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How to transform your daily decisions into golden opportunities

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Date: February 19, 2016

Name: How to transform your daily decisions into golden opportunities

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Presenters: Victor Liu and Emily Lim

Many young entrepreneurs feel overwhelmed with decision they have to make. In fact, they tend to miss out the best opportunities in front of them. GetLeadUp meetup invites Victor Liu, the Owner of Ink Saints and the Business Operations Consultant for crème De La Crumb, to share his strategy on reframing successful mindset. Young entrepreneurs will learn how to use the right mindset to setup their next golden opportunities. Emily Lim, the Founder of GetLeadUp meetup, will reveal the practical application to apply the mindsets into effective decision making.

Victor Liu was the Special Projects Coordinator from Organika Health Products. Until one day his mindset shifted, he took the leap of faith to discover his golden opportunities. He pursued the opportunity to become the Business Operations Consultant at Crème De La Crumb. His journey did not stop there. Victor Liu found the company of Ink Saints, provides meaningful tattoo for people, and took on the role of Chief Financial Officer.

Liu will share the 7 important mindsets to effective decision making.

Mindset #1: You can always make more money, but you can never make more time

It is common to hear from people that they do not have enough time. However, the truth is that it is not that they do not have enough time, yet it is what they value or prioritize certain things over others. Everyone has 24 hours and the difference is how people choose to spend it. When a company vision is large enough that it cannot accomplish by one person, the company will hire people to trade their time for money to help them accomplish the vision.

Liu wants young entrepreneurs to think if their time is spend on the value they require; otherwise, they need to rethink about their priorities

Mindset #2: Create new daily habits for yourself

Liu believes it is important for all young entrepreneurs to visualize where they will be in the next 5 or 10 years. Every step they take today will determine if they are one step closer to their goals. Therefore, young entrepreneurs should create little habits to ensure they are on moving in the right direction. Little habits can add up and it can create huge impact at the end

Liu wants young entrepreneurs to write down at least 5 habits a day. Whenever they are lost, they can refer back to the notes to get back on track again.

Mindset #3: Mistakes teach you how not to do something

Everyone makes mistakes and that is why there are erasers on pencils. People tend to stress over because they want to aim for the perfect solution. There is no such thing as the perfect decisions. Mistake is a way to signal people if they are going to the right direction. Without mistake, people will not know if they are closer or further away from their goals. Liu indicates successful people do not always make the right decisions; instead, they make decisions and then they make them right.

Mindset #4: Be clear, be focused, and be deliberate

Liu does not believe practice makes perfect; instead, perfect practice makes perfect. Young entrepreneurs will receive what they focus on. For instance, there are two basketball players. One player focuses on the goal of shooting 1000 times. In fact, the other player focuses on scoring 1000 times. At the end, the second player has a better chance to be picked on a team because the first player only has a general goal and the second player has a focused goal.

Mindset #5: Do not overthink, act

When young entrepreneurs overthink a situation, their minds tend to create limitless amount of “what ifs”. They are overwhelming their mind with negative instead of positive. Usually, this comes from fear. Fear is irrational, and Liu wants young entrepreneurs to act on fear. Act is the abbreviation of “Action Conquers Terror”. When young entrepreneurs act, they choose to face their fears.

“I chose the possibility of having a different result”

Mindset# 6: There is almost always another solution

In business, young entrepreneurs will face “either or” situation. However, they do not realize they have the choice to choose alternative solution. Young entrepreneurs should not limit their options because other people say so; instead, they need to discover the alternative option.

Liu shares a story. A sneaky loan shark is forcing a father to pay the debt. If the father is not paying, he will go to prison. When the loan shark discovers the father has a beautiful daughter, he provides a solution for them. He will pick a black and a white pebble on the ground and put it in the bag. If she picks a black pebble out of the bag, the father will be debt free, but the daughter will have to marry to him. If she picks a white pebble, the father will be debt free.

