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Who wants to follow me to crack the seven figure code by 2011 Part 2

2007-07-13T10:45:00.000-07:00

This article is a follow up of yesterday’s article “Who wants to follow me to crack the seven figure code by 2011?”

Figuratively this means who wants to make millions of US dollars with me by 2011.

If you miss yesterday’s article you should read yesterday's article in this blog.

I am taking baby steps. This strategy is a baby step for everyone of us but a quantum leap in wealth building. Read on....

I am going to create the first web based clinic in the world. This means patients are computerized in the web, their data are accessible worldwide, 24 hours round the clock. Check my content management system site below to see for yourself.

http://www.soontongkiong.com/nuke

Over the past 28 years I have seen about 200,000 patients. I am going to key in their data. Each user will be given an email account and a web user account free of charge. My email account satisfies the paid email criteria, meaning you cannot register yourself. I will register for you. This email account is better than those from yahoo, hotmail and gmail because they are not paid account. Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts are rejected by many websites and are not suitable for more important uses..

I am going to use my 28 years of experience in medical and clinical practice to offer patients and visitors free consultation but with conditions attached. Patients must buy products and services to qualify

I will then control and set all these back end conditions. For example patients have to buy products or services through my adsense links, affiliate links, or business leads, then email to inform me. My return will vary among individual patients, but the important point for me is to average out.

I will then create massive links of all industries regionally and globally and let them compete among themselves just like auction, goggle adwords and eBay. I will then hold on to the algorithm and source codes and franchise the business system to suitable parties in other locations or other countries if it is economically viable and profitable. Translations will be implemented as appropriate.

This way I attract businesses of all sorts because patients will buy from them in order to qualify for the free consultation. To emphasize an important point, this is not limited to medical, clinic or related industries but refers to all businesses that can sell in my site or in my partner’s site so that I can take a share indirectly as my consultation fees.

This start up business model opens up opportunities for everybody. The leveraging effects are enormous. This is the reason I invite you all as followers to follow me to crack the seven figure code by 2011. Such power is available in the internet. Just know how to harvest it.

For those who are interested in business deals, you can visit my Joomla site to have a glimpse of my joint venture articles.

http://www.soontongkiong.com/joomla-virtuemart

Business deal is by invitation only. You have to make a small sacrifice to visit my site regularly to participate in the site’s activity to qualify.

I foresee some problems with the medical regulatory authorities if I do this. Therefore I have to quit traditional medical practice and re-locate internationally. This is the adaptation, adjustment or sacrifice I have to make.

Who wants to follow me to crack the seven figure code by 2011

2007-07-12T02:45:00.000-07:00

Who wants to crack the seven figure code by 2011?. Less than four years. There are so many ways to crack this seven figure code. At least one of them is going to work for us. (For those who do not understand this figurative expression this means making millions in US dollars)

If you are a leader you can use this information to help you to formulate your plan. If you are a follower, then just follow my website. The target of this article are followers. I am recruiting them.

When Shankleton said he wanted to lead an expedition to the South Pole, he emphasized that the reward of success was honor not money, and the risk was substantial. Despite these the response to his advertisement was enormous. Loads of people were willing to follow him to the South Pole.

I am going to crack this seven figure code by 2011. As I have said before the easiest method is to come out with a good quality turnkey website and market it through a downline distribution system. This produces an irresistible offer that explodes virally like a nuclear bomb. If you do not understand this please check my earlier post in my blog.

There are many other methods. One good example is illustrated here. We all know how to look for gold mines, diamond mines, tin mines and so on. In the internet where are all these treasures?. The biggest reserves of treasures can be found in the interface between land based businesses and internet technology and economy. Many have made millions this way, some even billions.

If you want to follow me to crack this seven figure code by 2011, you must qualify. Now read this carefully with emotion. If you do not know how to back up what you want with emotion, please go through the eight exercises on personal development in my website

http://www.soontongkiong.com/askmyvisitor/personal-development.

Just sacrificing a few KFC or Pizza meals now and then will give you the money required to crack this seven figure code. So money is not a problem. The real problem is here. Read here.

The real problem is to think. I repeat the real problem is to think. If you have not read Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”, you should read this book this. This book is available for free download from many websites including May Ong’s website,

http://www.thinkandgrowrich.com/.

Think is the way to grow rich, not work hard or work smart. You must brainstorm yourselves with massive ways of thinking--upside-down thinking, lateral thinking, passionate thinking and so on.

The next thing. What if it did not work at the end of five years? So, we buy insurance. Not so much because of money, but because time is our greatest asset. I have been echoing the same theme ‘how to achieve private victory (health, education) and public victory (money, relationship, power)’ in the development of my websites and in working towards my goal to crack the seven figure code in US dollars. With this insurance at worse you will still benefit from certain degree of progress in your private victory as well as public victory, so that you are able to re-create the environment to succeed in your next venture.

Alex Mandossian attracted me to his seminar by offering to bring up 1000 millionaires. However, what he taught us works only in America and during his time. My one year of research and testing have shown that it does not work if you operate from Malaysia.
So, we are now back to the interface where all the treasures are. If you are doing adsense you can use adsense as a foundation to convert it to Business Leads, meaning you use web resources to generate revenue for all sorts of land based businesses. (That is, your mind sees all land based businesses operating without effective web support as your prospects) You monetize through all these deals as appropriate to the context, terms of participation and the industry. The result. Unlimited opportunities. Unlimited revenue. I had modified this, so it is a little different from Mark Vanuum’s Lead Generation.

Mark Vanuum said he chose to drop his 2000 adsense sites that brings him a return of 436,000 US dollars in 18 months and make a switch to lead generation leveraging on his content rich ad sense sites. He said lead generation brings him

US$10 to US$9000 per leads

Much, much higher returns than adsense! Furthermore, you control your own business. It is shockproof and future proof as long as capitalism survive. You can visit my landing page for this site

http://www.askmyvisitor.com/lead-generation.htm

In my opinion adsense is a good start as it gives you the opportunity and the meaning to learn the basics. Once you know the basics you should move on to the next level like what Mark Vanuum says.

Tomorrow, I will post another article describing what I am doing right now and how you can participate and benefit from it.

Meanwhile you are welcome to visit the high tech adsense site I created last night at zero costs within a few hours with twenty five cancer articles all written by me.

http://www.askmyvisitor.com/php-cancer

DR SOON
http://soontongkiong.blogspot.com/

Personal Development--Why Some People Need To Change Their Name

2007-07-10T02:41:00.000-07:00

Why some people need to change their name?

Behavioral science is one of the toughest disciplines because it involves the complexities and diversities of human behavioral. However, it is a very important subject in our pursuit for public victory (money, relationship, power).

Many people are not getting what they want even though they have tried very hard. One of the key reasons is that they fail to change in crucial areas which are essential to their success.
It is for this reason that many consultants prescribe name change as a first step. Our name normally is deeply entrenched into our body, mind and soul.

Name changing is a first step and an important step. When we change our name we are actually showing that we are able to break the obstacle that prevents us from getting what we want. However, just changing the name is not sufficient. It just shows that we are able to change.
Only if we are able to change and to handle change, then only can we change our belief systems.
Belief system is the one that influence our results.

In most cases name change is unnecessary. When we change your environment, our behavior will response to adapt to the environment. There are many applications for this principle. For example, to control the behavior of children, the ideal way is to surround them with the right environment such as school, extra-curricular activities and the friends they mix with.
If you are the consultant, an effective way is to prescribe name change to your clients. If you are doing it for yourself you just change your environment or change your belief systems.

You can read more or even do some exercises at my personal development site

http://www.soontongkiong.com/askmyvisitor/personal-development/index.html

DR SOON

Blogging--fun, dollars or both

2007-07-08T12:00:00.000-07:00

Most people blog for fun. A small minority realize that blogging is a good starting point to make their first dollar. The technology is already there. You get natural traffic from your community. I made my first fifteen US dollars within the first month after I started blogging.
At present I have two blogs. They make a little money each time I post. However, there were lots of poor quality traffic resulting in a CTR of less than half percent. It is not viable economically. My wordpress blog has a page rank of one (1) all through natural traffic.

http://wp.soontongkiong.com/

Building website is not easy but has enormous potential because you have unlimited ways to make money from websites. You can sell services, sell business leads, sell clones, create affiliate programs, sell your own products and so on. In other words you can do huge businesses without bank loan. At the moment I have one established website with a page rank of one and five other websites in their infancy.

