What part of your life would you want to improve? Perhaps…

• Love?
• Emotional development?
• Bad memories?
• Phobias?
• Habit?

Is there any skill that you wish you could have?

• Communication?
• Study skills?
• Making a productive habit?
• Goal setting?

Here’s the good news! I’m designing some workshops and courses to help you gain these skills – fundamentally using neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and accelerated learning techniques. If you’ve heard of Tony Robbins or Adam Khoo, you would be familiar with this technology of new achievements.

By working with your subconscious mind, you can alter your life’s directions! How? By instilling the best possible habit you need to succeed. Also, we’ll be breaking down those beliefs that’s been holding you back from your true potential.

If you have a need, just share it with my by commenting on this post or emailing me directly at workshops@aldrictinker.com today.

Thank you for your feedback!

It’s been a marvellous 5 days throughout the Certified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner’s course. Dr. Will Horton is one great Master Trainer, considering that he’s got over 50k experience. Learning from this FBI-trained US Army Veteran just moves senses, creates ideas and combines old ones to become a greater solution. All five senses (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory) practically came alive. You get to hear things more vividly, see things more relevantly and feel the way you should!

Besides one great facilitator and trainer, my fellow participants were also a bunch of inspiring and awesome people! We had the brightest of minds, the most sweetest of souls, the most enterprising of personalities! Everyone are special in their own way, so not meeting them after 5 days straight is slightly awkward. But hey! Wait! Being NLP practitioners, we practically established excellent rapport and communication with each other! We have the skills then as we have it today. It can be duplicated, no matter where, when and whom.

So, it’s a new day. My first day as a Certified NLP Practitioner. Let’s see what magical works I can do today. After all, the journey has just begun!

Thank you, all, for making this experience a great one!

With warm sincerity,

Aldric Tinker, Certified NLP Practitioner (NFNLP, USA)

During lunch on Saturday, Dr. William Horton, Niza, Phillip and myself sat at the table in the Best Western Premier Seri Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Amidst the aromatic restaurant coming from the buffet, we were talking about rates and professionalism continuing a remark Dr. Horton made.

When he was approached by a client who wanted to improve a particular skill, he paused for a moment. He looked at this person and tried asking one question he never asked before: if you get this result, what’s it worth to you?

Relating back to my experience, I have held back much of my potential ‘for the sake of gaining experience’. While my copywriting idol, Robert Bly, wrote in his book Secrets of a Freelance Writer – How to earn $100,000 or more that pricing is important. To charge peanuts, you get exactly peanuts. If you charge peanuts, your clients will see and feel that you are too insignificant to be bothered with. Here you will start to hear the little Critic in your head bashing you up.

My NLP Master Trainer’s insight reinforced a new belief I embraced after reading T. Harv Edgar’s Secrets of a Millionaire: I choose to be paid for my results.

So, what’s my stance on fees? How much do I charge for writing a script or a speech, a brochure or a flyer, a blog or other copywriting jobs, you have to know how much is it to you.

Before you answer that, think about it: what do you want by hiring me? What does that do for you? What does hiring me do for you? How would you feel and see when you do? What will you hear when you allowed one NLP Practitioner, trained by an FBI-trained U.S. Army veteran renowned Master Trainer of NLP, take up the job? Don’t think of how you personally can benefit from this experience – it is company or organisation sponsored!

So, what is your project worth to you?

Hey there! Can I offer you a Krispe Kreme donut?

It’s been a while since I last updated this blog. Since then, besides the Men’s Health Refine & Define Challenge 2009 modules, one thing that I look forward to is the Certified NLP Practitioner Course I am attending from June 24 to 28, 2009.

Some time after reading Adam Khoo’s Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny, the idea of NLP somehow got lodged in between the hemispheres of my brain. I was curious of this little course which changed this obscured boy’s life by leaps and bounds. Sure, his success isn’t attributed just to NLP, but it was a starting point.

