BORN TO BE JUTAWAN

Membina Sebuah Empayar

2009-04-28T21:19:00.002+08:00

3 hari lepas aku dapat panggilan, sewaktu tengah solat subuh. 2 kali handphone aku berdering. Berdebar sungguh aku waktu tu. Ko fikir sape nak talipon awal2 subuh kalau tak emergency? Apa jenis emergency? Kematian? Kemalangan?

Aku fikir 2 kemungkinan je, samada dari mak angkat aku yang aku panggil bonda atau dari makcik siah, maktiri aku. Rupa2nya dari bonda. Lega. Aku mmg harap dari bonda, bukan makcik siah. Seminggu dua ni aku terima berita dari bonda yang atuk sedara aku sakit tenat. Dua hari ini makin menjadi-jadi. Bonda call kami ajak melawat. Bonda ni anak atuk sedara aku tu, merangkap mak sedara bau2 bacang.

Bunyi macam kejam, tapi aku sebenarnya takut. takut panggilan tu datang dari makcik siah. Kalau dari makcik siah, tentu pasal bapa aku. Mintak sangat janganlah apa-apa berlaku pada bapa aku. Aku ni belum lagi membalas jasa dia. macamana aku nak mengadap tuhan kalau bapa aku pergi sebelum sempat merasa kesenangan dari usaha aku. Hati aku berdebar2 memikirkan perkara itu.

bukan mudah nak sustain bisnes. especially kalau bermula dari zero. orang cari loan, aku buat blog. kat hosting percuma pulak tu. jadi konsultan baja di hosting percuma tu sama sajalah buat pejabat kat kawasan setinggan. cuma nasib baik di malaysia ni orang masih respek kau walaupun pakar yang menulis di blog percuma, kalau mat saleh depa dah tak caya kat kau. buang karan.

bila aku maju skt, baru aku cari paid hosting. self hosted. blog setinggan aku tu namanya bokashi farmer kat impaxbokashi.wordpress.com. bila maju skt aku pindah la ke rumah sewa, sewa tahun2. blog www.bokashifarmer.info.

sama cam orang lain, mula dari kesusahan, aku pun lagu tu lah. kalau aku berhenti disini, maka sia2 segala perit jerih aku. baru-baru ni aku kena tipu dengan sorang datin, bini menteri tu. buat kerja utk dia tp tak bayar. dah sapu info, dia pun diam tak contact2 sampai sekarang. aku dah berhabis duit laburkan masa, wang dan keringat untuk dia, mana aku tau dia nak tipu aku, LO pun takde. tak kan aku nak ajar mak datin mana LO?

malas aku nak tulis semua ni kat blog bokashi farmer tu. biarlah yang elok2 je ada kat situ. aku rasa semua pelawat/member blogger kat blog tu tak tau pun aku ada blog bernama DARE TO FAIL ni. Ini lah antara blog terawal aku dalam dunia blogging. tak ramai yang tau aku ada blog di blogger.com. Aku malas nak cakap negatif kat sana, biar aura tu positif je memanjang.

tapi aku suka ada platform untuk luah kan ekspesi spontan aku. this is life. aku down sekejap lepas kena tipu tu, sbb takda duit nak rolling, hutang pulak menimbun. Allah jelah yang tau. Aku cakap kat kau, bab duit ni jangan main gitu2 jela kalau kau buat bisnes. mau israel skt. guru pun makan murid kalau kelabu dgn janji duit yang berjuta2. itu kelemahan makhluk bernama manusia.

HEART TO FIND

2007-11-20T21:57:00.000+08:00

what you see is what you get. since human is a multidimensional creation, what you 'see' in your heart, reaches for different type of existance. unseeable. just the way love touches and speaks for itself. in more tangible words, emotions are multidimensional. so, must what you see become the one you must get? but what did you 'see' in you?

chemistry is wonderful. they are colours of rainbow with the whole universe consists in it. they made me shivered under the glaring sun, burned in the rain, laughed in pain, felt like jumped off the cliff of a mountain top and appreciate sacrifices. thats just the way life pushes you around, so you will learn to become a better human.

maybe love is heart to find. some love is not meant to be yours, but appreciate it. there are open space around us, similar wavelength travels the same speed. they even travel in vacuum. i dont believe in lonely planet. i embraced my prism of existance.

