As the new year approaches, it is absolutely essential for every student to prepare your academic year right at the starting blocks. Most students fail to see that the first term sets the pace for them to build the right momentum to achieve academic success throughout the year.

Mr Glenn Lim will help students start right with his opening Study Workshop in Jan 2010 - EXPLORE YOUR LEARNING PATHWAYS. This powerful 2-day workshop will help you discover and harness your innate learning abilities, disposition & personality, for efficient & accelerated study results! Come discover if you are a Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic learner, and learn to direct your unproductive energies into constructive learning cycles.

Dates: 16 & 17 Jan (Sat/Sun)

Time: 9am - 5pm

Cost: $280 per participant (includes workbook, materials etc)

Max size of workshop: 80 students

Disadvantaged students can tap into existing bursaries or sponsorships. Please email angel@glennlim.net for more info and inquiries

Pastor Glenn Lim and his business team are currently restructuring his faith-based platforms, and are announcing that he will be cutting back his engagements from churches, ministries and mission school chapel services as of 2011. His preaching schedule and faith-based engagements are already booked up till early 2011, and there are limited dates left on his calender, especially for church camps (youth / adults). Due to the need to give more attention to his primary work, he will cease his faith-based ministry work by 2012.

Churches or youth ministries who wish to engage Ps Glenn for Term 3 and 4 of 2010, and 2011, should do so now by way of emailing deniece@glennlim.net

Ps Glenn usually limits up to 5 CHURCH CAMPS per holiday window. His availability is as follows:

• Jun 2010 - *FULLY BOOKED* as of May 2009
• Dec 2010 - Available for 1 more camp (6 - 10 Dec) *FULLY BOOKED* as of Dec 2009
• Jun 2011 - Available for 2 more camps (1 - 10 Jun) *FULLY BOOKED* as of Jan 2010
  
• Dec 2011 - Available for apprx 2 - 3 more camps (1 - 14 Dec) *FULLY BOOKED* as of May 2010
• Jun 2012 - Opened for bookings for 5 camps max. Email mabel@glennlim.net now!
  

Mr Glenn Lim will be conducting his next PERSONAL MASTERY WORKSHOP in Dec.

* FULL HOUSE * - Please stay tuned for Mr Glenn’s next Personal Mastery Workshop in March 2010!

“Learn to use your personal psychology & neurology to create whole-body responses to regulate your ego-states & reconstruct faulty thinking patterns for personal life mastery! This Intermediate-level (NLP) workshop will help you explore, understand and utilise your Submodalities, Altered States & Inner Maps to position yourself for peak performance! You will learn advance techniques like Reframing & Repatterning to bring about lasting positive changes to yourself.”

Dates: 1 & 2 Dec 2009

Time: 9am - 5pm (total 16hrs)

Cost:  S$550 per participant *SOLD OUT!*

Those interested or who have queries can email workshop@glennlim.net / info@glennlim.net

Hi, some of you have inquired which facebook account Mr Glenn Lim uses. To be honest, there are quite a few, but his main public account (which is administered by me) is below. Lotsa pics and vids there. Do add this facebook acct to your fb page!

www.facebook.com/glennlim.net

There has been an overwhelming demand for some of Mr Glenn Lim’s school-based projects in the area of academic excellence programs, notably those conducted under MLA (Mastery Learning Academy©).

MLA is looking for partners, staff & coaches to be part of the expansion team to work in schools and the upcoming Academy to be set up. However, selection criteria is stringent. Right now we are only looking for the following:

1. Ex-teachers (or teaching staff who are resigning by end 2009) of local Pri (upper) schools, Sec schools & IHLs
2. Past appointment should be minimum Head of Dept, Level, Subject or any discipline
3. Very familiar with MOE’s academic curriculum & pedagogical approaches

Please send your CV to angel@glennlim.net

Predictors and Predictive Patterns in Juvenile Delinquent Behaviour - a theoretical & recommendation paper.

A 3000-word paper by Mr Glenn Lim

* This paper scored a D (Distinction), Sep 2008

This essay will attempt to refute Beyers’ literary study on delinquent behaviour that purports that juveniles living in high income neighborhoods are less likely than juveniles living in low income neighborhoods to engage in delinquent acts (Beyers, 2001). There are many predictors of juvenile delinquency including single parent homes, latchkey upbringing, violence exposure, early adolescent aggression, psychological condition and school performance. Hence, the author would explore the theoretical constructs in which these predictors impact the application of psychology and provide a critical analysis of juvenile delinquency. Additionally, the author will construct and recommend a Youth Development model as a community-based planning and procedural tool for enhancing positive youth development and reducing delinquency…

To read the rest of this paper, please email angel@glennlim.net to request for it stating appropiate reasons.