The best business I have found in the net is to build a high standard turnkey website with high demand and monetze it through downline distribution system. Normall when we buy product, it is consumer spending. However, when you buy products under this system, you stand a chance to become filthy rich through affiliation and downline distribution system. This is an irresistable offer guaranteed to succeed. This is the power of the internet. This is the way to break the seven figure code. Many have made millions this way. Some made it in less than three months.

I am now in my second year of internet education. I believe I should be able to break this code by the end of five years.

Globally Jason Calacanis make the most from blogging getting about US$120,000 per month. He was the former Vice President of AOL. He run 104 blogs and has 9 fully paid staff to blog for him. This works for him but not for us because Google may not trust us and our account will be disabled.
Plentyoffish.com, a free dating and matching site at the moment make US$300,000 per month from adsense. Digg.com a social-networking site comes second with US$250,000 per month.
Joel Comm said he made about US$2000 a month or US$250,000 a year less than what Plentyoffish.com and Digg.com received in a month.

However, the most effectivce and fastest way to make more money from the net is using affiliation programs and automation like what Ewen Chia did. You do not need a website. All your time (100%) will focus on generation of revenue through affiliation program. He received more than half a million US dollars last year. You still need to know the basics before you can do it. This is good for those with background in sales. This is not for me . I find it boring.

You spend 100% of your time looking for products, customers and sales, and keep repeating and duplicating until products, customers and sales become part your life. When these attributes become second nature to you, you will become known as talented supersalesman. You can then sell any product as easy as a fish that swims or a bird that flies.

As for me I use less than 10% of my time to generate revenue. My priority to learn and to improve website management as well as sowing seeds throughout the internet takes up 90% of my time. Deep in my soul I am still a doctor and a scientist. But I managed to penetrate the internet market and will continue to do so.

Visit my high-tech adsense site

http://www.soontongkiong.com/improve-memory

Free consultation is available on the content of this site

Leaving Money on the Table

2007-06-14T03:10:00.000-07:00

I signed up for my first hosting on 17th June 2006. This means my first year is coming to an end. My plan and strategy is to do it year by year. Most people over-estimate what they can do in one year but under- estimate what they can do in five years.

What Alex Mandossian said could not be less true. First year you are a ‘student‘, second year ‘affiliate‘, third year ‘partner’, fourth year ‘your guess!’.

As a private medical practitioner and business practitioner of more than twenty years , I nurture the habit of leaving lots of money on the table for the simple reason that I would like to see a few more patients benefit from my service and my expertise. However, almost all my business friends and partners said that doctors including myself are bad businessmen. And I think they are right. I just laughed it off as my dark side!

Here is how I play my game. I play at my level of expertise. I suggest that you do the same. The initial level of expertise that you set is all guesswork. You have to test it. One good method to discover this initial level was brilliantly explained by Alex Mandossian. This is the recipe worth repeating:

"On your first list write down 30 areas that you think you are good at. On the second list ask others (seven of your closest people) to write down 30 areas that they think you are good at. Then compare the first and second list and select 10 areas that overlap. Out of this ten areas, choose three areas that you are passionate about. Then the final step, create a workable strategy to monetise from your game."

Be realistic. How much can I make? How much do I want to make? This is the recipe I use.
The most important starting point here is to be aware of your level of expertise in your chosen game. Do not play the game beyond your level of expertise. You will be thrashed by the market forces. Take baby steps.

There is a limit on the amount you can make on your chosen level.

If you want to make more you have to play at a higher level. Again make sure that you play within your level of expertise.

If you are a team or an organization make sure you play within the level of expertise of the team or the organization.

A lot of people became wealthy through going beyond the amount of money they can make on the chosen level. They bully the weak, take advantage of the ignorant and leave absolutely no money on the table. They leave behind high social costs, injustice and cruelty. Surprisingly they usually get away from the long arms of law.

I do not do that. Every decision that I make is based on my principle of private victory (health, education) and public victory (money, relationship, power)

DR SOON

Predicting Future. What is Web 2.0?

2007-06-12T03:22:00.000-07:00

Web 2.0 world has been defined as a shift in hosting applications online instead of users keeping and maintaining programs on their own machines.

When you host, keep or maintain programs in the web, it does not take up space in your home or office. Further, you can operate anywhere in the world where there are basic ISP services.
Hosting companies throughout the world are well aware of the sweeping powers of web 2.0. They are offering 300GB disk space for around US$10 per month. Wow! 300 GigaByte. And one free hosting offers 1.5 GB disk space. The availability of the cheap disk space is the primary reason that drives the future into web 2.0!

Do you know that Microsoft recently took over a company known as Aquantive for a stunning US$6 billion. Google took over You-Tube for 1.6 billion. Aquantive is a user driven advertising company, generating a revenue of US$54 million in 2006. Microsoft pays a generous PE of 110 for this purchase. Why do Microsoft want to take over this company? Analysts believe Microsoft sees the shift from desktop to web based application.

John Nasbitt is an expert on mega trend. Using his methods , we should be able to see that the next mega trend is the web 2.0 world. Massive opportunities and wealth are to be found within the web 2.0 economy.

In other words, prediction requires knowledge so that we can be in the right place at the right time.

DR SOON

Also visit my new adsense posts

http://www.soontongkiong.com/improve-memory
http://www.soontongkiong.com/Daycare
http://www.soontongkiong.com/greeting-card

How to achieve 100% results in internet marketing campaign each and every time!

2007-05-16T03:38:00.000-07:00

The title is “how to achieve 100% results in internet marketing campaign each and every time!”. This title is a copy-writing title. It encourages more people to read. Read on to understand why. In the practical scenario if you apply these recipes, you will get between 70% and 100% success rate, not 100%. You will then know your risk. For example if your campaign require 50% to break even, then you are guaranteed to make money if you adhere to these principles. So, today you have learned another skill, when to carry on with your campaign and when to drop your campaign. Always do your homework.

(If you are doing consulting work you are free to use this skill to help your client and make money out of it)

How to formulate your plan such that you will predict your project results with 100% certainty each and every time? Understand the underlying principles first. Then create a checklist to make sure the steps are in order. No flaws. You must be comfortable with the risk and the knowledge requirement. If you are uncomfortable you will make human factor mistakes.

We all know that science always delivers 100% results. For example, Sir Isaac Newton observed that an apple always drop to the ground. Now we all know that this is gravitational force. Water below zero degree Centigrade turns to ice, above 100 degree Centigrade turns to steam. Uranium at its critical mass will explode as nuclear bomb. For every living human, death is a certainty. Absolutely no mistake!

How do you apply these principles to predict your results? Today we all experience lifestyle rewards through the successes of capitalism in their economic production and social contribution to higher standards of living. Some examples of these products are air-conditioner, cars, planes, mobile phones and so on. Economic trade and distribution ensures that products and services are available to the global population. The tools that capitalists use are almost always companies-- sendirian berhad, private limited companies or ‘plc‘, and incorporated or ‘inc‘.

If you are faced with a complex prediction like internet marketing, then you have to dissect this highly complex puzzle. First you break it up into two parts. There are always only two attributes. These are people and task. Your have to use science to approach task because it always delivers 100%. Remember that I told you in my previous article that people are always problematic and unpredictable. Therefore you must use the Armand Morin model of mind reading to get your 70% success rate. Combining the two, Science for Task and Arts for People, your success rate will range between 70% and 100%.

However, applying the people’s attribute to achieve your 70 % success rate is not as easy as you think. I will address this in my next article.

DR SOON

Also read my recent posts in my medical blog
http://wp.soontongkiong.com/

How to predict your results with 100% accuracy, each and every time

2007-05-08T04:04:00.000-07:00

Is it possible to predict your results with 100% accuracy, each and every time?
Answer: If I can read minds, true or false!

Is Mind Reading a Con Game?
I will present this in two parts, A & B.

Part A.
This remind me of what Armand Morin said. He said it is possible to read the mind of your prospect. He was teaching us to email to authors asking for permission to quote or publish their proprietary or copyright works. He said we should received at least a 70% success rate.
He used a simulation exercise to demonstrate this concept.