The daughter discovers the loan shark purposely put two black pebbles in the bag. She has three options.

  1. Refuse to take the pebble
  2. Try to expose the loan shark as a cheater
  3. Pick the black pebble and sacrifice herself.

If the daughter chooses the first option, her father will go to prison. If the daughter chooses the second option, the loan shark will ignore it. If the daughter chooses the third option, she will sacrifice her life.

The best option is the forth option. The forth option is to pick the pebble out of the bag and accidently drop it on the ground. She will tell the loan shark and say the color she picks is the opposite of the color that is remaining in the bag.

In business, young entrepreneurs should always take a step back and find the alternative option.

Mindset #7: Today, I am one day closer to…

Every young entrepreneur has a different answer to that statement. Nevertheless, the answer should always be positive. That phrase is telling them the situation they are in currently is temporary. Struggling through certain periods of life is part of being human. The positive side to it is to help young entrepreneurs to focus on hopes, dreams and accomplishments.

Liu believes young entrepreneurs need to learn how to focus on mindset. Based on statistic, only 6% of people will keep their New Year resolution because they are based on action and not on mindset. It is easy to talk about behavior, but it is difficult to change mindset.

“When you change your thinking, you change your beliefs. When you change your beliefs, you change your expectations. When you change your expectations, you change your attitude. When you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When you change your behavior, you change your life”

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Confident decision making

After making any decision, most people will question if they are making the right decision. Emily Lim believes when people are having doubts, they are giving power away to doubts.

Young entrepreneurs must trust their instincts. People tend to have the habit to get second opinion before purchasing. They do that because they have doubts. While dining out, most people will ask others what they want to eat. They do that because they fear their ideas will get shutdown. Lim considers that as the fear of rejection. This fear will allow others to speak up for them.

When young entrepreneurs do not have inner voice, they cannot confront others. Most of time people feel by complaining to others will solve their problems. Nevertheless, they are fear of facing the problem itself. In addition, most people have fear of joining something new. They will feel they will get judged. They will ask others to join with them. This leads to the fear of alone time. This is the fear of making personal decisions.

Why people have problem of having their own voice? Lim believes it is because gut feeling is not sufficient for any backup evidence. People are willing to make decision when they have enough support reasons, and gut feeling does not have any. To avoid this problem, people need to build instincts to have quick decisions.

For young entrepreneurs, the path of entrepreneurship will be a torture if they do not find their inner voice. Most of time, they will realize their original endpoint might be different. Moreover, they should not feel afraid to make mistakes; in fact, they should keep going and it will eventually out at the end

Young entrepreneurs should stop second guess themselves and always go with their instinct. They need to recognize their bias and start changing their decision making. Bias come from inexperience, and going through life will gain experience. Therefore, if they do not trust themselves, they do not have enough experience.

Most young entrepreneurs rely on their logical side to make decisions. Lim wants young entrepreneurs to stick with their decisions and make it work to maximize the values.

“Guts first, then other considerations come second”

“Follow the fruit” is phrase young entrepreneurs need to ask themselves. It means every decision they make need to be aligned with their desire outcome. Fruit is the outcome and there is always a way to self-access. Young entrepreneurs need to seek more opportunities and stop being insanity. Insanity means doing something over and over and expects new result.

When young entrepreneurs discover they are happy with the life they are living, they need to figure out what they need to do and follow the fruit.

Travel Hacks – Do not let the lack of funds clip your wings

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Date: January 22, 2016

Name: Travel Hacks – Do not let the lack of funds clip your wings

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Presenters: Allen Chao and Emily Lim

Many entrepreneurs have the dream of travelling across countries on business or first class. However, the price range can be a factor for entrepreneurs. LEADUP meetup invites Allen Chao, the Travel Hacker, to share his strategy to travel at a fraction of the cost. In this presentation, entrepreneurs will discover the hidden secrets from the travel industry and utilize the advantage from their point system. Moreover, Emily Lim, the Founder of LEADUP, will share her insight of the book called “The Magic of Tidying up”.

