The Path of Diamonds : Embrace the Present – Secret of Lifelong Happiness

Leadership Wisdom from The Monk Who sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

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In order to live an enlightened, joyous and rewarding life - Live in the NOW and live fully. Happiness is a journey not a destination.

Always remember that the path you are walking on right now is beautiful and studded with diamonds. Always live in the appreciation of the NOW.

Savor the NOW with family and friends. Enjoy every moment of the NOW.

Practice the act of GRATITUDE everyday

Follow the path of your dream and celebrate everyday as your dreams come true.

Be content in the NOW and do not hurry through life.

Everyone is unique and a wonder. A gift to the world. Build yourself little by little everyday.

Reflection by JO

Many of us out there suffers cause of the downturn, we can either be “Up” or “Down” everyday. These days, we can choose to be losers or winners. If I look round, surround me are true colleagues who encourage me when I am down, extend their assistance when I need help, confide in me when they need someone to talk to.

Clients that are nice to me but not nasty. A best friend in my life who doesn’t judge me for who I am and always been there when I need support. My family are all in good health and living in harmony. Not to mention my two lovely pet dogs that keeps me company, many only have one.

I am so much more fortunate than the rest.

Some have less than one meal or nothing to eat. I have 4 – 5 meals a day. Am greateful for what I have to day.

I like to take this opportunity to say thank you for those who have crossed my path, without you all, I won’t be enjoying what I am doing today. Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Gold Stopwatch : Respect Your Time – Most Precious Commodity

Leadership Wisdom from The Monk Who sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

Summarized by SSC

Time is finite and live must be lived to its fullest potential.
Time mastery = life mastery.


Plan daily/weekly to manage time creatively and focus on the most important aspects. Remember the 80/20 Principle - 80% of the results are generated by 20% of effort

Do not let others steal time. Develop the ability to say NO to little things so that you get the power to say YES to important things. Simplify life to be able to focus on the important things of life.

Develop a death-bed mentality. What would you do today if it was the last day of your life?

Always do things as if failure is not an option and success will be assured

Never be a prisoner of the past but be the architect of the future




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Definition: A stopwatch is a handheld timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed from a particular time when activated to when the piece is deactivated.

I love the illustration here – Stopwatch. Look here, firstly; it is “handheld” – which means it’s always within your control. No one else should own your time, beside Yourself.

Secondly, it’s measurable, specific, not vague or perplexed at all. Our dreams in life have to be measure constantly so that improvement can be made. That’s what separates Excellent from Average, Best and Good, Good and Better.

Thirdly, it has the capacity of being “elapsed” which means to say; once time lost, it will never comes back.

Lastly, it has the capacity of being “activated” and “deactivated”, which to me means, you have the CHOICE to let go all the bad memories / negativity (X) and/or to capture all the beautiful memories / positive ness or (Y), thus there’s no compromise or reasons to why, you can’t pick yourself up and run again, fight again!

So, what are you doing with your time today?


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Deathbed Mentality

"Stop acting like you have 500 years to live ... the best time to plant a tree was 40 years ago. The second best time is today. Don't even waste one minute of your day. Develop a deathbed mentality." – Robin Sharma

We are all constantly struggling with “the best time to …” & “perfect” scenarios, and worrying about what the future lies ahead of us. In reality, there will never be a “perfect scenario” to initiate the things that we’ve always wanted to achieve or get done, nor should we worry about what the future will be, as the best time to put things into action and cultivate the future is NOW.

I am a practitioner of the “deathbed mentality”, which has driven me to always “live each day as if it’s your last”. Life is uncertain but death is for certain. I take cognizance of the fact that I could be dead tomorrow and do not wish to a leave this life with regrets. As such, lead the life that you’ve wanted, put your dreams into action and spend time with your loved ones … “Don’t waste one minute of your day!”. Carpe Diem – Sieze the Day!

The Pink Wire Cable :Live with Discipline

Wisdom from the book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma



Summarized BY SSC

A wire cable consists of many tiny strings woven together. The strings by itself is weak but together when they form the cable it is strong.


Will-power and discipline are like the strings that need to be woven together to make it strong.

Discipline and self-control is the act of controlling the mind and this can be done by replacing weak and negative thoughts with strong and positive ones.

Control your thoughts, control your mind, control your life = master of your destiny.



Reflection by AT

Have you ever experienced wanting to quit smoking, drinking coffee for the sake of health but never really have the WILL POWER and self-discipline to do so?

I am sure everyone will have habits to overcome but haven’t really decided firmly on quitting any of these habits or addictions. Therefore it is crucial to recognize the will power and self-discipline.

These two are inseparable companion that will make a difference in everyone’s life. Infact, little we did realize that the success we have achieved in life are well connected with these two elements.

Discipline is about focus and is about having the ability to be aware of personal goal and realizing the steps to reach your destination plus executing each step taken in perfection. And will power is about self-control, inner strength and self-awareness that guide us to pick the right or appropriate behavior or reactions.

Remember the childhood rhyme….


Little drops of water,
little grains of sand,
make the mighty ocean
and the beauteous land….

~by Julia Carney, 1845~


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The wire is a symbol of discipline. We can built up our discipline with small steps through the persistency of will power. Taking a step at a time will help overcome the will weakness of resistance.

