Mike Filsaimer of Butterfly Marketing

I listened to Mike Filsaimer who branded his product as Butterfly Marketing which is a website building tool for membership and affiliate management last Friday. He was interviewed by Matt Morris during a faculty call and turns out to be, he is a Success University member.

Yaro Starak commented that Butterfly Marketing is one of this year big Internet Marketing product. I better tell you that he is also an affiliate to the product. In simple word he gets money if anyone buys it from his link.

Another successful person using the Butterfly Marketing is Keith Welmann who was personally mentored by Mike. Well from his posting I can see that many people become successful from using Butterfly Marketing, that is if you consider receiving a lot of money as successful.

I concurred with Yaro that every year there will be big products released into the market, but not everyone can profit from them. Most of the time if you're ready, then when opportunity sail in front of you,you just know it and quickly you grab it. The likelihood is, you will profit massively.

But if you're are not ready and your knowledge and experience is minimal,you'll look silly hugging the opportunity and you'll have to take into account the amount of money that you may lose when chasing the success promised by the opportunity.

That one I gladly learn after listening to Earl Nightingale in my Success University course.

Categories: Success-University

The Last Habit of Highly Effective People

When I was younger once my father said,"When you're feeling exhausted, take a rest, look at the trees and green scenery outside your study place."

Now, I'm not sure if he can remember words that he said.

Looking at nature can be very calming and soothing to the mind and body.

The final habit from Dr. Stephen Covey teaching is to Sharpen the Saw. This body of ours including the mind needs occasional rest to be refreshed.

Exercising, sleeping, meditating, enjoying the natural scenery all qualified as the methods that will keep ourself rejuvenated.

Categories: Tips

Some thoughts On 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Finished attending the training last two days.

Overall I felt the message from the trainer has been well dessiminated.

Frankly I've known about the 7 habits of Highly Effective People for many years. I even bought a book by Dr. Stephen Covey and have finished reading it years ago.

So are there anything more that I can learn.

Sure, there are, I never really understood some of the concept from just reading the book. Those confusion gets answered during the session.

We the participants also gets to exchange ideas and sometimes we can see how others has a different way of thinking and look at things from a different perspective.

One of the moment that I felt overwhelming was when we were going through the exercise of coming out with our mission statement. Some eyes looks red and gleaming with tears after that.

We are asked to do continous writing for five minutes. I started with things that being troubling me and, WOW! the feeling is very strong. I wished I wouldn't have to stop.

Later I volunteered a comment. I said that, when the problems are inside my mind they gets convoluted, twirling like tornadoes, and most of the time, lost and hidden somewhere in my head, and then surfaced unexpectedly, but when they gets written on a piece of paper I felt more calmer.

So from now on, I will write any problem on paper and keep looking and thinking about them and will do things until I've come to an acceptable solution.

Categories: Personally
Categories: Tips

Continued: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Training

Yesterday is the 2nd day of training and today will be the last day.

The first thing to do today is called 3 person teaching. Anytime when we teach other people about something who becomes more knowledgeable? We ourself will be. We need to understand first before we can teach others.

Actually the teaching can be carry out with more than three people. So each of us selected a topic and will be presenting our topic to the group.

Everyone is given one and a half minutes to talk about the topic and another one and a half minutes to tell a story that has a relation to the topic.

To me, attending the training is like enforcing what I already knew. Because I have attended many self improvement seminars and also listen to tapes and audio. They are all about the same on the basics.

Sometimes during the training I get new insight or starts to think how to do those things that I haven't practise yet or keep me back on track.

One of the important matter in this training is how we want to live our life, do we want to build our character or concentrate on personality?

Building character is hard work and takes time or maybe a life time but personality can be imitated and acquired quickly. Building character is like planting an oak tree and building personality is like planting mushroom.

The oak tree slowly grows and overtime it becomes bigger and strong with root deep into the earth and no big wind or rain (I'm not sure about tornadoes) can uproot it but mushroom, it has a short life and you cannot get cover from the rain or sunshine under a mushroom.

