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Finding Self

The search for self is one of the most important journeys you can take. With that, the rest falls into place. Here, in this YouTube Video, Eckhart Tolle teaches us how to find peace with ourselves and our relationships, yes, including the difficult ones in life!

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The Gorgeous, Sexy and Rich Series is published by Marshall Cavendish International Asia. Norma also writes for the Singapore Women's Weekly in a regular column on financial and career matters for women.

About Norma

Norma Sit is an entrepreneur and a ‘social activist’.  She owns and runs her businesses under the Liveworks brand.  Her corporate experience includes being the CEO of a high growth highly visible IT company in the payments industry, wearing multiple hats when she served at the Singapore Economic Development Board, and being a co-founding manager of a US$200m fund mooted and sponsored by Temasek Holdings during the Asian financial crisis in 1998.

She is an active volunteer and a new-age philanthropist, supporting and spearheading work in sports and the arts, and for disadvantaged women and youth.   Her recent work includes serving as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Sub-Committee of the Social Enterprise Committee (Singapore), Committee Member of the Social Enterprise Implementation Committee (Singapore), Member of the Singapore Workforce Development Agency Arts and Culture Manpower Skills and Training Council, Member of the Singapore Youth Award Advisory Committee (Sports and Adventure), and Member of Sporting Culture Committee (Singapore).

She is the Honorary Secretary of The EDB Society and Exco Member of the Singapore Women Business Connection.  In 2006, she founded, led and operationalised Youth Life Ownership Ltd, a social enterprise dedicated to empowering ‘inner city’ youths.  She is a Board Member of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre of Singapore.

Norma is a fellow of the International Women Forum Leadership Foundation and an award winner of the Singapore Women’s Weekly Great Women of Our Times (2006).  In 2008, Norma was recognised by the International Alliance for Women with the World of Difference 100 Award.   She holds a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) from Monash University (1982) and is a Equity and Merit Scholar (AIDAB) for her Master of Business Administration at the Australian Graduate School of Management (1991).  Norma writes and is published.  She works pro-bono on publishing third party writings where such writings are supportive of the development of humanity.

She is the proud mother of Brian (21) and Elizabeth (14).

SINGAPORE WOMEN’S WEEKLY SPECIAL IN MARCH 2011 ON MONEY MATTERS!

Watch for Norma's articles in the Singapore Women's Weekly (SWW) beginning October 2010 Issue.

Talk and Slides

"Why Men Prefer Financially Independent Women"
INVEST Fair 2010
Marina Bay Sands Convention
22 August 2010
12.00 -1.00 pm

Report on the Event: The Event went well and more than the hall was filled with MEN who wanted to know how women think. I will be uploading my slides here by end of September. Watch this space.

Spirituality

'We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.'
Teilhard de Chardin
(French Geologist, Priest, Philosopher and Mystic, 1881-1995)

Thoughts on Love

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

- Vincent van Gogh

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

- Vincent van Gogh

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Taman Negara, Malaysia, 2004 Longfellow House, Cambridge, MA 2004 Wat Chedi Luang, North Thailand, 2006 Singapore Women's Weekly

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