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People Set the Wrong Goals and Achieve Them!  The worse thing that ever happens to anyone is NOT to never set goals, or to set goals and never achieve them, but to set the wrong goals and achieve them!  Many people don't even know that they set the wrong goals.  Sun Tzu in the Art of War first sentence said that the Art of War is very important, for it determines your life and death.   The entire chapter 1 of the Art of War talks about planning. It says that you must do this right or you will die.  He listed the 5 criteria for any goals.  They are Dao Tian Di Jiang Fa.  So when you set the wrong goals, you are on the wrong path.  Worse still is to achieve your wrong goals!  What are wrong goals? 1. Make a lot of money ($xxx) this year  2. Get promoted in my career 3. Get elected as President of my association 4. Get my child to score A in his exams 5. Slim down 5 kg The above are examples of wrong goals.  To know if your goals ...

In my class How to Be a Good Person, I asked the audience to tell me what they can do in their daily lives to be a good person One person said, don't do harm.  Another say, don't cheat. One say, do charity.  I asked him what is charity.  He said usually it means to donate money.  I told him charity means helping people when they need help.  It could be money or other things but not necessarily donation of money.  If they don't that help, that is NOT charity.  It is just your act of service.   I also told him that if he donates money, make sure that the beneficiary really needs the money.  If not, that donation is of little value to the beneficiary and is not really charity.  It is just for you to claim 2.5 times tax deduction.  There is almost no merit accumulated by you.   He asked, what can I do?  I told him, do charity in your daily work.  Being a Grab driver, I told him if you provide sincere heart-to-he...

Biggest Takeaway from Knowing the 3 Kingdoms   People often asked me, why are you Andy so interested in conducting lessons on the 3 Kingdoms?  What is so beneficial in knowing China's history 1,800 years ago?  I am not in the military, and nor am I in business. What good is there for me to understand the 3 Kingdoms? Today the world has moved beyond judging a book by its cover. We judge a person's success or failure based on achievements.   If a trainer did not get many people in his lessons, we say this trainer is either no good or not successful.  If a businessman hardly makes good profits, we don't bother about him.  We don't know people that we cannot see their achievements.    If a restaurant has a Michelin star, we say that is a good restaurant. If a salesperson breaks sales records, we say he is a great salesperson. Scholars are people who do very well in the academy.  In Marvel heroes movies, the superhero is the one that can beat...

13 Benefits of Knowing Three Kingdoms Strategies 1. Know what is a villain and why villains are 'good' people 2. Know the art of war, which is the bible for all leaders 3. Know how to use The 36 Stratagems, and how escape may not be the best 4. Be aware of the triangular relationships, and how their constant wars will drain you 5. Know the power of 3 times rejection 6. Be ready to pounce when the opportunity strikes 7. Know what is more valuable than money, and how money and love kill people 8. Be as smart as Zhuge Liang, and his 12 People Management strategies 9. Avoid the evils of Dong Zuo, Cao Cao, Sima Yi and Sima Chao 10. Know the power of prediction as a way to outwit your competitors 11. Be as swift as fire, and use fire to beat your enemy 10 to 20 times bigger than yours 12. Understand that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, like what Dong Zuo and Cao Cao went through 13. Be many steps ahead of your peers, as The 3 Kingdoms is not just about wisdom b...

  31 Benefits of Using Sun Tzu Art of War When you know and apply the Sun Tzu Art of War, you can reap at least 31 benefits: 1. You are able to get more done with less 2. Less stress for yourself and others 3. Save time, team and money 4. Get higher productivity, which is ever more with ever less 5. Leverage on others, so able to work smart and not just work hard 6. Know yourself and know others, in a hundred battles, there are no dangers 7. Be mindful, not mind full 8. Know what is a good person and how to be a good person 9. Loyalty, the most trusted virtue, will be yours too 8. Know how to take care of your people as though they are your children 9. Know the dangers of fire and how to harness fire in your daily life 10. Know the biggest fire is fire in the belly, and how to use this fire daily 11. Get automatic leadership, that is, leadership that no one notices 12. Get automatic followership, that is, followership that no leader asks for 13. Get what you want without asking for...