Update: I’ve revised the launch date such that it’s exactly 1 week after the pre-sale date, which is 18 July (this coming Sunday). Read this post for details for the pre-sale – you don’t want to miss it! It’ll be for newsletter subscribers only and will have a special discount for 1st 25 buyers.

Those of you who follow my Twitter and Facebook updates would know I’ve been busy working on my upcoming book in the past week. This book, titled The Personal Excellence Book, is a compilation of 120 premium, personal development articles written by me, which includes 110 articles from the blog as well as 10 new, never seen before bonus articles.

The contents in this book are the result of 2 years and thousand hours of real hard work writing, tireless labor, late nights, distilling of my best life learnings for you and passion to live our best life. If you’re serious about your personal growth (which I assume you are if you’re reading this blog), you really cannot miss this book, and I’m not just saying this. At over 700 pages and 120 in-depth articles, it’s your essential handbook to pursue personal growth and live your best life.

By the way, this will be an ebook and not a hard copy book. There are 3 reasons:

1. It’s the most efficient way to release a book to all of you especially since TPEB has a large international reader base (over 70% are from outside Singapore)
2. At over 700 pages (A4 size, no less), the printing costs would be insane. The price of the book would barely be sufficient to cover the printing. Not to mention it’s also going to be thicker than any reference book out there . Also, it’ll be environmental friendly (imagine all the trees we’ll be killing just to print 1 book!!).
3. Ebook / PDF is a perfectly great format to release this book. You can read it anywhere on the computer and with your ebook reader if you have one.

This is my first product ever since starting the blog and I’m really excited about it. I’ve been working on it day after day, putting the articles together, writing the new articles, sourcing for appropriate, high quality images to improve the reading experience, working on the layout, cover design, benchmarking against others’ ebooks to make sure you get the best quality, among others. I’ve taken special care to ensure the look of the book is consistent with the look of the blog too. It has been really, really enjoyable and I can’t wait till it’s finally out.

Right now, it’s almost ready for release. I’d say it’s about 95% done. Remaining 5% includes finishing up the remaining articles, writing the product launch page, setting up the affiliate program and payment system, final sourcing for images and tidying up the nitty gritty details.

Sneak Preview

Last week I promised to give some update on the blog and today I’m here to give you a sneak preview of what’s been going on behind the scenes:

Working on the book cover design in Photoshop. This is pretty much the final design. All the book design and layout of TPEBook is done by me.
(The lovely book image is © Horia Varlan)

The Personal Excellence Book – Your handbook to live your best life

Table of contents. Since there are 120 articles, the contents page ended up being 5 pages long!!
I’ve categorized the articles into 9 key categories for easy browsing. The categories are: Purpose & Meaning, Awareness & Growth, Passion & Dreams, Goals & Success, Cultivating Life Transforming Habits, Emotional Mastery, People Skills/Relationships, Maximizing Productivity and Inspirational Quotes.

A sneak peek at the insides of the book… This article is “Discover Your Values” and guides you through the topic of life values and how to discover your values. It’s one of the new bonus articles written specially for the book, with 3,000+ words and 9 pages long.

A few shots of other pages in the book.

The above is just a sneak peak. Expect a whole lot more information on TPEBook come launch day.

TPEBook Launch Date: 25 July (Sunday)

I’ve set to launch the book officially on 25 July, Sunday. That’s next week so be sure to mark your calendars! That’s when the (e)book will go live on the blog and other sites (I plan to have it on sales on Kindle and iTunes store too) and everyone can start purchasing. On 25 July, you’ll see an official announcement blog update with all the details and link to purchase the book.

By the way, Singapore time is ahead of US and Western World, so if you live in US or WW, keep a lookout for the announcement on the book come 24 July your time.

Special Pre-sales Offer on 18 July (Sunday) – For Newsletter Subscribers Only

I’ll be having a special pre-sales exclusive to newsletter subscribers exactly 1 week before the launch. Pre-sales meaning you’ll be given the chance to get your hands on the book before anyone else. There’ll also be a discount off the original price for the early birds. This pre-sales offer will be only valid to ONLY the 1st 25 buyers and is on a 1st come 1st serve basis.

