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A friend of mine sent me this video and it is about two dancers. And, they have just won the Silver medal out of 7000 competitors in China. You may ask what is so special about just winning the silver medal, right?

Now, I want to read their story as highlighted by CCTV channel in China before I show you the video of their dance. This is a MUST READ story and I guarantee you that they are definitely not what the ordinary dancers.

Here’s their story:
“The girl (Ma, Li) was a beautiful promising professional ballerina when she lost her right arm in a car accident in 1996. She was only 19. Her handsome boy friend walked away from her. She tried to kill herself only to be saved by her parents. Her love for her parents gave her the strength to live. She learned how to live her life independently.

She learned how to write Chinese beautifully and how to do many things including combing her hair, which she had to cut short from the waist-length to shoulder-length. She learned to cook and to wash clothes … In a few months she opened her small bookstore.

Five years later in 2001, she was invited to compete at the 5th national special performing art competition for handicaps and won the gold medal. That success gave her the hope to return to her beloved stage.
In 2002, a handsome 20-year-old young man (Li, Tao) madly fell in love with her. She ran a way from him for fear of being hurt again.

After she disappeared in Beijing, Tao searched her up and down despite his parents’ strong objection and ridicule. He finally found her dancing in a bar. They have never been separated since.

They were very broke when SARS was spreading because all theaters were closed. In 2004, he got a license to be her legitimate agent and was trying to help her develop a unique performance. In a cold snowy night, when the two huddled in an underpass to wait for the sunrise in order to catch a bus after a long day at a movie shooting site working as extras, she suddenly had the urge to dance in the snow with him. She had used her dance to tell him her story so many times before and this time, after their “dance” ended, he suddenly realized that THIS should be her unique performance.

In September 2005, she ran into a 21-year-old young man (Zhai, Xiaowei). He was being trained to be a cyclist for the national special olympics. He had never danced before.

He climbed on a tractor when he was 4 years old and fell off it and lost his left leg. His dad asked him, “The doctor will have to amputate your leg. Are you afraid?” He couldn’t comprehend what would be so different so he said no. His dad said, “You are going to face many challenges and difficulties in life, are you afraid?”
He asked, “What are ‘challenges and difficulties?’ Do they taste good?” His dad laughed with tears, “Yes, they’re like your favorite candies. You just need to eat them one piece at a time!” (Then his dad ran out of the room in tears.)

So he’s always very optimistic and athletic with a great sense of humor. He had tried high-jump, long-jump, diving, swimming, and just settled on cycling. His coach believed that he would be able to get 2-3 gold medals in the national special Olympics games. (In the video interview, you can see him doing a bridge with great ease!)

He initially didn’t understand how he could “dance,” so Li invited him to see her performing “Hand in Hand” with another male actor. He felt that he saw a perfect soul dancing on the stage and agreed to give it a try.
Li & Tao treated him like their younger brother and they stayed under the same roof during the more than 1 year of intensive training and practice. One would not be able to imagine the kind of challenges and difficulties they faced. He had NO dancing background and she is a perfectionist. There are so many touching stories.
Much determination has gone into the making of this performance. Just for that one “drop” move at 3:41 of the clip, he landed her on the hard floor more than 1000 times!!! To get the move right, they started at 8 a.m. and got the first successful move shortly after 8 pm!

All they did was to train and to practice from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. day-in and day-out until the three of them ran out of money in early 2007 …

The rest is history. In April they were one of the finalists among 7000 competitors in the 4th CCTV national dance competition. It is the first time a handicapped couple ever entered the competition. They won the Silver medal with the 99.17 high score and not to mention the highest audience popular votes. They became an instant national hit.

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Now, do you agree that they are not the ordinary dancer? To me, they are indeed a pair of extra-ordinary dancer. Now watch their dance video here…

I hope their story does inspire you. When you think about it, when we have all the hands, legs, and almost everything but we always feel we lack of something to be successful. If you think about it, how can a dancer without arm partner with another dancer without leg (double whammy) be successful? To normal people, they are bound for failure. But, even with double the problems or challenges, they are able to excel.

But, it doesn’t mean that everything is a bed of roses for them. Look at the time they put in to learn and practice. They are willing to put in all their heart and soul and just to make what they do a success. What I learn from them is that if we really want to achieve something, don’t TRY but really put in all our heart and soul to make them come true.

In the next few days, it is the Chinese New Year again and it is a time of thanksgiving again and we should appreciate with what we have and start utilize the talents, skills, knowledge, etc that we have to make our goals come true rather than complaint of what we are lacking. So, take this opportunity to think again what you can do to make this world a better place to live in and in Personal Kaizen, we call this the hansei time. Don’t just be busy, busy, busy in this Chinese New Year. Remember to stop and think for your success.

Finally, I would like to wish those who celebrate Chinese New year a Happy and Blessed New Year and don’t let any obstacles stop us from succeeding like these two dancers.

By the way, if you want to watch their touching interviews (it is in Chinese) below are the videos. And, don’t forget to give us your comments on what you learn from them.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Have you listen to Tony Robbins talk about our Belief system in my previous Success Moments?
If not, please go and check it out here: …

Today, you going to listen to him speaking again at this special talk where he speaks to the CEOs of the leading technology companies. Before you start, I want you to take a pen and a piece of paper and write down the key points that you learn from this video.

