Saturday, March 5, 2011

'I AM WOMAN' Workshop by Merry Riana

Hi Everyone,
I attend Merry Riana 'I AM WOMAN' Workshop today at AKLTG Training Centre at Keppel Towers.
It started at 10am and ended at 5pm. It is a Women-only workshop where there were about more than a hundred people there.
Merry Riana is a Millionaire Entrepreneur, Best-Selling Author and Motivational Speaker.

It is a great workshop, that has thought me about Image Mastery and Personal Mastery.
In the first half of the talk, Merry spoke about the Image Destroyers for women, then we learnt about Power Dressing.

POWER DRESSING
Hair: Short or neatly tied up; well-styled
Face: Clean and well-maintained skin; appropriate make-up
Clothes: Suit (pant/skirt), jacket, dress
Accessories: Classic and elegant styles
Shoes: Court shoes or pumps; classic style
Grooming: Clean nails; fresh and pleasant smell

FACE ANALYSIS
There are 8 types of face shapes.
Oval-shape faces rule all, those are the most optimal faces that fits all kinds of hairstyles, whether is it straight or long or curly.
Whatever the shape, the basic rule is that you need to do up yourself to make sure that you have an Oval-shape face.
- Basically if you have an Inverted-Triangle Face, then it would be better for you to keep some Curly Hair about shoulder length, so that you cover up your pointed face, to make it look fuller.

After that we went into Colour Analysis of clothes, of what you should or should not wear at certain functions.
Sorry too much details, won't be typing it all out here.

Next we went into Body Analysis. Basically, the optimal body is an Hourglass shape body, meaning the width of your shoulder is the same as your hips.
So if your shoulder and hips are not of equal width, you will either wear clothes that make your shoulders broader, like wearing puffy clothes or shoulder pads, or if you want to make your hips broader, you can wear flair skirt. To make yourself look best, wear clothes to make your body look as hourglass as possible.

Then after that she asked us to discuss with at least 2 persons, "What makes you feel so proud to be a woman?"
Then you get all sorts of answers during the sharing.

Merry Riana then spoke of the 3 Challenges Women Face.

3 CHALLENGES WOMEN FACE
1) Success ("I'm not successful enough.")
2) Balance ("It's hard to have a complete/balance life.")
3) Time for Self ("I feel lost, it has been a long time since I have time for myself.")

Then we were asked to vote on the 1 of the challenges that you feel is biggest to you in your life.
Majority answered SUCCESS, was the biggest challenge to them.

She spoke of the 2 SECRET FORMULAS to SUCCESS:
#1 - Finding the RIGHT DIRECTION
#2 - Finding the RIGHT STRATEGIES

So what do you mean by RIGHT DIRECTION?
Merry Riana (MR): Why do go to work? Why do you want to look good? For what?
People always ask,"How can I be successful?"
But do you know what you want in the first place, what is your passion or purpose in life?

MR gave an analogy to represent direction.
Imagine that you are in City Hall MRT, you ask the MRT staff,"which train should I take?" 
What do you think the staff will say?
"WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO?"

Most people don't know their direction and don't know what they want. 
So what do most people do?
They tend to take the first train that arrives, that eventually leads them to nowhere! Because they don't even know where they want to go in the first place!

Merry Riana shared about her 1 Big Secret to her Success:
"Because I Dare to Dream BIG!"
You can download her Free Ebook, Dare To Dream BIG!, in her website http://www.merryriana.com/

MR said that she made a resolution at 20 years old, "I will achieve my financial freedom by 30 years old."
Did she have any idea or strategy on how she was going to make it? NO!
But she was committed to make it happen for her.

Exercise: Can you tell me what things do you need to have to live and Extraordinary life?
Audience: Time, Money, Wealth, Peace, Career, Family, Passion in what you do, Guilt-free shopping, freedom, friendship, share & give back, Luck, satisfaction, sex.

Next Exercise: Is there any woman out there who you think are living an Extraordinary life?
Audience: Oprah Winfrey, Ho Ching, Claire Chiang, Elim Chew, Olivia Lum, Nanz Chong, Victoria Beckham
MR: "These are the people in your own opinion that you believe lived an extraordinary life."
"Mother Theresa is living an Extraordinary life, but have no money."

It is not what you have that make you happy. It is WHO YOU ARE that makes you Special!

Identify who you are,  who am I?
What am I passionate in?

What is it that you are wanting all your life?

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