Oh… regarding my previous post, I mean no “Wayne” for my future new friends only… As for my ex-colleague cum friends, I will still be Wayne… Instead of changing the world, I believe its much easier for me to change my own mindset to accept this instead of changing how they called me… ^^
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I realized that I have a lot of names… It was tough to my wife, because different group of people which I knew in different stage of my life calls me differenly… My family used to call me 啊辉, or Ah Fui (Hakka), or Ah Fai (Cantonese)… My primary school friends call me 振辉… Secondary school friends call me JenHuei… In university, most friends call me Ah Fai because of my Hometown of Ipoh, which is famous with Cantonese speaking… But some uni friends who do not speak Cantonese normally will call me 振辉… These few names, have been all listened and responded by me naturally for more than 20 years… Year 2005, I graduated from university and joined ST Microelectronics in Muar as Product Engineer. I remember a girl, Jasmine gives me a Christian name, “Wayne”. I never used it until I joined Hypertronics in Aug 2005… An admin girl, Esther (not Esther Joan… First… There was a guy who stays in Bedok (I stays in Bedok too for the first few weeks). Everyday I met him in interchange waiting for the bus 87. I knew he is my colleague, but because I am new and nobody introduce him to me, he was rather a stranger than a colleague to me. He always listen to his iPod and sit at the last row in the bus, and sleep all the way when onboard the bus until alighting… sometimes even overslept and have to alight at the next bus stop… a stupid funny guy. Now he is one of my best buddy, I never know this could be happened. He calls me Wayne because we knew each other in Hypertronics. Secondly, my old big… which became extremely close to me after two super tough business trips in Philippines. Thirdly, the whole gang of close friends in Hypertronics calls me Wayne too… Again, because we knew each other in Hypertronics… Now I have left Hypertronics, a place where I have worked for 4 years. But the name, “Wayne” still following me… “Wayne” is supposed to be called in Hypertronics, by my colleague ONLY! Initially I drawn a line between friends and colleagues, I won’t feel warm if they call me “Wayne”, instead its more like a colleague is calling me. But it turned out not to be like that, I never expect I can be so close to the colleagues in Hypertronics. If I know this could be happened, I won’t want them to call me “Wayne”… Few days ago, I get to know a guy in my first class of CREST course, his name is Charles Chia. He is a head hunter. I introduce myself as JenHuei… I gave up my nick “Wayne” although I know that it could be much better in this industry if I keep this nick. Sometimes I hesitated… But in the end I still insisted not to use it… Today, during the break in CREST course lesson #3, I was queueing for a cup of water in vending machine, suddenly someone calls me, “JenHuei!”.. he is Charles, the only guy I knew in CREST course. He offered me to buy a cup of coffee for me, but I just wanted a cup of plain water so I rejected. However, I have a warm feeling like a close friend is calling me although I just know him few days ago. With this incident, I am 100% sure that I won’t want any of my new friends to call me “Wayne” anymore. I don’t want to reject any possibility that everyone can become very close to me in the future. I accept everyone to be a very good friend to me in the future. He might be my client, might be someone I just meet in Shopping mall when he is promoting his product, might be someone I meet in photography forum, or even might be someone I meet in bus stop everyday when I am going to office… I want them to know me as “JenHuei”, my real name… Good Bye, “Wayne”… Recently one of my very close brother (well, brothers are my very best friend, as close as brother… hehe) joined direct sales force. Before we left Singapore to New Zealand, he never approached me to join him as I told him we might work there and won’t be coming back so soon… Until recently after we returned to Singapore, he decided to share this good opportunity to me, an opportunity that will bring you Success as well as Wealth. Frankly speaking, I was exposed to the idea of direct sales since about 13 years ago. My secondary school friend PL who was one of the member of Forever Living MLM company shared the idea of MLM to me. First, she showed me the idea of saving enough with full time job salary for retirement is impossible. How? Easy, use the current engineer annual salary multiply by number of years you are going to work before you retired, to compare with the amount you need to cover your BASIC expenses after retirement for the remaining of your life, with some inflation rate going on, and medical expenses, etc… Nobody will be able to retire at the desired age. Secondly, she then showed me the marketing plan, how could the company help me to achieve retirement (at that time, Financial Freedom is not that “hot” yet… or maybe not that “hot” to me, I was still a kid anyway). Thirdly, she started to tell me how good the product was, how the team could help me achieve the goal, bla bla bla… I had thought of joining direct sales for many years, and I did try before: After my SPM paper, I joined an MLM company which sells mobile prepaid top up; and another MLM company which sells health product (coffee…health? -_-”…) during my study in university. The reason I join is really simple: $$$. I seriously know that MLM will definitely bring wealth to someone, but with conditions such as you must work hard, with correct guidance, and most importantly, tune your own mindset. I know MLM works, I have no doubt on that. But after few years of understanding and tried in MLM, I told myself, if I am going to work in direct sales, I need to find a good company and work really hard and smart on it. I don’t want to work like hell and in the end the company bankrupt or the management run away. From there I know, my choice will only be Amway, which is a strong and good MLM company. No doubt, it is the best and most sustainable MLM company that ever exists. (Hei, I am not part of the Amway, okie? At least, not now… So, when