In the beginning of this year, I knew that 2010 is gonna be a breakthrough year for me. True enough, so far, the past 3.5 months have been really awesome. Never ending opportunities and blessings keep on coming my way.

The MyPaper Executive Look 2010 event has just ended, but there are so many other events that are lined up for me. Below
is another one that I'm definitely looking forward to.

I was actually very grateful and honored when my good friend, Adam Khoo, invited me to be one of the main speaker for his MEGA Event – Wealth Academy Expo, this coming 22 – 23 May 2010. Definitely very happy because he is one person that I look up to.

The first time I got to know about Adam was 9 years ago. I was on the MRT when I saw this article that captured my interest.

Wow! He looked like just an ordinary guy, and he was so young, and yet he made his millions at the age of 26? I was very curious. I then read thru that he was doing training, and paid $1,000 per hour. At that year I was actually in the midst of doing my industrial attachment, and I was paid $750/mth (which is already considered above average, because my other friends normally only get around $500-$600) and I told myself “This guys get more in just 1 hour compare to what I get in 1 month?”

So when I knew that a few months later he was going to come to NTU to give a talk, I was so excited. I sit at the first row together with a few friends of mine, including my husband (at that time we were still dating). And throughout that 45 minutes when Adam shared his experiences, I just couldn’t take my eyes of him. Hahahaha..  I’m not sure whether at that time he noticed that there was this ‘fat’ foreigner girl (I was quite overweight back then) who was literally ‘staring’ at him. (Adam, if you are currently reading this, you might be laughing right now, but it is a true story!)

After that event, it again re-affirmed my belief that success belongs to everyone, regardless of age, nationality, race, and gender. If he can do it, why can’t I?

True enough, 5 years after that, I’ve achieved my 1st million too, just like him. And what is so amazing is at that same year, in 2006, he called and asked me whether I’m willing to be interviewed by him for his audio program. (He has this audio program where he interviewed the best person from many different fields, so for sales, he chose me).  Of course I said YES ! :)  And that’s the beginning of many other collaborations that we did together. AMAZING, right? (I think that ‘staring’ moment a few years back really worked – Law of attraction) hahaha…

That’s why I am really looking forward to be able to share the same platform with him during his Wealth Academy Expo event. I believe it’s gonna be AWESOME ! And if you are coming, you can do as what I did to Adam many years back. You can ‘stare’ at me and Adam too… who knows few years down the road you might be able to share your story, just like I am right now
 

Here’s the details about the event.
 

You can also read this blogpost that was written by Adam:

When I was aged 13+, I had the good fortune to learn two powerful lessons from a group of mentors that would forever change my life and contribute to the immense wealth and success that I enjoy today.

Lesson 1: Success Does Not Happen By Chance…But By Choice

The first lesson I learnt was that success does NOT happen by chance (unless you are one of the lucky few who are born rich). If you continue to live your life one day at a time, doing what everyone does, doing things the way you have always done them, DON’T EXPECT to wake up 5-10 years from now and find yourself highly successful and wealthy.

If you want to be rich and successful anytime in the future, you have to make that choice and commitment RIGHT NOW. Once you decide to be rich and successful, you will tend to make very different choices in your life. You will start to think differently and behave differently. For example, you will start to open your mind to learn new things (e.g. investing, financial planning, business).

You will start to take different actions. Instead of watching TV the whole night, you will start to surf financial websites and read about stock investments. Instead of reading FHM magazine and the sports section of the newspaper, you will start to Fortune Magazine and The Money Section. You will start to discuss different topics and hang around different kids of people. Instead of gossiping and chit chatting about trivia, you will start to talk about business ideas, economics, business ideas etc..

Instead of just doing your minimum at work, you will start to take initiative and do alot more than expected. What will all this do? It will start to move you towards wealth and success and it will only be a matter of time before you begin to see your life change positively. You will start to become more confident, more motivated. You will start to get promoted faster, see your business profits increase and your wealth multiply.

Lesson 2: Success Can Be Learnt.

