It’s Sunday, Jan 22, as I’m writing this – which is the eve of Chinese New Year. I thought I’ll write a quick post to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!

This year is the year of the Dragon, which is a long-standing symbol of power, strength, and good luck in Chinese culture. The dragon is a highly revered creature to the Chinese, and for the same reason, many Chinese see it as highly auspicious to have children in this year.

Every Chinese New Year, it’s common to see the Lion Dance and Dragon Dance – which are choreographed performance by people in life-size puppets modeled as Lions and Dragons respectively. Some people mistake the Lion Dance as the Dragon Dance, where they are 2 separate things.

Below is a clip of a traditional Lion Dance (in Hong Kong):

…and here is a modern take of the Lion Dance (they used Tiger puppets instead of Lion ones because it was 2010, the year of the Tiger):

At the moment I’m in Los Angeles, and traveling over to San Francisco later today. I’ve heard a lot about the large Asian community in San Francisco, and the amazing vibe of the city, and can’t wait to check it out for myself. It’s definitely going to be fun, for sure. Will share pictures as I take them, via Facebook - To those of you who have been following me on Facebook – you know the drill!

After San Francisco, I’m probably returning to Singapore. It’s been a while (over 7 months, but hey – who’s counting?), and I can’t wait to see how things have been back home.

Because of the myriad of experiences I’ve been in since I’ve been away, first in Europe, then going to US, I’m expecting a reversal culture shock when I return. Mainly having to adjust back to the climate, the societal norms, the culture, and the way of life. No thoughts on how that’s going to be, but I’m interested to see how it’s going to unfold.

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Our Los Angeles meet-up took place as planned on Jan 14, at Sage Organic Vegan Bistro. It was a HUGE BLAST – We had readers coming from LA itself, to Orange County, to Ventura County (both of which are counties in California), to all the way from Australia!!!! We met at 1:30pm, and hung out all the way till 4:30pm. Thank you to everyone for turning up!

At Sage – A popular vegan restaurant in LA. Kind Kreme is the sister brand of Sage’s, which serves raw, gourmet, organic vegan desserts. Having both brands share the same shop space makes it easy to get all of one’s vegan fix under the same roof!

Cosy restaurant interior

The early birds – Clockwise from the left – Katya, Amy, Cynthia, Michelle, Andrew, Anna. Thanks guys for sticking to the meet-up time and arriving before me even! I need to follow all of you as an example.

Everyone mingling amongst themselves, while waiting for beverages to be served

Deep in discussion. That’s Whitney (the lady in blue), fellow PE reader and my kind hostess in LA. 3 weeks ago, she saw that I was coming to LA from my Facebook page, and kindly offered to host me while I’m in the city. 3 weeks later, and here I am!! Thank you so much, Whitney! ♥

Everyone enjoying the conversations, so much so that the food was hardly touched for some!

The girls sneaking in a shot while Andrew was doing his self-introduction

The lovely readers at the other end of the table. That’s Charmaine on the left, and Karen and Alex on the top right and bottom right respectively! Charmaine and Alex are twins – they migrated from Vietnam to LA 12 years ago. From what I’ve understood from others, there is a thriving Asian community in the west coast, especially San Francisco.

Me and generous Anna. ♥ We came up to be $18 short in our bill when it came to rounding up the checks for the table (probably due to miscalculation in taxes and tips for some guests), and a few of us chipped in $1-2 more, while Anna covered for the remainder. It was incredibly generous of her. Check out her tattoo on her right arm!

Thoughtful Katya (from Russia, who just came to LA 2 years ago), adventurous Amy (from Australia – she’s been traveling the world for the past 4 months, just like me!), and sweet Cynthia (who’s finishing up her final year in UCLA at the moment!)

Me, Gung-ho Andrew (who recently quit his job in corporate finance, and is now running multiple start-ups!) and Anna! ♥

Beautiful Michelle and Kind Whitney!

Sweet Kari ♥, Mindful Edwilk, and me

Warm Karen and Lovely Alex

Me and long-time PE reader, Charmaine. She has been following PE for over 2 years, almost as long as it has been around!