my brother approached me, and when I am actively looking for a new job. (I consider myself to reaching a junction in my career path, here, I need to decide what do I want to do in the remaining of my life, engineer forever? business? investment?) So, I was really working hard to storm my own brain to get the answer. I have rejected a lot of people who tried to recruit me to their sales forces. Nobody understand why I don’t want to join. My bro suggested me to meet and talk with his leader who has succeed in direct sales. He told me that his leader won’t ask me to join, so just take it as like talking to a successful entrepreneur to find out the possible answer. Well, seriously I won’t want to meet with such people. The reason is simple: I am looking for an answer which is given by a neutral people. What is such a “Neutral” people you asked? Pretty hard to describe. For example, the successful leader in direct sales is NOT the neutral people that should answer my question of “Should I join direct sales”. Why? Because they are from direct sales, no matter how wise they are, they will tend to give you an answer which will direct you to JOIN direct sales. These kind of people, is non-neutral to my question, so I won’t listen to these kind of advise. A kid without any idea on what is direct sales would probably give an even better answer to my question. Now you ask, what is so special about my question to need a neutral people to answer it? To succeed in direct sales industry, you need to be ready to change yourself to someone that you dislike before. For example, you don’t like those sales men came to your house and knock your door to sell you something, now you have to become one of them. You don’t like your friend suddenly rings you up and asks for a meal but actually he brings along his up-line and promote the product to you, now you have to become one of them. If you are not ready and not wanted to transform yourself to such characteristic, you better don’t join direct sales, you will not success. Really, you will not success. Don’t be too silly to think that you can have your own current characteristic but still success in direct sales, it won’t work this way. That’s why those who failed in direct sales are much more than those who succeed. “Do I want myself to become such a person?”. This is my question. Imagine after I joined, in order to success, I need to be the best sales, need to work hard. So, whoever I met, I will try to make him my prospect, my customer, my potential partner. During gathering with my friend even though I knew they don’t like direct sales, but just because I joined and I learnt the product so much that I believe this product will definitely benefit them… So, I will try to relate all the topics to my products.. “Oh, actually Amway got a product that can cure this, improve your health, clean your shirts, wash your dish, bla bla bla….”. Even though my intention is really to share the good thing to my friends, my friends will still feel unhappy with my altitude…. If you are one of my friend, would you still like to meet me next time? My answer is “No, I don’t want to be like that…”. The next day after a long conversation with my bro, he throws me a VCD, the content is about the sharing from a successful leader of Amway. I watched it with the intention to find out more about my answer. At first, the guy said that he should have retired, but he is still working in Amway. Why? Because he found that what he is doing is very meaningful: he is helping so many of people to achieve their dream, helping them to become more successful! His role in Amway, is not for money anymore, but for guiding people and leading them towards their dream. I am very impressed, seriously impressed. I want to be like him, I want to help people to success too! Deep in my mind, I was thinking: I think I should join… He then shared about 3 things: First, how to convince people; second, how to motivate your down-line when they are upset; and third, the power of duplicate, how to follow the correct way in direct sales industry to achieve your goal. But I stopped the movie after about 30mins. Why? Because of the first sharing: How to convince people… to join Amway. My admire on him changed 180 degrees because of the phrase “to join Amway”. For me, I want to help people to success, but not in the way that I control how they should success. I sincerely believe that everyone must have their own way to success. What I want to do is just to push them, to motivate them, to encourage them to do whatever they are more interested to do, instead of persuade them to join Amway. Amway is not the only way that they can achieve their goal, and I won’t know that Amway is suitable to them or not, I will propose them they might consider to join Amway, but find out more before joining, and they make the choice themselves. Everyone should choose their own path to succeed! I am more keen on helping people to success in their own way and get nothing from them, as compare to persuade them to join under my group, and use them as a step stone to become success… (In Amway, they like to say that when you help other people success, you success too… I say you are using those people as your step stone to become success… For myself, I can be unsuccessful, but those who I approached or helped will still able to success…) Right after I switched off the TV, I wrote a note to my brother: “Thanks bro, I found my answer….”. Bro, thanks for the VCD, without this, and without you, I will never found the answer that had been influenced me since 13 years ago. Now I know that I will never want to join any MLM company anymore, regardless of money or helping other to success, MLM is not the path to success that I want. Thanks… My MacbookPro has became sick since last Saturday, a day after our return home from 65 days trip. 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) suggested me to get a Christian name for easy calling. Actually I don’t really wanted to be called other name than my name, but since I was being asked, I answered.. “Wayne”. I thought it will be just a name to be used in Hypertronics, which is supposed to be called by my colleague, those who I interact just because of work related issue… But I was wrong…..