Chop wood, carry water.

Life is a journey. And in this journey, we seek means to live it fully, and experience our best “version” of it. Maybe you want a happy family or a luxurious lifestyle. Maybe you desire to travel, and explore the unknown adventures that lurk behind every tree, rock or drift. Maybe you want to own an empire, leave a legacy behind. Or perhaps you desire to save the world in your own little ways. These are the dreams we have.

Are you on your way to realizing your dream? Or have you been in touch with what you truly desire? Do you love your work that you create in this world? Do you love waking up in the morning and watching the day unfolds?

Are you living the life you truly want?

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Wondered where we went?

Sleeping at one corner??

In broad daylight???

Actually, no we weren’t slacking off somewhere, instead….

We took a BREAK!

for Chinese New Year! This year has just started great. We went around our favourite round robin trips and filled our tummies with lots of good food. And particularly, the lion dance performances were especially good this year. Extra loud and perky! Really love them.

Pick Me Up is back in action! This break has been refreshing, new plans are in the works and we are all raring to go!

So how was your Lunar New Year? Did you get lots of ang paos? Enjoyed your family reunion dinner? Manage to tie loose ends and start the year anew?

The team here believes in clearing clutters and doing simple acts to finish unhandled business. So that we can move on to the bigger things in life! Have you been making use of the 5 Lessons from Pick Me Up? Did you take steps to clear your clutter?

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The Book launch party has been quite happening! We played video to showcase the entire process of the Pick Me Up Book Campaign over the past 3 weeks. We autographed the books and even did “Lao Yu Sheng”!

For those whom missed out the fun, you could still get a sneak-peak into the event via the photo. (refer to previous post for link)

Last 2 days, we’ve been busy with our booth at Singapore Management University.

We sold an additional 50 books approximately within the few hours at our booth. It’s really great to have the support of the faculty members and students of Singapore Management University. In fact, most of the feedbacks have been really encouraging and supportive! Thank you guys for your continued support in our book-charity campaign =)

Another piece of great news to share!

Our Pick Me Up Book is now available at KINOKUNIYA!!! WHOOPEY!!!

Now you can spread the word and get your friends to purchase at Kinokuniya directly. =)

What are you waiting for?!?

Pick Me Up Today =P

Happy Lunar New Year to all! May your dreams manifest into reality this year =)

Clicke Here!

We want to THANK YOU for contributing so graciously to this spur-of-the-moment cause that gave us all ONE HELLAVA experience of a life time!

We’re throwing a PICK ME UP CELEBRATION!!

Saturday, 2 Febuary

6pm – 8pm

344A Joo Chiat Road Singapore 427595

YOU ARE INVITED.

In fact, you MUST COME!!!

Witness the journey from the start – the miracles we pulled off, the people who supported us and gave us strength, the FIRST WISH we granted with the proceeds…..!

Collect your FRESHLY BAKED books and get them autographed on the spot by the writers!

WE WANNA SEE YOU THERE – it’s an open party, everyone is welcomed!

Great News!!!

Your paperback Pick Me Up Book is available for collection from tomorrow onwards!

Another Great News!!!

Popular wants to carry Pick Me Up Book! With around 23-26 stores locally, there would mean an additional 1000 books sold! This is an exciting and encouraging piece of good news for the Pick Me Up Team, and definitely for children at Make-A-Wish-Foundation. To know that our efforts have paid off and the local bookstores are carrying our books really bring a lot of pride and smile to our faces, as we battle through the long sleepless nights of trying to drive this charity campaign.

How to Appreciate this Book

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Yesterday, we had the honor to have Ms Debbie Seah from Make-A-Wish® Foundation to drop by our Book Sales HQ. She shared with us an inspiring story that moved several people to tears.

She spoke about a wish that was granted to Joseph, a 17 year old boy. He had renal failure and had to wash dishes for a living to help pay for his medical bills whenever he is free. Most of the time, he has to stay at the hospital for dialysis and treatment. His one biggest wish was to own a laptop so that he could spend time with his friends whenever he is at the hospital.

The volunteers at the Foundation picked him up and planned to make his laptop wish come true. But they also decided to go an extra mile. They got to know that Joseph loved cooking and they went on a secret mission to tie up with the Four Seasons Hotel.

The volunteers ferried the unsuspecting boy to the hotel. He wondered what was going on; why was he being brought to such a grand location. The moment he stepped into the hotel, he was greeted by an entourage of smiling staff and was escorted like royalty to the hotel ballroom. When Joseph opened the door, he was pleasantly surprised.

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It’s Yixin, your friendly blogger again! I’m the one in pink! =P

If you are visiting our blog for the 1st time, WELCOME!

Here’s a quick recap of our juicy happenings since last 11 January 2008, Friday…

1st 24-hr Challenge

• Started on 11 Jan’ 08, Friday, to 12 Jan’ 08, Saturday, a group of 12 graduates from the coaching program, The Courage to Create, decided to embark on an impossible feat – to write, edit, publish, launch and sell a book (Pick Me Up) from scratch!
• WHY DO THEY DO THAT? It’s because they set out on a mission to remind the world that it is possible to turn dreams into reality!
• These 12 ppl. quickly formed an operation team and roped in their friends to support. Within that 24-hr, the operation team collected 42 life stories of how these amazing ppl. managed to overcome their struggles in life and make their dreams come true.
• Within 24 hours, a baby (Pick Me Up Book) was born and launched globally!
• Over 100 books were sold!!!

2nd 24-hr Challenge

• The operation team decided to embark on a 2nd 24-hr challenge on 13 Jan’ 08, Sunday 1:11pm, to 14 Jan’ 08 Mon 1:11pm. This time, they aimed to sell 10,000 books within 24 hours!
• ARE THEY CRAZY OR WHAT? Keep reading…
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Hi All!

Apologies for the lack of updates. We were so tied up trying to get out the new site and such.. and we finally did! Kudos to Vicki and Wai Kay for their design and coding efforts. Special thanks also goes out to Johnson, Chris, Alex and Dionis for working on the site and the videos. We had Yixin and Isaac doubling up as our on site bloggers.

I think we are back in action!

…and this was only the team at SengKang