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Hey Folks,

Success Leaves Traces
What does the term “Success Leaves Traces” mean to you? To most people I know, it means following that successful persons footstep. To most of the participants at UYMG (the internet marketing seminar by Stephen Pierce, just concluded at KL, Malaysia), it means finding that success blue print which brought the speakers to fame. But are those really whats left by success?

I don’t think so.

What Are Those Traces
If you haven’t notice, most successful people don’t become successful from a single identical plan. Well, some of them do to but the majority had their claim to success following vastly different paths. In my opinion, whatever success blue print or plan that brought them to fame are just a by product of something common among them and at a very basic level.

I firmly believe that common thing is called Mindset. All successful people have a Mindset geared towards success and they build their mindset over the years by investing in something known as Personal Development.

Think about it. In our thousands of years of recorded history, there are untold numbers of successful people and I dare say all of them have a different route to success (most common being literature and warfare prior to the industrial age and there was definitely no internet back then). But if you get a chance to read their life stories or whatever account that is left behind, you will definitely notice that they have strong characters and a mindset geared towards success.

Do You Believe In Personal Development
So do you believe in Personal Development now? I do!

But many participants at UYMG don’t. Why do I say that? Because as soon as a speaker starts talking about personal development stuffs, they fall asleep or start doing their stuff on their notebook. It’s quite obvious that they don’t believe in the importance of Personal Development.

Shame on them. I hope they realize it sooner rather then later if they ever wanted a chance at success.

More Evidence That Personal Development Is Important
They may not have realized it but Stephen begins each day of the seminar with a video that relates a success story that was meant to train their mindset. He devoted his entire opening on his first day training the participants mindset. Next, he arranges for 3 personal development coaches to share about different aspects of self improvement over the next 3 days.

If personal development is not important, would a successful internet marketer like Stephen Pierce bother spending a good part of his seminar teaching it? Absolutely not!

What Can You Do
So what can you do invest in your Mindset? Simple and here are some of them:

1) Read more Self Improvement books.
2) Read Biographies of Successful People.
3) Visit more Self Improvement Sites (such as ours).
4) Get yourself a mentor.

Why don’t you gain those experience naturally over the course of your journey? Real simple again, each of those 4 methods contains years and years of experience condensed into something you can read in hours or minutes (if you speed read). Your time is your most precious asset. Don’t waste it.

What’s Your Take
So do you believe in training your mindset and investing in Personal Development? Tell me about it.

Cheers
James

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Hey Folks,

All Seminars Are A Waste Of Time … Without The Right Mindset.

What Transpired
Just before I left for Malaysia to attend the seminar, I remember writing a short article about how you can best position yourself to benefit from any seminar, click here to read more if you missed it.

I wrote another short post before coming back and it was titled “Did You Waste Your Money On UYMG?“. Could someone really attend a 4 day seminar and learn nothing while others just sing praises about it? Let’s find out.

Did Anyone Learned Anything
I remember doing a presentation to some SMCC students in Singapore and help prepare their mindset before the event. When I check with them again after the event, I was very please to find that most of them had found the information they wanted from the Seminar. Mind you, most of them are real newbies while a few had experiences in internet marketing.

So when a reader commented that “To me I find this UYMG only work for the person that have already have basic and want to proceed to intermediate” , I had to disagree.

I know of many newbies who had benefited greatly from the event. Of course, there are those who disagree and you know what? When I asked them to specify exactly what they wanted to learn from the event, they could not answer with certainty.

Do you see the pattern?
IF you are certain of your goal and focus on it, you will find what you are looking for. Does not matter if you are a newbie, intermediate or advance marketer.

IF you are uncertain of your goal, you cannot focus and hence you will find nothing of value and you start focusing on what’s missing. The moment you start focusing on the negative things, you miss all the good things and opportunities.

Did I Learn Anything
I attended the event, not as a participant but as a Stephen Pierce Alpha Leader. We are there basically to help organize the event and help the participants where ever possible.

