Partners Issue # 110

[G K Lim]

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Dedicated to the personal and professional development of PMEE’s -- professionals, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs -- everywhere.
 
Issue # 110
Seventh year in publication
Since July 1, 1998
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"IN THIS ISSUE"
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[1]  Editor's Corner
[2]  Personal Development Article
[3]  Business Development Article
[4]  Attitude Vitamins
[5]  Stress Buster
[6]  Feel Good Classic
[7]  Chop Suey Rojak
[8]  Sponsors’ Messages
 
 
 
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[1]  "EDITOR'S CORNER"
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Hi,
 
I know.  We didn't bring out any issue of "Partners" in November.  Our fault.  Our apologies.  No excuses, just apologies.
 
This issue appears the day after Christmas 2005.  Not too late to wish all readers a Happy and Merry Christmas.  And a Happy New Year too!
 
December 26.  The day tsunami struck exactly a year ago.  Thousands perished.  Survivors scarred for life.  Hopes dashed.  Businesses seriously affected.  A tragedy of biblical magnitude.
 
Those of us who are still alive -- that includes you and I -- need to be thankful that we can open a notebook or PC and work on it.  I don’t know about you -- but I pledge to work hard to make my dreams come true.  I don't want all my unfulfilled dreams to visit me at my deathbed and accuse me of making them die with me.
 
Okay, back to this issue.
 
Our Personal Development article, "Awareness For Success," by Frederick Pearce, says that your conscious mind can only deal with a certain amount of stimuli, so you must train your subconscious mind to let in everything relevant to your success.  An article worth reading and keeping.
 
On the Business Development side, we talk about the quintessential business card.  The business card?  Do we need to learn how to capitalize on it?  Oh, yes, we do.  Too often, we forget that it's a powerful business tool.  So, do yourself a favor and go read Business Card Basics by Diana Ratliff
 
Our Feel Good piece is a poem that reminds us that "life is not a race; do take it slower; hear the music -- before the song is over."
 
Well, enjoy issue # 110!
 
 
May you be happy, healthy and well always!
 
G K Lim < www.gklim.com >
Editor / Publisher
 
 
 
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[2]  "ARTICLE -- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT"
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AWARENESS FOR SUCCESS
 
by Frederick Pearce
 
Every minute of every day, various stimuli bombard your consciousness demanding to be heard and seen and noticed - sights, sounds, smells. Your conscious mind can only take so much. It must filter out most, so it can properly deal with the important stuff. But, how does it decide what is important - to be let through - and what is unimportant - and is to be filtered out?
 
This is the job of the Subconscious. The subconscious mind decides what it thinks you want to see, hear, feel, etc. and what it thinks you do not want to see, feel and hear. It screens out, or 'switches off' the reaction of your conscious mind to those stimuli that are not wanted. If you have ever tried reading with the radio on and not hear the radio, you have experienced these filters in action. A certain word on the radio suddenly interrupts your reading. Why that word, and not one of the others? The interruption is usually caused by something in which you are interested, or which you consider important. This also explains why working in a noisy environment can be so tiring - your brain has to work overtime filtering out all that unwanted stimuli - and why a mother can hear her baby start to cry before anyone else can hear it.
 
If you can somehow inform your Subconscious that something that wasn't important has suddenly become important, the switch mechanism will be altered. What was filtered out will now be let through, and the conscious mind will start to notice it. Sound peculiar?
 
Have you ever decided to buy a new car, and then suddenly started noticing this same type of car everywhere you look? Why? Didn't those cars exist before? Of course they did! You just didn't notice them. They weren't important to you and your subconscious screened out that information. As soon as that type of car became important to you, you started noticing them everywhere.
 
This shift in mental awareness can be used to build success. Make a goal, decide it is a priority: give it emotional power by imprinting it on your Subconscious. This is one reason that goals should be written down - that aids the imprinting process. And why you should read your goals out loud and check them on a regular basis. And surround yourself with pictures of your goals. All this burns these goals into your Subconscious.
 
Now your Subconscious will let you notice anything that will help you achieve those goals, because the filtering mechanism has been opened up to let related information through.
 
It's not true that opportunity only knocks once. Opportunities are all around but they are getting screened out as being irrelevant to your current goals, the more so if you do not have any goals at all.
 
