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Hi, I'm Ewen Chia, welcome to my personal site. While I'm better known as a world-famous author, speaker and internet marketing guru, this blog has nothing to do with those topics.

I just want to share with you a little more about myself and my experiences in life, and hopefully this will provide you with some benefits and values.

I've always been a romantic dreamer and shy person ever since I was a young child. Finding ways to express my emotions, I took to music and became an untrained pianist, guitarist, poet and songwriter, writing hundreds of songs in my bedroom no one has heard of!

When I discovered the internet, it became the perfect medium for me to release my creativity.

Maybe someday I'll go for formal music training and share with you some of the songs I've written. Till then, enjoy the blog.

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Music Therapy

I haven’t been writing for awhile because I’ve been trying to find myself. Trying to live a purposeful life that I WANT can be difficult at times.

There’re so many things that I want to do but there are limitations as well. Sometimes I wish I could fly away but we’ve responsibilities to other people besides ourselves, for example, family.

I know I may not be making sense because I’m in a pretty pensive mood.

However, within our limitations and with what we currently have now, count your blessings and give thanks.

Cherish whatever we have and live with purpose and passion.

Many of us work our lives off, trying to make a living. Fact is, life is more than money and money will never be enough.

Wealth and happiness comes to those with the correct mindset. The correct mindset will attract what we secretly desire.

IT ALWAYS STARTS WITH YOUR MIND AND KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT!

I believe I’ve mentioned this before, we need to know what we want to attract it.

Obviously we can also attract negative things and that starts from thinking of the negative, which we tend to do naturally.

So we must be consciously positive at all times, even in the face of problems.

Look at it this way, we’ll always have problems and they will never go away, so make the best of it!

I know it’s easier than it sounds. Trust me, I know.

One way I’ve found to be positive is to give myself some space and care. Meaning, thinking of myself for once.

I do that by pursuing what I love aggressively and with a goal. Be it a person, topic or simply a hobby.

Many of you know I love music. It heals the soul and connects people from all walks of life and nationalities.

If there’s ONE thing that brings the world together, it’s music.

Music has been with me since I was young. In fact in my younger days, I used it to escape to imaginary faraway places.

Listening to all types of songs and closing my eyes helps to relieve the realities of the real world, even for a moment. It’s re-energizing.

Music is often positive in nature so I believe it’s one of the best ways to cultivate a positive mentality!

While I was growing up, I was a quiet, introverted, romantic and extremely dreamy person. No one really knows my true feelings, including myself.

The good part was, I’m also always an action taker.

I needed a way to express my emotions and took to music. Unfortunately I never had the chance, environment or money to learn it correctly while I was growing up. I’ve always envied kids who could learn music. I had to teach myself, which didn’t help.

Since I’ve more time now, I’ve decided to pursue the love of creating music which I’ve stopped for 10 years since discovering the internet.

I’ve even started professional music training and bought myself a grand piano just to prove the point!

Yamaha Clarinova Digital Grand Piano

And for the first time since I was 27 years old, I wrote a new song…it’s a love song.

I will probably release this soon and hope to get good comments from you guys.

…Stay tuned!

We all have our own dreams and aspirations. I encourage you to strive for your dreams just like I’m doing. We only have one life.

Songwriting and being a professional performer is one of mine, since I was young.

One day I’ll even record a music video and maybe turn into a Youtube star :-)

Because secretly in my heart, I want to be a rockstar!

Ewen

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Live in Hanoi, Vietnam!

Hi everyone, I’ve just came back from Hanoi, Vietnam for my seminar business and it was an amazing experience!

It’s the first time ever I’ve gone there and it was indeed a life-changing trip. It opened my eyes to life in a totally foreign country and the people there are very warm and nice.

I made many friends. Apart from the business aspects, being able to travel and see different countries and cultures is a life-enriching experience.

It’s good for the soul. You should always have fun too even though you may work very hard.

The seminar itself was very successful, with over 800+ people in attendance! There was a lot of media and TV interviews too. I had to do translation which was hard work but it’s worth it.

I feel very blessed to be able to help people all over the world and encourage entrepreneurship and freedom.

Here’s a short video clip of the event:

Here are some beautiful photos to share with you!

ewen chia in hanoi, vietnam

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can get more at my Facebook fan page.

Enjoy the photos!

Ewen

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Love me…

 Have you ever fallen in love or feel like you can’t live without someone? I’m sure you have. Everyone falls in love.
 
By the way, I do believe there’s a difference between falling IN love and falling INTO love.
  
Here’s my take (legal disclaimer: I’m not a love expert):
 
When you fall in love, it’s a stronger than life feeling towards a person or thing.
 