WELCOME INTO ENTREPERNUERSHIP

2007-09-10T16:06:00.000+08:00

hi all. its been 3 months i leave this blog without any updates.

after graduation in august 2007, which i did not attend, i return to my kampong and build my dream immediately. currently, i am growing an acre of organic chili on my mother's piece of land. harvesting will be in early october. i am in the process of applying loan, and taking MBA course.

my interest is in EM technology and orgnic farming. i have no intention to quit blogging and abandon this blog. lets say im hibernating to a point where i could blog again :).

it take some time to go from one phase to another in this life. but im getting more confident in making decision and pursue my dream.

this is just the starting point, the way i see it. more will come. see you next time :)

THINK & GROW RICH

2007-06-23T16:26:00.000+08:00

I recommended you to read 'Think & Grow Rich' by Napoleon Hill. There is a reason the title is Think & Grow Rich, and not Get Job & Grow Rich. This book is primarily about strengthening your thoughts (being), so that you can do the action (doing) that will enable you to become financially free (having). The fact is, people who work the hardest do not wind up rich. If you want to be rich, you need to "think".

Think independently rather than go along with the crowd. One great asset of the rich is they think differently from everyone. instead of working to pay bills, they work hard to acquire assets. for most people, what they have is years of hard work, unfair taxes and lifetime of debt. People think that working hard for money and then buying things that make them look rich, will make them rich. in most cases it doesnt. it only makes them more tired.

A person who has a loser mentalitaly will mentality will always lose no matter what stock, bond, real estate or mutual fund they buy. Dont work on the other person; work on your thoughts about that other person.

different thought..different being..

different doing..different having..

PROFESSIONALS HAVE COACHES

2007-06-23T02:36:00.000+08:00

"A mentor is someone who tells you what is important and what is not important. professionals have coaches, selected professional.Amateurs do not.

rich people values only 'street-smart' education, often acquired from peers and/or self learned. they create products and services to sell to the middle class/ the masses and anything that produces positive cashflow. they create their own and/or modify others. they keep learning and innovate. Rich people have income exceeds expenses. They do not work for money but money works for them. They make money when they buy, not when they sell. they knows there are many answers becausefor them if we dont know the fundamentals, we can get slaughtered.

So more people need to know how to take care of themselves financially...& not become dependent upon the government or a company for life support because they may have a job, but they arent getting ahead financially. Poor people historically have worse health than affluent people.

Financial market are driven by human emotions: greed, fear, anger, sadness & various stages of depression. People have been trapped by the industrial age idea of 'find a safe, secure job & dont worry about the future'. but we arent there anymore. but now in the beginning of the information age about money.

we are free country, not a fair country. if you want to get rich, you need to learn how to take risks. Learn to be investor...."

DISCLAIMER

these words were smsed to me by my mentor, mr azoddin. i dont know these words belong to him or otherwise (you tell me?), but they are worth to be shared. i always get these kind of motivational injection from him. its like a suppliment he feed me every two days. glad i found him.

HOW I INTERVIEWS THESE ENTREPENUERS

i found mr azoddin when i was searching the net for organic fertilizer, i want to involve in organic farming.before i knew him, i've already promoting his products to my friends. when they start asking so many questions, which i have none of the answers, i smsed this man. i used the most 'cikai' method to build relationship, through sms. though i felt ashamed of myself doing it the cheapest way, aku belasah je. since we have the same frequency, we can discussed many things across the southeast china sea. social, politic, philosophy. then, i get a job as his company's marketing executive. and a golden opportunity to interview his clients, such as Pn Zainon cendawan tiram.

since i wanted so much to get juicy material for this blog, i smsed pn zainon for an interview (via sms of course.. :) ). she agreed, to my surprise! and then she called me voluntarily, ready to be interviewed though the phone. one more good news. i cant believe it myself. well, thats how i did it. just a little bit of courage to become dare to win.