Categories: Personally
Categories: Tips

Attending Motivational Course

Today I attended a motivational course at Holiday Villa, Subang Jaya. The courses title is "7 Habits of Highly Effective People for Executive". The courses was developed by the famous Dr. Stephen R. Covey.

It was conducted by Leadership Resources (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. and will take three days to finish from today.

So lets call the trainer as Nuri who is a Malaysian, and tonight the 20 of the trainees were asked to dream about what we wanted to be when we are 80 years old.

What do each of us want our spouse to remember as?
What do each of us want friend to remember as?
What do each of us want our childeren to remember as?
What do each of us wanted nephew and nieces to remember as?
What do each of us wanted our boss to remember as?

The answer is obvious enough, to be remembered as somebody good, nurturing, understanding, helpful, honest and etc, all the good things.

Categories: Personally

My Car's Engine Number Changed

Finished doing it by about 3:00pm. Then I SMSed to my wife, telling her how relief I felt.

I started in the morning about 8:00am. Went to Puspakom, Bangi. While I was waiting for the inspection I saw my friend name with his contact number somewhere in front of the reception counter - below his name - said if you have any complaint please call this officer. Maybe I just tell him later I went to one of the inspection center and see his response.

After getting the inspection result which is "PASS" I went to RTD Padang Jawa. Filled in the forms and took my number to be called. Then at the counter the RTD officer entertaining me, asked me to get insurance endorsement of engine number changed from my car insurance company.

Fortunately the insurance HQ is quite near at Shah Alam town. I got the information after asking a Tahan Insurance agent. She was willing to try to get the endorsement at first but then said there is no menu to do it at her PC after a while. Currently all insurance is done online in Malaysia. That is one of the eGoverment benefit.

Tahan Insurance HQ is located in MRCB building, behind PKNS Complex in Shah Alam. Then I had mamak's fried mee at Khalifah Restaurant at Section 3 Shah Alam. It's delicious.

After that back went to RTD Padang Jawa. I arrived about 1:30pm and the counter is closed and I have to wait until 2:00pm. Then took my number and after a few minutes I was called.

Submitted my forms and documents to the officer. After that waited again for about another half an hour before getting back my Registration Card.

Thats all to do and I was smiling. :-)

Now let me see how I felt.

1) At Puspakom I was treated nicely but the I felt tensed.
2) At RTD Padang Jawa I was also treated nicely and no tension, the officer also talk nicely to me.
3) At Tahan Insurance I felt like been in a wrong place. The lady who is doing it looks surprised when I first spoke to her. I don't know why. Her place was very office liked. No fancy stuff or colorful advertisement because I went to underwriting department and not the counter where they entertain customer.

So why I'm telling all this. Actually I've never brought my car for inspection before this, and my mechanic told me a secret I have to do to my car to make sure I'll passed the inspection...actually its not a secret, you just need to ask someone more experience before doing something. So if you want to get what you want. Simple, find out what you need to do or have, after that just do or get it, and give yourself ample time to do and recorrect any mistake. So that you won't have a fast beating heart beat with adrenaline pouring into your blood system and you'll become incoherent when you realized time is not on your side.

I remember last year, when I was at a Imigration Department counter to renew my Indonesian maid's work permit and the person before me wanted to renew his foreign worker. His worker will need to renew his permit by the next day, else he'll be considered as illegal and mind you all the process will take 1 month. And all employers will get a reminder letter two month earlier, so don't blame the department!

Doesn't that situation makes you very tense.

Categories: Personal

My Car Needs New Engine

In one point of your life you will own a car or a motorcycle. And as a proud owner of an engined driven machine you will join the "Club of Workshop Visitor".

I've been using my car for quite a few years. Last year its engine started to give problem. So early this year, I discussed with my mechanic and he suggested I changed the whole engine block to another one.

Why don't do a major overhaul of the engine? From what I get to understand, the cost is about the same if replacing the engine or doing an overhaul.