Are you ready? (Note: if your internet connection is slow, you can click play then press pause and wait till the red meter is complete then play again so that you can listen to what Tony says clearly)

Here’s Tony Robbins…

He really speak fast, right? However, he does cover a lot of important points to help us get our success. If needed, you may replay and listen again.

Now the Key Point that I want to emphasize is “Decision shapes your destiny”. Your DECISION to take actions! And, now my question to you is “Have you make up your mind to go after what you want?”

We have been talking about goal setting or new year resolution since the beginning of this year and by now you should make up your mind to go after what you want, right? NOW, it is the DECISION time not tomorrow, not after the coming Chinese New Year,…

The DECISION that you make now is going to shape your FUTURE. So, if you are clear what future you want to have then you have to make that decision now. I have known a lot of people that want to have many things in their life but when come to making decision to take action, they will just delay the decision making and by the time, they realize it, they are seeing an old face in the mirror.

During a survey done on the people age 60s and above, they were asked, “what are one thing that you going to do if you are able to turn back the clock for 30 years?” Majority of them say that they wish they would take more risk and make the decisions that they keep postponing. So, now do you have an action that you are postponing that you know if you take that step, it will lead you to the goal that you want?

You don’t have to answer me but you owe that answer to yourself.

Make that Decision Now and Make Your Goals Come True!!!

Now that you’ve learned about your Belief System, you must now start learn how to form more empowering belief system to help you achieve your success. In this Personal Kaizen session, we are going to teach you how to eliminate your disempowering belief.

It is not an easy task to change a belief system overnight. You have to put in effort to really get rid of the disempowering belief that you have.

How do you know that you still have disempowering belief in you?

Very simple. We always have internal dialogue with ourselves, which means we talk to ourselves all the time.

If you always tell yourselves the following:

I can’t afford it.
That’s out of my turf.
I’m not good enough.
I’m not worthy.
I can’t do it.
I’m not smart enough.
I don’t know where to start.
I’m not well-enough connected.

It means that you are start having the disempowering belief in you.

Now, your assignment is to consciously aware and take note of all this negative dialogue that you have with yourself and then Replace these negative internal dialogue with these positive dialogue:

I CAN afford it if I really want it.
This IS in my turf.
I AM good enough.
I AM worthy.
I CAN do it.
I’m SMART enough to figure this out.
I”ll start right now with what I have.
I’ll find out how to get connected.

You must keep remind yourself to aware of all these negative internal dialogue and start eliminating them. Put a post-it note in your mirror or in front of your PC and you can even wear a rubber band or string in your hand to remind you to aware and get rid of these negative dialogue of yours.

Do it now for your success.

Have you taken your actions? If yes, congratulations to you.

In order to be able to make Personal Kaizen successful, we must know this particular questions:

“Do you know what trigger us to take actions?”

To me, this is one of the MOST IMPORTANT KEY to our SUCCESS…

It is our B _ _ _ _ f System. Find out more of this from the following lessons from the famous Success Coach, Anthony Robbins:

Now that you have finish listen to Tony Robbins, my question to you is “Do you know what is your B _ _ _ _ _ system?”

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Personal Kaizen Series

I bet you have heard of KAIZEN, right?

Lots of people only practice Kaizen for their organizations but they forget that it is also applicable to our daily life both personal and working life to make us more successful. You can see that successful company such as Toyota has practiced Kaizen for more than 50 years. Today, Toyota is the Most Successful Automobile Maker in the world and this is totally not a surprise. Therefore, you can see that Kaizen can make a company to be successful, so can it make you successful.

Let’s watch this first video that we are preparing for you on Personal Kaizen.

Now, it is time for for you to put into action. All these videos in Success Moments are created to help you to be successful but you must help yourself by taking the ACTION because your ACTION, you won’t be able to achieve the success that you want. So, think no more. Take Action now!!!

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We are going to learn about the Success Principle from the famous author, Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup Books). Watch and listen carefully what he talks about the key principles of success.

There’s a few key learnings from this video but one point hits me the hardest. This one point is that we do not succeed due to not taking actions. My last video on New Year Resolution teaches you how to set an effective new year resolution or your personal goals but a goal plan will always remain a plan if there is no action taken.

Now, my question to you is “Have you start making your goals for this year using the method that you learn?”. If not, you better start doing it Right Now, not tomorrow.

If you have done so, that’s great but have you put your actions into your diary or scheduler and start carry out the actions towards your goals. If not, when are you going to START doing that? I hope the answer is NOW. If not, all these learning that you have and time you spend reading this Success Moments or watching our learning videos is purely a waste of time only.

So, in this year I want you to set a goal which is one of the most important principle of success which is to TAKE ACTION. If your mobile phone allows you to do so, I want you to change your phone welcoming message to “TAKE ACTION NOW” or “TAKE MASSIVE ACTIONS” or “TAKE ACTION TODAY”. This will serve as a reminder to you every morning when you switch on your phone, you will see this message. Or you can take some 3M Post-it notes and stick them in front of your work desk, computer, mirror, etc. This will be your simple assignment. When are you going to do all these? You know what answer it should be, right?

Remember, my wish for this year is to coach more people to be successful. Don’t waste your life away. Now, there’s one more inspirational video for you.

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Wish all of you a Happy New Year 2008!

It’s the time of the year again to do our New Year Resolution. Have you written down your new year resolution ready? Find out more about whether New Year Resolution is really effective? What do you think? Just click on the picture below to watch the video.

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