Here's the mind reading exercise.
1. Think of a number between 1 to 9.
2. Multiply this number by 9.
3. Add the digits.
4. Minus 5 from this number.
5. Convert this number into alphabet. That is 1 is a, 2 is b, 3 is c, 4 is d and so on.
6 Think of a country that start with this alphabet.
7. Take the second alphabet of this country.
8. Think of an animal that start with this alphabet.
9. What is the answer? How accurate is this mind reading? Why is the answer not 100% accurate?

I would like visitors to work out the answers themselves. As such I am not providing the answers here. You may email me at doctor@soontongkiong.com for the answers.
At this stage if you are not lost, you may proceed to Part B

Part B
Here are my questions?

1. Do you know that it is possible to predict results with 100% accuracy, each and every time? What happens when you apply this to your recipes in the global internet marketing game! What are the environments (conditions) and limitations (assumptions)?.

2. Do you know that it is possible to predict results with 95% or 99% accuracy?. This is the basics of statistics and evidence based research. Remember the convention-- Confidence Interval of 95% and 99%. When apply to your internet marketing game with win-lose outcome, always make sure that you do not lose out of proportion to the profits you make. Always make sure you win out of proportion to the money you lose. In other words you lose the battles but win the war.

3. Do you know the dilemma of dealing with people? In other words, the strengths and limitations of your skill at dealing with people (not task). People are really problematic. They are responsible for failures of at least 96% of businessmen and internet marketers. Yet, the most successful capitalists in history has always been 'masters of people'. They are movers and shakers of society and among the richest in the world. What are the reasons for these failures? What are the reasons for these successes? What are your answers to this dilemma of dealing with people?

Interpretation
1. You will notice that I have not answered question 1 yet. I have changed my approach into story telling to keep my readers 'in suspense' which I have found is more effective within internet environment.
2. I have been receiving lots of questions from patients, consumers and all sectors of society where answers can be found within the correct interpretation and application of evidence base medicine, traditional health care products and opportunistic commercially driven health care products. I will not quote examples here because of legal implications. Just learn this and you will save lots of money in medical and health expenses. If you are covered by panel company expenses or health insurance, you will have the opportunity to acquire enough knowledge so that you are in a position to provide reliable advise to your people and help them to reduce unnecessary health and medical expenses.
3. You will not achieve 100% or 99% or 95% success rate from dealing with people. However, you can get somewhere like 70% like what Armand Morin says.
Look at the steps in the mind reading exercise again. You will see that you are in control of all the steps except steps 1, 6 and 8. Even in these steps 1, 6 and 8 you limit their responses to digits between 1 and 9, name of country only and finally animal only.
I will not tell you what is the 'animal' you visualize in your mind. But I can tell you that it will not be an eel or an eagle. If you take this exercise to 10,000 people chances are there will be one or two who says it is an eel or eagle.
People who visualize eel and eagle are untargetable. They are not your prospect. So, you refer them to your affiliate who would like to target eel and eagle.

On closing, what is the animal you visualize in Armand Morin's mind reading exercise?

For your homework, think about how you can predict your results with 100% accuracy each and every time and why there are limitations to it! I will post my answers to this question as the next article in my blog. If you do not receive it by email, you are always welcome to visit my blog at

http://soontong.blogspot.com/
How to achieve private victory (health, education) and public victory (money, relationship, power)

DR SOON

Your responsibility on money, relationship and power

2007-03-31T20:23:00.000-07:00

Marshall Thuber was the first person to emphasize on "responsibility" as the most important success principle. He emphasized mainly on responsibility to our fellow human beings. However, this also extends to responsibility in your decisions and outcomes on your money, relationship and power.

The way to do it is to set your own rules that apply to money, relationship and power. First, you have to honour your rules. Second, you have to make sure that your rules are realistic. Being realistic means that your rules must consider and foresee all possible outcomes which may include best scenarios, worst scenarios and unexpected scenarios.

It is not easy to honour your rules. Many people refuse to honour their own rules because they were unable to accept the outcome. Usually, it is not their fault. It is just that their mental control breaks down. Only those who are emotionally mature are able to accept the outcome. You derive your wisdom from emotional maturity. In fact, wisdom in abundance is found in this territory of emotional maturity.

Ask yourself these questions:
What are your rules on money?
What are your rules on relationship?
What are your rules on power?

From my experience in medical practice, I have found that when your mental control breaks down due to loss of money, relationship or power, people react in two distinct ways. First, they deviate from their rules, just like shifting the goal posts in the middle of the game. Second, they go into grief reaction. Grief reaction is a sympton complex that manifest in many ways including depression. It usually takes up to six months for grief reactions to resolve.

At this stage, I would like to emphasize that NLP practitioners were the first persons to point out that human emotions cannot handle the negative state of mind. This in my opinion is very important but seldom emphasized.

You can now see why it is important to clarify your rules on money, relationship and power. Clarity leads to power and wisdom.

Your responsibility on money, relationship and power permeates every area of your lifestyle including your business venture. Business venture is not a 'money' venture. Business venture is a venture on money, relationship and power. Focus on the way you handle money, relationship and power, and you will be rewarded when these seeds grow into trees that produce abundance of money, relationship and power. In other words, wealth and happiness.
Finally, I would like to repeat what I have mentioned in my previous article. "Money, relationship and power is a game around public victory. Your success or failure is not related to your position in society because each individual play at their own level. The quantum difference lies in the environment". This means your position in society do not favour you but your environment favour you. Choose your environment carefully. The most important environment is the country you live in. The second most important is the "seven persons" you associate with. Therefore, choose these seven persons carefully.

Feel like expressing your thought. Post your comment on my blog
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Creating environments for private victory (health, education) and public victory (money, relationship and power)

The Basics of Public Victory

2007-03-29T22:59:00.000-07:00

The tittle may be alternately described as "the three principles of money, relatioinship and power".

Those of you who have been following my articles should know that when I mention "public victory" I am refering to "money, relationship anmd power".

The Basics are the three principles I am going to describe today.

1. Marshall Thuber a PhD holder and a businessman did a research on five top American Business Schools to find out what they don't teach you. One of the principles is that successful people take responsibility for their decisions. 'No layblame, no denial, no justification' so that they can learn from their desisions, take steps to correct them and re-create the environment for their next venture. This principle has been over-emphsized. I have heard it so many times until it is a bore to hear again.

The first principle "take responsibility for your decisions".

2. Jean Paul Satre, an existentialist psychologist said that human mind is not capable to decipher the meaning of life. This is not the same as to say there is no meaning in life. It is just that the meaning of life will forever remain a mystery to us. Because of this mystery there are lots of controversial variations that claimed to have answered this question.

Buckminster Fuller said "you do not belong to you, you belong to the universe. Therefore, if you do something that contribute to your fellow human beings you can assume that you have fulfilled your purpose in life."

(As a reminder to visitors, this statement is not open to debate because of its controversial and sensitive nature)

Personally I find it more useful if we divide this principle into 'private purpose in life' and 'public purpose in life'.

3. The third principle is drawn from the teachings of Neuro-liguistic Programming (NLP). NLP psychologists said that human mind is not capable of handling negative emotions. One example, if anyone keep us waiting for too long we will easily loose temper. Another example, if somebody attack one's strongly held beliefs or worshipped values, we are sure to get angry. However, the degree of anger we manifest comes with training and how we use our coping mechanism. One good coping skill is to understand that 'anger' is a negative emotion and that we can choose our own resourceful state or emotion pro-actively. A second method is to laugh it off.

The third principle " human mind cannot handle negative emotion".

We can eliminate these obstacles by choosing and creating the environment we live in. I have noticed over the last 30 years that many parents have successfully chosen and created the right environment for their children. This method of 'creating environment' and 'choosing environment' for their children is the easiest and simplest method to ensure a successful upbringing and a bright future for their children.

DR SOON
Creating environments for private victory (health, education) and public victory (money, relationship and power).

MBA in five minutes

2007-03-25T01:59:00.000-07:00

What is my theory of MBA (Master of Business of Adminstration)

We all use the power of summary as a tool to enhance our intellectual performance. Newtonian Physics by Sir Isaac Newton can be summarized in three principles. Similarly, Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity can be summarised in one formula, that is E=mc(2).

In my opinion, the whole course of MBA can be summarised as follows:
1. Mission, Objectives, Policies
2. SWOT analysis
3. Alternatives
4. Recommendations

This applies both to organizations and individuals. Clarity leads to power. As an individual, your have to clarify your mission, objectives and policies. When applied to organizations, the CEOs have to clarify the organization's mission, objectives and policies.