There are a few disadvantages of doing overhaul, the first one is that an engine overhauled will not have the performance of a new engine. You got to have new engine to get new engine performance.

It will also suck up more fuel and then I'll have to drive the car moderately until the new pistons rings and the pistons holes have settled with each other or else I'll brushing with the possibillities of having pistons jamming in my engine which will make me more poorer if that happens.

Anyhow, I've already changed the engine last month and I wished I had changed the engine somewhere last year because the price has gone up substantial this year due to the rise in fuel and metal.

Next I have to sent my car for inspection at Puspakom, an agency trusted to do the inspection and after that Road and Transport Department to change the engine registration.

If I do it it'll cost me RM40 (about $10). If I let the workshop do it on my behalf they'll charge me RM140 (about $35).

So what should I do?

Categories: Personal

Blog Layout Change

Before I changed my blog layout I did some study. I visited a few sites where I know the blogger who owns the blog is an establish internet marketer and proven by their sales figure and high traffic volume.

What are my findings?

1. Most of them are using light blue background for their blog. Then they will have a white sheet which appear in the middle of the computer. Maybe it look more serious and professional.

2. Non of them have flashy and heavy graphics which suit me well, I don't have the time to wait until the graphic finish showing. That should apply to others I feel.

3. Their blog title or domain name has something to do with money which my blog is focusing at.

So I decided to put to test what I observed and change the outlay of my blog.:-)

Categories: Blog-Improvement

My Blog Template Revamped

After a few months using the old template I decided to change to a new layout. The new layout will be more refreshing to the eyes.

Its like after you have being working for too long in front of the PC and someone said let get some cold drinks.

Ahh.. the feel of cold water running down your body on a hot sunny day.

Categories: Blog-Improvement

My First Posting to be Categorized

Categories: Category

This posting will be categorized under Category.

3 ways to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger - Freshblog

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3 ways to use del.icio.us for categories in blogger - Freshblog

I was looking for ways to put my postings into category and stumble upon Freshblog which gives suggestions how to do it.

It uses del.icio.us. and del.icio.us is like your favourite folder and it is kept somewhere on the Internet.

Pretty handy isn't it. You can do away with having to update the link in many PC's browser.

For example at home I have a PC which I don't carry to my office. So I have to remember to update both favourite in the browsers.

How To Become An Expert?

Categories: Tips

You are an expert when people start asking you question about something which cannot be answered by anyone else and your answer is correct. When you speak and argue, other people start listening. You talk with an air of confidence that others wouldn't dare to be in your way.

Another thing is that your name will frequently crop up when people are having discussion about a certain matter.

I've had the opportunity to be labelled as an expert in a few fields, well, other people call me so, maybe its a complement to get me to help or be nice to them. Or it could be true.

Here I want to share what are the things that you have to go through if your target is to become an expert in any field that you want to focus.

So I've listed them below in no particular order:

1. Read all the information that you can find on the subject. Make notes and anything that help you remember the information.

2. Check with other people who is more knowledgeable if your understanding on something is correct, of course this is only possible when you are not the expert yet.

3. Be involved in any aspect of the subject when you get the opportunity, never reject any of the opportunities.

4. Write down what you understand of the matter when it is still fresh in your mind and it is better if you have a book or a system that will make sure what you've written will not go missing.

Writing on a piece of tissue is a bad idea in this case.

And the more that you write the better it is. Usually one month from now we will forget what is meant by a very simple sentence or statement that nobody else can understand.

4. To make your knowledge stick to your mind, also never miss the opportunity the help answering other people's question regarding the subject.

5. You have to go through most processes many times until you remember it. Some said its at the tip of their tongue or I can do it blind folded.

For example if 10 people asking the same question, the ten times that you talk about the matter will make you remember more rather than when only one person asking that question and you answered only once.

6. Come out with a documentation and submit them for others to comment and use, but usually when you are the expert, they won't know what to comment. They just keep quiet or comment on the cosmetic.

