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The Meaning of Your Dreams and How to Wake People Up

What is the meaning of your dreams? Should you act on their messages? We all know that your dreams are a reflection of your conscious thoughts and ideas.  Whatever we think about, we dream about.  In our courses we teach people to have dreams. But having dreams and dreaming are two completely different things. Having dreams is to have aspirations, dreaming is just what we dream when we are asleep. In reality most of us are living in a dream . Many people are not in touch of reality, about themselves, about others and about all the things we perceive inside and around us. That is a real dream. A dream that you have when you are awake!  Most people don't know the truths of these 5 things as described here According to US Guru Dan Millman, most people live their entire lives without being awake. This is evident from the fact that over 90% of employees are just looking for the year-end bonus or annual increment to get fired up. Most managers also said that m...

Stop Imparting and Start Inspiring

Many training courses tout themselves as having the latest ideas, strategies and thinking that will put you ahead of your peers.  Some of them are conducted by gurus who claimed to be able to 'give us 8 hours and we'll change you'.  Sounds pretty impressive!  We know that having more knowledge will not make you more successful.  Because if this is so, why are the professors not among the top earners in our society?  In fact talking to people from all walks of life reveal that we're living in an over-information age: people are now being immobilized with too much information.   It is apparent that what move people is not more information but inspiration.  Inspiration is getting people to do what they want to do because they want to do it .  When you are inspired to do things, you do it even when there is no reward and no punishment for not doing it.  That is true inspiration. Do not confuse inspiration with creativity and innovation, ...

Never choose the last 2 reasons for training

There are 5 things that every trainee is looking for in an external training program: Enhance their thinking , for it is the thinking capability that determines our work performance. That's why most trainers like to ask provocative questions to broaden the minds of the trainees.  Sometimes to make an impact trainers would purposely give the wrong information to ' wake people up ' Get Inspiration and Motivation .  As we know, the typical working life is full of stress and people usually get motivated when it's time for bonus or increment.  The fact that trainers help trainees to see things from another perspective will inspire people to do more.  Furthermore, trainers are external professionals that have no personal interest in the trainees, thus they can offer motivate people easily without being mistaken as phony Get Solutions to their Problems.  This is a very common and useful outcome of training, where trainees get answers to their current work proble...

How to Make Your 'Tree' Grow Faster in 7 Ways

We know that things come about on their own.  Once we have done our work, we can leave the law of nature to deliver the results.  But you must first do your work, like plant the right seeds and provide the right soil and environment so that your tree can grow easily. Same as in management of people.  The seeds you plant today will grow into bountiful trees tomorrow.  You plant seeds by putting in the right systems so that your people can grow from the systems.  Your  systems should not inhibit growth.  For example, if your remuneration system rewards everyone the same regardless of their contributions, good people will not grow. There are 7 Ways that You Can Make Your People Grow Faster: Give them a Clear Sense of Direction of Where Your Company is Going Let them Set their Own Goals on When and How They Can Achieve the Company's Directions Your Remuneration System should be 70% Fixed and 30% Variable so that there is sufficient motivati...