Be Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier

Hi Fred,

It was great catching up with you yesterday.  I am very excited to hear that you are in a reflect-growth cycle of your life. 

Every situation came into our life to provide an opportunity for us to learn something about ourselves and facilitate our growth;life has a funny way of keep repeating it selves until we learn the lesson it is intended.  So, from that perspective there are no victims and all is well.

I considered the following courses in Great Life Foundation and Landmark Education gems; I think they will truly propel you into gaining even deeper clarity of who you really are and how you want your life to turn out. GLF’s courses are priced comparable to Landmark curriculum, but it requires you to fly to Salt lake city, Utah;  Landmark Education’s Wisdom course is a year-long course that open only once a year and it’s pricier.  Both serves great purpose to open very important aspects of your life up and they truly complements each other very well.

Through out the years, I have recommended these courses to many people that I really care.  Most of them choose to honor their “reasons”, staying in their comfort zone, and keep complaining their life don’t work the way they like to.  In some way, I begin to understand that for many people,  living a ”familiar” life is actually more important to them than living a “great” life.  There is nothing wrong with choosing either one; the only misery really comes from one’s lack of clarity of what they really want and live a life pretending they want a great life but in reality they really just want a familiar life.

Anyway, there is a price to be pay for anything in life.  My recommendations will neither be convenient, nor comfortable and it definitely take some time, money and commitment, but if you truly believe that you are worthy of having a great life for the rest of your life, NOTHING should stop you from taking the necessary actions right now to help you get there.   The question is really are you willing to do whatever it takes to create a great life for yourselves? For most of us, this journey starts with discovering: what is a great life look like anyway?!!!   If the answer is yes to whatever it takes, then the choice of what you need to do next should be clear. 

Following is the website to the Great Life Foundation:

www.thegreatlifefoundation.org

I highly recommend their part 1 (Awakening) and part 2 (The Brilliance within); part 3 to me is optional

Following is the website to Landmark Education’s wisdom course:

http://www.landmarkeducation.com/landmark_wisdom_unlimited.jsp

Finally, another course worth a honorable mention is Landmark Eucation’s Self-expression and Leadership course.  This course is especially challenging for all my Chinese friends (including myself) because of our culture and upbringing. But, if you are willing to stick with it and repeat it by coaching it, something truly opens up :-)  So, this would be another course I recommend you get back around taking it after the GLF and Wisdom courses.  But, the GLF course and the Wisdom course are truly important and valuable tools that will help us get deep at healing our self-worth issue and gain clarity within. So, I would highly recommend you take them prompto.

I’m truly excited and really looking forward to seeing your taking yourself to another level in life.  Please let me know when you signed up for these courses, so my fiancé and I can support you.  (My fiancé Robert for GLF courses).

Take Care,

Alice

Dear Friends,

I got this e-mail from my buddy in Salt Lake City.  Before this email, I have no clue who Randy Pausch was; fortunately I took his suggestion and watched the ABC Prime Time interview. He is a Carnegie Mellon University computer science Professor who created Electronic Art Center in the University which become the gold standard for all electronic art industry.  You can watch the video below to get details on his bio.  FYI, he is 46 years old I think.

After watching the interview, I realized what make Randy truly special is not just his contribution to the computer science field, but most importantly his perspective on life and how he lives his life.  What an incredible person, what an inspiring story, what a power message and what an enlightened teacher!  Indeed, as my buddy Dave said “There are lessons to be learned for all of us!”  I remember a mentor told me once: “When the student is ready, a teacher will show up to guide the way”.  So are you ready to receive this message, to learn from him and apply what you learned from him in your life RIGHT NOW?  While we may never have a chance to hear his lecture live (because he is dying), thanks to internet, we can still learn from him, spread his messages, and past on his loving legacy.  

For those of you who missed the Prime Time Interview,  I went on the internet and found this link:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture/  I hope ABC will maintain this link for a while.

