Author: Kamran

Ever since I started my journey in personal development, I have seen people and I admit I was one of them… who are looking for a MAGIC formula for success.

I don’t know why, this is so… perhaps because humans by nature prefer ease and want ‘instant’ gratification. The major reason for sins – instant gratification

May be because, as children we heard too many stories, like Aladin & his magic lamp or Ali Baba who found the cave full of (stolen) treasures …

Just think about this…

Aladin the ‘poor’ boy … doesn’t have any skills except ‘stealing’ yet has a ‘heart of gold’ gets a ‘magic lamp’ … and genie does his work…

This is basically a lazy boy who doesn’t learn anything but wants someone else to do his work, so he can get rich quick.

How pathetic can one get?

And Ali Baba … what a  despicable character that truly is …

He is a basically a thief who finds stolen treasure and STEALS IT.

But since he is portrayed as ‘poor’ and we innocently assume, ‘poor’ means nice, kind, caring etc. etc. i.e. good man.

On top of it Ali Baba has a maid who burns and kills 40 humans, so her ‘poor’ owner can stay rich from ‘stolen’ money.

If you notice, this is quite similar to the story of a ‘beautiful’ model in Pakistan, who did money laundering for a ‘poor’ politician and saved her master from loss, doesn’t it? … This ‘beautiful’ model actually kills a lot more than just 40.

Do you think that these are heros?

I don’t think so. These are not character of a real hero.

And such characters were projected to us as ‘successful’ … innocent people.

They’re both ‘fictional’ characters yet they have lived in our innocent minds of millions as ‘innocent’ …

A lot of people, unconsciously, relate to the ‘poor’ part with themselves and the accept the idea, that when one is ‘poor’ they can steal, cheat and even kill.

These are not the only characters, fiction is filled with “Robin Hoods” … some call them ‘motivational speakers’

Most of us would not want to steal, or harm others … consciously … but unconsciously we may … because we didn’t know any better …

And with what we knew, the idea of finding “The Magic formula” seemed most attractive.

Now we know … there is no magic formula to success, happiness or prosperity.

But there is a magic spell (if you want to call it) that I can share with you. It’s time tested, has worked for millions before you all over the world for millennia.

The magic begins with … repeating 1000’s of times the following (in your own language)

• I trust ALLAH my creator and the lord of the worlds.
• I am willing to do whatever it takes, to succeed, without violating rights of other humans.
• I am willing to work hard, show patience and stand up every time life knocks me down.
• I am creative. There are plenty of ideas. Dumb people steal, copy or plagiarize but I am creative.
• I am honest with myself and others. I give credit where it belongs.
• I trust myself. I respect myself. I respect my family honor.
• I love myself and accept myself as I am and I am enough.
• I acknowledge my feeling and emotions, they show I am a human and I am alive.

Having used the magic spell, you should be ready to apply the magic formula…

Here it is …

• Decluttering your mind
• Have clarity of purpose
• Plan and take action.
• Notice your results.
• Learn from your own & other people’s mistakes.
• Remain flexible and keep learning
• Be ready to experience pain, frustration, hardships and ‘failures’ from time to time
• Develop lots of patience, courage and work really hard.

The magic isn’t out there, the magic is in YOU!

You don’t explore it through closed eyes meditation, instead you activate it by implanting in your heart seeds of faith, hope and love with an open mind.

You don’t find the magic in your subconscious mind, rather you implant it CONSCIOUSLY by reinforcing ‘positive’ thoughts EVER SINGLE DAY.

I remember, somewhere I read “The grass is not greener on the other side, the grass is greener where you water it”

Think about this.

All the best, always

Kamran Sultan

Master Trainer of NLP and Life Coach

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In 1992 I was working as a sales person, selling books. I also loved reading books…lots of books.

Speaking of reading, I have seen many people who get too excited every year when they see a book fair.

They go buy 15 books (these days they post that on facebook too :-P) BUT when the next book fair comes they have not read more than 3 books cover to cover.

I have seen people building libraries with books they are still ‘planning’ to read, someday.

That’s really unfair!

I think, I was fortunate, because I did not have money to buy more than a book at a time.

I had no choice but to read & apply it before I could afford to buy my next one.

Over the years my ability to buy more books and apply them has increased too.

It’s evident that many times people fail to realize, ALLAH Tallah changes their conditions AFTER they do their part.

They want Allah Tallah to take the first step, while Allah has told them that they have to take their first step.

In my classes, I often quote the example of Marium Alah Salam the mother of Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him).

When she was healthy, she had fresh fruits available to her BUT when she was going through emotional pains of fearing to face people & physical pains of labor, she was told “Move the date tree and dates will fall” – the lesson … DO YOUR PART FIRST!

What & how much a person has read, can be seen – or should I say, I can see very clearly in their demeanor. A fruit bearing tree, bends.

Oh, I was telling you about Think and Grow Rich, well that was a fantastic book. It was not a book, it’s a manual to – Grow Rich!

I know many people would not agree, but they forget, you have to DO WHAT IT TEACHES.

Many times people are in search of something that can change their lives. I was too. That’s when I came across NLP™.

But  my life changed not just because I learned NLP™ … I had to APPLY what I learned. So far I have taught NLP for over 34000 hours.

I have to remind people that the basic course in NLP™ is called NLP™ Practitioner Training.

Which indicates, it is for people who LEARN NLP™ and PRACTICE IT.

That’s how YOUR LIFE and lives of those you come in contact with will CHANGE.

I often say, NLP™ is like a good quality perfume, when you wear it, not just you but everyone around you benefits.