THE CHEMISTRY OF LOA (part II)

2007-06-22T00:39:00.000+08:00

i dont know what to do most of my free time as a store keeper, so i learn to make memos, letters, documentation, filing system and book keeping from our clerk in the secretariate. the clerk, Private Kamarul tought me to write documents. so i become the only young officers who know how to write a letter. the others never give a tought to learn clerk tasking from him. everytime Pvt Kamarul is not around, i will make the letter in the secretariate office. soon, i was needed again in the office.

flashforward. one year later. the commision event of 2007 in Uitm arrived. i was thrilled to involved again in the event, this is a H.U.G.E pocket money. i told the adjutant i want to be involved. if you picked me i will give my 110% commitement. my name was on the list, but an order came from the HQ stated that they dont need young officers to assists the event anymore. they wont provide allowance, for sure.

straight away i told my officer i want to become a volunteer. just provides a bed and daily meal, i will do my job. five of my friends followed my desicion. im willing to do it for free, because i want to seek career opportunity in shah alam. they made me the secretariate officer. i see it as one more chance for me to shine off my boots. opportunity in disguise.

since i know the tasking involved, i run the place. secretariate is the information circulation centre. you are needed almost all the time. you have to intergrate between transportation, meetings, events and people involved in the activities. sometimes i had to work until 3am, or not sleeping at all the whole day. at first i had to do most of the job, but when the cadets are well-trained, you replicates yourself very effectively. soon, i just monitored them once a while and began to social networked with people around me. in the end of the grand event, i get job satisfaction.

then, i realized i get what i want. it took me two years to achieve it.
i feel very sad when it all end, because i get what i want :)
thats how LOA works for me.

THE CHEMISTRY OF LAW OF ATTRACTION

2007-06-21T22:37:00.000+08:00

you will get what you believe. According to the law of attraction (LOA), the universe has no idea wether you want to fail or not. but what universe only know is once you think of 'fail', that is just what you are going to get.

so, have strong faith with what you want to achieve. believe in your dream. im going to tell you what i get from the chemistry of LOA.

i have always imagine to be the most important person in palapes unimas. inside the organization, there are plenty of talented young officers, especially those who formerly were best cadet, rank holders, athletes and my seniors. the male officers usually are the leaders. they have strong leadership, high confidence level and the higher officers have strong faith in them to run the organization at our level.

and i was non of the above. i was the 'kuli' most of the time. the highest position they would allow me to be is 'runner' in a platoon or 'treasurer' in my squard. some of my friends are very intelligent when it comes to 'street-smart' attitude. they are wiser in making desicion, which made them very important back then when we were cadets.

but i like to be a leader so much. when the annual commision event 2006 arrived, i swore to give my best, just to prove i can be a big contributor. that was my junior year as a second liuthenant. i dont care what position they will give to me, i will give 110% commitment to it. i was given the role as the secretariate officer, which i never have any idea what it is.

my adjutant have a lot of faith in me, he gave me the position in the administration division as a secretariate officer. i dont know what position is it, so i asked a lot of people. they tell me that it is an important position. i will become very busy and the tasks are quite tough compared to other position. i have to manage the transportation, administration, minutes meeting etc. i might not be albe to handle them all by myself and have to catch up with a lot of things. so i made earlier preparation before the event.

but our eldest senior think i was not good enough. he rearranged my position to the bottom of the duty tasking~ the store keeper and he himself replaced my position. i was very frustrated. but i did my best as the store keeper, and gradually i found that it was an important position in the unit. you know why? because you know the flow of the fundamentals in the organization. they look for you to get something they need. the tasks are simple. inventory of the food supplies, dobies, medicines. but without system and accuracy at work, the wellfare and expenses of an organization can become disorganized.

pentauliahan palapes 2007 sudah berakhir

2007-06-20T18:56:00.000+08:00

assalamualaikum & selamat sejahtera, rakan2 pembaca

Pada 18 jun lepas, berakhirlah sudah pentauliahan peg kadet palapes IPTA ke 26 di UiTM Shah Alam.

apa yg menarik pada hari pentauliahan?
semasa perbarisan berlangsung di padang kawad uitm, adalah seorang kadet UMS ni nak pitam..mulalah dia terhoyong-hayang. gedebuk! kadet ini tergolek ke depan. kadet ini bangun lagi. kemudian pengsan lagi, jatuh ke belakang pula. bangun lagi. kawan saya di pentas hormat memberitahu Sultan Mizan menjeling dari pentas semasa menyampaikan hadiah.