A very thoughtful present from Katya – this is Acai Berry powder, also widely regarded as a Superfood. I believe I’m supposed to mix this in water and drink it. Thank you so much Katya – I shall be having this as a in-between meal drink for the remainder of my travels! ♥

Final group shot with all the attendees. A B-I-G “THANK YOU” to everyone for coming! It means a lot to me that you guys came!

That’s it for the LA meet-up – Highly conscious people, amazing energy and beautiful conversations in a warm and beautiful city. The LA meet-up is the 4th meet-up I’ve organized since my travels 7 months ago, with the first 2 being in London (London Meet-Up #1, London Meet-Up #2), and the third in New York City.

Next up – San Francisco, and potentially my last stop before I return to Singapore. Any readers from San Francisco? Anyone interested in a meet-up there? Let me know in the comments area!

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Thanks for your quick and spontaneous responses to the LA Meet-up, everyone! The meet-up has been confirmed, with details as follow:

• Venue: Sage Organic Vegan Bistro, a popular vegan restaurant in LA (website)
• Address: 1700 West Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Google Maps)
• Date: 14 Jan, this Saturday
• Time: 1pm 1:30pm* (Reservation made under my name, Celes, so just let them know you’re there for me when you reach)

*Note we will be having brunch / lunch via the items on their brunch menu. They will have juices/shakes plus desserts, so you can always have drinks/ice cream if you don’t want to have the mains.

Sage comes highly recommended via Happy Cow (an excellent directory for vegan/vegetarian eateries) and one of the readers of PE, so I’m quite excited to check out the restaurant myself. Cafe Gratitude is a really great vegan/raw vegan restaurant I went to on my first day here (in LA), but I didn’t choose it for our meet-up in the end as I wanted to try something new, and Sage seems highly promising – PLUS, it shares the same shop space as KindKreme,  a raw vegan gourmet ice cream shop, so we will get to check out 2 vegan outlets at one go. Talk about killing 2 birds with one stone!

So yes, here’s our guest list so far for the meet-up!

1. Celes
2. Whitney
3. Kari
4. Charmaine
5. Alex
6. Andrew
7. edwilk
8. AH888 (Anna)
9. Karen
10. Amy / Almo
11. Katya
12. Cynthia
13. Michelle
14. Armen

If you’re interested to join the meet-up, please let me/us know via the comments section right away. I’ve made a reservation for 12 people, but I’m sure the restaurant can accommodate for more people if we have more people coming. Also if we exceed 12 people, I’ll call to update the reservation. Either way, not an issue at all.

For those who have already RSVPed, please proceed to set this in your calendar. Feel free to invite your friends/family/guests along too. Just let me/us know. ;)

There is no specific outline for the meet-up, just casual chatting and getting to know one another. Treat it as a meet-up among friends you’ve never had, if you will. This will be a fun-filled gathering of like-minded, highly conscious individuals, all sharing the same passion for excellence and growth. If it’s anything like the past London meet-ups and New York meet-up, it will be extremely fun! I can’t wait to meet all of you!

Number for Sage (in case you need it) is 213-989-1718. See you guys this Saturday!

Update Jan 15, ’12: The meet-up is now over! Pictures and afterthought here  – LA Meet-Up, Pictures and Afterthought!

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 HELLO everyone!! I just reached LA, and am totally loving the bright, sunny, yet cooling weather here (relative to New York)!

LA is amazing so far! I haven’t had time to check out the place yet, as I’ve been catching up on work and some administrative stuff which piled up during my 3-day train ride, since  there was no internet access. (I took the Amtrak from NYC, to Chicago, to LA, thereby seeing a lot of lovely sights along the way, including large grassy plains, dry hot deserts, snowy mountains, small towns, little hilltops, and more.) I plan to get caught up with work

For those on Live a Healthier Life in 21 Days Challenge, we are on Day 10 now and going very strong! Today’s task is on going caffeine free. We’ll be reaching the mid-point of the 21-day course very soon. Hurry over to the 21DHL forums now to get up to speed on your fellow participants’ journals, the tasks to date, and to share your progress with others.

