She’s an accomplished speaker and motivator and has a flourishing legal practice and a happy family. Recently, her first book Mind Garden was published to excellent response and all-round accolades. Chia, however, does not intend to sit back and enjoy her achievements. She wants to ensure that other people also excel in all that they set out to achieve. She wants to inspire, motivate and educate, and as the founder of Napoleon Hill Associates (NHA), Chia has managed to successfully do all that, and much more, as some of those who have benefited from her motivation and guidance will attest.

Also known as the “Napoleon Hill of Malaysia”, Chia firmly believes in the principles of success expounded by Dr Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), America’s foremost success/motivation author, who is dubbed the king maker of millionaires. “What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve” is one of Hill’s hallmark expressions. Armed with Hill’s principles, Chia wants to guide and empower people to unleash their potential to achieve personal and business success. Chia says Hill’s success principles are time-tested and have been applied since 1928. The principles are definiteness of purpose, applied faith, going the extra mile, having a pleasant personality, the mastermind principle, creative vision, maintenance of sound health, budgeting time and money, cosmic habit-force, personal initiative, positive mental attitude, enthusiasm, self-discipline, accurate thinking, controlled attention, teamwork, and learning from adversity and defeat.

Chia explains that Hill was commissioned, as a young man in 1908, by industrialist Andrew Carnegie, to interview 500 men and women, among them Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Alexander Graham Bell, to discover their formula for success. “Based on the interviews, Hill developed 17 principles of successful thinking. He spent the rest of his life refining and teaching the philosophy, which has been adopted by modern motivational gurus like Anthony Robbins, Steven Covey and Bob Proctor. “Hill’s book, Think And Grow Rich, published at the end of the Great Depression, tells us that our minds make real the things we think most about.” Chia believes in this wholeheartedly. She recounts something that happened when she attended a conference in Minneapolis, in the United States, several years ago.