to regard you as a person who can remember the facts and figures well would last longer than you can imagine. They will be amazed by your super memory!

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I came home quite early today and then went to take a shower. I took my dinner followed by drinking a big bowl of old yellow cucumber soup. Needless to say, I have had a heavy meal tonight. 

So, what is the thing that you should not do after eating a heavy meal? Actually, there are many things you should avoid to do. If you are a student, people will advise you not to revise your homework after you have taken your meal. 

If you are a working adult, I guess you must have heard of your colleagues saying they cannot start working immediately after having their lunch. They ought to rest for a while before starting their engine again.

What is the reason behind? The obvious reason is that you are not going to concentrate well after a meal as you are getting very sleepy after that. This is so because the blood is rushing to the stomach to digest the food and blood level in the head is getting lesser so you will feel sleepy after having a meal.

I had collected my “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book from AKLTG on 28 Oct 2008 and I’m planning to finish reading the book as quickly as possible. Reason being that I told my friends that this seems to be a very good and motivational book especially for business owners so I will lend it to my friends if they are interested to read the millionaire book.

There are 9 chapters altogether and I have finished reading up to 8 chapters and a half so far. So, there is only 1 chapter and a half to go. However, I don’t think I can finish up with the reading because the heavy dinner really makes me sleepy even though I find that the “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book is really a very good book. 

Therefore, I’m going to sleep right now and probably finish up reading the rest of the chapters in the next few days. Good night.

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Adam Khoo has just launched his new book entitled “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” recently. He was giving a discount of SG $9 off the usual price of SG $32 to all Wealth Academy graduates at the pre-launch so I ordered a copy at the discounted price 2 weeks ago.

Here is a picture of the “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book :

I received a notification email from Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group (AKLTG) but I was too busy to collect the newly-released book last Friday. Furthermore, the collection time starts from 10 am to 6pm from Mondays to Fridays. Obviously, the timing does not suit most of the working people except for students, housewives, retirees, freelancers, self-employed and so on. 

Who else wants to take time-off or day-off just to pick up a discounted book then? I bet not many people would want to do that. So, I wrote an email to AKLTG to ask for some flexibility for working people to collect the “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book. Fortunately, the person-in-charge was kind enough to wait for me to go there to collect the book till 7pm on weekdays. 

I reached AKLTG at 7 minutes to 7pm this evening and I was in time to collect the newly-released book. I took the book and then went off happily. Although I have yet to read a single chapter of the “Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses” book, I flipped through the book and I think it contains some valuable information inside. Hmm, the book looks interesting. I’m going to find time to read the entire book someday.

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I bought a few motivational and inspirational books written by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The most famous book that he has written is entitled “The Power of Positive Thinking”. He has written a series of such positive thinking books after his best seller.

Among all of the positive thinking books written by Dr. Peale, I like his “Courage and Confidence” the most. This book is an anthology compiled and edited by him. It is a collection of great works of the inspired writers, thoughts of great men, anecdotes of remarkable people. The material inside the “Courage and Confidence” book is arranged in twelve sections. Each section offers a different approach to such individual concerns as how to banish fear, loving and being loved, the art of thankfulness, the power of prayer, how to find happiness and so on.

I bought this “Courage and Confidence” book in August 1992. The book has turned yellowish after 16 years. I have taken a picture of this wonderful book and this is how it looks like :

I like this book because it gives me courage whenever I feel down. There are many meaningful and inspirational quotes found inside the “Courage and Confidence” book.
Sometimes, it is not easy to find a listening ear. Friends might not be there if I need someone to talk to. Everybody is busy with their own work and their own family. Nobody has the time to listen to somebody else trouble. This is understandable so I won’t expect my friends to spare their precious time to be with me and listen to my grumble. I advocate one should always share the joy with friends and keep the sorrow to oneself.

The “Courage and Confidence” book is a great and essential book to me. I often refer to it whenever I’m in a low-spirited mood. It gives me comfort, strength, courage and confidence. This is indeed a good book.

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