Allen Chao is the Category Business Manager in BuildDirect Technologies. Regularly, he hosts “Travel Tips with Chao” seminars to educate his co-workers with travelling strategy. Many people called him “The Travel Hacker”. Allen Chao is also one of the speakers at The First All-Canadian Points & Miles Conference from Points University. Moreover, his passion to help friends to save money on travel encourages many entrepreneurs to think outside of the box.

Allen Chao mentions his first travel hack discovery was in his fourth year in Simon Fraser University. During that year, he traveled over 12,000 miles each trip to Finland and realized the incentive from general airline travel system is poorly designed. After his 5th round trip, he discovered the point system strategy from credit cards. He managed to collect 500,000 points per mile a year with less than 10% accrued from flying. With the total of over 117,000 miles, he figured out the travel hack.

Cathay Pacific, one of the International airline companies, offers one trip from Vancouver to Hong Kong in economy class for $500. For business class, it will be $2500 and for first class, it will be $5,000. Chao manages to reduce it down to $350 for business class and $500 for first class with a simple strategy of transferring points.

The strategy is in 3 steps:

  1. Open Alaska Airline mileage plan and Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) card
  2. Accumulate points and transfer to Alaska Airline mileage plan
  3. Purchase tickets from Cathay Pacific from Alaska Airline mileage plan

Chao suggests Alaska Airline mileage plan because it only requires 50,000 points for business class and 70,000 points for first class. Comparing with other Asia mileage plans, Alaska Airline has more flexibility. Many entrepreneurs has the misconception that they have to use the same travel mileage system from the airline they purchase the flights; in fact, there are other companies that offer higher incentives.

Chao recommends entrepreneurs to take advantage of the MBNA Alaska MasterCard. They can take the advantage of the sign up bonus of 25,000 Alaska mile points. The annual fee is $75 and the rebate is $60. The total cost of is actually only $15.

Chao also wants entrepreneurs to get the American Express SPG card. Entrepreneurs can receive 20,000 SPG points, which converts to 25,000 Alaska mile points. The annual fee is $120 and the rebate from referral link is $30. The total cost is only $90.

For one way business class, Alaska Airline mileage plan requires 50,000 points. Entrepreneurs can transfer the 25,000 points from MBNA Alaska MasterCard and 25,000 points from American Express SPG card to Alaska Airline mileage plan. The total cost for entrepreneurs is $105.

For one way first class, Alaska Airline requires 75,000 points. Entrepreneurs can sign up another MBNA Alaska MasterCard and transfer the points to Alaska Airline. The total cost will increase to $120.

Think outside of the box

For business class round trip, Alaska Airline requires 100,000 points. Chao suggests entrepreneurs to ask their spouse to sign up another SPG card. The advantage of SPG card is that they are able to transfer the points to spouse. When entrepreneurs can use the points from two MBNA Alaska MasterCard and the points from two SPG cards, the total cost will come up to $210.

Chao shares a couple of tips from using Alaska Airline mileage plan. The plan allows entrepreneurs to have one stop over for free with the limit of booking only one career and no other places Alaska Airline does not apply.

Another tip is for Canadian residents. Chao explains when Canadian residents fly to New York, the airline can stop over for one month. Entrepreneurs can utilize this advantage to leverage on one ticket.

Credit cards

Chao illustrates credit cards have 4 different levels: sweet fruit, bulk of fruit, low-hanging fruit, and ground fruit. TD Aero Plan Visa Card is considered to be sweet fruit. It earns the most mile points. The American Express Silver and Royal Bank Avion Visa Card are considered to be bulk of fruit. The low-hanging fruit would be the SPG and American Express Gold card. These are considered to be the hybrid type. Other cash back cards are in the category of ground fruit. Entrepreneurs are encouraged to get low-hanging fruit.

Credit scores are affected by different factors.