SWOT stand for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. You have to analyze these four variables.

Having clarify your mission, objectives and policies and analyzed your SWOT, you can then formulate the various options or alternatives.

Based on these options or alternatives, you then create strategies to compete in the free market driven economy.

Simple. Isn't it. MBA in five minutes.

If you are doing projects, you can use this summary to check and evaluate the progress of your project, say three monthly.

If you are a consultant you can write your report in this format for your clients.

I hope some of you can capitalize on this five minute MBA and make some money from your clients.

DR SOON
http://www.soontongkiong.com
Creating environments for private victory (health, education) and public victory (money, relationship and power)
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Why learning how to set goals in life can help you sell your internet products

2007-03-23T22:04:00.000-07:00

Goal setting in life is a skill very few people have. The first person who did research in great detail in this area is Napoleon Hill. Ability to set goal is a priceless skill.

We do not have this goal setting skill because our socio-cultural environment including educational and job environment already programmed the goals for us. Therefore goal setting is irrelevant to most people.

Goal setting is a very important skill for politicians, community leaders, experts, sportsmen and entrepreneurs. And they learn it by trial and error or through recommendations by advisors.
About 3% of the population in developed countries have well formulated goals but less than 1% have wriiten goals.

I do not have written goals but I have well formulated goals in my mind that takes me from one level to another.

I choose to write this topic because many newbies or starters have published informational products like ebooks, CDs, videos and end up as PUTS (products unable to sell). I hope they can find a solution to sell after reading this article.

Some common mistakes in goal setting

1. Goal setting does not come naturally. It requires pro-activity, persistence and conditioning.

2. Most people over-estimate what they can do in one year but under-estimate what they can do in five years. For example when I entered Medical School, after one year I became a second year medical student but after five years I graduated as a doctor. From student to doctor there is definitely a quantum change in life.

3. Procrastination is the thief of time. Goal setting must always have a deadline. For example you publish a ebook or CDs and videos, you must not conclude that you were unable to sell before the end of say, one year. Similarly, if you are still unable to sell after one year, you have to move on to your next project. This next project may synergize with your PUTS. Thus you are turning a garbage into jewels. Creativity and innovation is an essential part of the game.

4. Human mind cannot handle negative emotion. Take steps to eliminate them or just laugh it off if you can't eliminate them, for example if they come from your spouse or your parent. Then congratulate yourself that you have learned how to accept others. (Self congratulation is a powerful anchoring tool. Anchoring is an important concept in behaviour science).

It has been said that the seven persons you mix with is your future. So, make sure that you know who these seven persons are and how they can enhance your goals. Your spouse, parents and children are counted as one. I hope you will count me in as one of your seven people. Reciprocally I count this maillist as one of my seven people.

Internet business game is a game to enjoy. I hope nobody in this group suffers from depression. Email me at doctor@soontongkiong.com if you problem in this area.

DR SOON

Website promotion Review1

2007-03-14T05:05:00.000-07:00

The response of the website promotion over the last few days have shown that the virtual internet economy without land based support is very volatile.

In order to continue with the 'human interactivity' as a pre-requisite for success or good results, I have to tweak, tweak and tweak. Business is very interesting if you know how to play the game. Just follow the leads.

The majority of the website owners are affiliates. Affiliation is the easiest method to participate and to survive in the internet. These groups are surviving and make some money as well.

The second group already has established land based business. The web is just used as a tool to support their existing business. This group is doing well.

The third group has beautiful and impressive websites. They out-sourced the project to professionals. I believe they must have spent a small fortune, and now struggling to turnaround with no solution in sight.

The majority says they do not have any clue as to what they should do now. As far as I can see, the majority will become occasional users, while others continue to enjoy the web as a hobby.
Based on the above scenario, do you have any question, comment, suggestion or solution. You can email me or post it here, in this blog.

What are the problems?

What are the solutions to these problems?

Thank you for your participation and comment

DR SOON
AskMyVisitor.com

Website Promotion 2

2007-03-13T22:24:00.000-07:00

Part 1

I will promote this website today. Visit:
http://www.myscriptdoctor.com/myscriptdoctor/index.php
Then click the first link on your left
Malaysians for Health USANA

http://MalaysiansForHealth.usana.com

This website belongs to Faisal Apairudin our colleague and also a good friend. There are two reasons why you should visit this website.1. It is about supplementary nutritional products. Visit this site today. May be your health will get better and you may make some money if affiliate program is offered.

Visit http://www.myscriptdoctor.com/myscriptdoctor/index.php
Click the first link on the left and you are taken there. Please do not ask me any question about the business aspect of the site.
(However, you may ask me questions on the nutrirional aspect. I happen to be an expert in this area).
For business questions, follow the instruction in the website "Malaysians for Health USANA" and ask the owner. I hope you may be able to make some money by participating in the program of this website. At worse you will still learn something out of this program. Action always beat inaction.

I will always place the website I am promoting for that particular day as the first link.

2. The second reason is that Faisal Apairudin is a webmaster and web designer. You may approach him if you want him to do some work for you. My own experience showed that I always end up with good business deals through contact like this.Tomorrow I will promote another website. We take turn. Every participant has a chance.Please support this website I promote today by visitng the website "Malaysians For Health Usana" , peruse and then bookmark the site.

http://MalaysiansForHealth.usana.com

Feel free to post your comment or feedback on my blog
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Part 2
For new visitors, I would like to promote your websites, your products or your companies' products through my website. Individuals wiil get more exposure and more traffic. Companies will get more credibility, better competitive edge and more sales.You can sign up and submit your promotion articles at:

http://www.myscriptdoctor.com/myscriptdoctor/index.php

There is no charge. Only gratitude and thank you.

Sound crazy! Yes, there are backends, but fair and mutually beneficial.

It is not necessary to link back to my site right now, if you are not ready. You link back to my site only when you are ready. I will send you monthly reminders. If you do not have a website this is irrelevant to you. Please ignore the message. Thank you for reading the message.

DR SOON................................................................

Website Promotion 1--"All Solutions Network"

2007-03-12T06:17:00.000-07:00

Hi Friends,

You can post your comments or feedbacks here. The standard blog policies shall apply. Unacceptable and unreasonable comments may be deleted, edited or moderated.

Productive debate is encouraged so that everybody remembers the website and take steps to improve on their websites.

The idea behind this program is to create user driven communities. We will
1. Turnaround unsuccessful website and website owners.
2. Create opportunities for website owners to make more money
3. Affiliates amd MLM participants will also have more people signing up
4. There will be more sales, more fun and enjoyment.
5. Adsense publishers will also received more traffic.

In my opinoin, a good website should make up of these three sites or programs
1. One site to generate traffic
2. One site for your own products and affiliates. (The goal here is to sell, not tell)
3. One site for adsense publishers. (The goal here is to tell, not sell)

I will post my comment on "All Solutions Network" later.

DR SOON

Healthy Addiction to Money, Relationship and Power

2007-03-09T00:25:00.000-08:00

Look at the title. Appear confusing and conflicting. Right.

The title may be more appropriately re-phrased as "Healthy commitment to the game of money, relationship and power". Our lifestyles are basically driven by our desires. In modern societies our desires are moulded over and over again by the rules of money, relationship and power. For many of us our interest to play this game of "money, relationship and power" gives meaning to our purpose in life. In other words our lifestyles are driven by our desires to play this game which is also a game of public victory.

If our time are taken up to play this game, we can say that this is addiction, just like addiction to golf and movies. If we are addicted to something that contribute to our purpose in life, this resourceful lifestyles would prevent us from being addicted to other unresourceful or negative lifestyles like alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking.

Addiction to the game of money, relationship and power can be extremely dangerous when handled irresponsibly.

Just like scuba diving, we are not allowed to dive without training and certification. Even after that we are still not allow to dive without a buddy. The whole emphasis here is on responsibility.

Responsibility is the basis of this game of "money, relationship and power". Responsibility protects us. Loan sharks play the game irresponsibly. Banks are shrewd but generally showed high standards of responsibility. Casinos, alcohol companies, cigarette companies attempt to mitigate this problem of responsibility by contributing to society.