I’ll be in LA this week and the next, after which I’ll be heading over to San Francisco, where I’ll be celebrating Chinese New Year (starts on Jan 23!) with my friend from New York, along with his family. I also intend to head over to San Diego for a 1-2 day trip before I go to San Fran. (Eventually took San Diego out of my agenda as it was too much of a hassle arranging for accommodation and commute between LA and San Diego.)

While I’m here, I was wondering if there are any LA/west coast readers interested in a PE readers meet-up? In the same fashion as the London meet-ups and New York meet-up, it’ll be with a casual get-together with lots of lovely, like-minded, and conscious people, in a nice vegan cafe/restaurant. I’m planning to have it somewhere central, probably in/near Hollywood.

If you’re interested, let me know the date(s) you will be available in the comments area, after which I can consolidate the responses, and pick the most popular date for the meet-up (if it goes through). At the moment, I’m open either this weekend Jan 14-15 (anytime, afternoon or evening), any weekday Jan 16-20 (evening) or next Sat 21 (anytime, afternoon or evening). Once the meet-up date/time is set, I plan to use the other days for my personal travels, social calls and sight-seeing.

That’s it, and look forward to hearing from you soon!

Update Jan 10, ’12: The LA Meet-up has been confirmed! Get the details here – LA Meet-Up, Details

Update Jan 15, ’12: The meet-up is now over! Pictures and afterthought here - LA Meet-Up, Pictures and Afterthought!

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The NYC meet-up went ahead as planned, and it was a lovely meet-up! A *BIG* thank you to everyone who turned up!

As opposed to the past meet-ups in London, this time we had a cosy gathering of 8 people, which enabled for more personal discussions. Despite it being arranged at the last minute (only 3 days before the meet-up), plus on New Year’s Eve to boot leaving most people unavailable, it was a very positive turnout! Our group was pretty diverse, with people from New Jersey, Washington DC, Spain – and even as far as from Hong Kong!! Below are some pictures I took for the day.

We met at Angelica’s Kitchen, a popular vegan restaurant in downtown Manhattan

Interior of the restaurant

Everyone settling down

Deep in discussion

Sandy and Camille – International exchange students from Hong Kong!

Dillon and Meredith, who took the bus from DC all the way to NYC (4+ hour ride!). Dearest Meredith provided me with a place to stay and was such a fantastic host to me while I was in DC in Nov. Thank you so much once again, Meredith!

Lina (from Spain), Jodi and Dan!

Me, Sandy and Camille

Recent PE reader Sandy was so sweet to get me a gift, and a very thoughtful one, at that! A bottle of maple syrup (see below), given that I’m vegan and don’t take honey. This maple syrup will come in very handy for my vegan recipes and as a condiment for my food. Thank you so much, dear Sandy! ♥♥

Pure Maple Syrup, premium product by Gould Farm, a non-profit organization for people with mental illnesses.

Dillon, Meredith and Me

Final group shot – Lena, Jodi, Dan and Me

All of us hung out for a couple of hours, had a great time getting to know each other better, before exchanging contacts and setting off for the evening for our individual countdowns to 2012.

Sandy and Camille headed to Times Square; Lena, Jodi and Dan headed for the church; Meredith and Dillon hung out around downtown Manhattan, while I went to Brooklyn for a friend’s house party, before finally counting down with my friends on the Brooklyn Bridge and getting to see some exciting fireworks.

View of the Manhattan skyline from the Brooklyn Bridge, plus fireworks from the countdown (presumably at Times Square)

It’s now 1st Jan, 2012 (2nd Jan, in fact, as of the time of writing). Here’s to an *EXCITING* 2012 everyone! NYC has been an amazing city, but I guess it’s now time to move on to the next destination in my travels. Next up – Los Angeles! Hope to have a meet-up too while I’m there? See you guys soon!

Update Jan 15, ’12: I’ve since arrived at LA and conducted a Los Angeles Meet-up! Read: PE Los Angeles Meet-Up (Jan 14, 2012) – Pictures and Afterthought!

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I’m excited, guys.