Be sure you’re on the TPEB newsletter so you don’t miss out on this offer. If you haven’t signed up already, quickly sign-up here, check your mail and confirm the subscription right away. The pre-sales announcement will be sent to all subscribers on 18 July 2010, which is this coming Sunday.

Please Support Me

This is my 1st ever product and I hope it’s the first to many more. If you found the articles on the blog helpful to your personal growth and journey in life, this book will be really be invaluable to you. I hope all of you can support me and buy a copy when it’s out. I have no idea how it’s going to do or anyone is even going to buy it, but I’m surely excited to see what happens next. Till then, wait for the pre-sales newsletter from me on 18 July .

Update 27 Jul: The Personal Excellence Book is now officially available for purchase! You can get your copy here: The Personal Excellence Book.

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2 More Free Ebooks For You

Following the huge popularity of the free ebooks (over 10,000 downloads to date!), I just released 2 more free ebooks: How To Be A Dean’s Lister and 1o1 Things To Do Before You Die.

You can download the first book directly off the free ebooks section. The 2nd book requires you to be a TPEB newsletter subscriber first. (I’ve replaced the previous TPEB compilation guide with 101 Things To Do Before You Die as the free ebook guide when you sign up.) If you are already a subscriber, simply scroll to the bottom of the latest email newsletter and you’ll find the download link.

Enjoy, and feel free to share the love with others. If you haven’t already, be sure to grab the other 6 free ebooks in the ebooks section. Please retweet and share the link on facebook if you found them useful

Successful Workshop: How To Write Winning Resumes (19 June)

Last Saturday (19 June), I conducted the 2nd run of How To Write Winning Resumes with JobsCentral. The workshop was a complete blast – participants said they had many takeaways and we received near perfect ratings on all metrics- beneficial level, application, speaker, value for money, workshop style, among others!

Participants all felt this was very high value for money and those who attended similar resume/employment workshops before said our workshop is a lot better than the others. 100% of them voted they will recommend this to their friends. Thanks to everyone for coming.

Here are some photos:

Early in the morning – The JobsCentral team getting ready for registrations. Love the bunny mascot!

A quiet classroom – 30 minutes before the workshop commencement

Here we go! Me kicking off and introducing myself to everyone

Participants hard at work There were plenty of hands-on activities and exercises for participants to take away the maximum learnings from what was taught.

Discussions galore within the groups That’s Sushant (closest to the picture with the green number 3), Danny (striped polo tee), Leow (orange), Justin (black) and Devin (white).

One of our participants, Devin, boldly presenting and sharing to the class

Many more pictures at: How To Write Winning Resumes and Achieve Employment Success (TSOPE Facebook Gallery). If you haven’t, be sure to join the Facebook fanpages: The School of Personal Excellence | The Personal Excellence Blog.

Simply Her Feature (July Feature)

My July feature with Simply Her is now out in the news stands . For the benefit of non-Singapore readers, I’ve scanned it and you can read it below. Here’s the behind-the-scenes photoshoot. We had single shots and group shots, and I guess they went ahead with the group shot in the end.

Click each thumbnail to see the full size page. Surf over to the media section for past media features.

Thanks to all your kind comments in my Facebook album

My 26th Birthday

This Friday, 25 June, marks my 26th birthday . Time really flies – it feels like just a few months ago when I was writing about my 25th birthday.

I won’t be doing anything special for this year’s birthday – just the same old, celebrating with my best friends – watching movies, playing board games, catching up, dining together . And I wouldn’t want it any other way too

Coming Next at TPEB

For the past 1.5 years, I’ve been giving away some of my best content for free at the blog. I wanted to single-mindedly focus on gaining traction and building awareness, and hence did not concern myself with the monetization aspect of business. It is also to level-up myself quickly. This has worked out great – TPEB is now an established name in the personal development blogosphere (thanks to you guys) and readers come here because they recognize the high value of the content.