  • 35% on payment history
  • 30% on the amount owed
  • 15% on length of credit history
  • 10% on new credit
  • 10% on the types of credit card used

It is important for entrepreneur to keep one card with good payment history for their portfolio. Sign up for new card will hit 5 points on credit score, but after 3 months, the credit score will bounce back.

“Reward yourself with good credits”

Question and Answer

Chao emphasizes when entrepreneurs sign up the credit card and do not activate it, it will still affect the credit card. Entrepreneurs need to wait at least 6 months before cancelling the card. Before entrepreneurs change the card, they need to ask for the old card to transfer to non-annual fee card.

MBNA card uses the 3rd party mile reward system. Depends on the type of the card, entrepreneurs need to see if the system is integrate with the bank or the 3rd party companies. Moreover, entrepreneurs can transfer the points early and strategically.

Chao suggests entrepreneurs to wait 90 days minimum to reapply new card for bonus. Otherwise, they can open business card.

Chao mentions there are other sites that provide similar travel tips.

  • Canadian Kilometers
  • Canadian blog – “Don’t Call the Airline!”
  • Pointshogger

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The magic of tidying up

Emily Lim recommends a book called “The magic of tidying up” by Marie Kondo. Every entrepreneur has a closet that fills of things. As years gone by, things are growing. It is important for entrepreneurs to clear the space and only keep the things they enjoy.

“Ask the dress, do you bring me joy? If not, why are you in my closet?”

Lim applies this theory in her life. Many experts use point system to evaluate their stress level. However, Lim believes the system has flaws. A suggested system is the hassles and uplifts scale. Hassles are things people that are annoyed or bothered. Uplifts are events that make people joy. With a scale, entrepreneurs can rate their items or events in their lives. The scale and provide awareness for entrepreneurs to improve their stress level in general.

There are 6 lessons Lim learn from the book.

Lesson #1: Do not tackle the whole house

Entrepreneurs should tackle the category and not by room. In life, entrepreneurs should only change one thing at a time and no all at once.

Lesson #2: Respect your belonging

Entrepreneurs must understand things have feelings. They will not feel happy if they are squashed in a corner of the closet. In life, entrepreneurs should look at different perspective and understand why they exist in their lives.

The ultimate tip to success is not to do it alone. Lim believes it is important for entrepreneurs to list all the people they can help them achieve their goals.

“Why do alone if you can do it with others?”

Lesson #3: Nostalgia is not your friend

Entrepreneurs need to know items are sentimental. When the items serve their purpose, entrepreneurs should set them free. In life, entrepreneurs should not hold anger. They can release them out of their lives and open up the space for joy.

Lesson #4: Purging feels so good

Entrepreneurs must realize one experience does not mean other experiences are the same. Every experience is different. In life, it is important to change the mindset and allow different experience to fill the joy.

Lesson #5: Fall in love with your closet

Entrepreneurs must fill their closets with things they love, and then they will fall in love. In life, entrepreneurs should fall in love of their life. Entrepreneurs will meet many different people in life. If people they meet are toxic, they should cut them out of their personal life. It is not necessary to be friends for life and entrepreneurs have the permission to fire their friends.

“I want to love my life and the circle of friends; I love my life because I let love into my life”

Lesson #6: Rediscover life you love

Life can be different for all entrepreneurs. They should have their own personal style. In life, after getting rid of bad stuff, entrepreneurs get to discover new things in life.

Powerup – Take command of a room, how to talk to anyone, anywhere, at anytime

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Date: December 11, 2015

Name: Powerup – Take command of a room, how to talk to anyone, anywhere, at anytime

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Presenters: Henry Liu and Emily Lim

Many young future leaders are struggling their ways to the top, especially in the field of communication. Moreover, great leaders will take advantage of every situation and communicate their way to the top. GetLeadUp meetup invites Henry Liu, the Director of NxWave Marketin Solutions, to discuss his view of strategic communication. Henry Liu will also provide key elements to help young future leaders on their communication skills. In addition, Emily Lim, the Founder of GetLeadUp, will discuss the importance of goal setting. In this presentation, young leaders will learn the key aspects of creating strong communication skills and learn the application of goal setting to prepare for 2016.