When you fall into love, you’ve fallen into the idea and feeling of love itself.
 
Many people tend to think falling in love is reserved for the young, that’s not true of course…
 
Younger people tend to experience infatuation before love, and I’m DEFINITELY making a sweeping statement here.
 
Imagine…
 
That there’re different phases of love as we progress through age and levels in our relationships:
 
Infatuation leads to passion.
 
Passion leads to true love.
 
True love leads to acceptance.
 
Acceptance leads to understanding.
 
Understanding leads to responsibility.
 
Throughout all the phases of love we feel, I STRONGLY feel that the key to better relationships with anyone is…
 
Communication.
 
That’s how we live with each other. That’s world peace.
 
Yes I’m in love…
 
Ewen
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What have you done this week?

Ewen ChiaI’ve read many self improvement books since I was a teenager (not that long ago!) and the common thread among most of them is…

Write down your goals!

It’s a simple task that works to steer your mind but 99% of us DON’T do it.

Well I don’t either. Not often enough anyway.

Lets not even talk about New Year resolutions lol.

Have you heard about creating a “Life List”?

For example, 10 things you would want to do before your time on earth is up.

It’s a grand goal indeed when most people don’t even KNOW what they want. Think about it.

“You can’t achieve what you want – when you don’t even know what you want.”

That’s my own invented little quote by the way. Hope it makes sense.

Even though we don’t often write down our goals, I think it’s important to at least do something meaningful every week.

Stuff that enrich our lives and plant memories in our minds as grand experiences.

It could be little things or big things, doesn’t matter.

What have you done this week you can REMEMBER?

I can’t remember many things as I’m a rather forgetful person, however some things when done can be easily remembered because of the FEELINGS and EXPERIENCES attributed to them.

It could be simple things like watching a great movie, or doing something “out of the ordinary” than what you’ll normally do.

For example, I travel often and hardly watches movies on the plane as I’ll be on my computer. I do remember 3 months back when I did decide to watch 3 movies in a row though. Really enjoyed Wolverine too. Brings out the animal in me ;-)

Just yesterday, I caught Shrek Forever After in 3D and it was GREAT. Really nice kids movie that made me feel young and happy again.

In fact I did a lot of things this week I can easily remember…

I launched this new blog, worked on a major business plan, spoke at length with my lawyer, bought a new car! (no, the events are not related to each other)

Here’s the car, it’s a Mercedes M Class:

Mercedes Mclass

Cars in Singapore are crazily expensive because of taxes etc. and I paid over S$250,000 for it. But it’s worth it because of the EXPERIENCE now and in the future.

I don’t profess to be a Mercedes fan but I’ve still got my other Eclass coupe which is simply AMAZING…

Mercedes Eclass Coupe

I’m sharing this with you to hopefully inspire you.

I’m an ordinary guy who got a start on the internet and became successful because I KNEW, WANTED and TASTED success even before I succeeded.

That’s the key – it’s about wanting it bad enough.

Some people call it the…

BURNING DESIRE!

Do YOU have that?

You must have it to succeed in ANYTHING – life, business, relationships.

The starting point?

WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU REALLY WANT, SEE IT EVERY DAY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - WORK TOWARDS YOUR GOAL – EVERY DAY!

Nothing happens overnight but it will happen if you want it to.

“Nothing ventured, nothing gain.”

Stick to your guns.

Ewen

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You can be an entrepreneur!

I do believe everyone would like to become an entrepreneur and be their own boss, this is the way we’ve been socialized since young. The seed was planted a long time ago.

Working in a 9-5 job isn’t bad, I was holding positions in various multi-national companies for 8 years before coming out on my own. I do enjoy the office environment and have made many friends.

Nothing beats having the company of good colleagues, lunches and gossiping.

After 5 years of being my own boss, I STILL miss my colleagues and the nicer aspects of the corporate environment.

Working for other people is essentially a transaction where we trade time for money. Too many people burn their lives away doing that. This shouldn’t be the case.

We are all entrepreneurs at heart – everyone is unique with their own ideas and strengths!

Question is, how many people are actually brave enough to PURSUE THEIR DREAMS?

We only got ONE LIFE, and it’s a short one.

Time passes by like a bullet.

Sometimes the fear of insecurity and moving out of our comfort zones make us stay the way we are…forever.

Break free and achieve your dreams. That’s the ONLY way to move forward and live life with happiness and freedom.

Chase after the dreams and desires you had as a child – it’s never too late.

“Nothing changes until something changes.”

Remember, we’ve only got one life on this earth and time is moving faster than you know…

Go for it baby.

Ewen

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