kemudian kecohlah peg2 di dewan watikah hantar sms, unimas ke yg tumbang 2 kali? :)
saya waktu itu bertugas di bilik persalinan. mmg tak tau apa.

pentauliahan ini berjalan dengan lancar, seramai 1200 org peg kadet ditauliahkan, plg ramai dalam sejarah. oleh sbb ini penyertaan saya yg terakhir dgn palapes, saya sentimental sikit. sedih sbb dah berakhir. daripada saya jadi kuli pd senior dulu sampai jd peg sekretariat, peluang2 yg saya dapat sungguh bermakna. kehadiran saya dan rakan memang secara sukarela, tiada elaun. janji jaga makan, pakai, tempat tinggal..keje jalann..

pentauliahan ini memberi seribu kenangan. saya merakamkan ucapan terima kasih kepada palapes unimas yg byk memberi peluang pada saya untuk mentadbir sekretariat. saya rasa gembira memberikan khidmat terbaik, walaupun tidur pukul 2-4 pagi, hati rasa puas. saya berikan seberapa banyak ilmu perkeranian yg saya tahu kepada kadet2 bertugas, supaya satu hari nanti mereka tidak lopong, dan jadi batch yg mengharumkan nama unimas. walaupun byk cerita hantu, xpernah terserempak lagi. halalkan makan minum. ini sumbangan yg terakhir.

kehadiran hasni ke tauliah kali ini mengubat rindu rakan2nya yg di tauliahkan. kapt rully nerre dari kor risik juga tidak lupa menjengah, itu bekas peg muda kami. walaupun ramai yg dia sudah tidak kenal, ttp rindunya tidak padam. kapt rully byk menggalakkan saya masuk keusahawanan, dan beria2 menyuruh saya join kursus irfan khairi. katanya labur rm290, pastu selama setahun dia akan guide kita. insya allah, saya akan ikut nasihatnya.

malam ini, semua anggota passukan palapes unimas sedang makan seafood di luar, big annual celebration dinner. esok awal pagi lagi mereka sudah bertolak ke TUDM Subang. manakala saya pula malam ini akan ke rumah sepupu. xrela nak menyaksikan mereka meninggalkan saya esok hari. tengok rakan2 UTM balik pun dah sebak semacam. dan bermulalah cerita saya mencari haluan sendiri.

WELCOME TO THE CLUB
kalau 2 hari lepas saya mengucapkan 'welcome to the club' kepada peg2 muda yg baru di tauliahkan..
semalam rakan baik saya mengucapkan 'welcome to the club' pada saya juga, selamat datang melor ke alam pekerjaan.. :)

the price of failure

2007-06-10T14:09:00.000+08:00

we must suffer the pain of discipline to achieve what we want. or the pain of regret at not achieving it. the difference is the pain of discipline weights ounces, while the pain of regret weights tonnes.

everyone has had ups and downs. successful people expect to fail, but do not see it as a bad or negative experience because they need to keep working on it. failure is there to make us better, wiser, smarter, more cautious or even more adventurous. be realistic about failure and you'll see that its a tremendous opportunity. you can even become excited of it. failing gives you the information you need to do better. most acts of genius come after years of trying to solve a problem and failing that allowed them to make the step to success.

when you are confronted by failure, you have to act and will find breakthrough solutions you would never have considered otherwise.

future is a wonderful catalyst for change. stepping out of confort zone to deal with a problem is important step to success...(these words were sms'ed to me by my mentor, en azoddin)

apa yang kelakar dalam tauliah palapes

2007-06-08T20:28:00.000+08:00

updated news. acara sukan tauliah yg berlangsung seminggu sudah pun tamat semalam. johan keseluruhan adalah tuan rumah, UiTM, unimas no 11. bermula dari semalam, raptai perbarisan di padang kawad dan penerimaan watikah di dewan sri budiman,UiTM akan berlangsung selama seminggu. rehearsal askar memang macam ni..tambahan lagi kalau menjemput Agong, protokol sangat banyak dan ketat.

