Rules for Success in Life

Another blue ribbon awarded to a deserving speaker. A speaker who knows the rules to success. Let's put our hands together for Puah Kia Yong with his speech, Rules for success in life...

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Can I have a show of hand who does not want to be success in their live? No one raise their hand I think all of us will like to be success in our life in all the different areas because of that I need a little bit of help over here.

Can you all, pls rise one hand like me imaging you are holding a cup, then bend your head to the hand and the other hand hit softly at ear? Once it fills with all your thought, pls throw it away. I need you all to have an empty cup mindset or a mindset of a child to listen to my speech to bring some of my thought back to consider with you.

As define from Oxford dictionary the success
1. Accomplishment of an aim or purpose.
2. The attainment of fame, wealth, or social status.
3. A person or thing that achieves success.

Base on Stephen Downes, a senior research officer with the National Research Council of Canada Top Ten Rules to be successful were:-
1. How to Learn
2. How to predict consequences
3. How to communicate clearly
4. How to distinguish truth from fiction
5. How to read
6. How to empathize
7. How to be creative
8. How to stay healthy
9. How to value yourself
10. How to live meaningfully

Base on Puah Kia Yong, member of ING Leadership Toastmaster rules to be successful need 3 main rules that will be WPC. Willingness, Potential and Communication.


Willingness
To explain further for the rules I will share a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought anybody could do it but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Rules number to be success you must be willing to thing. In short just do it.

Potential
Potential is an importance rule to determine your success. WHY? Let me show you how importance and powerful this word will be. In the older day movie a hero facing a group of his enemy in the circle and laugh loudly, and he said to the enemy If I shown my potential to you all then you all will know. Then he laughed loudly again and said if I shown my potential to you all then you all will know. At the end the other good guys arrived and defeat all the enemies.

By using the word itself, he managed to defeat the enemies. What can be the potential? The potential maybe be he has was a great fighter, great defender and can be a great lairer too.

Communicate
There was once a 4 different insect that gathers to an ant house to play majong. The 4 insect is ant, dragonfly, spider and Millipede. While they are playing, the spider would like to have some bir. So the ant ran out quickly go to the kitchen to get some bir out within second he comes back some bottle of birs. Then the millipede said how we could have bir without some snacks. The ant said I when just now it should be someone else turn. The spider volunteers to go to this round. However, the ant told his friend “My mum doesn’t like the kitchen floor to be dirty so pls be careful when to take food from there. Within minutes, the spider comes back with some snacks. The round the ant complained we need some cup for the bir so this time dragonfly volunteer to take it. Within minutes, it came back. Now dragonfly said we do not have the opener for the bir. So for sure this round should be the millipede turn. 1 hour has passed yet their friend is not back they start to worry whether their friend had an incident or not. They rush to the kitchen, saw the millipede, and the ant almost fainted.
In proper communication may give you the result that you want but with a price that you need to paid. Communication is not just get the message across but also with the right expectation.

To sum up the 3 rules to success will be
Rule 1. A success people willing to do 3 important things. They will do :-
1. Do some thing people don’t dare to do.
2. Do some thing people don’t want to do.
3. Do some thing people don’t know how to do.

Rule2. Success people have to know What is their potential and further improve it, their weak potential that need more attention and lastly how to used the potential to their own advantages.

Rule3. Communication is the most importance rules for successful. With the right communication, you will gain the right result. With the competent communication, you will be competent to be successful in your live.

Great Salesmen Rule the World

Another blue ribbon worthy speech tonight. Awesome. This was delivered by Alan Goon, the President of the ING Leadership Toastmaster's club.

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Great Salesmen Rule the World

Good evening fellow toastmasters.

I believe that Great Salesmen Rule the World.
People who have the ability to sell things, make the most money in this world.They are the most successful in business and they are always ahead of the pack in the workplace. Those who have the gift of selling are also the ones who hold powerful leadership positions in business and in government. In other words, if you want to rule the world, you need to be great at selling a product, selling a vision, selling an idea or maybe more importantly selling yourself.

If salesmen make the most money in this world, then Bill Gates the richest man in this world, must be a great salesman. He definitely was a revolutionary visionary, because way back in 1977 he had a vision of Personal Computers being pervasive in all our lives. This was at a time when computers were the size of a whole room and most people did not know what computers were.Having a great vision is not enough to succeed. You must have the courage and the ability to sell your great idea to others, to make them believe in it and to follow you. Microsoft is where it is today because Bill Gates succeeded in making others follow his vision.

When we talk about great salesmen, another icon of the technology industry comes to mind. Steve Jobs is the definition of a consummate salesman. He can sell ice to Eskimos. He knows what the customer wants and more importantly, he is able to communicate this and make you want to buy whatever he is selling. People queue up to hear Apple’s keynote session when Steve Jobs is supposed to reveal some new product. Everyone wants to hear Steve Jobs sales pitch. Apple is successful because Steve Jobs is such a great salesman. Steve Jobs is a rich man because he has the gift of selling.

If salesmen rule the world, then the most powerful man in the world must be a great salesman. To become the President of the United States, it takes years to sell yourself to your political party to be selected as a candidate for the Presidential elections. The job interview process happens once every 4 years and it is a long drawn out sales campaign to sell yourself to the American voters. No one gets elected President if he is a bad salesman.

Closer to home, recently as a member of the Talent Review Board, we were tasked with selecting 5 fresh graduates as candidates for ING’s Local Management Trainee Program. It was an intensive, detailed selection process. Despite all the IQ tests, the academic records, the job experiences, the psychological profiling, we basically selected people with great presentation skills who managed to sell to us that they were the best candidate for our management program. We were selecting the future leaders of this company and we did that by selecting the best salespersons out of the group.

In conclusion, if u want to be hired for your dream job, if u want to be the richest man in the world, if u want to be a corporate icon, if u want the job as the most powerful man in the world, you need to be a Great salesman.

How do you become a great salesman?

For some, it comes naturally. Some people just have the knack for selling. For others, it can be taught. To be a great Salesman, you need to be a great communicator and a great listener. You need to be able to speak confidently and have the courage to connect and maintain a connection with people you do not know. You need to manage your body language and vary your approach to suit different people. You must be able to think on your feet to handle objections. You need to become a master at persuading others to do what you wish

The good news is that all of you are in the right place tonight. The Toastmasters competent communicator program teaches in a step by step way all the things you need to begin your journey to be a great salesman. Being here tonight means all of you are on the road to Rule the World.