One day I was browsing the papers, New Straits Times to be exact, I cam across this advert. A U.S. NLP Master Trainer is coming over to Malaysia later this month to teach the basics of NLP. What caught my attention was the certification. Just imagine: I’m going through the same road the Millionaire-at-24 trod before. Plus upon completion, I would enjoy a two-year membership with the Florida-based National Federation of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NFNLP).

Wait! Back up! What on earth is NLP?!

To answer that, I bought myself a little book – you know how I am with books!

After reading this book, which I bought at Times Pavilion for RM68.00, I come to conclude that NLP – or Neuro Linguistic Programming – is about speaking to your brain in a language it can understand so it could achieve a desired outcome. Embrace it or distance from it, NLP certification can be regarded as one of those craze a number of us are after. Used properly, it can improve lives. Check out that Adam Khoo guy again.

Let me give you some examples of the brochure:

• Remove the emotional charge from unpleasant memories;
• Be able to build rapport with anyone.
• Control almost any situation.
• Improving and using states of mind.
• Defuse tense situations.

Besides paying for the 5-day intensive Certified NLP Practitioner programme, inclusive of lunch and tea breaks, you will receive a VCD, two books, the invoice, timeline of the programmes, programme materials and the two-year NFNLP membership.

This course will be conducted by William D. Horton, Psy. D., CADC, – a licensed psychologist, an alcohol and drug counsellor, a Master Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming, a Certified Hypnotherapist and trained through the Red Cross programme for Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. The good counsellor have also been trained by US’s FBI at the FBI Academy, Quantico, VA, and recently taught at an FBI Lead Crisis Negotiation Course. This veteran of the Army and Naval Reserve is also considered a leading expert in subconscious communications.

The five-day intensive module is organised at Seri Pacific Hotel Kuala Lumpur by NLP Academy, Power Events, Success Shop and Power Press & Design Sdn. Bhd.

Not bad, eh, for a 22-year old freelance copywriter?

Hmm… Maybe I’m able to get this Oris watch after all – without having to stake everything on a competition. After all, the idea was to be refined and defined!

Great news! You can now reach me via fax. With the acquisition of the HP Officejet J5508 All-in-One, clients and prospects can reach me through another method besides using email and all.

To reach me, send the fax to +6 03 9282 7697.

I’ve decided to take on speech writing projects after being asked by a relative to draw up one for his boss. He supplied me with the points that this employer needs and the details surrounding the delivery of the speech. Working with him, we came up with one which was both well-delivered and appreciated by the audience.

From this experience, I can deduce the following when writing for you: first and foremost, I need to know the details surrounding the delivery of the speech. What details? Information like the venue, function or event, purpose, audience and timing all comes to play. Also, I would like to know what you or your boss would like to say and how. Would you like it to sound formal with statistics and quotes sprinkled over the top? Perhaps your presentation needs to be simplified for a more general audience? It all trickles down to what you intend to achieve.

From the speech itself, I intend to understand your personality and delivery style. The speech should be written to reflect you, not me. After all, when you deliver it, the media and your audience will be quoting you. Do you want to avoid controversies and remain conservative? Can being controversial help you achieve your objectives? Maybe you’d like to provoke a thinking process but would like to end with a conservative summary. Essentially, what I need to know is the image and effect you want to project.

What I also learned and incorporate is to give the speech my all, yet not allow personal emotions to prevent any changes and tune-ups.

Email me now for more information. Remember: don’t give a speech until you do so!

You will find this rather weird. When I started out this professional writing service, I had every intention to keep my projects more on print. Imagine a young lad, aspiring to join the ranks of Bob Bly (website) and Joe Vitale (website) – contemporary trailblazers in the world of direct mail. Thus, my training and studies thus far have been focused on direct mail. Strange enough, currently 100% of my projects are online! It took a client/friend to point that out.

From Leisure Blogging to Professional Content

As a hobby, I keep Standing My Ground (link) on the side. It is my personal blog where I record my most dullest experiences and tender my ‘controversial’ views on politics and current issues. Ironically, this hobby became the foundation to Writing Success and From the Law Student’s Desk (link). Who would have thought: a simple activity such as blogging is a platform for exercise and training to provide web content or web copy.