We can create or develop this desire to play this game of "money, relationship and power" through conditioning by the environment and our thoughts and involvement. The easiest way to change the environment is to change the people we mix with. Remember the rules of seven. The seven persons we shared the most of our time with are the keys to our future. The easiest way to change our thoughts and involvement is to attend seminar. We attend seminar primarily for "change" rather than for knowledge. Seminar creates an ideal environment for change. Acquisition of knowledge do not change us. Just make us better informed. The seminar fees we pay should be easily affordable. We should not take loans. A no, no! No instalments.

As a safety valve always remember our responsiblility. Responsibility means we must have mentor or teachers for certification. We must have our support group just like buddy in scuba diving. We must be aware of our strengths and weaknesses. We must take steps to eliminate our weaknesses, but prepare to accept our weaknesses Accepting our weaknesses is a sign of maturity and wisdom. Only when we can accept both our strengths and weaknesses then only can we accept others with all their strentgths and weaknesses. This is the the first step in our game of relationship.

Bearing these principles in mind we notice that smart people do not really have advantage over dumb people because they play the game at their level. Smart people are equally vulnerable to do dumb thing as dumb people.

If there is no difference between smart and dumb people then what matters. The answers are:
1. The principles we live by.
2. Pro-activity to choose resourceful emotions like love, courage, joy, trust, integrity.
3. Self-awareness.

More.........

Private victory and public victory

2007-03-04T01:02:00.000-08:00

The title of this article should be more appropriately called private victory and failure versus public victory and failure. I leave out the "failure" in the title because human mind cannot handle negative emotion.

Before I start, I would like readers to just remind themselves of Stephen Covey's seven or recently eight habits of highly effective people. You will notice that the first three habits are private victory and the next three are public victory. Private victory is your foundation to public victory.

Stephen Covey's private victories are:
1. Proactivity
2. Begin with an end in mind
3. First Things First

Stephen Covey's Public victories are
1. Seek First to Understand Then to be Understood
2. Think win-win
3. Synergize

After you have gone through this, take a short break and then listen to what I have to say.

I have posted in http://www.myspace.com/drsoon that what private victory to me is basically your education and your health. My definition of education covers both knowledge and skill.
Know the difference between knowledge and skill. I have to emphasize again that this is very important in trouble-shooting our weaknesses. For example, we may have the knowledge to make money from the internet. But the result shows we do not make any money from the internet. This means we do not yet acquire the skill to make money from the internet.

Unless you have genetic problem, you should put in some time and effort to look after your health. Our health have been badly corrupted by commercial interests in modern society. The first step is to acquire the knowlege of healthy living. The next step is to acquire the skill to do it, bearing in mind that it is impossible to perfect it.

Public victory to me are the attributes of money, relationship and power. Money is important because it is measurable and subject to the rules of zero sum games. Power is measured by our post and position in society. Relationship basically refers to both private and public friends. The way I define the meaning of friendship is very different. For example, your spouse, brothers , sisters, children, parents are just special kind of private friends. Your customers, clients, 'economic' friends, social friends, classmates, chilhood friends and so on are public friends.

I use this model to trouble-shoot many relationship problems. My weakness is mainly in one special kind of public friend. If you visit http://www.myspace.com/drsoon you will notice that I have only one friend. All of you are welcome to 'add friends' to my list.

Feel like becoming my friend, visit http://www.myspace.com/drsoon
Feel like saying something, post your comment at http://soontongkiong.blogspot.com

DR SOON

Billionaire mindset?

2007-02-13T05:12:00.000-08:00

If I ask what is a billionaire mindset, most people will say they already know. In my opinion, 80% do not know even though they think they know.

A journey towards your millions or billions start with a single mindset. I am talking about this I am going to let you in on a little secret that can put cash in your pocket today. Last year, Scott Boulch came out with a free report and paid people fifty cents for each report that was downloaded.Then, Mike Filsaime came out with a free report and paid people for each report that was downloaded. I made a couple of U.S. dollars from Mike Filsaime who paid the money into my paypal account. Soon after, other Internet marketers had the same idea and the money was flowing! Each time, I have generated income by telling people about a free report.

Here is the real stuff. Keith Wellman and Eric Rockefeller were unknown last year. They came from out of the blue and have become well known in the Internet marketing world overnight. They started out like what most of us are right now..... frustrated... overwhelmed... burnt out Yet, they have overcome their psychological barriers and are now succeeding online.What made the difference? Here's where the free report comes in. Go here NOW and download this...

http://www.therockefellerfiles.com/?download=6487

They created the two tier system where you will be paid 50 cents for each referral at tier 1 and tier 2. In other words, you are paid to download the free report. I had downloaded these reports last night but I have not read or listen to them yet. In fact last night I listened for more an hour to their optional streaming videos. I have heard these similar stuffs several times over the last 10 years, so it was not that exciting to me. You can check it out....

http://www.therockefellerfiles.com/?download=6487

In a nutshell, Eric and Keith says that the secret of becoming a billionaire lies in your mindset. Your billionaire mindset will eliminate your 'bad habits' and nurture your 'good habits' to empower your journey towards your billions. And remember, you can't do this with money, you do this with mindset. Mindset is the seed and the starting point. Money leads you to bankruptcy, whereas mindset leads you to great wealth.

Feel like saying something. You are welcome to post your comment on my blog

http://soontongkiong.blogspot.com/

DR SOON

Creating Communities

2006-12-15T19:54:00.000-08:00

The skill to create communities is the biggest winner in internet businesses. The reward is enormous. I strongly internet entrepreneurs to develop this skill. It is basically both peoples' skill and money skill. Hence. entrepreneurs skillful in creating communities are often known as masters of people and steward of money.

Today’s leading Internet businesses all rely on the power of social networks and creating communities. Companies like ebay, technorati, MySpace, and YouTube have become worth billions because businesses have realized that these social networks and communities are generating huge advertising and marketing opportunities. As these communities grow, the economic potential for its owners and their advertisers is unbelievable especially to those who are not used to thinking big.

Bill Gates became the richest man in the world through creating a new breed of office workers and the customers they serve. Through desktop computers, he changed the way these communities use their time. In other words, he changed the peoples' habits and lifestyles. A new and better way of living (higher standard of living) and a more efficient and effective way of doing things (better quality of life).
We are all newbies. I am taking this step writing to my communities because of my believe in "a journey of a thousand miles start with a single step".

Feel like commenting. Show your thoughts by posting on my blog. There were zero comment. You can be the first one.

My next article is: "The Philosophy of Joint Ventures".

DR SOON

Handling mistakes

2006-12-09T06:05:00.000-08:00

Hi Friends,

One of the most important skill in life and as an entrepreneur is how we handle mistakes. Most budding entrepreneurs have difficulty handling decision-based mistakes because of lack of experience and exposure.

A close cousin of mistake is frustration. They are emotionally painful and we all tend to move away from it. Therefore we must be emotionally matured before we can handle mistake and frustration. Now, what is emotional maturity? I particularly like Dr Mortein Feinberg's definition of emotional maturity in his book " why smart people do dumb thing". The definition is:
1. Accept yourself. This means accepting both your strengths and weaknesses.
2. Accept others. Only when we can accept ourselves with all our strengths and weaknesses, then only can we accept others with all their strengths and weaknesses.
3. Laugh off our mistakes by keeping our sense of humor.
4. Appreciate simple pleasures.
5. Enjoy the present.
6. Welcome work.

In order to enjoy wealth and happiness, we need to learn how to handle frustration. The way to do it is to take on massive frustration.
Mistakes are made because of decisions in life. The person who made no mistakes is someone who never made decisions. The more decisions we made, the more mistakes we will make.
We can also see mistakes from another angle. Just see it as results. There is no such thing as mistakes, just good result, poor result or bad result.

The important principle here is to take responsibility for the mistakes we made. Only when we take 100% full responsibility for our mistake, (which means no denial, no lay blame, no justification), then only can we re-create the environment to succeed in our next venture.

If you do not know how to handle mistakes, you will never enjoy wealth and happiness in life and work. If you have problem in this area, take steps to correct it.

More ....five big mistakes at
http://www.joelcomm.com/big_mistakes.html

Internet economy

2006-11-28T21:48:00.000-08:00

I have not come across any good articles or special report on internet economy. Most probably, nobody has ever written on it.