I had a different set of goals that I wanted to accomplish at the event, from learning back door deals, leadership, learning to earn trust, getting face time with speakers, etc. I achieved all my objectives and more.

As far as I could tell, all the Alpha Leaders manage to learn heaps of new stuffs from each speaker while we are busy helping the participants who should be focusing on learning! Why?

Your Mindset IS Your Limit
You can only learn as much as you allow yourself. You can only find the knowledge if you allow yourself to find it. Think about it.

Cheers
James

PS: I’m finally back in working condition after catching up with my sleep, personal commitments and reciprocating blog comments and loves

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Hey Folks,

As you may know, I am currently in Kuala Lumpur attending Stephen Pierce’s Leadership course and helping out with his Internet Marketing Seminar subsequently.

What Am I Doing In KL
He has been my mentor in Internet Marketing for the past 6 months (if you had read my “About Us” page, you will know ) and I have much to thank him for my success at getting this blog up, running and progressed as it had.

So one of my objective to travel here at my own expense is to reciprocate what I have gotten from him and to help other marketers succeed in their online endeavor. My way of saying “Thank You”.

What I Learned
Now, back to my topic today. What I am going to share here is a small part of what I learn from Stephen yesterday but it got me thinking the whole night. Although the context he was referring the topic to was more about leadership, I can’t help but link it back to blogging. The subject that I would like you to think about today is “Caring”.

Ask Yourself These Questions:

“Do You Care About Your Readers?”

“Have Your Actions Shown That You Care About Your Readers?”

“Have You Been Replying Your Readers Comments? Paying Them A Visit?”

“Have You Been Posting Articles Of Value To Them?”

“Have You Been Engaging In Too Much Marketing Activities At The Expense Of Your Readers?”

Why Is It Important
So why am I asking all these question? Because if you don’t care about your readers, no one would be hanging around long enough to care for you, trust you and become your reader.

Think about it. Share with me if you Care or Not. And Why?

Cheers
James

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Hey Folks,

As some of you may know, I’ll heading up north to Kuala Lumpur (Capital of Malaysia) for 1 week to attend a leadership course by Stephen Pierce and to help out with his Internet Marketing Seminar called UYMG (Unleashed Your Marketing Genius).

I’ll still be posting on my regular days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday) but my activities at social networking sites may have to be toned down :). Just in case if any of you, my readers, are going for the same event or some other events over the weekend. I have some simple, practical and very powerful tips for you to get the best out of that seminar you are attending.

Getting The Best From Seminars
Note that I mentioned best (as in best for you) and not the most! Too many seminar participants tend to focus on “Getting The Most” for their money spent. The commonly end up with Information Overload right after the event. They feel the high of “absorbing” the huge amount of information but are confused on which is relevant and important! Consequently, there is a lack of action for some even if they wanted to take action. 3 weeks down the road, most of the information gained will be lost.

In 4 Simple Steps
What I am going to share is my style of learning from Seminars. So can gain practical knowledge and tangible benefits from seminars in 4 simple steps!:

1) Know yourself, Evaluate your current knowledge and the gaps
Everyone has a different level competency and knowledge given a certain subject. Hence, everyone will gain a different experience from any given seminar. You could learn more by knowing where you stand and understanding what you lack.

2) Focus on filling the gaps at the seminar
What’s the point of learning something advance if you don’t know the foundation that it is built upon? A metaphor would be “What’s the point of knowing what’s across the river if you have no means to cross it and take advantage of them?” Focus on filling the gap first then you will have a real chance of learning those advance stuffs! Metaphorically speaking, that’s what I call it “building the bridge”!

3) Integrate the knowledge gained and turn them into activities you can action upon
Once you gain those “bridge building” experience, you will need to translate them into actionable items, activities or a to-do-list so you can take action upon it.

4) Drill the knowledge into your subconsciousness
Now you need to take massive action on these activities immediately. Why?

Firstly, any knowledge gain that is not action upon will be lost over time. Taking action is a way of reinforcing the ideas into our subconsciousness. Once it is drilled in, it will stay there forever until you reprogram it.