But what I want to share with you today is a lesson I learned from the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

It was written in 1932, which makes it a very old book but it still is a best seller. I read somewhere that there are millions of people who became millionaires by applying lessons from this book.

This book is a gold mine of lessons, but perhaps the most profound of them is the one I want to share with you today because it is the lesson that has stayed with me to this day.

If you who have taken my training programs or coaching know through firsthand experience.

It simply is this, “Do more than you are being paid for” …. I repeat, “Do more than you are being paid for” I recently taught a Charismatic Trainer’s Certification training and I taught this lesson to my students, “DELIVER MORE THAN YOU PROMISE… IN FACT A LOT MORE” that’s my way to saying it.

I think this one reason why I still have students with me from my very first courses that I taught in 1997-98. Some of them send their children to learn from me.

I have used and refined my thinking and way to applying this lesson in  training & coaching. And since you now know it too, whatever you do consider “How you can apply it in your life?”

Let me warn you though.

There is a dangerous mentality that eats one’s chances to success like termite eats wood … from inside.

That mentality is “I work as much as I am paid”.

Get rid of it before it rids you of success you want so much.

Force yourself, if you must and DO MORE THAN YOU ARE BEING PAID FOR.

When the termite thinking of “itnay mey to itna hi hota hai” creeps on you, tell yourself, SHUT UP then DO EVEN MORE.

It won’t be easy, especially in the beginning. But if you want easy success, remember easy comes, easy goes. It’s like fast food, filling but not nourishing.

And once you’ve passed your internal barriers by doing it long enough it won’t be difficult. It will be your way to serve & grow rich.

I hope to see you someday and hear your success story of how you applied this simple lesson and has benefited from it.

All the best, always

Kamran Sultan

Look at this green square … look at it closely and tell me, what do you think?

Do you notice the beautiful green color?
Do you see how perfect the square is?

Now hold that thought…

You may be wondering, “he’s gone nuts or making a serious mistake … if you give me benefit of doubt you’d say, ‘he’s making a mistake’ after all there is no GREEN and off course there’s no SQUARE.

All you can see is a PURPLE CIRCLE/Ball…

But just think through the following questions…

How do you know it’s NOT Green?
How do you know what green is or what purple is?
How do you know what a circle is?
Isn’t it true that at one time in your life you did not know any of that?
Isn’t that also true that you LEARNED it at some stage in your life?

What if you were told this color is GREEN. And this shape is called a SQUARE …. what would you be thinking when you read the first few lines above?

My friend, in just the same way, most arguments that we get into are because we tend to THINK on the basis of what we LEARNED to be true … OTHER PEOPLE LEARNED DIFFERENTLY.

It does not make them right or wrong … it makes them DIFFERENT.

Think about this… those you may consider as your ‘heroes’ are someone else villain and those you consider as villain is someone’s hero.

WHY because people learn different things, they think differently.

Think about it … Where can you use this understanding life?

Kamran Sultan

It was 1989 and I was a teenager.

My father had passed away about a year ago and I had left my first job, after working for few months in sales on commission basis.

One of my elder sister was working, she used to give me Rs.100 as pocket money.

I always felt ashamed taking money from my sister, but thought I had no choice – I was wrong, I did have a choice.

Even though Rs.100 was meager amount and never enough for a teenager even back then, yet I had learned some creative ways to live with that.

I guess, when you do not have much choices, your creativity kicks in and you create solutions, what you may not otherwise. Probably this is why, many creative people have humble beginnings.

Anyway, one of those days I was passing on a street, in central city area known as Saddar, when I saw a book vendor, sitting with some books on the footpath.

There was a book with yellow and black title cover around 250 pages thick in paperback edition that caught my attention.

Title of the book was “How to win friends and influence people” by Dale Carnegie.

I just fell in love with it.  It was love at first sight, indeed.

It appeared slightly old, probably because of being too long under the sun on a foot path.

I checked its price and it was Rs.30/-

One of the things I have noticed is many people naively think investing time and money on learning is a bad idea.

They make lame excuses about lack of time or money when it comes to learning.

They forget to realize that, it’s not that you can not learn because you do not have money BUT  you do not have money because you did not learn.

You see it’s simple. You cannot pluck fruits from your garden unless you have planted seeds first.

Anyway, Rs.30 was HUGE amount for me … 30% of my total monthly pocket money. And I had already used most of it.

I wondered how I will live if I invest in ‘such an expensive’ book!

But when you fall in love with learning, you do not care about the consequences and my love for the book took over and I bought it.

Guess what … I was worried how I will live … I lived very happily and totally satisfied with my decision to invest in my own learning.

That was beginning for me.

Over last three decades, I have invested millions of rupees in my personal development.

I have spent thousands of hours in learning and practicing NLP, Hypnosis honing my skills as a trainer & a life coach.

Alhamdulillah I know that benefits are beyond I could have imagined.

I am not sharing this to impress you, I am sharing to impress upon you the wisdom in words,

‘Seek knowledge from cradle to grave’.

If you were my own brother or sister, I’d tell you this, “Learning is an addiction and a very useful one. Develop it. Seek company of learned people who live by what they speak & you will change your life!”

I hope you got the message

Kamran Sultan

In case you are intrigued by the title of my post let me quickly share something about me.

In my early 20s I was full of fears & doubts, had no self-confidence or communication skills, was living as a total failure in education, love & finances.

Kamran Sultan

It was the last day of Ramadan 1996, I had about 1000 rupees in my pocket.

In those days learning NLP was the most dominant thought I had.

Kamran Sultan