Your future is not whatever will be will be. You have to think of the life you would like to have, what success means to you and design the future you want to create for yourself. This will help you focus on what actions you need to achieve your goals. Having a clearly defined future and goals will also help you to: - improve your academic or work performance - increase your motivation to achieve - boost your pride and satisfaction - enhance your self-confidence - raise your enthusiasm in life

1. Wong Yew Yip
yewyip@gmail.com
Updated 10 September 2021
Targeted at Students and Young Adults

3. Because,
Your future is NOT
“What will be, will be”
or
“Wait and See”

4. Present
What I
want to
be
How do
I get
there?
Develop my plan
Focus my mind
Set my
goal
Creating My Desired Future

5. Malaysians who achieved their Desired Futures
Name :PHUA KHEIN SENG
Age : 31
Hometown : Sekinchan, Selangor
Education : SJKC Yeok Kuan, Sekinchan; Pin Hwa
Independent school, Klang; Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Occupation : Engineer/ President of Phison Electonics
Current base : Taipei , Taiwan
The man who invented USB pen-drive
is a young modest Malaysian who
can't even get into a local University
but invented the most versatile,
indispensable computer peripheral
today. Helped his adopted country,
Taiwan made $31bil in the process.
Inventor of Pendrive at age 27

6. Malaysians who achieved their Desired Futures
World No.1 Squash Player (ex)
Nicol David

7. Malaysians who achieved their Desired Futures
Lee Chong Wei
Olympics 2008, 2012 & 2016
Silver Medalist & World Champion (ex)

8. Malaysians who achieved their Desired Futures
Top Law Student at
Cambridge University (2010)
23-year-old Malaysian Tan Zhongshan
emerged as the top student in his
final-year law examinations at
Cambridge University.
Tan Zhongshan obtained a first-class
honours in the Bachelor of Arts (Law)
at Queens’ College, which is part of
the university, one of England’s oldest
and most prestigious.

9.  Don’t settle for
mediocrity
 You may feel that you
are not good enough
 You can change that
whenever you want

10.  Set your goal
 Develop your plan
 Focus your mind

11. Helps you to:
 Think about what success means
to you
 Design the future you want to
create for yourself
 Focus on what you want out of life
 Get you closer to where you want
to be, what you want to be doing
and whom you want to be doing it
with
(What I want to be)
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12. Examples of Goals:
 I want to qualify to be a . . . ..
(doctor, engineer, etc)
 I want to be a world
champion in my sport
 I want to be a millionaire by
age of 27
 I want to be the best student
in a world class university
 I want to be a bank manager
by age of 30

13. My Goal is
This Goal is important to me because
Write down
1. Your Goal
2. Why the goal is important to you
using the tool provided
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14. A goal is so much
easier to reach when
you have a personal
development plan
and act on it “You may never
know what results
come of your
action, but if you
do nothing there
will be no result.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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15. Write down your personal
development plan to reach your
goal using the tool provided
My development plan to reach my Goal
1. What is my Goal?
2. What are the benefits?
3.
What qualification do I
need?
4.
What knowledge & skills
do I need to acquire?
5. What support do I need?
6.
What are the potential
obstacles?
7.
When will I achieve my
goal?
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16. “To hell with circumstances;
I create opportunities.” - Bruce Lee

17. The more you focus,
the better you do. It’s
easy to get distracted
and side-tracked but
if you want to
succeed in anything
you do, you have to
have laser-sharp
focus.
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18. Focus your mind to put your
personal development plan
into action and follow through
until you reach your goal
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19.  A great way to keep working
toward your goal is to see it
 Find pictures that represent your
success and put them where you
will see them all the time
 If your goal is financial in nature,
cut out pictures of what your life
looks like when you are successful
Seeing is believing!

20. F
O
C
U
S
F = Five More Rule: If you're in the middle of a task and tempted to give up - just
do Five More - Five More pages. Finish Five More math problems. Work Five
More minutes.
O = One think at a time: As you work/study and think, keep your attention on the
task at hand. Each time your mind wanders, return it to the task. As you keep
refocusing your attention, your “mind stillness” will improve.
C = Conquer Procrastination: You put off things that you should be focusing on
right now, usually in favor of doing something that is more enjoyable or that you’re
more comfortable doing. Kick out this self-sabotaging habit!
U = Use your hands as blinkers: To stop your mind from wandering, use your
hands as blinkers every time you want to narrow your focus. This teaches your
brain to switch to "one track" mind and concentrate on your command.
S = Set aside time to think about your goals: Spend about 30 minutes a day
thinking about what you want to achieve. “Whatever the mind can conceive and
believe, the mind can achieve” ~ Napoleon Hill
Adapted from Sam Horn, About.com

21. Thank You
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