I’m excited because 2012 is coming, and it’s less than 24 hours before that becomes reality (it’s Dec 31 as I’m writing this). I’m excited because I’m happier than I’ve ever been, and I can’t imagine what’s going to come next. I’m excited because I feel like my life has just started, and I’m discovering something new about myself and what it means to live my richest life every day. I’m excited because I’ve big hopes and dreams for 2012, and I can’t wait to see them unfold in the new year.

But first off, here’s my annual review for the year. Because so many things have happened in my life this year, I’m going to do a quick recap by way of a timeline first. This will be followed by a list of 2011 accomplishments I’m most proud of. After which I’ll share my top lessons learned this year, before I end off with my plans for the big year of 2012 ahead.

2011 in a Nutshell

If you’ve been following my blog and Facebook closely, the stuff below wouldn’t be news to you. Here is a summary of what I’ve been up to this year:

• Jan – Went on a 21-day healthy living plan (via 21DHL), where I did my 3rd raw food trial since 2009
• Feb – Went on a 21-day water fast and reached my lowest weight ever (partly due to the fast, partly due to proper refeeding post-fast) for the first time since 10 years ago. I’ve since regained some weight since, which I’m happy with as I felt my previous weight was too low.
• Feb-Apr – Began to let go of 1-1 in-person coaching clients and speaking engagements in Singapore, so I’m no longer bound to Singapore for my business.
• Jun – Achieved final revelations which helped me become at peace with my relationship with my parents.
• Jun – Invited to Amsterdam, Holland for a speaking engagement. Hence began my travels around the world.
• Jun 25 – Celebrated my 27th birthday away from home.
• Jun-Aug – Traveled around West Europe, namely Holland, Germany, France (Paris). Passed by Belgium while traveling from Paris back to Amsterdam. Stayed with different readers and coaching clients during my travels, thanks to their immense generosity. Met many great people and formed some highly meaningful friendships.
• Aug – Permanently removed my 1-1 coaching service from my business, so I can focus on high leverage mediums, such as writing articles and running online courses/challenges
• Aug-Nov – Stayed in London for 3 months. Visited Cambridge; Had a 4-day long trip in Ibiza, Spain as part of a work arrangement. Met *a lot* of new people and made very meaningful friendships during my stay. Had 2 amazing PE readers meet-ups. ♥
• Nov – Was invited to speak at prestigious Wharton Business School (in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) for their annual marketing conference. As a result, I cut short my London stay and flew to Philly on Nov 7, hence beginning my US travels.
• Nov – Traveled around US East Coast, including Philadelphia, Washington DC, New York City and Boston (Dec).
• Nov – Overcame my long-standing emotional eating issue.
• Nov-Dec – Stayed in NYC for 2 months. Made many new, amazing friends. ♥ Held a NYC PE readers meet-up on New Year’s Eve (today!). Celebrated X’mas in beautiful NYC. Counting down to 2012 in NYC later tonight!

My Top 2011 Accomplishments

(in no specific order)

1. Invitation to speak at Wharton (part of UPenn), which was a significant milestone to me. To speak at an Ivy League was an affirmation that I’m on the right track and PE is no longer just a blog or a website, but a recognized entity by big wigs.
2. Reached 1 million page views / month milestone.
3. Made many new amazing connections around the world. Feel like my social circle has significantly broadened, both in terms of diversity and number of people I know.
4. Generated monthly earnings higher than my previous drawn salary back when I was in corporate. Successfully converted 100% of my business revenue to passive income – I no longer trade any of my time for money.
5. Turned my business into a non-location bound model. Able to work from anywhere in the world now, literally.
6. Started my world travels, starting with Holland, and spanning to West Europe, United Kingdom, and now United States. Finally ventured into the western part of the world, which I had not visited up till that point. Combed a good fraction of the world in the past 6 months. Visited the key places that have always been on my agenda, which are London and New York City. As a result of my travels, have crossed off quite a few things on my bucket list.
7. Gained a significant amount of knowledge, insights (of different cultures, people, and the world) and (soft) skills as a result of my travels.
8. Achieved my long-standing dream to live overseas for an extended period of time (6 months).
9. Made a lot of incredible relationships, some of which are richer than any connections I had made up till that point. Some of them I consider as close as family. ♥ While #3 referred to new friends I’ve met, this point refers to the depth of relationships I’ve made.
10. Addressed my emotional eating issue, which I had been struggling with for about half my life till then.