Adam Smith is the Father of Economics. Karl Marx, a German sociologist and economist wrote two books, "The Communist Manifesto" and "Las Capitas". He did not complete writing his second book before he passed away. He best friend continued and finished Karl Marx's uncompleted job. John Maynaud Keynes wrote the book "The General Theory of Money, Interest and Unemployment". This classic book first published in 1937 lay the foundation for modern economics. In short, it is known as Keynesian economics.

The Communist Manifesto is not about communism although it was first used by the Russian leader, Starlin. The Communist Manifesto is about concepts in social cycle and economic cycle.
(When we say social economic, we are actually refering to the balance between these two opposing forces.) Karl Marx's second book "Las Capitas" is about capitalism. (Please, do not confuse capitalism with democracy)

John Maynaud Keynes' "General Theory of Money, Interest, and Unemployment" was written as a solution to the Great Depression of 1929. What happened during 1929? Basically it was a failure of the economic system. The interest rate of banks dropped to as low as minus quarter percent. This meant those with money had to pay the bank to look after their money. Most of the world's economy today rely on Keynesian economics as fundamentals.

The internet economy of 1998/1999 had some similarities. Who survived the 1929 Great Depression? Basically they were conservative long term organizations. Consevative means they do not borrow money. They are stable, cash rich and can pull through long periods of depression.
Who survived the internet bubble of 1998/1999? The answer is the same--those orgainzations or individuals which stick to these fundamentals.

Until today, internet economy is still the winning economy, way ahead of any other industry. The cake is growing bigger and bigger astronomically proportional to the speed of modem (Moore's law) rewarding organizations and individuals alike. Beneficiaries include Bill Gates, Googles, You Tube and so on.

If you want a piece of this cake, you have to use the right vehicle, right strategy, and be in the right place at the right time? As the saying goes, it is impossible to launch the rocket with your firecrackers. No doubt you can get pennies to survive day to day just with firecrackers!

Let me know what you think.

You are welcome to post any reasonable comment.

The Death of Internet Marketing

2006-11-11T23:08:00.000-08:00

This is my review on Mike Filsaime's Special Report on 'The Death of Internet Marketing".

One internet marketer said that a year ago when he send out 50,000 emails through the mailing list, the click through rate (CTR) was about 6,000. Now, the response is expected to be around 600. It is as good as dead.

Before you continue from here, I would like you to read my earlier article on "Internet Marketing versus Internet Entrepreneurship."

Here I would like to point out that internet markeing is only a medium, agent or middlemen whatever you like to call it. They thrive on the inefficiency of the legal and economic distribution system. As the system becomes more efficient, economic cake for the internet marketing industry becomes smaller resulting in lesser rewards for the players.

Therefore, the death of internet marketing is not a surprise. It is to be expected. The late Corey Rudl (Derek Gehl's boss who founded the world famous Internet Marketing Centre) once said that you can become super, super rich if you can predict the future. This is the futuristic household and hotel scenarios he predicted.

Middle men and internet marketers would be wiped out in future. Locality is the name of the game. Every household would have everything available online. When we need any of these stuffs, we just key in the order in our computer and the goods would be delivered to our house. No middlemen, no need for internet marketing. A perfect system. And in any international hotels all known entertainment materials, videos, games and so on would be available free for all hotel guests.

In economic terms internet marketers have an unfair advantage and ought to be eliminated by the market system. Therefore it would be wise to appreciate that whatever you make as an internet marketer is only temporary. It is for this reason that I prefer to emphasise on internet entrepreneurship. (Please read my short article on internet entrepreneurship again if you still have not read.)

Entrepreneurship is innovation, leadership, movers and shakers of society. The outcome is the rising standard of living of the world's population. Entrepreneurship would survive as long as capitalism survive. How long would capitalism survive? This is unknown. History has shown that capitalism is a man make social phenomena. Therefore it is not perpectual. At this stage please read my article on the "The Perfect Nature" to enhance your wisdom.

Posted by DR SOON copyright 2006

Internet marketer versus internet entrepreneur

2006-11-06T03:43:00.000-08:00

Is internet marketing the same as internet entrepreneurship? Superficially they appear the same. In my opinion they are not. In fact they are miles apart.

I have seen so many poor performance as a consequence of mismatch. Accountant with a core value of accountant doing the job of a entrepreneur. This includes even graduates from Harvard MBA. Marshall Thuber was the first person to reveal this...what the top five universities in America don't teach you. He then went on to design a program called 'Money and You'. This program helps the graduates to close the mismatch gap.

Examples of internet entrepreneurs are Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Larry E Page, Jerry Yang, Michael Dell.
Examples of internet marketers are Alex Mandossian, Arman Morin, Yanik Silver, the late Corey Rudl, Derek Gehl.

Compare the two groups and see whether you can spot the essential differences. Think about it. Take a short break and read on for my answers.

Internet marketing is basically a job. Therefore, internet marketer should get paid for the work done.
Internet entrepreneurship is not a job. It is a game with win-lose scenario. This involves substantial risk. This is the reason that reward may be tremendous............if they keep winning... just like striking lotteries or casino jackpots everyday for many, many years to come!
However, the obstacle the entrepreneur has to overcome to reach his goal is always mammoth and insurmountable. New entrepreneur without mentor or with wrong mentor would almost always got into the game only to find out that he did not have an exit strategy.
Experienced entrepreneur solved this problem by using vehicle? What is this vehicle? Take a short rest. Think about it and come back to review the answers. Read more.........

As an entrepreneur, if alone, we cannot build big businesses. We build an effective and efficient team. It is this team that build great business empires. An entrepreneur is the leader of this team. Therefore, leadership skill is the core value of all successful entrepreneur. Here are my comments on some of the leadership traits that were proven winners. Read them so that you understand what I mean by leadership skills.

Bill Gates was interviewed by Larry King in American T.V. He was asked about how he became the richest man in the world.
Bill Gate said, "it 's luck and timing. I'm in the right place at the right time. So many of my contemporaries were also in the right place at the right time. But the difference between them and me is that I have a vision whereas they do not.
My comment is that Bill Gates see the importance of accumulating money in modern society and took steps to strategise a mechanism or recipe to amass wealth. Bill Gate knows how to implement his monetary vision.
Robert Kuok, the richest man in Malaysia said, "tall tree attracts strong winds. I adapt like a chameleon."
My comment is that,"keeping low profile, being humble, and adaptation" is another proven successful recipe of entrepreneurial leadership skill.
Ananda Krishnan, another richest man in Malaysia became rich through his well selected businesses. None of his businesses give him problems that affect his attention span.
My comment is 'selectivity' is the key. Know how to choose your business so that the problem area do not affect your attention span.

It is my sincere hope that newbies do not fall into an entrepreneurial trap. You should clarify whether you want to become an internet marketer or internet entrepreneur. Know your needs. Know how to apply what you learn in your own ways. You do not learn entrepreneurship from a marketer. Internet entrepreneurs do not give seminars. You have to learn it your own way.

An ancient wisdom ---- Know thyself

2006-11-01T23:50:00.000-08:00

Know thyself is an ancient wisdom. It also means self awareness. It has survived thousands of years. I have observed over the years that religious individuals have less problems of self awareness. Their religious groups and their religious belief systems help them to connect to their psyche, soul and spirit.

In other words it is wise to know ourselves. We grow up in a modern society. Our mind keeps pulling us away from reality. We tend to disconnect from our roots. In this environment of intellectual isolation we grow careless. Recklessness is damaging and dangerous. Are there any modern tools we can use to solve this problem?

How to know ourselves?. How to assess our self awareness?. 'Johari window' is a good tool to use. Some of you may know about it from management training or counselling courses. The term Johari comes from the names of two psychologists, Joe Luft and Harry Ingham. They developed the instrument. To know ourself, we have to travel through the window. We will travel through the window modified by Mortein Feinberg. The four window panes are:

How you see yourself
How others see you
Your idealized self-image
The GAP

When self scooping through the window:

Look for small details that our memory keep sending to the surface every time we think of the past.
Examine the significant floaters that appear, disappear and disappear especially when we are about to sleep off or wake up.
Look for the things that we consider insignificant but keep recurring.
Hints like this are markers of our journey. Not easy to understand, but worth trying to understand.

These are the things that have shaped us. So, now, we know how to assess our self awareness.

