Stuart’s Philosophies

Searching For Direction, Perspective, Some tongue-in-cheek humor and Purpose? Seek to engage your mind, develop yourself and become a master of your own being. Here are my reflections of life and living, self-coaching and personal introspection.

Entries for May, 2006

Recommended: - An Inside Look at Sport Psychology Consulting

This 85-minute DVD features the work of internationally acclaimed sport psychology consultant Gloria Balague, Ph.D. with a single athlete client. The DVD, which allows viewers to observe the process of applied sport psychology as it unfolds in a series of three individual sessions, highlights the dynamic interplay of personal and performance issues that can develop [...]

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Being Thorough

I’ve always known that I was a thorough person when it came to absorbing and understanding knowledge and getting most things done. However, when it really mattered, I ended up not doing it, and paid the price for it. When I was in the Toastmasters, I was working real hard to get into the district [...]

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Recommended: - Think and Grow Rich: The Andrew Carnegie formula for money making

Here are money-making secets that can change your life. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie’s magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, [...]

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Dying At The Doctors’

I wrote this post because I really had nothing much to do while waiting at the clinic. It took an hour for me to even see the doctor. I had a ton of mucus-infested tissue paper to prove I have the flu (and a fever to boot). This was when I started wondering if anyone who [...]

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End of Wealth Academy!

Wow, it was a heck of a weekend with Wealth Academy! We did it at the Singapore Expo, with close to a hundred people packed in a room, running (literally) activities and the like. I’ll put up photos once I’ve got the time, but we really had a whole load of fun.
What I did realize, [...]

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Recommended: - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Some people just won’t take no for an answer. In Influence, Dr. Robert Cialdini explains the six psychological principles that drive our powerful impulse to comply to the pressures of others and shows how we can defend ourselves against manipulation (or put the principles to work in our own interest). Influence guarantees two things: Readers [...]

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Back In The Speaking Game…

I just went back for a Toastmasters Meeting at my usual club, Brilliant Advanced Toastmasters. It was not just weird, it was nearly close to scary. After being out of the movement for such a long time, it was difficult to get back to speaking my mind in 2 minutes!
But I figured out some things [...]

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The Many Faces of Money: The Pursuit of Money

I recently made an interesting comment - do you make money, or does money make you.
I thought it was kinda interesting because the way many people think about money is ‘yeah, I’m out there making money’. But in reality, money is really taking control over them, eating them away.
Here’s how to tell:
1. Are you to [...]

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SuperKids Learning Centre (Math)

I’m not sure that you are aware that we’ve recently launched the SuperKids’ Learning Centre. Effective math tuition is probably difficult to find, but from the system we’ve got there, it’s been supporting our tagline that children who are failing in math actually have a combination of a low self-esteem as well as a poor [...]

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Your Inner Polling day! Vote!

To those of you who are voting, it’s an important decision to make tomorrow - who governs you. But I’m not so interested in the political implications. I’m interested in the way you make choices.
I’ve made some pretty terrible choices in my life and also had my fair share of good ones. What we choose [...]

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