Set goals, write them down, read them out loud, stare at them, dream about what it will be like when you have achieved them. Get them into your Subconscious. In no time, your Subconscious will be making opportunities and information available to achieve them.
 
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Frederick Pearce
 
'THE BUSINESS START PAGE ' http://www.bspage.com

 
-Designs and develops joint ventures to help businesses expand rapidly - 35 years international experience in Financial management, Contractual and General management. Business Practitioner - Web Page Author.  He now lives in Houston, Texas.
 
Frederick Pearce < fpe...@earthlink.net >
Pearman Cooperation Alliance (USA-Houston)
http://www.bspage.com/pearman.html
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[3]  "ARTICLE -- BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT"
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Business Card Basics
 
By Diana Ratliff
 
Are you wasting your most versatile marketing tool?  Whether you conduct business on-line or off, there’s probably not another weapon in your marketing arsenal that’s as affordable, as portable, as versatile, and as readily accepted worldwide as the humble business card.  Business cards are much more than a convenient means to leave contact information.  Today, a business card can be an ad … a mini-brochure … a coupon … a discount card … even a phone card or CD-rom presentation!  Very often, your business card determines what (if anything!) that your prospect remembers about you after your initial meeting. 
 
First and foremost, your card must be legible (no smaller than 10-point type).   The most common mistake in business card design is overcrowding.  The truly essential information on any card is your name, your company name, and your primary phone number (which should be in bold text, if other numbers are on the card.)  Include your email address and website URL if you can, but remember, a card that’s too crowded won’t be kept or read.
 
An experienced and reputable printer should also be able to advise you about ways to make your cards more memorable.  Ask your printer about printing vertically, adding a photo of you (or your product), or printing complementary information on the back of your card.  A very effective strategy is to use fold-over cards to create mini-brochures.  You put your customary contact information on the front and back of the folded card, and use the inside to describe your products and primary benefits.
 
However, what you do with a business card (yours as well as others) has far more to do with the sales you generate than your card design.  Offering your card with both hands, for example, is a simple, no-cost strategy that still creates an enormous psychological impact.  Consider exchanging cards with like-minded entrepreneurs through business networking groups.  Introduce yourself with your card.  Include your card with all correspondence.  Sign your name (or a brief message) on the front of the card.  Tuck your card into related books at the library.  Actively seek out ways to use your cards.
 
When you receive cards, too, always treat them with respect (how would you feel about doing business with someone who didn’t even glance at your card, but just crammed it into their pants pocket?)  Jot notes on the back of cards you’re given, such as date, event, common interests, physical characteristics of the giver, type of information you need to send, etc.  Develop a system for carrying and collecting business cards, and file them the way you remember them (by company name, person’s name, or industry.)  Then, follow up and stay in touch.  You’ll reap the rewards.
 
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Diana Ratliff, the Business Card Expert, is author of “How to Get More BU$INE$$ from your Business Cards”, a booklet with 143 proven tips on topics such as business card design, content, etiquette, organization and international usage.  It also includes dozens of creative prospecting ideas, and is terrific as an educational resource for sales organizations as well as a promotional item for customers and prospects.  For more information and FREE tips, visit her website at http://www.bizbooklets.com.
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[4]  "ATTITUDE VITAMINS"
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. -- Napoleon Hill
 
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible -- Theodore Roethke
 
If we don t change the direction we re going, we are likely to end up where we are headed. -- Chinese proverb
 
Our deeds determine us, as much as much as we determine our deeds. -- George Eliot
 
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. -- Napoleon Hill
 
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. -- Jim Rohn
 
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and 'doing' cannot be the result of things which happen. -- G. Gurdjieff
 
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. -- Napoleon Hill
 
An obstacle is no more an obstacle if you know it's an obstacle.  A problem is no more a problem if you know it's a problem.  A superstition is no more a superstition if you know it is a superstition. -- G K Lim
 
There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life, happiness, freedom, and peace of mind, are always attained by giving them to someone else. -- Peyton Conway March
 
Stay away from negative people, they steal your dreams and sap your energy. -- Les Brown
 
Free advice is worth the price. -- Robert Half
 
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. -- Sir William Drummond
 
To attract attractive people, you must be attractive. To attract powerful people, you must be powerful. To attract committed people, you must be committed. Instead of going to work on them, you go to work on yourself. If you become, you can attract. -- Jim Rohn
 
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -- Henri Bergson
 
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. -- Henry Drummond
 
 
 
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[5]  "STRESS BUSTER"
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One weekend my friend Sally, a nurse, was looking after her six-year-old nephew when he fell off a playground slide and hit his head.
 