Toggling knowledge for intellectual enjoyment

2006-10-28T21:10:00.000-07:00

If we bother to solve our weaknesses the moment they surface, it is a matter of time that we would have accumulated sufficient knowledge base to toggle our knowledge for intellectual enjoyment. This means we can not only use our knowledge for economic and productive means but also for enjoyment of our soul and our mind.

When we say mental fitness we should also include spiritual fitness. Spiritual fitness is a necessity for a healthy soul and mind. Why is there such a thing as spirit, soul and mind? We know from nature's rule that life and death is a certainty.

However, human beings are not willing to accept it and create a defence mechanism called spiritual values. This concept supports man-make branded philosophy called religion since time immemorial.

The purpose of this article is to show how I toggle knowledge for intellectual enjoyment. As this topic is a sensitive topic this article is not open to holy war debate.

The Perfect Nature

2006-10-26T23:34:00.000-07:00

Nature's rules are always perfect. Water at zero degree Centigrade must turn into ice, and at 100 degree Centigrade would turn into steam. Uranium at its critical mass would start its nuclear reaction. As pointed out by Sir Isaac Newton, an apple would always drop to the ground by gravitational force.

As nature's rules are so perfect I would call it absolute intelligence. Human intelligence is no way near to nature's intelligence. Understand this. We can organize our strategy around this principle. When we do that we will find miracles within our reach.

Wisdom is human beings highest level of acievement. Beyond wisdom is nature's property. It is always perfect and not accesible to human beings. Beyond wisdom is actually absolute intelligence.

Hint: If we are interested to create miracles, don't forget to use the power of nature.

For your intellectual enjoyment

2006-10-26T01:31:00.000-07:00

As a reminder to my visitors, this is my philosophy blog. I wrote for your intellectual enjoyment. Visitors are welcomed to participate. Just post your comment if you feel like posting. As Nike says, just do it!

What is intelligence? It was first coined in the earlier 20th century by the U.S military. They called it I. Q or Intelligence Quotient. This has since been taken for granted by the public. Is intelligence exclusive to human beings?

In my yesterday's article, I introduced the concept from signal to wisdom. Is there such a thing as pre-signal or beyond wisdom.

Any signal unknown or undetectable by the senses of man, I would prefer to classify them as pre-signal. Instinct may be a pre-signal. Is there any application for this concept. My experience is "always trust your instinct". You will be right more times than you are wrong. My observation is that woman can respond better to instinct than man.

Some animals can detect ultrasound waves and infra-red waves. Shark can smell blood 20 miles away. Some animals, eg cat can experiment with their ingested food. If its body detect something wrong with the food, the animal would regurgitate or throw them out. These adapted biological skills are lost in humans. I have observed that human neonates (less than 1 month old)can regurgitate feeds. These are not vomiting. They are usually physiological.

Is there anything beyond wisdom? Just like pre-signals, 'beyond wisdom' is unknown to man. Spiritual dimension is unknown to man. Religion attempts to answer these questions. Human beings are not willing to accept what is unknown. Adaptation is the closest answer. What about accepting that we do not know!

Tomorrow, I will write on "The Perfect Nature"

From signal to wisdom

2006-10-25T00:13:00.000-07:00

In 1988, a MIS Professor (a professor teaching management information system) taught me this spectrum of terminology. I have enjoyed using it since then. Here it is:

Signal---------> Data--------->Information----------->Knowledge-------->Wisdom

Signals must be detectable by our body e.g light, heat, sound. Signals by themselves are meaningless.
Data are collections of signals.
Information must be meaningful to the recipient. Hence, data in the right format at the right time and made comprensible to the recipient are information.
Knowledge are actually information that are institutionalized. This means they are information that are used over and over again. These are basically established facts. Acquisition of institutionalized knowledge is the main goal of undergraduate training.
Wisdom is integillible use of knowledge. That is, use knowledge intelligently. This is the goal for post-graduate training in any field.

If you would like to monetize on this philosophy, which interface is most rewarding?

Use this as one of your tools to analyse highly complex situations.

Work versus job-- interpretation and application

2006-10-23T22:54:00.000-07:00

What is the difference between work and job. If I cannot delegate or there is very little that I can delegate, then it is a job. My mind would focus on the setting that I have a job.

Professionals and employees' work are jobs. Since I am doing a job, I would expect to be paid well.

In contrast, work is philosophical. It can mean anything. If the outcome of my work is either a win or a lose situation, my strategy should be able to handle these two scenarios:
1. Reward should be consistent with risk
2. There are more ways to lose than to win.

These help to keep my expectations realistic. Being realistic I have no problem of stamina in my job and work. In other words I am satisfied and enjoy my job and work.

Ask My Visitor

2006-10-22T22:53:00.000-07:00

Ask My Visitor

Camaderadie at its best

2006-10-22T22:10:00.000-07:00

It is quite rare to experience the feelings of friends looking after each other. One reason is because the real world is being shaped by the 'money game'. The result, "dog eat dog, adult eat the young" is the norm".

To overcome this obstacle, I learn how to earn, how to spend, how to say no, and how to donate. I found this estatic camaraderie feelings in the sport of scuba diving. Friends, hosts and organizers looked after one another so well even though we do not know who they are.

In the event of a search and rescue, we are all prepared to abandon our enjoyment and go ahead to deliver our responsibility.

Can you think of any other scenario where you can experience camaraderie at its best?

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sport medicine for the layman (scuba diving)

Philosophy Blog

2006-10-22T11:14:00.000-07:00

This is my philosophy blog. It is about my lifestyle, money, relationship and power.
I do not post medical information here. I have a separate blog only for medical information.

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Feel free to browse my medical blog. You are also welcome to visit my website

http://www.soontongkiong.com

Notice that I have introduced 9 web site add-ons to generate traffic
1. Message board. My bulletin for general public
2. Private threaded forum for my customers and patients
3. New articles for visitors to read and learn new information related to their interests.
4. Archive of past articles
5. Free ebooks for visitors to download, study and read new information
6. Mutual links for starters with view to synergy
7. "About me" page for visitors to read about my business and myself
8. A guest book for visitors to leave their opinions about my business
9. A free software download page. Visitors will visit my website to find new software that will make their life easier.

Why rich people go broke

2006-09-24T05:29:00.000-07:00

Warren Buffet once said that he had seen more people fail because of leverage. Leverage means borrowed money to increase your income. He commented one really do not need this kind of borrowed money leverage if one is smart. A smart man will make a lot of money without borrowings.

One inspiring philosophy is obvious when he said that he would not be way happier when he had 2x instead of x.

"Why smart people do dumb things exactly answers this question". Financial success can breed its own set of vulnerabilities.

Another important principle of behaviour I like is :
"models of investor overconfidence predicts that men will trade more and perform worse than women." This principle is consistent with my general observation that man play to win whereas woman play not to lose.

Think about it. There are lots of wisdom behind the scene.

The elusive nature of business.

2006-07-28T22:48:00.000-07:00

Why are there so many failures in businesses? Because there are more ways to lose money than to make money. Even if you are aware of the ways to make and to lose money, you may still lose money. Why? Owing to human factors, you will make mistakes.

Is there any way we can solve this problem? The best solution is to have the courage to make many small mistakes, at the same time protecting yourself from making big mistakes.

Some examples of big mistakes are:
1. you end up in jail
2. the court find you more than you can afford
3. you are made a bankrupt
4. you encounter serious bodily injuries
5 you lose too large sum of money in one single mistake

Therefore, procedures to protect you against these setbacks are of paramount importance. Examples are: safety first, budgeting against loses, exit strategy, do only legal business, etc.

Take action versus quit. Which is more important?

2006-07-27T22:18:00.000-07:00

In my opinion, quit or exit strategy is more important than taking action. This applies to all scenarios with zero sum effect plus win-lose outcome.

Stock market analysts very often said that most retail investors lost because they do not have an exit strategy.

The toughest part is balancing time as your most important asset and protecting or preserving your capital. If you over leverage you risk losing your capital. If you over protect your money you risk losing out on time.

What is money?.

2006-07-26T20:51:00.000-07:00

This discussion is about the game of money. One key characteristic of money is that it is a zero sum game. Because of the zero sum effect the players would naturally hold tight to their money to protect them. But then the rules force them to play with this game of earning, spending and distribution. So, everyone has to play this game whether you like it or not.