RSM (rejimental sarjan mejar) unimas, Cik Paris komen tentang batch 26 ni. katanya, RSM yang mengendalikan perbarisan itu beri komen batch ni paling senang nak dikendalikan berbanding batch2 dulu. smoothh..kualiti kawad mereka menyamai raptai panglima TD, itu dah baik sangatlah bagi saya. tetapi, macam biasa kadet-kadet ini tidak di puji depan2. anda mahu tahu kenapa? kerana budak2 ini, bila dipuji sudah cukup bagus, minda mereka sudah berpuas hati dengan tahap mereka, dalam keadaan letih dan panas, mereka akan maintain level ituuu je.. sebab itu RSM akan push mereka lagi, supaya mereka mengeluarkan usaha yang terbaik.

apa yang menarik di padang kawad? di malaysia ini, kita menunggu ketibaan VIP je kerjanya dalam tiap2 majlis. mereka berdiri statik menunggu agong dalam sejam setengah. hari pertama raptai, biasanya budak2 jatuh gedebuk pengsan, macam daun berguguran..ada yang terhoyong-hayang nak pitam. selagi budak itu tidak betul2 jatuh, kami biarkan.kalau pengsan, budak pengusung ada.

kawad di tengah matahari terik tu tidak apa, sebenarnya. jgn kawad di angin sepoi2 dan mendung, itu lebih cepat rebah sebab mengantuk. pengacara majlis pun kadangkala kelakar juga. suara mereka mantap, sedap, lancar dan sangat profesional..tapi, sekali sekala tergelincir juga dialek kampung.."tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, mengumungkan...", "tujuh lima satu lapangg tiga.."

selepas kawad di padang pada siang hari, mereka ke dewan watikah pada waktu malam. yang ini ramai nak tidur dalam dewan sebab sejuk. ada yang tertidur, masyuk gile.. wirid sampai ke lutut, siap sound sistem! ada yang wirid berimam. ada yang buat wirid pusingan 180darjah, swing kiri kanan, kiri kanan dan lapan lagi.. kalau dapat pegawai yang gila2 tu, mereka makan cili dan pelempang. tapi kami makan hacks je..:). kalau nasib tak baik, semua kena belasah diluar dewan. hari pertama, raptai boleh berjalan dari pukul 8.00pagi hingga 2malam. mengantuk yang amat.

sini pun kelakar juga. ada kadet yang gugup di atas dewan. stage fright sbb ramai org tengok.masuk tv lak tu. mula la kawad macam robot. bila berkawad, kaki kiri keluar, tangan kiri pun keluar.dia sendiri pun konfius macam mana nak berjalan? ada juga yang dah tak boleh berfikir..bila sampai atas pentas tersadung, tabik pun dah tak ingat tangan mana, bila hulur tangan nak terima watikah dalam tangan dok genggam gula2 la, tisu la. sepatutnya bila terima watikah, kami akan mengucapkan "menjunjung kasih, tuanku"..ada yang bagi "assalamualaikum..,menjulang kasih, terima kasih dsb".syok sendiri.

okey..okey, buat hari ni, sampai sini dulu. ada satu lagi perkara menarik sebelum saya mengundur diri. kat cybercafe yang saya pegi ni tadi ramai kadet2 ipt lain, bising la juga macam pasar.. tiba2 kawan saya call, minta kunci kereta kami, ada tugas agaknya, saya pun balas "kunci kete lam beg kuning aku..a-ahh". lepas daripada tu, cc ni jadi senyapp samapai la sekarang...hehe

perubahan bermula dari diri sendiri

2007-06-06T12:02:00.000+08:00

kebelakangan ini penulisan saya banyak dipengaruhi unsur2 ketenteraan dan palapes. saya pasti selain updated news, anda masih dapat menerima mesej motivasi dan sahsiah yang terkandung dalam artikel. kerana motivasi itu diterjemahkan dalam bentuk aplikasi. dari motivasi menjadi aksi. dan beginilah cara kami melakukannya.

pertandingan kawad unimas dapat last. UTHM dapat tempat pertama. rentas halangan no 10, rentas desa shah sorang je menang, tempat ke 14, bola jaring no 11. tak taulah aku...

memang sedih melihat sikap sesetengah kadet yang tiada daya juang sendiri.. nak disuap, semua nak push. dah push pun tak ada usaha sendiri nak mencuba. lebih teruk dari orang yang mencuba tapi gagal banyak kali. sekurang2nya dia mencuba, tak la panas sangat hati tengok. kadet yang biasa kena basuh dan bancuh biasanya tak banyak hal.. orang suruh buat, buat je. nak melentur anak orang bukan senang.