Now that things are moving along, I’ll be focusing more on the business aspect of my work. Nothing’s going to change on the blog-front – I’ll still continue to write as per normal, with free articles on how to live in excellence and answering questions via Ask Celes. If anything, there will be new, exciting additions – be prepared to see new products packed with extremely high value (books, online courses) and a series of targeted services (1-1 coaching and seminars) designed to meet your needs. It’ll be an exciting period up ahead .

The Personal Excellence Book – Your Handbook To Live Your Best Life

The first product coming up will be The Personal Excellence Book – a compilation of the best articles at The Personal Excellence Blog in the past 2 years. This will be bigger and better than the previous TPEB compilation I offered to newsletter subscribers. I’m considering compiling all the best articles to date in this new series, but that might be an overkill so I’ll evaluate accordingly.

Many readers have suggested that I release a compilation book of the blog, and this is the answer to your requests. On one hand, you have the best of TPEB put together in 1 book conveniently  for your perusal. You’ll be able to read TPEB on the go (on your phone, Kindle, iPador laptop), even without being connected to the internet. You’ll be able to print it out easily and use it as a book. On the other hand, it’s a form of value return for me – the money I earn through this book will support myself, allow me to continue the work I’m doing and enable me to embark more projects to help more people.

Expect to read more on this in a week’s time.

Secrets of Excellence: How To Be The Best In Everything You Do – Unreleased Content

This will be the upcoming book which I’ve been talking about. I’m still writing this as I speak (about 25% done at the moment) and it’s not going to be due for another few months at least. In a way, this is a very early announcement, but I’m just really excited about it and I can’t wait to share it with you

Secrets of Excellence will contain my best content ever yet. I’ll be sharing my best, timeless principles on achieving excellence in life, alongside with my concepts, strategies, personal stories and examples which bring the principles to life. You absolutely cannot miss this .

I’ve not decided whether I’ll be launching this as an ebook, self-publish or go with a publishing house. Each has its own set of pros and cons. I’m still in the evaluation stage – if you have any experience with book publishing and/or you know of any publishing contacts, please feel free to share with me in the comments area or via contact form.

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A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Simply Her Magazine to give coaching advice on workplace persona and how one should carry oneself at work. Simply Her magazine is a consumer lifestyle guide in Singapore, with a readership of 110,000. It offers practical solutions on everything that interests the modern, working women, such as home, career, family, consumer, health, fashion, beauty, travel and self-empowerment.

As a case study, I was asked to offer my career coaching to a brand manager in a local company. The task entailed (1) shadowing her at work for 2 days – from being in meetings, interacting with colleagues, liaising with customers, talking on the phone, giving presentations, etc -, (2) observing how she carried herself in these situations, and (3) coaching on those areas – what were the positive areas, what could be improved, and in the process helping readers learn how to project their best workplace persona.

After the coaching wrapped up, we had a photoshoot as part of the article feature. My past media photoshoots were done in my home, and this was my first media photoshoot in a studio. It was a very fun experience, and the stylists and designers were very fun loving people too .

Here’s some pictures of the photoshoot to share with you guys:

The SPH lobby

Entrance to Simply Her and Her World Office. These are some of the past covers!

Collage of past features in the magazine

Trying on my clothes and having the designer decide on the outfits for the shoot

Having my hair done. Jacqueline is the hairstylist, while Rachel (the lady with the stripped shirt) is the make-up artist. Check out her make-up kit!

Getting my make-up done

Preparing for the shoot! The lady in green is the designer Sherry, while the photographer is behind setting up the camera.

Lights, camera and smile!!

Closer shot

Changing outfits for the 2nd shoot, which is the group shot

That’s me with Lorraine, who is the brand manager I worked with in the case study . The metal bar-like things are more as placeholders. They will be removed in the final photos.

Me and Lorraine again

Me with Jacqueline, the hairstylist

A sneak peak of one of the shots

Want to see the actual feature article and the outcome of the photoshoot? The feature will be out in the upcoming July issue of Simply Her (which will be out by third week of June, which is next week!). Singapore-based readers – You can grab a copy at local newstands, supermarkets and convenience stores

Thanks Madeline and Lorraine – It has been wonderful working with both of you on this!