The result is that money is as sophisticated as the society. It permeates all boundaries including social cultural and political boundaries. As such, it means different things to different people.

I call this the philosophy of money. We will take a look at some of the issues of money to appreciate this philosophy.

What is the biggest game?

2006-07-24T00:12:00.000-07:00

The smallest stuff known to man is particle physics and the largest is cosmology. Using the same analogy, you can see that I will consider the biggest game as civilization of mankind. This is an astronomical concept. There is a formula for it in astronomy.

Between the smallest game and the biggest game are the complexities of human society and sophistication of mankind.

If you can identify where you are, you would be able to manoeuvre your way to winning.

The universal game

2006-07-21T23:38:00.000-07:00

Why do I call it universal game? How do I define it?

Let's assume that the smallest and simplest game is the toss of the coin. Then, there are only two outcomes. Is this simple? The answer is both yes and no. Two outcomes. That's the beginning of binary principle, binary distribution....the law of opposite...male and female...black and white....win versus lose.

So, a very simple concept can become extremely complicated.

Tomorrow I will talk about the biggest game.

Pro-activity

2006-07-21T02:31:00.000-07:00

Here, I am not talking about pro-active management.

I am talking about emotional pro-activity. This means we can choose our emotional state of the moment. Victor Frankl was the first person to point out this and he pioneered this methodology which he called logotherapy.

We should only choose resourceful emotional states. We should be conscious of our unresourceful emotional states and pro-activitely take steps to eliminate these states from us. When that happens, we will find ourselves happier and wiser.

Positive emotional states are usually resourceful. Examples are love, joy, trust, courage, integrity.

Negative emotions are usually unresourceful. Examples are anger, hatred, sadness, fear.

Thinking is hard work

2006-07-19T03:42:00.000-07:00

Thinking is hard work. That's why so few people engage in it. What then is 'thought'.

'Thought' is a philosophy. A journey through this philosiphy is extrmely rewarding. There are many practical applications. A few examples are as follows:
1. Think and Grow Rich. ( Not work hard and/or work smart and grow rich).
2. Hynosis is an interesting application of thoughts
3. How to control your thought by Rolling Thunder
4. Mortal thoughts.

I will be elaborating on these topics in my future postings. Meanwhile, keep in touch.

Sophistication versus simplicity

2006-07-17T04:08:00.000-07:00

Sophistication is a burden. Simplicity is your key to understanding and success.
Simplicity should always be your goal. Scripts are my way to ensure simplicity.
So, learn a script a day.

However, under certain circumstances when the outcome is win-lose, it is better to create a sophisticated environment for your competitors so that they are confused, while your own strategy remain as simple as possible.

This is the script for today.

Welcome back tomorrow.

My Third Favorite Book

2006-07-16T03:56:00.000-07:00

I had mentioned earlier that my most favorite book is "why smart people do dumb thing" by Mortein Feinberg.
My second favorite educational material is Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP Unplugged) by Ian Halshall. The power of this material is that author can take such a great subject and make it so simple. If an expert is unable to present his stuff in a very simple way, chances are the expert may not yet fully mastered what he claims to master. The test is 'simplicity'.

If you ask me what is my third favorite book, I would say it is, "Lexus and the Olive Tree" by Thomas Friedman. This is a great book with lots of words of wisdom.

Merger of brick-mortar and digital interface

2006-07-14T20:44:00.000-07:00

Just as Adam Smith is the Father of Economics, John Nasbitt is the Father of Megatrends. This is my opinion. It is possible to predict megatrends fairly accurately. This is also an essential skill for leaders:- politicians, entrepreneurs, economists, social avtivists, educationalists, etc.

After the dot bomb of 1998, the digital economy consolidates. Now, we are seeing the digital innovators leaving their comfort zone to interface with the brick and mortar business. This is a reliable clue and an indication of the upward trend of the merger of brick-mortar and digital interface. Such changes create both threats and opportunities.

Leaders will have to adapt and strategise to seize these opportunities as they arises.

Think about this. Relate this with my earlier articles. These are scripts of wisdom.

Welcome back tommorow.

Coaching millionnaires

2006-07-13T23:46:00.000-07:00

There is a lot of difference between coaching someone to become a millionnaire and coaching someone who is already a millionnaire.

If you want to become a millionnaire, my answer lies in your environment. You have to find the environment, create the environment or even re-create the environment. Only conducive environment can make you a millionnaire.

In contrast, if you are already a millionnaire, the answer lies in my two favorite books or educational materials. These are "why smart people do dumb thing" by Mortein Feinberg, and "Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP Unplugged)" by Ian Halshall.

It is all right if you do not understand this at the moment because I will be elaborating on these great topics in my future articles.

Sure winners

2006-07-12T20:40:00.000-07:00

There are very few sure winners. Even sure winners can with time end up as losers. Why?

One of the sure winners is flexibility, adaptation, recipe, modelling. Whatever you call it or whichever way you call it, they mean the same thing. They all circumvent one obstacle. This obstacle is: the only constant is change. Environment keep changing. There are too many ways to lose and too few ways to win.

Think about it. Thinking is the foundation of winning. Sometimes, work hard wins, sometimes work smart wins, sometimes a mix of both wins. So, this is the same as flexibility, adatation, recipe, modelling.

One of the richest man says, "i adapt like a chamelon. Tall tree attract strong wind (not strong win).

Time management

2006-07-12T01:03:00.000-07:00

It takes me only 15 minutes to write my blog daily. This is the principle of time management. The variables in time management are urgency versus importance. You should use your time doing tasks which are important. Important tasks may or may not be urgent.

The worse is when we are caught up doing tasks which are urgent but not important. Usually these are due to failure in prevention.

In fact, to manage your time wisely, you should allocate most of your time for prevention. Yet, too many people were caught in the rat race. Do you know why?

I'll continue from here tomorrow.

Elusive estimation

2006-07-10T23:31:00.000-07:00

Why do we need to learn a script a day? Because this method become very powerfull over long period of time.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year but underestimate what they can do in five years. Think about it. You can do very little in one year, but there is a quantum change in five, ten or even twenty years.

Therefore it is very important that you value your time, be selective in what you do, and stay away from the garbage of life.

So, these scripts will be your foundation for planning and goal setting.

Learn a script a day

2006-07-09T21:51:00.000-07:00

Yesterday's lesson was As Nike Says "Just Do It". In other words "just take action".

So, you have learnt two scripts:
1. A journey of a thousand miles start with a single step.
2. Take action

The most important thing about learning scripts is how you relate the script to yourself. Hence, self awareness is the program that run the script. Self awareness is applied psychology. It is also ancient wisdom. Thus, I will use words like 'thyself' instead of 'yourself' and 'thy'scripts instead of 'your' scripts.

This is your lesson for today. Welcome back tomorrow.

Welcome. Visit my blog everyday.

2006-07-08T20:55:00.000-07:00

Hi Fellow Bloggers,

Yesterday's lesson was "a journey of a thousand miles start with a single step." I prefer to use the word 'script' instead of lesson. If you know a lesson you will only keep it to yourself. You will not implement it. But I want you to implement the lesson you learn, hence I call it a script. "Script" will force you to run or implement your program. It is a natural thing.

If you have difficulty implementing what you learn, then you can always rely on the second method. That is, as Nike says, "just do it". Remember, procrastination is the thief of time. Time is always your most valuable asset. Action always beat inaction.

Welcome to visit my blog everyday. Post your comment if you feel you have something to say. A surprise gift may be waiting for you.

My Experience with Setting Up My First Website

2006-07-07T22:36:00.000-07:00

Hi Fellow Bloggers,

This is to share with you the daunting experience I went through to set up my first website. So many things are so new to me. So much research has to be done. So many decisions have to be made. And, so many mistakes were made. That's how I learn, and I enjoy that. Each time I troubleshoot my own mistake, I celebrate and take this opportunity to learn more about myself

I keep reminding myself that a journey of a thousand miles start with a single step. This philosophy enable me to set up my first website.

Blog is a good way to drive traffic to my website and to attract advertisements. This is the reason why I am posting here. Unless I am on vacation, I will be posting everyday so as to share with my fellow bloggers. You are welcome to visit my blog everyday. Please enlighten me by posting your comments. If you have one question to ask me what would it be? Just ask this question. It doesn't matter if it appear silly.

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2006-07-07T22:22:00.000-07:00