For those of you who want to see the full version of “Last Lecture” (and that’s me for sure) here is the link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184

PLEASE FIND A QUIET PLACE AND TIME TO WATCH IT AND SHARE IT!  (note: you may need to cut and paste the link onto your browser instead of clicking it directly)

Hint:  If you’ve gone through it and you find yourself said “I already know this, I already know that…”  then you probably “missed” something :-)  Knowing is one thing, getting and living it is another :-)  Knowledge is only an amusement and sometimes be used to brag and stroke our ego, it serves very little.  On the other hand getting it and living it,  wow! that’s powerful!  So, don’t shortchange yourself!

Love,

Alice

From: Dave Kimball

Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:37 PM
To: Undisclosed Recipients
Subject: DON’T MISS THIS!!!

To My Friends:

LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST!!!  Whether I have known you for years, or for just a short time, I am so GRATEFUL for the many friends I have!  THANK YOU!!!  Truly, I feel Blessed!  As many of you know, 9 years ago, My Life changed forever!  Since then, I have had a different view of Life!  I have attempted to live My Life differently!  Recently, I learned of a Gentleman named Randy Pausch!  Nothing represents or embodies my view-The way I would like to live, My Life, more than Randy Pausch!  He gave a lecture titled his “Last Lecture”!  Tonight, Wednesday April 9th, Primetime with Diane Sawyer interviews him at 9:00 pm on ABC.  He has such a BEAUTIFUL SOUL!  There are Lessons to be learned for all of us!  I would like to share this with you!  And, I would strongly encourage you to watch this Special!  Don’t miss it!  TIVO or Record, if you need to!  Thank You for being you!!!  LIFE ROCKS!!!  Thank you, for showing up in My Life, with all your Greatness!

Love and Blessings  ~Dave

Yeah,  I’m so excited that this website is finally happening!  2001 seems like a year of rebirth for me; after being in the trenches in corporate America for over 14 years, I really thought I was playing big in life; climbing the corporate ladder; with tear, sweat, long hours, lot of proving and reproving….; slowly but surly inching toward my vision of what a successful career would look like for me - in a men’s world; So I thought…  Then I got invited to go to a personal development course.   I thought why not?  I can always improve on my communication skills, especially I’m a manager now; there are many situations that requires me to have better refined ways of communicating with my team and my boss.

I had no idea what I had signed up for then.  Instead of getting tricks and formulas to better communicate,  I got to see my whole life replay back in my head; one snap shot after another; one relationship after another; one job after another;  I was in tears.  I saw a frighten little girl pretending to be a strong, tough woman, stubbornly throwing her whole life into proving one and only point –  I’m just as good as any guys out there!  In the process, I ignored everything else: my happiness, my health and managing my own financial success.  I was sick to my stomach to realized I’ve had work so hard all these years in minding other people’s business and making others rich; yet I have contributed very little in minding my own business and building wealth  for myself and the people I care about.

As many people said, awareness is the first step toward giving us the option and the power to choose a different route than the one we are on.  Since 2001,  I have took myself on and committed to myself to work through everything I need to work through to create a life full of abundance, happiness and health - different than the one I’ve been on.   The journey wasn’t an easy one,  I was very glad to discover and utilze abundance of resources that is out there to assist me in working through and confront the dark corners, unconscious habits and incomplete pasts that I have forgotten about yet continue haunting me and impacting my life in ways that are not align with fufilling and enriching my life.

So, why am I so excited about this website?  I’m excited about this website because this is the vehicle that I get to finally share with you my journey, what I learned, what resources really helped me breakthrough what barriers and what resources really didn’t.  More importantly, I’m excited about the possibility for this website to grow to include a big community of you who are also actively creating happier, wealthier and healthier life for you.  This will be your vehicle and playground to celebrate your breakthrough, share what you learned and discovered, and send all your love and positive energy around the world.  Together, I’m confident that the world we are creating will definitely be a fun, loving, abundant and peaceful one. 

Meanwhile, my conclusion about life is: life is really not that bad afterall; as matter of fact,  life could be quite good if we are willing to just let it be sometime and pay attention, tune into and discover its greatness.   I discovered greatness do snowballs just like the negativities in this world.  The question is which channel are we committed to tune in.

I’m really looking forward to hearing your discoveries soon!!