While Standing My Ground is a personal blog, it is the oldest blog I have at the moment. You should not be surprised if I tell you this: I do grade that blog from time to time. Apparently, on the Google PageRank, Standing My Ground is a three (Report Link). When I did the same test, the PageRank was a 0. Also, the grade awarded improved significantly – from 55/100 in January 2008 to 77/100 about an hour ago. (Link to latest report.)

Fundamentally, what you should know is this: I constantly attempt to improve my blogging skills to comply with the latest trend and developments to ensure maximum effect. Where I lack, I try to fill it up. This is to ensure that the web content in the form of my personal blog remains on top of certain search terms. Also you should be able to see difference in the layout.

Taking Sermon into Practice

Talk is cheap – anyone can do it. Anyone can talk like a writer, but many fail to actually be a writer. As one who offers web content development and management services, I need to make sure that I can do the best for my clients. Thus, I continue to experiment with the best possible ways to ensure the best possible outcome.

Your copy should be friendly to the eyes. The compound shapes of each paragraph matters. Varying the length shows being written by a human being. Which would you be inclined to believe? A machine generated website? Or human crafted?

Notice the sentence? It’s written in speech style. Basically, in ways which engages you in a conversation. The challenge is really anticipating what you’re thinking. Imagine the rush. It’s like mind reading. Hypnotising, isn’t it?

Search Engine Optimisation, or SEO marketing. Not really my specialty. When you contract me, my job is to write the text/content. No more than that. While basic design would be provided where necessary, it is still basic. Think “sketch”.

When Writing For Clients

This is my favourite part; you would be able to learn a lot of my writing style – to make sure it complies with what you want.

I resent lengthy meeting and bureaucracy. I prefer to minimise the meetings. If there’s something you need to tell me, do so via email. Post the information to me. Why? It saves both of us time, energy and money. The more I move to complete your project, the higher the fee will be. Why? Travel expenses.

There’s this poster hanging on my wall, I’m not sure if you have it in your office: Sell your customers what they want, not what you think they want. I wholeheartedly agree. You’re paying me to write to sell, market or promote your product. So I just write. Subject to terms and conditions, I write what you require. I will tender my professional advice. Expect the final draft – before the rewrite – to comply with proven formulas used, tried and tested. If you do not like the arrangement, well, I can explain the reason. Unless you decide to adopt the advice, I will rewrite the project to your specification. Simple, ain’t it?

Constant R&D So You Benefit

Before I end, you should know that I do attempt to get hold of the latest development in this field. Sometimes I suspect I’m going beyond the thresholds of regular 21 year olds. You can expect legal-like approaches to problem solving. Identify the issue, state the principles and later apply. Finally, conclude the arguments. (Link: ILAC/IRAC)

It’s been over a month since I contributed to this blog. No, it is not dead. Basically I have been having some trouble reporting my networking activities and ventures. Dropped this path I have not. Recently, I attended the Post-Graduate Fair/Entrepreneurship Fair/Career Fair held at Mid Valley Exhibition Cenre from 4-6 April. Made new contacts there.

Though exciting and insightful, the outing to the fair is not the focus of this entry. I’m glad to inform you that at the moment, I am studying the viability for copywriting/commercial writing for public figures (e.g. Members of Parliament/MP, Senators, Members of the State Assembly/ADUN). On top of that, I am also conducting a study on packages and services for universities, college universities and institutes of higher education.

As the study concludes, give it 2 weeks max, I will announce each of the package here, on this blog. It will include the individual services that I have to offer to our Yang Berhormats.

Stay tuned for new developments.

Finally my Maxis Broadband Modem is here! For a fee of RM68 per month, I am now able to connect to the Internet from the comfort of my own room. This also means I can provide you with my writing service round the clock – minus classes and sleep.

Hopefully after this I can upload my website to http://www.aldrictinker.com – which is being hosted by Hive Hosting.

I am pleased to inform you that I will be accepting projects and writing assignments. Feel free to browse my blog for the information that you need. Feel free to inquire.