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Note from Celes: Hello to all new visitors from Problogger, Lifehack.org and CNN.com If you are new here, please check out the start page which will guide you through.

Some of you might have read in some of my earlier posts that I was interviewed by CNN. It’s finally up. The article is on the topic of bucket lists and what it means to different people. I was interviewed to share my take on bucket lists, what it means to me and how it relates to living in excellence.

If you are new here, hello and welcome! Most of you are probably new here. This blog is where I share my personal journey on living life to the fullest. To date there’s over 140 articles, so it can get a little overwhelming. The Welcome page will guide you through the top reader favorites. Feel free to add me on Facebook and Twitter – I’d love to connect with you. Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest personal excellence articles.

Here’s the section I was quoted:

Celestine Chua, who has never seen the TV series, came across the bucket list concept while surfing the Internet in 2009.

The 25-year-old from Singapore eventually decided to write her own bucket list, which she shares with the public on her Web site as a reminder to “live every moment to the fullest when you’re in good health.”

Despite already opening her own school for personal development in Singapore and starting an online talk show, Chua said she thinks No. 14, “experience true love,” will be the most challenging goal to accomplish.

“You might think [a bucket list is] just a list of goals, but if you’re really thinking about things you want to see, experience and feel before you die, then the whole concept of setting goals is totally different,” Chua said. “When we start thinking about what we want to do before we die, our goals become totally different. Fall in love, see the Empire State building. That’s the magic of the bucket list — it removes limits.”

They linked to my bucket list in the article, so we are getting a whole stream of visitors from CNN.com now. As I’m writing now, my web server is starting to jam up from the huge influx of traffic.

I know, I mentioned experiencing true love will be the most challenging goal to accomplish. I’m sure many people out there feel the same way too. But hey, I believe as long as we persist in this journey, we will get there

There were other interesting things I discussed with Stephanie (the journalist) during the interview but didn’t make it in the story. For example:

• Everyone’s bucket list will be different, because our bucket list is supposed to reflect the things that mean most to us in living our best life. For example, my list has quirky stuff like riding a camel (#57), dressing up in a costume party (#67 – gosh, I love masquerading! )), swimming with dolphines (#77) etc due to the spontaneous, fun-loving side of me, and then there’s the items that reflect the romantic idealist in me such as flying in a hot air balloon (#58), stargazing (#63), and experiencing true love (#14). Thus, the goal isn’t to get a bucket list that’s the same as mine or his or hers, but to create a bucket list that’s true for you yourself.
• Bucket lists act as a medium to help us live our best life. Hence, it’s important that we don’t get hung up over trying to accomplish our bucket list items that we miss living itself. It’s about the journey of living life to the fullest, every second, every moment.
• After creating our bucket list, our goal shouldn’t be to just complete it. Rather, we should be completing and adding new things to our list continuously. There is absolutely no reason why our bucket list should ever be empty. There is such an incredible wealth of things, events, activities, experiences to witness/go through in life that it’s impossible that we will ever be done with living. This is why my bucket list is never going to be empty. I’m continuously completing and adding on new items that will help me live my life to the fullest.

By the way , #46 of my list is to be featured in international media, which will include CNN. So this interview helped me achieve one of my list items. I feel very blessed. Thanks so much guys for all your ongoing support

Be sure to check out:

• What’s On Your Bucket List? 101 Things To Do Before You Die (a comprehensive article I wrote on bucket lists)
• My Bucket List
• Living as if they had only one day left (CNN Story)

What are your thoughts? I’d love to hear from you!

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I have been featured in Simply Her magazine February and March issues! For non-Singaporean readers, Simply Her magazine is a consumer lifestyle guide in Singapore, with a readership of 110,000. It offers practical solutions on everything that interests the modern, working women, such as home, career, family, consumer, health, fashion, beauty, travel and self-empowerment.

I was approached by the editors a few months ago to provide advice to their readers on how to develop positive thinking (Feb issue) and quick tips to manage your health (Mar issue). Check out the full articles below . Thanks Justina and Madeline for this opportunity!