7. Be persistent because it will take time. From my experience it will take at least 3 to 4 years to attain the knowledge that qualifies you as an expert subject matter. That is considering you're on the subject daily.

I think there are a few others that I did not put down here. Maybe next time I'll list them.

And my final advise is, even though you think you have achieved the status of an expert at something, some knowledge become obsolete quickly. So enhance your knowledge now and then.

For example if you're an expert in rearing ornamental fish or cows, most probably the knowledge will last for years or maybe decades and you can passed the knowledge down even to your grandchildren.

But if you're an expert in Intel processor 8088, get busy updating your knowledge.

Have you heard about the Pentium your children will ask?

Question From an Argentinian

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Julio Eduardo Avila from Argentina emailed to me
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necesito la informacion en castellano, y no puedo hacer el pago porque no
tengo targeta de credito ni chuequera. notengo cuenta en el banco.

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Then I replied back to him
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Hi Julio,

Usted necesita la tarjeta de crédito.

Y este negocio está en inglés. Estoy utilizando el http://babelfish.altavista.com para

traducir de inglés al español.

Gracias por su interés.

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You can use http://babelfish.altavista.com to translate the words, use Spanish to English translator
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Conversation With Ex-Fisherman

Last Sunday I had the opportunity to talk to an ex-fisherman who is quite senior. He used to be part of a fishing crew traversing from Kuala Selangor to Langkawi and back. That was decades ago according to him.

Now he just relax at his house with his wife.

What was interesting is something that he told me regarding his ability to tell the type of fish swimming in school in the water just by looking at the bubles forming at the sea surface.

Wonderful isn't it, this extraordinary human capability. We can learn and recognise things if given enough time.

The same great mechanism works when we recognise different types of flowers. We wouldn't have problem telling a rose or an orchid or a lily.

I'm even remembering the smell of those flowers now. Lily has the strongest smell to me.

Interesting Success University Courses

I like to hear Earl Nightigale audio from Success University. Sometimes I can listen to him talking the same thing for 3 or four times in a day.

What Earl Nightingale said in Lead the Field, "....if you stay and get rid of your problem by working your way through them, your're a successful citizen...", has prompted me to look back and helped me how to solve one of my biggest problem.

And other instructors that I love to hear is Bob Burg talks in his lesson Endless Referrals and Debra Fine in her course The Fine Art of Small Talk.

Do you know why some people climb the career ladder quicker than others? Two academicians that I knew said its due to their people or communication skills.

Its not about golf, its not about partying, its not about giving gifts, its not about being around the right people, its bigger than those things.

It's about how you treat and handle people. Let say you are avid golfer and always making fun of people who missed their putt. I don't think the next time you'll be invited unless you're the boss.

Who would you prefer, a person who laugh everytime you missed or someone who offers to teach and show you how you may hit the ball during the next putt.

And there are some people who felt communication is anything at all that comes out from the mouth. Have you ever been around someone whom you really dread when they start to say something?

So before you start holding the golf club or going to party or giving gifts or starting to be around the right people, polished you communication skills first.

Its not hard, but needs training, old habit die hard. The most important things in communication skills is knowing what to say and when to say it.

You should be able to get into the flow of conversation and unless you're defence lawyer at a court, in a debating team or any such wonderful situation. It would be better for you not to be antagonistic. And mind you its hard to change people's opinion.

When did you ever change other people's opinion using just logical argument?

So put on your nicest smile and go on. Do it after learning the basic, you'll master the subtle skills later.

Better still, find someone who has the same interest as you and then motivate each other to carry out the exercise.

Categories: Relationship, Life

Number of Opt-In Really Increased

I guess our team is getting smarter as times goes. It's that now, everytime I open my e-mail, I got messages from Success University stating a few people have visited my Success University Webpage.

This could be due to the new campaign techniques that Daegan are using which he mentioned in his blog.

That is great, we cannot always be relying on current method.

It is also part of Success University lessons, to always learn and doing things that will increase our quality of life or in this case business.

Categories: Success-University