sebenarnya janganlah takut gagal...janganlah tidak mencuba kerana takut tidak berjaya mengharungi cabaran. anda harus membuat langkah permulaan, mungkin terpaksa bermula dengan kegagalan demi kegagalan. saya masih ingat semasa kadet dahulu kami berusaha melepasi monkey rank pagi dan petang. melepuh2 tapak tangan tapi esok buat juga, setahun, dua tahun kemudian baru saya berjaya melepasi monkey rank tersebut. saya pun bukan hebat sangat tp saya tahu saya tak hebatlah saya berusaha supaya tidak ketinggalan..

cabaran2 fizikal pun sebenarnya menguji kemantapan emosi. bagaimana anda mengendalikannya? saya ambil contoh, monkey rack. palang ada sebelas batang, bawah ada air. kalau tak lepas palang2 ni, kita akan jatuh dalam air. bagi yg mantap, macam beruk je mereka boleh melepasi halangan ini. mereka tidak takut dengan halangan ini lagi kerana keupayaan mereka dapat mengatasi masalah ini. lain orang, lain keupayaannya.

yang kurang keupayaannya, mulalah berfikir dan assume terlalu banyak. aku tak mau jatuh dalam air. aku tak lepas. aku nervous orang tengok, aku tak suka pegawai paksa2 aku. tangan melepuh. kalau jatuh dalam air susah nak naik balik, berat. kalau kita nak memikirkan alasan, memang banyak alasan!

usaha la sikit. berfikir tinggi. aku mesti lepas halangan ni, tak hari ni, esok, tak esok, lusa. aku mesti lepas halangan ni. aku sanggup jatuh dalam air, aku boleh cuba lagi. esok lepas 3 palang, minggu depan mesti lepas separuh, kemudian aku mesti lepas semua ni. aku boleh, aku boleh! ko tak berusaha macamana nak lepasss!! tak ke ajaib tu! sedih..

begitu juga perumpamaannya dengan hidup ini. ada banyak halangan, ada risiko yg terpaksa di ambil, ada harga yang perlu dibayar. buatlah perubahan walaupun hanya amalan yang kecil dan mudah. ko masuk sekolah agama ke, masuk askar ke, masuk top skewl pun kalo tak ada keinginan sendiri nak berubah, keajaiban tidak terjadi.

awaklah keajaiban yang kami tunggu2. keajaiban yang kami cari2. jangan bazirkan kewujudan diri sendiri.

satu penghormatan bagi seorang pejuang

2007-06-05T17:20:00.000+08:00

Update mengenai tauliah uitm.
Pagi ini seorang kadet UTHM (kuittho) di laporkan meninggal dunia. semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat ke atas roh-Nya.

semalam kadet ini menyertai acara merentas halangan, sukan paling penting dalam acara pentauliahan. inilah penyertaan pertama UTHM dalam acara gilang gemilang ini, pasukan mereka baru berusia 3 tahun. inilah pentauliahan sulung bagi anak didik PW II Junaidi, KSMJ rotu UTHM. saya juga anak didik cik junaidi selama setahun, sebelum beliau di postingkan ke UTHM yg baru ditubuhkan pada waktu itu.

merentas halangan satu sukan yang lasak, berlari 1.2km, memanjat tangga kambing, melompat tebing, crawling, monkey swing, tarzan swing, menembak. kadet ini telah berlari 1.2km, melepasi 7 halangan termasuk monkey rack (swing). sebaik sahaja kadet ini melepasi palang terakhir monkey rack, dia mula lembik, terhoyong-hayang dan pengsan. UTHM menerima banyak penalti kerana halangan2 seterusnya yg tidak lakukan oleh kadet tersebut. kadet ini di kejarkan ke ICU, koma, dan meninggal dunia pagi ini.

pagi ini kami dapat berita dari cik junaidi, kadet tersebut mengidap denggi. kadet ini demam2 ringan sebelum itu. kejap demam, kejap kebah. pada hari pertandingan kadet ini memang bersemangat dan ingin pasukannya menang. dia berikan persembahan terbaik untuk UTHM dan masih bertahan sehingga melepasi monkey rack. kami sangat kagum dengan semangat juangnya.