March Issue: Me Management – Cheat Sheet for Your Heath

February Issue: Look On The Bright Side

For my other media coverages, check out the Media section

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Me @ Black Sand Beach, Langkawi in Aug this year. I’m wearing the red sandals

Ever since I started pursuing my passion to help others grow in Dec ‘08 (it’s been a year!), I’ve been openly sharing myself and my life with everyone – whether its to you on The Personal Excellence Blog, to the media during interviews, to workshop participants, coaching clients, or the world at large. If you read enough through the blog archives and through the media features, you will find all kinds of information about me ranging from general info to what most would deem as private information such as my family background, my previous pay, my previous employer, my personal life, etc.

Why do I share so much of myself with everyone?

Is it about the attention?

No it’s not. Since I was young, I have never cared much about attention. I never understood the point behind popularity contests, whether in schools or in the world. People who know me today would easily refer to me as an extroverted person, but I really see myself as an introvert. Introspection is my necessary daily staple. I often spend copious amount of time to myself and self-reflecting. Give me a choice of whether to talk to ten people at a party or connect with a close friend in a quiet corner, and I’ll readily choose the latter any day.

Is it about the recognition?

Not at all. If so, I would be busy showcasing the polished, socially revered aspects of my life, such as accolades, academic and professional achievements, acclamations from others, and so on. Not putting myself out there with my weaknesses and vulnerabilities – such as the time when I was disappointed, my sentiments and past woes as a single, my early years as a sleepwalker, my not so perfect experience as a perfectionist, or how I used to be an emotionally stingy person.

So what is it for then?

Why do I share so much of myself with you? Why do I bare myself out to the world?

Because I’m driven by a cause that’s greater than me – my passion to help YOU and everyone else out there live your best life.

So, that means if I need to open myself up so I can connect with you, I will do that.

That means if I need to put myself on the media so I can reach out to you and more people with my message, I will do that.

That means if I need to share my worst experiences in life where I was down and out so you can benefit and learn from them, I will do that as well.

It’s all about what it takes to enable YOU to live your best life.

My Confession To You

I realize in the latter half of this year, the blog has steered into a different direction. One where the content has become more fact-driven, where the tone has become more directive and technical, where the sharing is more announcement-based, where the postings have become fewer and further in between. It almost seems as if … I am slowly disconnecting from all of you.

A part of me has been aware of this change in style. Even then, the demands of the offline world have kept me from addressing that. 1-1 coaching, speaking/training, engaging new deals, setting up TSOPE, seeking middle ground with my shareholders, marketing TSOPE… and the like. I’m not putting the blame on any of that though. I take full responsibility for my own neglect of the blog.

A few of you readers have taken the time and effort to reach out to me. You have been reading the blog since the early days when I started, all the way till today. You have sensed something has changed about the writings, but couldn’t exactly pinpoint what. And when you finally dug into it and realized the missing link, you took the time to share your 2 cents with me on what gives. A heartfelt thank you to those of you who have done that. And for those of you who didn’t, it doesn’t matter because your thoughts have found their way to me in some form or another.

Having had proper time to myself the past few days to regroup myself for the year 2010, I came to several important realizations. One of them is realizing what has taken me away from the blog. In trying to realign myself with different philosophies of others around me, I have lost touch with my inner self, which was ironic because I was trying not to let it happen. The other realization is *really* realizing that I have no intentions to deviate away from the blog or from you guys. I first started my journey with my blog with the intention to reach out to all of you out there and I’m not about to stop anytime soon, if at all. Once a blogger, always a blogger.

To all of you who may have been alienated by the (lack of) postings in the past few months, I’m sorry about it. And here’s the good news – I’M BACK!!!! I’m back – the full, real, uncensored Celes, and I’m going to be here to stay.

This past one year, I have but shared only a fraction of my personal self in my quest to help everyone of us live our best life. I have found that the most powerful posts that have ignited change and transformations in others are the ones where I have shared my deepest and darkest aspects of myself and my life. Those weren’t particularly easy to type out and share with the world, but because I know someone was bound to benefit from the sharing, I had gone ahead, typed them and clicked the “publish” button any way in Wordpress. And the feedback I’d received have always affirmed that it was the right decision.