The second lesson I learnt is that Success is a learnable topic. You CAN learn how to be successful. The best place to learn how to be successful in any given area is to study and model those who have already achieved the goal that you want. By learning from those who have already found the way, you greatly cut short your learning curve and accelerate your results much faster than the average person.

The reason I have been so successful at making money, business, leadership, making friends, relationships, public speaking etc… is because I have constantly sought out and learnt from gurus such as Anthony Robbins, Dale Carnegie, Brad Sugars, Warren Buffett, Donald Trump, Jay Abraham, Michael Gerber etc…

Do you realize what all the experts I learnt from had in common? They were all foreigners to a Singaporean Chinese like me. The challenge was that at the time, they were no Asian experts I could model and learn from. So, as much as the lessons these experts could teach me was powerful, I had to constantly find ways to adapt what they taught to the Asian environment. For example, I had to adapt Warren Buffett’s investing strategies to the Singapore stock market, which doesn’t work quite the same way as the US market. I spent years finding ways to adapt Jay Abraham and Michael Gerbers great business strategies to the Asian business landscape, which is again so different.

If you are a local Singaporean or an Asian (Malaysian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese etc…) for that matter, then I have great news for you. You have a once in lifetime education opportunity that I never had in the past. You have the opportunity to meet and learn from a group of Asian self-made millionaires in a two-day Wealth Expo to be held in Singapore from 22 to the 23 of May 2010. I have managed to get all these inspiring role models to come down and share their knowledge and experiences because they are all close friends of mine. Some of them, I have known for over 10 years!

What makes it exciting is that they have all created tremendous wealth and success starting from nothing. and they have done it in very different ways. Some of them made their fortune in the sales industry while another made his fortune trading in the Forex markets. Some of them have achieved their success at a very young age (before 30), while some having become millionaires after the age of 40. Some of them have first class honours degrees from top universities while others dropped out of secondary school.

Collectively, they prove that ANYONE can achieve tremendous wealth and success, provided they follow the two powerful principles I talked about. #1: Decide and make the commitment that you want to be successful. #2. Be willing to learn and model the success strategies of those of have already succeeded. Of course, there is the third ingredient, which is to take MASSIVE and CONSISTENT ACTION. After all, there can be no sustainable results without hard work.
 

Let me introduce just a few of my friends who will be at the Singapore Wealth Expo to you…

Merry Riana

I first met Merry 9 years ago when I gave a talk at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore. She was a 19-year old student engineering undergraduate at the time. Merry’s background and rise to success is truly inspiring. Merry was born to a humble family in Jakarta, Indonesia. During the racial riots of 1998, Merry’s parents feared for her safety and sent her to Singapore to continue her studies.

She studied hard and managed to qualify for a $40,000 study loan to the local university. Besides her study loan, she had hardly enough money for personal expenses. She had less than $10 a week to get by on. She skipped meals, ate instant noodles and wouldn’t even think of shopping or watching movies like her peers. Driven by a strong desire to give a better life to herself and her family, she joined the insurance sales industry upon graduation.
 

She said that when she heard me speak at her university, she became really inspired to become a self made millionaire herself. She was thinking, ‘if Adam can do it, why not I?’ So she studied NLP and modeled some of the most successful sales people in the industry. Her results were astounding. Despite having no family in Singapore, hardly any friends outside of university and a weak command of English at the time, she closed over $500,000 in sales in the first year and was awarded ‘Top New Advisor’ award by Prudential. She earned over $250,000 in income in that first year and paid off her study loans.

By the age of 26, she was featured in the Sunday Times for Making her First Million at Age 26! Since then, she has started her own company and is now a successful entrepreneur of a multi-million dollar financial services company (Merry Riana Organization). Come and learn how you too can overcome tremendous odds and build your fortune in sales and business.

You can read more about her at www.MerryRiana.com 
 

To read more about the event, visit:  http://www.adam-khoo.com/408/your-financial-education-opportunity-of-a-lifetime/
 

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1. The Merry Riana Show – featuring Adam Khoo
2. Adam Khoo in Merry Riana Show
3. From -$40,000 to $1,000,000
4. Interview with Merry Riana (part 2)