Reflections / Learnings of 2011

2012 – Year of Intuition

(Note #1: Am speeding up this post because I’m at Starbucks now (8:23pm) and they’re closing in 30 minutes, since it’s New Year’s Eve. Bummer! It’s okay – my laptop battery is dying soon, and I should be heading to my friend’s countdown party right about now anyway.)

(Note #2: I’ve written about the benefits of choosing a focus area for the year before. What I’m going to share below is my focus area for upcoming 2012. I recommend you to do the same too – read: Which Area Of Your Life Do You Want To Transform This Year?)

In the past 3 years, PE has evolved into a huge community – it is now the #1 community for people who are passionate about achieving excellence in life. From starting as a small blog on Dec 14 ’08, it is now more than just a blog – it is now an online platform for growth, where people can access nearly 400 high quality articles on growth, take part in organized monthly challenges and take action on personal goals, connected with like-minded people around the world via the forums, download free growth resources such as ebooks, wallpapers and manifestos, watch original videos on relevant growth topics, purchase inspirational gifts, among many others.

This is why I renamed PE a couple months ago from The Personal Excellence Blog (TPEB) to just Personal Excellence (PE), because we are no longer just a blog – we haven’t been that for a long, long time. (Note that we are just known as PE today and NOT PEB nor TPEB, which some of you are still erroneously referring to by. We’ve permanently dropped the words ‘the’ and ‘blog’ from our official site name since October.)

I’m very excited about 2012, because I have a lot of big plans and intentions for the next year (and years ahead). Moving forward, I intend to expand PE bigger than what it is today. The restructuring of the site in Oct this year to incorporate a whole new Challenges section, plus videos and manifestos section, plus the launch of the new domain PersonalExcellence.co earlier in Oct (and subsequent removal of CelestineChua.com – fellow bloggers who are still linking to the old domain on your blogs, please update your links!), are just the first of many new things to come. Some of my future plans include having a talkshow (at some point), releasing my first published book, expanding the reach of PE to 5, 10, 20, 100, 1000 times its current reach, among many others.

But most important of all, 2012 is going to be the first year where I’m not going to set any concrete goals. That’s right. As opposed to my previous approaches, this coming new year, I’m going to have a full-fledged experiment in living. For the first time in my life, I’m going to totally let myself be guided by my intuition. I’m going to lead every day of my life in the year based on what my heart guides me to do, and I’ll follow it as best as I can. And I’m going to see where it takes me from there.

This is not an experiment in laziness. For those who are lazy to work, please do not use this as an excuse not to set goals, because you know you’re just using this as a cop-out reason to skive. This is also not to jab the ideas I share on the site, because:

1. They do work and still work marvelously in my life, and are in fact the very reasons why I’ve accomplished everything in my life to date
2. I’m still going to be setting goals within specific, defined contexts, for example: Setting weight loss goal to lose XX weight.
3. If anything, it is precisely because I have lived by goal setting/goal achievement so closely in the past few years of my life that I feel I can now benefit from pursuing my intuition 100%, because goal setting has already been ingrained it into my subconsciousness, and as such is an innate tool I utilize without having to make a conscious effort to do so. So what I’m doing here is really a natural step forward in using the goal setting route, and not a step backward or a resistance of goal setting as a tool.

By not setting goals, what I’m referring to is not setting myself with a specific list of things to do by X date, and not living my life on pre-intended schedule of having to do X things in X week or X month. I’m referring to waking up every day, with the absolute full intention to live my life to the fullest, to do whatever is necessary to excel and to accomplish as many things as I can with my life, and living my life based on that intention.

I already have a broad level direction of things I want to achieve/do in the future (as I shared above, with the talkshow plans etc), and I already know they will come to fruition as long as I take the necessary steps. Just that instead of using the same approach as I’ve done in the past (i.e. the logical, set X goal, do step A, step B, step C, all the way to step Z route), this time I’m going to simply follow my intuition and see how it’s going to guide me there.