Secondly, No action equals no result, which amounts to nothing! So why attend the seminar in the first place?

Conclusion
With these method, I always gained something practical out of every seminar that I attend and I don’t forget them since I had drilled it into my subconsciousness. So if you have in the past been suffering from information overload or “leaking” knowledge, try this method. Oh … Just in case you have not notice, the 4 steps are actual steps of a goal setting exercise I used to set goals when attending a seminar.

Cheers
James

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Hi Folks,

In my last post, I mentioned how you can learn from the reflections of a successful person. In my past 3 years, I had learned from 3 different folks and I will be sharing with you how you can choose the right mentor, how to benefit from this relationship and how to maintain a healthy relationship.

The 3 things that I will be touching on today are :

• Choosing the right mentor
• Emptying your cup and learn from your mentor unreservedly
• Be accountable for your mentor’s time.

Choosing The Right Mentor
There are many successful people in any market. From the top tier big players to fiery hot newcomers. So who do you learn from?

First, you need to choose a mentor from within your industry/market, preferably doing or have done what you are about to do. This is an important because you want your mentor to teach you based on relevant experiences and process that works for whatever you are about to do. For example, If I were to be in the property market … would I chose a share trading expert to be my mentor? Probably not!

Second, you need to choose a mentor that is willing to teach you at your level or have a course tailored for your level of experience. For example, if you were new to share trading, if take Warren Buffett as the first mentor, chances are you won’t understand anything! Don’t get me wrong, he has a wealth of knowledge to impart. It’s just we won’t have the necessary knowledge to understand them. But if he has a program/course tailored for newbies, go for it.

Or alternatively, you can choose a good trader with a good track record with about 1 or 2 year experience and is willing to impart their knowledge. These folks have relevant experience for newbies and you can follow their footsteps. Oh, one advantage here is that their fees tend to be more affordable

When you have learned all you can from your current mentor, move on and seek out the next that you can learn from but don’t dump you current mentor. Now that you both have parity in knowledge, you can work as partners or in Joint Ventures! Never burn your bridges!

Emptying Your Cup
Scrutinize every potential mentor when you are choosing whom you would like to work with and learn from. But once you have decided on a mentor, put aside your personal opinions, throw away any preconception you have about the industry and it’s practices and bury any processes you thought may or may not work. In other words, Empty your cups! Open your mind and accept what your mentor teach and learn from them unreservedly. You have to trust your mentor, you have to trust that your choice was correct and cast away your doubts.

No mentoring program will work if you keep doubting what the mentor says and never put the process they teach into practice. If you cannot excise your doubt, don’t start any mentoring program. It will just be wasting both your time and your mentors time.

Be Accountable
You will probably be spending a small fortune getting yourself into a mentoring program. You will probably be thinking since I paid the fee, I should be entitled to the mentors time, right?

Yes, you will be entitled to whatever process that brought them success and he will spend the minimum amount of time required to impart you those skills.

And No, you will not get any second more then the basic entitlement. If you want a second more, you will have 2 way of getting it, pay more or show them that you deserve it! And from my experience, if you want the best advice and attention from your mentor, you have to show results! Results from following the advice. Results from your unrelenting hard work and pro activeness. They will be attracted to your success and willing impart more knowledge to make you more successful.

This is what I mean by being accountable to your mentor. Show them that you have trust in them, that you understood and followed their teachings and you have results to show. Given a group of students, 2 with results and the rest doesn’t. Who do you think the mentor would choose to spend his time with? Or ask yourself, when you conduct your own mentoring program and given the same situation, who would you spend the time with? Simple answer right?

So if you have never considered getting a mentor, I hope you will see the benefits of getting one. If you are looking for a mentor, I hope this article will help you choose the right mentor. If you already have a mentor but not getting result, reevaluate if you have got the right mentor or could your own attitude be the hindering factor? Understanding your situation and studying your own reflection will help you getting consistent success in whatever you do.

Love,
James

PS: I left out my own story as the article is getting too long. I hope to be able to include it in a future article or my upcoming Ebook.

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