Henry Liu is the Director of NxWave Marketing Solutions. In his entrepreneur journey, Liu has been involved with raising capital for many early stage companies. Liu was recognized as top 1% of $12 billion company at the age of 21. Aside from business, Liu is a competitive musician and holds a pilot’s license. Liu is currently involved in brand awareness initiatives, such as marketing advertising, and strategic expansion strategies for a company in the nutraceutical and technology sectors, also taking the lead in a special project called BC2020 Vision Initiative.

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How to take control in the room

Young leaders tend to get nervous in meetings. Henry Liu explains this is caused by young leaders with high expectation of wanting to get attention from successful people. Young leaders can reduce their nervousness with personal development, such as listening to audiobooks or reading books. It will take time to build up. Liu believes the most important key is to build character. Young leaders must anticipate what they want. This will allow them to commend themselves and create the confidence.

It is important for young leaders to ask themselves the following question.

“How other people feel when you leave their presence?”

Liu believes it is necessary to leave with happiness. Many young leaders want others to accept them. However, they are focusing on the wrong question. They should ask themselves what they can do for others. Young leaders should always give before receive. This will build up the trust and allows others to go out of the way for them. Sometimes mood and feelings can influence decisions, but young leaders need to keep in mind that they have to go for it no matter what.

Liu believes leadership is the art of influencing other people. Leadership will give young leaders the ability to lead others what they do. By just showing up in an event, young leaders will have the opportunity to lead others. They will never know what will happen next.

Liu shares his business trip story in Philippines. When he arrived at conference meeting at Philippine, he was underdressed. His mind had a strong sense that he should skip the meeting because he feels he was not dressed property. However, he ignored that feeling and went into the meeting. From that meeting, Liu learned the skill of acquisition. He was able to reach more network and exposure. He would not able to learn and receive these if he did not show up.

“Show up is the only way”

In order for young leaders to develop themselves, they need to reach out and serve others. Liu emphasizes people will not give leadership to young leaders, yet they need to earn it first. Mindset is the biggest barrier for young leaders. If they can break the barrier, they can achieve anything. Young leaders must always have motivation mindset, which can help them identify their success.

Successful people have successful patterns. Liu suggests young leaders to pick 3 people in their life and do the 3 steps.

  1. Discover their common
  2. Define that pattern
  3. Follow it

Young leaders must have resistance in motivation. Without resistance, it is not worth going for it. Young leaders should surround themselves with people who are better than them. When young leaders become the poorest in the group, they will discover their weakness and start to learn from others.

Action speaks louder than words. When young leaders do right actions, people will notice and recognize it. People will only want to follow people who are taking actions. The best way to show actions is to serve others. Young leaders must remember that small things really matters. When young leaders watch their mentors’ actions, they will realize the more success people are, the more they will help others.

“The way help you live is in a way that is worth following”

Leadership is a habit and young leaders need to follow it. Young leaders must realize they can make mistakes. What happens in between is journey and experience. Journey and experience shape who they are. Every challenge story is worth remembering and sharing.

When young leaders change the way they see, they will change the way of the situation. It is important to convert everything to positive. In life, no one can tell them what to do and they are the only one who really knows what they are capable of. When young leaders go through challenges, people will know the story and people want to hear their stories. Therefore, leadership is the experience from stories.

Young leaders should always move forward, absorb other’s stories and become their own experiences. Eventually, people will be around them.

“Talent is not the issue, hard work will outwork the talent”

“Hard work beats talent when talent will not work hard”

Liu suggests young leaders to utilize the power of effectuation. They should always talk about others and not themselves. When they introduce others, they connect. Moreover, when they serve others, they are in control of the room.