kalau dibaca sekali imbas, ramai orang akan membuat kesimpulan sukan lasak yang membuatkannya masuk ICU. kenapa tak mengesan denggi ini awal2 lagi? it make sense..

denggi adalah satu penyakit yang mempunyai tempoh matang. walaupun sudah dilakukan medical check up, denggi yang masih di peringkat awal, kadang-kala belum dapat dikesan. kita boleh mengesaki demam denggi dari simptom2 seperti demam sekejap2, sekejap sejuk, sekejap panas, loya, berpeluh2. budak ini barangkali tidak menunjukkan kecenderungan denggi yg jelas. teman sebilik saya di masukkan ke hospital kerana denggi masa tauliah disini 3 tahun lepas. itupun masih di peringkat disyaki denggi. 2 minggu kemudian, dibenarkan mengikuti latihan. UITM, let. kol. thantawi, jangan marah. kami nampak pekerja buat semburan, tapi insiden ini berlaku lagi.

saya mengenali cik junaidi sebagai seorang yang tegas dan tinggi semangat juang. saya pasti harapan UTHM juga menjulang tinggi untuk mengejutkan pasukan oldies dalam pertandingan tahun ini. situasi pasukan kecil seperti unimas dan uthm sama, kekuatan anggota yang ada cun-cun untuk pertandingan. itu sebab kadet tadi enggan mengundur diri dari pertandingan walaupun demam2 ringan. ia sangat bererti bagi mereka yang bermotivasi tinggi. mereka bercita2 tinggi dan berdaya saing. kadet2 ini kelihatan burned, cengkung dan kurus kerana latihan bersungguh2 selama beberapa bulan. mereka tidak mahu bazirkan usaha dan peluang sekali seumur hidup.

bagi saya allahyarham layak menerima watikah dari yang di pertuan agong kerana saya yakin dia ada ciri2 pegawai yang baik. semangat begitu sudah mencukupi. ini juga satu bentuk perjuangan, walaupun sekadar latihan, tetapi tiada bezanya bagi insan yang bermati-matian berjuang sehabis kemampuannya. jangan mudah membeza2kan kami sebagai membazir waktu dan duit negara, kerana anda tidak melihat pembentukan yang berlaku dalam diri kami.

perjuangan seperti ini tidak sia2. sama juga seperti syahid dalam pelajaran. satu penghormatan kepada kadet terbabit. semoga ia menjadi pengajaran yang baik bagi kadet2 yang tiada keinginan untuk berjuang, tidak menghargai peluang, dan tiada visi dalam palapes.

Pentauliahan Di Raja Palapes IPTA ke 26, UiTM Shah Alam

2007-06-03T11:58:00.003+08:00

Jadi, kawan2 tertanya2 ke mana saya menghilang. this is what i do, and what kind of life i've been living.

GAMBARAN UMUM
Sekarang sedang berlangsung Upacara Pentauliahan Di Raja Palapes IPTA ke 26 di UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor. sebanyak 12 pasukan palapes, daripada 12 IPTA seluruh M'sia turun ke UiTM dalam acara tahunan paling gemilang~ pentauliahan pegawai kadet kepada pegawai muda berpangkat leftenan muda. upacara berlangsung dari 27 mei -18 jun 2007. IPTA terlibat adalam UNIMAS, UMS, UKM, USM, UPM, UTM, UPSI, UTHM ( dahulu KUITTHO), UniMAP (dahulu KUKUM), UiTM, UUM.

saya telah di tauliahkan di sini pada tahun 2005, semasa saya masih tinggal di shah alam. sweet memory. sepatutnya tahun ini berlangsung di kuittho, tp banjir besar johor telah memindahkan pentauliahan ke Uitm semula. dulu saya di bantu oleh kadet junior saya semasa pentauliahan saya, sekarang saya membantu kadet junior saya dulu ditauliahkan pd tahun ini. being here again is exhilirating.