A study on Social Psychological Identification Theory at work - How does the failure to attain unconsciously activated goals affect self-esteem regulation in youths?

A 5000-word paper by Mr Glenn Lim

* This paper scored a HD (High Distinction), Nov 2008

Most young people are generally motivated to establish and maintain a positive self-image. However when they fail to attain ‘activated’ goals, their self-esteem is threatened, and this elicits the motivation to protect or repair self-esteem, a phenomenon explained best in self-preservation theory. This paper seeks to investigate whether success and failure to attain goals affects self-esteem if these goals were unconsciously activated. In 3 experiments, I tested and confirmed the hypothesis that self-esteem is directly or indirectly affected by success and failure to attain unconsciously activated goals. Additionally, I demonstrated that people were motivated to protect or restore self-esteem after failure to attain an unconsciously activated achievement goal. These tests were done with 4 separate groups of 50 high-risk youths, all aged 16 years old…

To read the rest of this paper, please email angel@glennlim.net to request for it stating appropiate reasons.

Here’s a module synopsis which Mr Glenn Lim will be conducting for Youth Trainers in Term 3 (2009). This pioneer batch workshop is already full-house, but you can email info@glennlim.net to enquire on the subsequent workshops…

PSYCHOACTIVE SPACING is part of some major developments of David Grove’s theory involving both imaginary and physical space. These spatial relations can create optimal conditions for a psychoactive response, especially amongst youth. There are essentially 4 fundamental ways to generate or invoke psychoactive space:

1) Movement of attention. The apparent ‘theatre of the mind’ in which we consciously perceive our experience is created through our attending to different components of that experience located in different places. This is a private, interior space which has to be externalised through language (or through 2, 3 and 4 below) before it becomes known to anyone else. Language can be used to invoke a psychoactive space but only because our mind-body perceives that space as something real within which we seemingly move our attention.
2) Movement of part of the body. Most often the part of our body that moves is a hand, the head or the eyes, but almost any part can be involved in spatial marking — i.e. indicating that our ideas, feelings, images, etc. have a location in relation to our body.
3) Movement of the whole body. We can imbue space with meaning when we move through it, or act out a scene, or dance. Sometimes just turning around or moving a few inches from one place to another may radically alter our perception.
4) Physicalising is representing an interior perceptual landscape in an exterior material form. This includes drawing (mapping, sketching, charting, diagramming), sculpting, arranging the physical environment, using post-it notes, etc. The defining characteristic of physicalising is that the end result has a physical existence independent of its creator — and that the where of things matter.

These 4 behaviours are rarely if ever independent and two or more are nearly always happening simultaneously.

*This post is written personally by Glenn Lim*

OK, the much awaited ’studying’ followup post, which is part of a whole syllabus of 10 modules of Mastery Study Skills compiled over the past 2 years. The DVD version (apprx 25 hrs) will be ready by June 2009 and available through online e-tail sources. Many of my students/clients have requested that I post or email them these resources (the free, brief versions). I am compelled to do so, but due to the limited capabilities of internet (bandwidth, formatting etc), I shall post teasers here instead, while answering specific questions over email, and preparing the video tutorial versions to be sold over at masteringlearningacademy.net soon! All these will be up by mid year!

OUR BRAIN - Not many adults (let alone students) understand the powerful and almost unlimited resources of our brains. I’m not surprised, because not many of us study cognitive-neuroscience or neuropsychology. I had the great priviledge to study 2 modules of applied neurocognitive development in human studies in late 2007, whilst embarking on my masters study program. At the same time I was exposed to pedigogical/androgogical techniques in education, and grew exponentially in my understanding of psycho-education and mental literacy. Why was I so entralled by these subjects?…Because I was personally struggling in my own studies and assignments then.

When I embarked on my graduate study program mid-2007, I was apprehensive because I had always thought I was not the academic type, especially being constantly reminded of my failure as a student in secondary school (I was expelled in Sec 4, and flunked my Os twice!). Sure I read books and journals, but not without imposing upon myself a burdensome & regimental personal program, which I noble-y disguised as self-disicpline. I hated every minute of studying! And thought studying was meant for a select group of people.

In my frustration and desperation to find solutions, I started researching, read books, and attended many workshops, some as an honorary guest to my friend’s events who were fellow life-coaches and trainers. I guess you could call it an epiphany, but I begun to realise that our brains are created to do more, much more, than what we are exposed to. A prominent visiting life-science lecturer said “Every brain has the potential to work out the genius of Einstein if provided the right environment, exercise and engagement.”

That was when I decided I too, could be an Einstein! or better!…that was the turning point!