“People do not want to know you, they want to know who you know and serve others”

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Practical leadership application and training

Based on statistic, when people think about their vision and goals, their chance of achieving increases up to 30%. When they write it down, the chance of achieving the goals will increase to 70%.

Emily Lim believes having goals and having ideas are different. Many successful people will write it own and keep it with them all the time. When young leaders take actions, they will lead themselves towards their goals. Therefore, they need to breakdown the goals as specific as possible. When young leaders are able to breakdown into a unit per time, they will discover how much they can lose.

There are too many people who are doing multi-tasking; in fact, successful people will need to be laser focus. Time can pass quickly, so young leaders must be proactive. They should put all their time into activities that will help them achieve their goals.

Lim emphasizes when people who cannot say their goals out loud, they do not own it. Therefore it is recommended to share goals with friends. All intention should focus on the goals.

All successful people have great goal setting skills. Lim suggests young leaders should keep track of their satisfaction scorecard to ensure their goals are align with their daily activities. Young leaders should take time to identify their goals. When they define their goals, they will know what direction they should go.

A good exercise for young leader is to imagine who will be attending their funnel, what they will say, and what they will remember. This exercise will help young leaders to discover if their current situation is leading towards their desire future.

LEADUP – PowerUP: How to kick fear in the face and live the life of your dreams

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Date: November 13, 2015

Name: LEADUP – PowerUP: How to kick fear in the face and live the life of your dreams

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Presenters: Byron Cheung and Emily Lim

Many leaders are lacking the right soft skills to break their limitation; moreover, hard skills will cover the technical aspects, but soft skills will approach the vision. LEADUP is a community founded by Emily Lim, the Pastor of New Joy Church, to help young leaders to train, teach, grow and inspire their leadership skills. The community is to allow young leaders to break through their limitation and discover their potentials. LEADUP invites Byron Cheung, the winner of the Golden Voice Award, to share his leadership lessons from his singing journey. The presentation will follow by Emily Lim’s energy presentation to discuss the importance of energy management.

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Byron Cheung

Byron Cheung asked a simple question that most people are afraid to face. The question is “Am I happy with my job?” and most people’s answer is no, but they are afraid to deal with it. Based on statistic, most employees are not satisfied with their salary and the percentage of them who love their current job and the percentage of them who think their career is meaningful is significantly low. However, Facebook has managed to increase the employee satisfaction of over 90%. Byron believes the difference is that they discover their purpose and have the right mindset to achieve their purpose.

GO FAR

Cheung learned many new valuable lessons from different jobs he had. He believes every job is a stepping stone to another job. However, his journey is not as easy as what people think.

In 2012, He received second place in the New Talent Singing Awards Competition. Even though he won the best vocal award, but Cheung still feel defeated. He was disappointed when he discovered one of the judge is the champion’s teacher. In addition, he started to give up.

In 2013, he was invited to another Hong Kong Sining competition and he could not past the second round. The result was a big hit for Cheung. In 2014, he graduated from the Art Institution and his academic path helped his music passion reunite. He learned he had the mindset of competing others, which limited his ability. He decided to change.

In 2015, he started his own recording studio and an expected opportunity came by for Cheung. He was invited to compete the Golden Voice Award in Hong Kong. He was hesitated to join because of his previous failure, but with the support from his friends and family, he overcame the obstacles. With his new mindset, he won the competition and received the singing contract.

“No success is self made”

Leaders are living in the culture that working alone is necessary to be successful. However, Cheung disagrees. He believes working as a team is important. He develops the GO FAR system to help leaders to overcome fear.

GO stands for “Goal Oriented”. Cheung believes it is good to be competitive, but leaders should compete themselves, not others. F stands for “Focus”. Leaders need to stay on track with the goals. Leaders must continuously practice to ensure they are laser focused on their goals. A stands for “Attitude”. Leaders should not let any circumstances to control their direction. If the odds are not in favour of leaders, it is their obligation to change the odds. R stands for “Reason”. Facebook is successful because they know their “why”. Leaders must discover their “why”. Cheung wants to influence the society. He discovers Hong Kong music industry is dying and he believes he can change it. Therefore, it is important to know why leaders are achieving their goals.

