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Just thought I’ll write a quick post to let you guys know what I’ve been up to.

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. 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 . Here’s the behind-the-scenes photoshoot. We had single shots and group shots, and they went ahead with the group shot in the end.

Surf over to the media section for past media features. Thanks to all your kind comments and support at Facebook and at the blog

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.

Filed in: About Celes, Awareness & Growth, Books, Media & Interviews, Studies & School, TSOPE, Updates, Workshops & Seminars | Posted on Jun 23 2010