Monthly Archives: September 2015

I am very pleased to announce that I am now a qualified life coach which is a natural next step of my keen interest in personal development. In the beginning of the year, I started a coaching certificate course offered by OCM. I passed the assessment with merit and obtained the coaching certificate 2 weeks […]

This is to get back to some people who also asked me about the Chinese version of the book. Well, I am in the process of finding an agent in Mainland China that would help me identify a publisher that will purchase the publishing right from me and also take care of the translation. Work […]

One frequent and logical question that many people asked me was “What about your next book?”. Well, I think it is a bit too early (only after one year) for me to publish the next book or even the next edition. Perhaps give me a few more years. I do have some ideas on the […]

Sometimes silence is gold. I can still recall clearly the first advice given to me by my editor friend Geoff right after my book publication. He advised me to take any feedback (in particular negative) with grace and not to start a debate/fight with anyone regarding his/her comments about the book. If I go down […]

Patience is more than a virtue! It is essential in learning in particular when we are more mature in life. Being impatient generates negative energy (I am as guilty as anyone else as I am far from a patient person) and it will lead to adverse consequences in life if we don’t have it under […]

Wearing different hats and playing different roles are useful skills to have in life. I need to put on a more “corporate” face in order to promote my book to strangers. To put things in a more general perspective, we need to tune our approach and attitude towards the specific client. One size fits all […]

50 Shades of Friendship: My friends’ support came in so many different ways spreading throughout a wide spectrum. There were surprises on the upside as well as the downside. I think it is important to realize and accept that your friends have no obligation to help you in the way that you expected. One can’t […]

Everyone is different but equal. This point hit home to me during the past year in promoting my book. Every reader or potential purchaser of my book is equally important and is treated with the same respect. At the same time, different people have different reasons for purchasing my book, ranging from “getting me off […]

First of all, to conclude the first year of my book publication, I am very pleased with experiences that I probably would not have had without the book. To recount a few of them. 1) Many people including myself were surprised by my sales skills (hard sell or not) and enthusiasm. I took a day […]

Today marks the beginning of the 10-day period before the FIRST anniversary of my book publication. I did promise to use the first year after the publication to review and then decide what my next steps are. Therefore, to be myself “on the spot”, I will share some of my thoughts in the next remaining […]