“Do not live by fear”

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Emily Lim

Emily Lim is the Pastor of the New Joy Church. She founded the LEADUP community to help young leaders to laser focus their goals and passion. The community will help young leaders to focus and unleash their purpose within. It will also empower the better vision of them and it creates the driving force to their fullest potential. Lim is also a motivational speaker who has the passion of developing soft skills for young leaders. Moreover, her voice and messages have encourage many young leaders to reach their maximum potential.

Lim believes the major resource is not time, and it is energy. Lim provides the saw mill example. A worker works hard in his saw mill job. The harder he works, the lower his productivity. At the end, he realizes the reason he could not improve his productivity is because he did not sharpen the saw.

Leaders need to focus on emotional energy. When leaders manage their emotion, they can leverage their success. Emotions can either be good or bad because it depends on how leader harness the emotion. More importantly, Lim wants leaders to focus their goal with the right emotions.

Lim believes leaders must use their emotions to blow past the inertia of procrastination. Success comes from long term perspective. With the right decision making, leaders can launch their vision. Lim shares 3 surprising energy drawing saying for leaders to discover their limitation.

Saying #1: I am a hard worker

Leaders will say that they are hard worker. However, this is misconception because the universe do not reward hard work, it rewards recognized results. Leaders should not focus on hard work. Lim shares the Sisyphus story. Sisyphus has one job, and the job is to work the stone up to the mountain. He is considered to be a hard worker, but he is not rewarded with the work. If he changes his thinking and breaks the stone, he will be able to use the small pieces of the stone to build houses. He will then feel empowered because he is building a community.

“Hard work is not your goal, it is simply a likely by-product of a worthy mission accomplished”

Saying #2: I do not have time

When leaders say they do not have time, the truth is that they do not want to face the reality. Everyone has 24 hours and many leaders waste their time to procrastinate. Lim indicates when leaders say they do not have time, it means the time is managing them. Instead of that statement, Lim suggests leaders to say “I choose not to make that a priority”. This will allow leaders to manage their time. If leaders cannot control their time management, they do not have guilt. When leaders make priority, they will know what is important.

Saying #3: Someone made me

Sometimes leaders believe happiness comes from other people’s actions. However, Lim believes it is their responsibility to be in charge of their happiness. It is important for leaders to know that it is not right to allow other people’s to control leaders’ own happiness. Therefore, leaders should say “this person did this and I choose to be mad”. This statement will allow leaders to take back the power so they can move on. This statement will also change leaders’ emotions.

“We do not want to be thermometer, we want to be thermostats”

Leaders might have unlimited resources, but they have limited energy. Lim suggests leaders to put their energy in the right place.

Lim provides 3 interesting tips to take control energy and emotions.

The first tip is to get rid of the old letters. When leaders receive the letters, it serves the purpose to provide the emotion. When the purpose is met, leaders should thank the letter and throw away. The second tip is to have a capsule closet. Leaders can limit their clothes so they do not need to use the energy to choose their clothes in the morning. Based on statistic, when people make too many choices, their judgement will reduce. The third tip is to know their emotion energy tank. Leaders need to know when their emotion energy tank fill up. This will give themselves the permission to be themselves and control their emotions.

Wheels of life

Lim provides the wheel of life chart. The chart contains attitude, career, finance, personal growth, health, family, relationship, and social life. When leaders rate their wheel of life, they will discover the strong and weak elements.

In order to improve the wheel of life, Lim shares the formula.

E + R = O

E is events, R is responses, and O is the outcome. Leaders cannot control the events, but they can control their responses. When leaders should always put their energy they value the most. Their actions must be congruent to their vision. They need to develop their own personal mission statement and always self assess all the time.

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