In a way it’s like letting go of the steering wheel in my life (which I’ve been holding pretty tightly on in the past), holding it gently, continuing to maneuver the car in the background using my knowledge of driving (i.e. goal setting), putting faith in the universe, and seeing where it’s going to take me. It’s going to be quite interesting, to say the least.

In all honesty, I’ve sort of been doing this, where my travels are concerned, since I started traveling June. I started off my trip with little idea of what I’m going to do in the next 1-2 months, and simply allowed the trip to create itself from there. And hence created an almost 7-month long adventure of a ride so far, bringing me from Holland, to Germany, to France, to London, to Cambridge, to Spain, to Philadelphia, to Washington DC, to Boston, to NYC. Today, I’m traveling with little to no idea what I’m even going to do next week, and I’m really just going with the flow here and letting things manifest themselves. And boy has it been an amazing ride.

Starting 1st Jan (tomorrow), I’m going to start living my year of 2012 on my intuition. If there’s any one big goal I want to accomplish in 2012, it’s to develop my intuition and be connected with it on full throttle (refer to #3 and #5 on my reflections for 2011 above). Making 2012 my year of intuition is definitely going to help in that.

That’s it guys. Happy New Year 2012 to all of you, and here’s to our best year ever ahead!

(PS: Those who have not joined Live a Healthier Life in 21 Days Jan 2012 challenge, be sure to do so now! Signing up is completely free and you have less than 24 hours to sign up!)

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Thanks for your responses to the NYC Meet-up! The meet-up has been confirmed, and it will be at the following location:

• Venue: Angelica Kitchen*, a popular vegan restaurant in downtown Manhattan (website)
• Address: 300 E 12th St (at 2nd Ave, East Village, Manhattan) (Google Maps)
• Date: 31 Dec, Saturday (New Year’s Eve! )
• Time: 3pm

*Note that they accept cash only and no credit, so please bring cash along!

I apologize if the date doesn’t accommodate to some of you. It was tough selecting the date – While many of you have helpfully shared the range of dates that work best for you, it seems like everyone has different agendas which clashed with each other’s. So I decided to go with New Year’s Eve, both for the significance of the day (last day of the year, where crowds will be bustling in NYC then) and that it’s a weekend, where people will be off from work. I’m inviting whoever can make it to join in the fun on the day.

I researched on vegan cafes/restaurants on Happy Cow and Google  before narrowing it down to Angelica Kitchen, for the following reasons – Their items are decently priced (compared to some vegan places I found); they have a good sitting capacity, with the largest table accommodating up to 12 people; Convenient location at East Village; High number of strong reviews. So it looks like it’s a good place worth checking out!

The only downsides are (1) they don’t accept credit – so please bring cash, and (2) they don’t accept reservations, so I was not able to make any reservations. I’ve picked a non-peak timing at 3pm though, so there shouldn’t be a problem getting seats I’m sure. Either way I will be there at 3pm (likely by 2:50pm), so just pop in and you should be able to see me. (I be wearing a bright red coat and a black turtle neck.)

Unlike other meet-ups where I have a note of who’s coming and who’s not, this time I’m just making it easy – I’m posting the location, day and time, and I’m inviting any of you who will be free during that time to join in. Doesn’t matter if you’re in NYC for a vacation, or if you are a true blue New Yorker at heart – all of you are invited!

I’m not sure how many will be coming, to be honest – It may go anywhere from no one to a small group of 4-5, so let’s see how it goes. Definitely less than 10 I’m sure. Either way I’ll definitely be hanging out there with fellow PE readers/good friends Meredith and Dillon from DC (who are coming from DC to NY to spend NY Eve in NYC), so you’re going to be in some good company if you do decide to come.  As I mentioned previously, I’ll be leaving for LA next week, so this will be the first and last meet-up I’ll have in NYC for a long while.

Number for Angelica Kitchen (in case you need it) is 212-228-2909.

Look forward to meeting you guys this Saturday!

Update Jan 1, ’12: The meet-up is now over! Pictures and afterthought here - NYC Meet-up, Pictures and Afterthought Meet-Up!

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