Recently I received a book as a birthday gift, and I started reading it immediately although I have many unfinished books at the same time. The title of the book is catchy and interesting, so I started right away. It’s a book by Leil Lowndes called How To Talk To Anyone, 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships.

It’s a really fun book and it doesn’t hurt anyone to learn more about communication and better yet, how to improve the way we come across to people, whether they are complete strangers or people who are already familiar to us.

Although it is a rather thick book of over 340 pages, it is quite an easy read. Some chapters are very short and straight to the point, so it makes you feel like you achieved many chapters in a very short period of time. Talk about making you feel good about yourself!

I would say that I have learned some new things from Leil Lowndes’ book and at the same time managed to reinforce some other previously learned ideas that were never implemented. It’s packed with quite a lot of information regarding every little aspect from reading body language and facial expression to making small talks and how to be an intelligent conversationalist. So I think this book will need plenty of re-reading if not act as a reference every once in a while.

From this book, I not only learned some useful tips and tricks on the art of communication, I also picked up some interesting general knowledge as the author so generously shared some very enlightening stories. Makes good conversations to break the ice if you remember those stories to tell.

This book retails at all major bookstores and you can get your copy for RM51.80 at MPH. I think other bookstores should also be selling at similar price range. If you love reading and looking forward to improve bits and pieces of your communication with others, read this book!

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Just a quick note to share that Popular Bookstore is having a Popular Book Fair since 16 March until 28 March 2010 at Ground Floor of Ikano Power Centre. You won’t miss it as it’s right next to the travellator.

I bought some popular titles from there, mainly books that are good for achieving greater heights in your careers. Some are on great buy basis whilst a lot are about 20% off. There are also bargain corners where the sale ranges from 50% to 70%. Lots of genre of books are available, from non-fiction to fiction and are available for books in Chinese, English and Malay languages.

There are also lots of CDs for sale as well as educational toys for toddlers and children alike. Check it out if you are in the area this weekend.

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Just wondering if anyone out there has read this book by Dale Carnegie: How to Develop Self-Confidence And Influence People By Public Speaking? I’m considering getting this book as I think I need to be more skillful in this area. So if anyone has read this book or any other suggested titles for people who have public speaking anxiety, I would appreciate your tips.

If I do get this book in the end, I will write a review here to share with everyone. In the meantime, would appreciate if you can give me some ideas and feedback if you have any, ok?

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It’s the eve of Chinese New Year, so here’s wishing all my Chinese readers and friends a Happy Chinese New Year and may the Year Of The Tiger bring you much abundance in every aspect of your life!

Lots of Chinese believe in feng shui and energy works. Are you one of them? If so, have you done any special shopping for customary things for the coming Year Of The Tiger?

I know of friends who would buy feng shui books and then read up on what the year holds for them and they act accordingly to what’s best going forward so that they have a great and smooth year ahead. There are quite a handful of such feng shui masters’ books out there, namely the most popular by Lilian and Jennifer too, and of course not missing the rising Joey Yap. Who are your favourite authors in this area?

I once bought a book for the new year but I am not the type who would go for the hard sell like buying whatever amulets and what-have-yous as recommended by the feng shui books. If I do, I find that there’s just too many stuff I need to get on a monthly basis since the “fortune telling” goes month by month in those kind of books.

What about you? Have you read any predictions, free or otherwise, about your year? I’d admit it’s nice to read about it, especially when they say good things going on for you month after month. And sure, it’s tempting to go get the things they recommend so that you avoid the not too good months.

Some predictions can be quite over the board though, not only predicting the general business, luck and love life of a particular Chinese zodiac sign, they can even tell you to do specific things like when is a good time to go for mortgage refinancing, what kind of investments to go into, when to get married, etc. I would think this kind of predictions don’t work in general for every zodiac, but rather needs more tailoring from individual to individual.

Whatever you believe in, I wish you a great Year of the Tiger ahead. Gong xi fa cai!!

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For the past few months I’ve been browsing around for good sales books. I definitely found many, and it was quite amusing that each author of these sales books were labelled as THE best salesperson there ever was. I suppose they need to say that about themselves, otherwise how will they sell their books, right?

So far I’ve bought some of these sales books from just 2 authors, namely Zig Ziglar and Brian Tracy. I’ve listened to both their audio programs too and I must say I do like and enjoy their materials very much.

I was reading one of Ziglar’s book and I really enjoy some of the funny anecdotes he used, about how being an effective sales person means you can sell just about anything to anyone, being able to convince people to buy an extravagant set of pots and pans or expensive fine china, and even get people to pay for future funeral costs! Wouldn’t you agree that it takes an amazing sales person to do that?!

So do you know of any other mentors in this area who can impart their skills and knowledge on how you get so good at persuading others to do what you are there to offer? It’s simply amazing, isn’t it?

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