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Book Review: The really good fun cartoon book of NLP

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If you want to understand NLP in a easy and fun way, this is the book to read. It has cartoon that help me visualize plus there are not much technical terms involved in the book.

In the book, it very simply put NLP is our

  1. Brain and the things that goes inside our mind
  2. Language, both spoken and body
  3. Behavior and thinking patterns.

it also highlights the basic structure of NLP , how does it helps? Namely

  1. building rapport – communicate with people / each person is different thus there are argument so learn to appreciate and respect.
  2. Using our FIVE senses – to feel, to see pay attention … especially develop listening skills
  3. Make us think – “Start with the end in mind”
  4. flexibility in our behavior

afterwhich the books goes in details in a lighthearted manner, although the material is light, it makes me think deep. I would like share what have I learn from the book.

As you all would know in the previous post, I was thinking if I should be taking CFA, CAIA, or CFP. After much consideration , there was no action. But after the book I took my action. It was the part on choices, there are many ways you can look a problem, either half full or half empty and of course when you make a decision – Believe it. In my case, I been thinking that CFA is difficult, I was worry that I may fail, but the thing is if I keep on thinking that I will not do well, I really will not do well because my mind is not able to determine what is negative. So I MUST PASS, I PASSED. After I Passed I will excel my career with it.

Beside these, there are are some exercises that are for the readers.

For example, write a postcard to yourself.

Think how is it like in 5 years time, where are you, what are you doing – start with the end in mind.

Then write another postcard, this time 10years into the future.

The exercise I like most is this, think and write down what you really want.

  1. where are you now?
  2. where are you going?
  3. How will you get there?

And right after this exercise, I sign up for CFA, because if I want to be the best , I should take the best. So if you need a bit of a push. This book might help :)

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Everyday in life, you have a choice to choose.

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IRIS XV • learning to fly

I have a choice, recently I have been thinking of the possible routes to upgrade myself. Many of my friends have been uping up courses or certification such as CFA, CPA, CAIA.

So in a moment of fire, I borrow the used books from my friends to see which are the ones that interest me caused I was also planning to take up certification. So I narrowed down to 2.  CFA or CAIA. Which one should I take, both cost quite a bit of sum and most importantly they takes up a bulk of my time.

After begin in school for so long…

Primary school – 6 years

Secondary School – 5 years

Poly – 3 years

and finally University – 3.5 years

Do I really want to hit back to the books again? since I just graduated in Dec 2009. So I been thinking and pondering should I take CFA or should I take CAIA.

Which is better? if you do a search online with “which is better CFA or CAIA” you will have tons of answers.. which is good or which is better, or which one you should take first. So I decided to do up a comparison chart to help me in my decision process.

CFA level 1 CAIA level 1
Currently from my financial perspective it is slightly cheaper as compared to CAIA More expensive
Passing Rates – CFA is well known for its low passing rate thus allowing it to be the Gold Standard of Finance Compared to CFA, CAIA is much younger thus only as “powerful” as CFA despite it growing presence
Amount of time spend – CFA have much more quantitative details that I believe for me required much more time to understand.  Moreover I am very much into sports …the key question here is to ask if I am willing to give up my time for CFA in turn for a better career perhaps? I am not saying that CAIA required less time but I find CAIA content much easier to absorbed , maybe it is due to the way the study guide are constructed or because there are more strategy related topics. Eg, convertible arbitrage hedge fund (how it work and all)  it is much more interesting and since there are more hedge funds moving into Singapore now.
3 papers for CFA 2 papers for CAIA
Should I take it this Dec or Next Jun – if it is this DEC I have only 3 months to study. Do I have enough time with my current work commitment plus I have to forgo training/ running If I am taking CAIA, my plan is to complete it on 2011. Thus maybe it will help give me an better opportunity
Learning materials, CFA is widely available online While for CAIA I have to spend more and the texts changes every term thus it may not be helpful if used the old materials from my friends

But the last and most important to ask myself is am I taking this because I have a interest in this or am I doing it because all of my friends are doing it?

hmmm I will soon have an answers.