Of course many things needed to take place before beginning to engage my own brain purposefully. I realised my study habits were very self-depleting and based on a deficit model. For that matter,  in my own interactions with students, I noticed about 90% of them had bad study habits too. Instead of increasing our brain’s capacity for info assimilation, retention, association and recall-to-apply, we uncounciously shut down these life-giving faculties and subject our brains to conventional linear study patterns and drills, causinig mental fatigue, restlessness and disable neural-cognitive concentration!…Imagine the shock I had when I realised that my study program (like so many of today’s youth) inhibited up to 40% of my brain’s capacity to function and study!…Simply put, my brain was slowing down (by nearly half) whenever I hit the books! No wonder I felt listless, unmotivated and sianz when it came to studying time!

Things are so different today!…I approach studying as an exciting and challenging ‘game’ that I can’t wait to play. And build on small successes along the way to increase momentum and increase productivity. I’ve seen personal improvements of approximately 20% to 25% increases in my assignments, and witnessed many students improve in their grades by that same margin too. After researching and integrating different studying theories/teachniques that worked for me, and also developing my own curriculum to teach students these skills and strategies, I’ve come up with the whole series of Mastery Study Skills that promises to help students achieve their academic best, and in life!

My desire has always been to see students perform their very best in their subjects. And I truly believe every student has the potential to peak-perform, and I mean EVERYONE!…Especially the ones who think they are not cut-out for academics, that is such a lie! I believe if they reframe their minds and view academics from a positive perspective, they will begin to efficaciously develop strategies to achieve results!…They just need to know how….that’s where my series of Mastery Study Skills come in…more to come in the next posts…

“Mr Glenn’s Mastery Study Skills workshop has helped to jump-start my study program for my SA2 this year (2008), and I have improved by 2 grades to B3 for my POA. I never liked this subject, but over 5 months I have grown to Love it (not just like it) because of the re-labeling techniques Mr Glenn taught us! He also taught us to ‘ride the success-wave’ factor and my motivation level is super-high now and I’m more confident to set higher goals for next year’s ‘O’ Levels (2009)…” Juriah Nuralina (Sec 4NA)

“I nearly gave up my Lit and Geog because of my failing all the time, but I have learnt to ‘ride the wave’ and got my first pass during SA1! From then on I have built the ’success-momentum technique’ that Mr Glenn Lim taught us, and there’s no looking back now! I have set my ‘targetting line’ and aim for A2 from my B4 in 4 months. And I believe it is possible to achieve it!…”  Melvin Tan (Sec 5N)

“The ‘Life Blueprint’ that Mr Lim teaches us makes a lot of sense to me, and ever since I apply it to my own life and time management, I have been slowly achieveing my dreams and goals, both in studies and my life dream of being a service entrepeuneur. I now am able to see failure as a friend, and actually see failure as a powerful tool to be used, instead of avoiding it, and to use failure to work towards my goals! My view of life is so different now!…” JingMin T. (ITE Nitec)

*This post is written personally by Glenn Lim*

It’s the last few months before I graduate from my SocSc program and it has been an incredible journey! Incredible in the sense that I never thought I could push myself so far, attaining a steady grade of ‘D’s (yes, D for Distinction), but more significantly, I’ve gained so many personal learning tips and study strategies in the last 2 years that I can’t wait to teach them to students in my programs…Studying was such a chore for me when I was in pri/sec sch that I gave it up totally, thinking I wasn’t cut out for academics, which was a shame, because I didn’t realise that I was engaging studies from a wrong frame and model of the world. back then, studying was a pain, a joyless and cumbersome discipline. These days, my frame of studying is that of a ‘game’ - it’s fun, insightful, promotes self-discovery, and I keep looking fwd to the next lesson!

This is why I’ve begun developing our Master Series in Study Skills and Strategies for 2009, where I personally teach peak-performing techniques to achieve the best results by understanding and mastering your ‘gaming field’! Learning to learn is more important than learning a subject, and learning how one learns is critical in self-competency and subjects-mastery! I’ve personally gained so much from learning and applying the Mindmapping, Mastery-Intelligence and Photoreading-Comprehending skills to my studies, and have observed my own mental processing capacity doubled! But most of all, my MOTIVATION to study has increased tremedously!

If studies can indeed be reframed to that of a ‘game’, there is no reason why students will not want to ‘play’!

Here’s some pics I took during class…Was I not paying attention? naah…I was just ‘playing attention’ in class! So here’s my 1st study tip for all you students out there who want to stay motivated - Get A Study Mascot!…More tips on Personal/Study-Mastery in upcoming posts…

I wanted to post this vid of my class last week. We had the great priviledge of having S’pore’s guru-psychotherapist Dr Anthony Yeo, lecturing our class.