Worried that he might have a concussion, she checked him all night. Every hour, she'd gently shake him and ask, "What's your name?" Soon, he began moaning in protest each time she entered the room.
 
When Sally went in at 5:00 A.M., she found something white on his forehead. Leaning close, she saw a crayon-scrawled message taped to his forehead.
 
It read: "My name is Daniel."
 
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A little girl was wearing one of those Medical Alert bracelets. Someone asked her what the bracelet was for. She replied, "I'm allergic to nuts and eggs."
 
The person asked, "Are you allergic to cats?"
 
The girl said, "I don't know. I don't eat cats."
 
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I don't like to face problems head on.  I think the best way to solve problems is to avoid them.  This is a distinct philosophy of mine.  No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from! -- Charlie Brown
 
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My Dad and I were talking the other night about love and marriage.
 
He told me that he knew as early as their wedding what marriage to my Mom would be like. It seems the minister asked my Mom, "Do you take this man to be your husband." And she said, "I do."
 
Then the minister asked my Dad, "Do you take this woman to be your wife," and my Mom said, "He does."
 
 
 
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[6]  "FEEL GOOD CLASSIC"
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According to the email message I received, "This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. It was sent in by
a medical doctor."
 
I don't know how true that claim was.
 
But the poem strikes me as sensible -- a wake-up call to people like me who don't have time to smell the roses.
 
So, go ahead, and read it.
 
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SLOW DANCE
 
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
 
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
 
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last .
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
 
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
 
 
Author unknown
 
 
 
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[7]  "CHOP SUEY ROJAK"
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"Put a cat in a room with a bunch of broken bones, and the bones will heal"
http://www.derki.com/ingilizce/firstissue/cats.html  
 
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"What causes salespeople to forget their own successes and lose the skills that caused them to be great?"
 
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale once said that a problem contains the seed to its own solution. We can turn this meaningful insight 180 degrees and say that every success contains the seed to its own undoing. People often believe that success only breeds success, but more often than not, success breeds complacency and arrogance and it can lower our competitive drives. When success comes too fast, it often disappears as quickly as it came. I remember a salesman who made $1 million in commissions only five years ago. Last year he barely made $30,000. He lost his home, his family and his self-esteem. Five years ago, hundreds of people listened eagerly to his success stories; today only his creditors follow his footsteps.  So how do we keep repeating our successes?
 
The answer:
http://www.sellingpower.com/html_newsletter/motivation/article.asp?id=2183&lid=SP81513
 
 
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What Cross-cultural Training Can Do for You
By Brenda Townsend Hall


International business is more complex than ever before. Success in every sector is now seen in global terms. Yet success in working with colleagues from different cultures is no easy goal. In order to connect, we have to communicate effectively and we can only do this in an atmosphere of mutual respect, understanding and trust. Cross-cultural training helps you understand the underlying cultural values that drive behavior—you first understand your own cultural background and then other people’s.
 
Read more in .....
http://jaime.trainingmalaysia.com/tmo/notebook/news_newsletter.php?subaction=showfull&id=1129291249&archive=&template=ProfDevelopment
 
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How to Manage Your Most Valuable Assets - People
By Philip Lye
 
People management and leadership has become a major topic of conversation in today’s market place and have assumed mythical qualities. Managing you people is not that difficult if you are willing to invest one thing in their development; YOU.
 
Read more.....
http://jaime.trainingmalaysia.com/tmo/notebook/news_newsletter.php?subaction=showfull&id=1129291062&archive=&template=ProfDevelopment
 
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The Chaos Theory of Careers: a user's guide
By Jim E.H. Bright
 
The purpose of this article is to set out the key elements of the Chaos Theory of Careers. The complexity of influences on career development presents a significant challenge to traditional predictive models of career counseling. Chaos theory can provide a more appropriate description of career behavior, and the theory can be applied with clients in counseling. The authors devote particular attention to the application of attractor concepts to careers.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JAX/is_4_53/ai_n14710847/print
 
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[8]  "SPONSORS’ MESSAGES"
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