Moving forward, I want to share even more of myself to all of you guys. There are so many stories which I have yet to share, many thoughts I have yet to bare and many reflections I have not had the chance to tell you. And I’m looking forward to doing so in the very near future, whether through the blog, online talkshow (2010), or whatever mediums there are out there I can use to reach out to you. From here on now, what you are going to see is even more of the real, true, authentic Celes. No holds barred, no limitations, no restrictions. Be prepared for a lot more personal sharing from me to you from now on. It’s just me, yours truly.

In the meantime, I’m writing up a 2009 reflections article as the last article for 2009. Stay tuned for that real soon

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2010: Starting My Talkshow

A few weeks ago, I was just thinking about the developments thus far since I started pursuing my passion last year. I started off with the blog in Dec ‘08, expanded to 1-1 coaching officially in March ‘09, followed by speaking after that. Just last month, I began to actively give workshops, reaching out to people on an even broader scale. Regional expansion is in the plans for the next year, followed by intentional expansion.

I pondered aloud on what are other things I could do in order to reach out to an even larger audience. This is when the idea of a talkshow hit me. Something that’s Oprah Winfrey / Tyra Banks-esque. With a talkshow, it’s going to allow me to reach out to even more people than whatever mediums I’m using right now (with the exception of the blog). Not to mention that people who can’t afford my 1-1 coaching or workshops can still have access to what I have to offer. I can only imagine this will be a more impactful medium than any other mediums I have been utilizing so far, and the thought of it just excites me thoroughly!

Honestly, I have to say I’ve never had another idea that’s as vividly and deeply etched into my mind as this before! It’s been hovering my mind ever since it sprung in my head a few weeks ago.

At the moment, I’m letting this idea brew in my head as I focus on writing my book. For sure, this is going to be one of my top priority goals for 2010. LD One of my current ideas is perhaps to start it off as a blog TV, while working towards the end vision of a broadcasted talkshow like Tyra Banks Show (by the way, Tyra Banks is one of the few inspirational figures in my life). Of course, if any of you have any ideas, thoughts or even opportunities, please feel free to contact me as well!

My Latest Seminars & Workshops

If any of you are curious about my latest seminars, workshops or speeches, you can drop by The School of Personal Excellence website at TSOPE.net. All my latest engagements are updated in real time on the right menu. Additionally, pictures of my latest events and workshops will also be posted as updates on the site (the latest being my workshop at Pioneer Junior College on 22 / 28 Oct). My intention is to use The Personal Excellence Blog as the medium to share my thoughts and perspectives on how to live our best life through writings and articles. TSOPE.net will be the channel where I share my latest updates, workshops, and developments at the school.

Latest Media Coverages

As the final update for this post, here’s a quick sharing of the latest media coverage I have received, in conjunction with the launch of TSOPE last month:

Radio 938 LIVE

Radio 938 Live is Singapore’s only news-talk radio station. I was interviewed in The Living Room with Stanley Leong, who is the programme producer and host in the 1 hour segment (about 20 minutes, removing the commercial and news segments). The topic was Passion and Money – my story of why & how I pursued my passion, my learnings along the way and tips for readers to do the same as well. Thanks Stanley for being such an amazing host and for your great hospitality!

Download the audio interview (20 mins long, 10 megs)

Today

Lianhe Wanbao

Podcast Interview

Audio Interview with Vincent from HealthMoneySuccess.com (24 minutes long). Vincent is a Singaporean personal development blogger, and he has some great content at his blog which you should check out!

Thanks so much to all of you for your continuous support and I honestly love every single one of you. One of the items on my bucket list is to arrange for a mass party/gathering where all the visitors of the blog can get together and know each other in a positive, consciousness-raising environment. That’s something I’ll work towards for 2010 (I gather a good portion of you are not from Singapore, so I’ll bear that in mind and see how I can arrange around that)

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