20 things women should do to empower their life

1. Take care of your health. Spend time and money on maintaining yourself.

2. Learn to be independent. Its perfectly okay to not earn, but its important to be independent.

3. Learn to ride that bike or drive that car. You don’t always need an escort!

4. Plan your future. Learn about investments and taxes. Its not necessary to have someone else manage your savings and earnings all your life.

5. Treat your self. Plan and save for your own gifts n desires. You don’t always need a boyfriend or husband or your dad to buy you something you love. Gift yourself!

6. Be a daughter. Take equal responsibility of your parents. Its not acceptable to expect everything from your brother every time.

7. Don’t be guilty, Let the father take care of the unwell child once in a while. Its okay. Your career is equally important and the father is equally responsible.

8. Share the responsibility. Let other family members take care of your kitchen sometimes. Its okay if the kitchen platform is exceptionally unclean or sink is full of dirty vessels. Relax n take that break!

9. Help the other woman, even if you don't like her. You never know what her battles are. Empower the needy ones, like your maids. Teach her basics of hygiene, education and finances, little guidance can go long way.

10. Create a support system. Its okay to get on well with in-laws! Not every family needs to have a family dramas.

11. Have some friends (men and women) beyond your husband’s or boyfriend’s group. Its okay! Spend some time away from family with your friends.

12. Its okay to not cry. Not all women needs to be sentimental all the time.

13. Be vigilant, be prepared to handle tough situations. When things go wrong, try to be balanced and find way out of your problems. You don’t need to play the victim.

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What is Success?

How to Define Success in Life

There are some questions in life which are tricky to answer and the meaning of it keeps changing as we progress in life. I mean, Success has many meanings and every person has a different meaning of success. Sometimes the respect in the community or the top jobs in the big organization or winning a race or losing 5kg weight in a week or simply being happy in life makes you feel successful.

So the first question arises: What is a definition of success?

The oxford dictionary describes success as: “attaining wealth, prosperity and/or fame”.

In other words, you could say, success means the achievement of desired results of planned goals. Hence, if you can achieve your set goals, you will feel successful.

However, If the above definition was true then all the wealthy and famous people would be extremely happy but we often read that it's not the case. The reason why we think in such a manner because Media and Society often let us conclude that living a successful life means to be extraordinarily wealthy and have a lot of assets. However, the true meaning of success goes far beyond the common definitions of success, such as having a lot of money, being wealthy, having a lot of tangibles and earned degrees. True success in life cannot be measured with the above-mentioned factors.

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The Power of words That Will Reshape Your Approach To Life

We are living in an internet age or post-truth world where we are constantly overloaded with information. That's an another debate whether it's useful or useless. However, this post is about words that has power to reshape our approach to life.

I don't know if you have experienced ever but sometimes words speaks to you when you are in silence. It happens to me a lot. Words  have  power  to  desire, to inspire, to attract, to love,  to hate, and to live.

The power of words

Words have evolved through the ages in lockstep with humankind. Perhaps more than any other factor, it is the mastery of language that sets us apart from the animal world. But words are slippery things. We often hear statements such as “those are only words.” It is well-known that they can be used to inspire as well as to illuminate or deceive. In any debate, similar language is used by both sides to present completely opposite views.

Once upon a time, in a town called far far away, A seller  had  two parrots  to sell. Green  parrot  cost  more  than that  of  multi  colored  parrot who was apparently more  beautiful and attractive.

One buyer was passing through this shop when he saw these parrots and the price of both the parrots that made him wondered. So he went  inside the shop and  inquired about those  parrots. The seller confirmed the rate as written on the tag. 

The buyer was surprise at the price difference, the Green parrot costs 1000 bucks while multi coloured costs only 150 bucks. So he asked curiously to the seller, "why the beautiful parrot  costs less?"

Let me demonstrate you, what you are not seeing. Then, the Seller clapped near the green parrot. The Green parrot said, "Namaste, how are  you today? wish you a very happy day."

The buyer replied, "I am very well, thank you." and got impressed.

The buyer was surprised at fluency of speaking words and said, "I understad now, why the green parrot is more expensive. The green can speak."

The seller said, "So can the multicolored parrot." 

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Adam Khoo - Youngest millionaire - POWER OF MONEY

Some of you may already know that I travel around the region pretty frequently, having to visit and conduct seminars at my offices in Malaysia , Indonesia , Thailand and Suzhou ( China ) . I am in the airport almost every other week so I get to bump into many people who have attended my seminars or have read my books.

Recently, someone came up to me on a plane to KL and looked rather shocked. He asked, 'How come a millionaire like you is traveling economy?' My reply was, 'That's why I am a millionaire. ' He still looked pretty confused.

This again confirms that greatest lie ever told about wealth (which I wrote about in my latest book 'Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires'). Many people have been brainwashed to think that millionaires have to wear Gucci, Hugo Boss, Rolex, and sit on first class in air travel. This is why so many people never become rich because the moment they earn more money, they think that it is only natural that they spend more, putting them back to square one.

The truth is that most self-made millionaires are frugal and only spend on what is necessary and of value. That is why they are able to accumulate and multiply their wealth so much faster.

Over the last 7 years, I have saved about 80% of my income while today I save only about 60% (because I have my wife, mother in law, 2 maids, 2 kids, etc. to support). Still, it is way above most people who save 10% of their income (if they are lucky).

I refuse to buy a first class ticket or to buy a $300 shirt because I think that it is a complete waste of money. However, I happily pay $1,300 to send my 2-year old daughter to Julia Gabriel Speech and Drama without thinking twice.

When I joined the YEO (Young Entrepreneur's Orgn) a few years back (YEO is an exclusive club open to those who are under 40 and make over $1m a year in their own business), I discovered that those who were self-made thought like me. Many of them with net worth well over $5 m, travelled economy class and some even drove Toyotas and Nissans, not Audis, Mercs, BMWs..

I noticed that it was only those who never had to work hard to build their own wealth (there were also a few ministers' and tycoons' sons in the club) who spent like there was no tomorrow. Somehow, when you did not have to build everything from scratch, you do not really value money. This is precisely the reason why a family's wealth (no matter how much) rarely lasts past the third generation

Thank God my rich dad foresaw this terrible possibility and refused to give me a cent to start my business.

Then some people ask me, 'What is the point in making so much money if you don't enjoy it?' The thing is that I don't really find happiness in buying branded clothes, jewellery or sitting first class. Even if buying something makes me happy it is only for a while, it does not last.

Material happiness never lasts, it just gives you a quick fix*. After a while you feel lousy again and have to buy the next thing which you think will make you happy. I always think that if you need material things to make you happy, then you live a pretty sad and unfulfilled life..

Instead, what makes me happy is when I see my children laughing and playing and learning so fast.
What makes me happy is when I see my companies and trainers reaching more and more people every year in so many more countries.

What makes me really happy is when I read all the emails about how my books and seminars have touched and inspired someone's life.

What makes me really happy is reading all your wonderful posts about how this blog is inspiring you. This happiness makes me feel really good for a long time, much much more than what a Rolex would do for me.

I think the point I want to put across is that happiness must come from doing your life's work (be it teaching, building homes, designing, trading, winning tournaments etc. and the money that comes is only a by-product.