“ I’ve always have a weak body system till I adopt the Pink Wire Cable concept to change my unhealthy habit of drinking flavor water to just clear water.

Through my 30 years of adult life I have rely on alternative medicine to improve my health instead of the western medicine. It is with this discipline that I have discovered a newer healthier self and a pleasant awareness of my taste buds to tastier morsels around me. “

Building the discipline step by step makes you stronger to fight against the challenges that surfaces. Small steps allow you to see the future path and success much clearer upon the achievement you made in each and every step.

The Fragrant Rose : Selflessly Serve Others – Ultimate Purpose of Life

Wisdom from the book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

Summarized by: SSC

The quality of life comes down to the quality of your contributions

Serve people daily and show random acts of kindness because the hand that serves roses to others retains some of the fragrance

Abundance of mental ability, boundless energy, unlimited creativity, a storehouse of discipline and a well-spring of peacefulness are gifts that you need to develop in yourself in order to share it with others

Compassion and daily acts of kindness makes life far richer.

Cultivate friends and nurture family. A person with 3 solid friends are very wealthy indeed.

Sharing By: OPY

Reading about how helping others makes one's quality of life richer adds as an reinforcement to myself in being diligent in doing daily acts of kindness. I have no qualms in dropping some loose change into the donation tins whenever I see students doing their part for flag day.

Taking it as my tiny bit of contribution back to society and the less priviledged; rewarding the students for their time and effort and also being grateful for the opportunity to be of help to others.

About a year ago, I chanced upon a book by Master Cheng Yen where she advocates daily acts of kindness, rather than one big contribution to cultivate the spirit of giving and caring on a daily basis. That got me started to put aside a small token of money daily and giving dana when the monies accumulate. It's heartening to know that the acts of selflessness is universal and serves to better not just the recepient but also the giver.

Y Family & Y Organization

What do Y family and Y organization have in common? Members belonging to both are likely to be HAPPY!

In his book Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman, one of the founders of Positive psychology, describes happiness as consisting of 'positive emotions' and 'positive activities'. It includes:

• Values and Respect


• Satisfaction


• Commitment


• Pride & Serenity


• Optimism


• Hope and Trust


• Gratification


• Full Engagment


• Consciousness

With happy emotion and activites practise by its members; just like any happy family, organization will thrive during the current turbulent time as the 'family' values and bond will help the organization to overcome challenges or take advantage of any opportunities that arise

The HPC family takes the opportunity to wish everyone Merry Christmas and achieve successes in the coming year

Change Your Life with Gratitude

Message from Rhonda Byrne

Creator of The Secret.

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The greatest thief of human happiness and abundance is ungratefulness. Any lack in our lives - whether in money, health, or relationships - is simply the evidence of a lack of gratitude. If you focus on lack you are not being grateful, and that will bring more lack into your life. Yet the simple state of radiating gratitude summons everything to you.

No matter who you are or where you are, you can change your life with gratitude, but you must feel it with your whole heart and radiate it from every cell. Gratitude is not a mental exercise, and in fact, if you simply use your mind for gratitude it will have little or no power. True gratitude comes from your heart! You must think gratitude through your heart, speak gratitude through your heart, and feel it intensely in your heart.

Then practice gratitude relentlessly. As you practice gratitude you will attract more thoughts and feelings of gratitude. In a short time your entire being will be saturated with it, and you will experience a happiness that is beyond what you can imagine. This is what is ahead for you when you choose gratitude as your way of life. And if you can really live in this highest state of gratitude, you will never have to ask for anything. Everything you want will be given to you before you even ask, because gratitude is the magnetic substance that opens every single door in the Universe.

"Y" Talk

An economic crisis is the most complex situation to deal with. It is natural tendency for most of the people to enter into a defensive attitude when things go wrong to help them to survive. To generate a counter cyclical behaviour it is necessary to enter into the cycle of action.

We have decided to take action to reach out to our market place during this turbulent time. Hence the “Y” talk was born.

It took only two weeks to organize the event once we have decided to go ahead. With the “Y” team in action, we managed to bring together 35 clients and closed to 60 participants in the early morning of 5th November 2008.

The participants were punctual and the attendance was almost 95% from the list that promised to attend. The interaction was good and lots of “Y” energy floating.

What is this “Y” talk?

It was a talk presenting our findings on the behaviour of the coming generation; that is the Gen Y. It is a research based on the findings on about 200 Gen Y using our proprietary profiling tool. What made the talk different was it is data driven. It is based on an objective assessment instead of subjective observation or interview.

Interesting insights were noted from the research, as this group of future leaders is quite different from us. Gen Y is known to have high energy, high motivation and positive self esteem. If they are well led, they can bring lots of “Y’ energy into the work environment.

In addition to the findings from the research, the experience sharing from the participants further kept the energy floating in the room.

With those unique behaviors in mind, we had provided some “tips” on how to lead and create an environment that can help to attract and retain Gen Y in the organization.

Positive feedbacks on the “Y” talk were received from participants and some of them are into action mode and had invited us to meet up to look at areas we can assist them

We are glad to have taken the counter cyclical action in this turbulent time to bring value to our clients.