MY DUTY
saya in charge di bahagian sekretariat palapes unimas. kerja2 pejabat dan pengkeranian. saya menyukai kerja2 tersebut kerana minat dengan kerja pentadbiran. ilmu yang berguna apabila saya melapor ke kem nanti.

tempoh2 begini, sekretariat palapes tidak pernah lengang, 24 jam ada orang yang bertugas. kadang-kala kami menerima surat pada pukul 3pagi, dan menghantar surat seawal jam 7pagi. kerja pentadbiran banyak, kadet2 yang bertugas akan bekerja dari pagi ke malam. 3 minggu kerja begini memang menarik, saya melihat lagi banyak kerja diberikan kepada kadet, mereka lagi bersemangat. barangkali kerana kita memberi kepercayaan kepada mereka untuk mengendalikan sesuatu. saya yakin mereka boleh menjadi pegawai2 muda yang baik suatu hari nanti. kerja di sini menyeronokkan, tetapi kalau 3 bulan atau 3 tahun kerja begini..tak tahulah. kalau di unit2 ATM, begitulah gambarannya.

SPORT SHOWMANSHIP
semalam Palapes Unimas memenangi tempat ke-3 pertandingan bola tampar. VIVA!!!!
sudah agak lama kami tidak pulang dengan piala. kami berpeluang memenangi tempat ke-2, jika tidak bertemu UM. semua pemain UM pandai spike!

ada satu cerita yang agak menarik di gelanggang bola tampar kali ini. sudah menjadi kebiasaan setiap IPTA membawa segerombolan besar penyokong2 mereka untuk menyemarakkan semangat pasukan sendiri. mereka datang dengan trumpet, drum, botol mineral yg berisi batu2 kecil, kompang dan bendera untuk memberi sokongan. mereka akan hadir dengan traksuit palapes masing2 yg seragam, nampak lah hebat dan mantap sikit.

tetapi palapes unimas biasanya datang, lebih tempat duduk dari penyokong. bilangan kami sedikit, yg itulah pemain, yang itulah penyokong, yang itulah kuli. nak sokong bola jaring lagi.tetapi sudah menjadi syarat kami, mesti menang sorak. biar pasukan kalah, tapi jangan kalah sorak, sekurang2nya semangat itu mengubat hati jurulatih dan pegawai2 yang bertungkus lumus 3 tahun melatih kami.

semasa unimas berlawan dengan UPM di gelanggang, tidak semena-mena kadet2 dari UKM datang berkerumun memberikan sokongan. ramai sekali yang datang. mereka mengibarkan bendera unimas dan ikut memberi sokongan padu pada team unimas. naiklah semangat pasukan kami. rupa-rupanya UKM mahu bantu menewaskan UPM. UPM sudah bertahun2 menguasai gelanggang. kami berjaya menewaskan UPM.

kata kawan saya 'entah dari mana diorg datang. bersorak dengan budak2 ni. aku ingatkan dah kenal lama.. lepas sorak2, diorang tanya-tanya nama lak..bengong.'

pasukan sorak memang penting. kami mementingkan pasukan sorak kerana moral pemain banyak di pengaruhi pasukan penyokong, secara tidak langsung. mereka sudah ada byk ilmu sorak yg diperturunkan dari generasi ke generasi. taktik paling kami mahir ialah psiko pemain. dulu semasa saya tauliah, kami lawan dengan UPM, ada seorg pemain berasal dari Kunak, Sabah. apa lagi, pengokong kami bertempik "kunakk!!kunakk!!" hehe tak senang duduk member. ataupun bila pemain lawan gagal menyambut bola, pasukan kami bersorak "no. 10 lubuk!! siapa lubuk?? no 10 lubukkk!!" ganas? hehe pasukan sorak tu penting..

penyokong merupakan motivasi kepada pemain, lagi2 kami yg datang jauh dari seberang..
HIDUP PALAPES UNIMAS!!

TEMUBUAL BERSAMA USAHAWAN TANI

2007-05-24T14:09:00.000+08:00

Berikut adalah ulasan seorang usahawan tempatan, Encik Mohammad bin Azoddin, pengasas Chengai Indah Enterprise dari Alor Setar, Kedah. Beliau memberi pendapatnya tentang semangat keusahawanan survival tinggi serta kualiti usahawan dari segi modal insan kelas pertama. Berikut adalah pandangan beliau:

RAHSIA MENJADI USAHAWAN SURVIVAL TINGGI DENGAN MODAL INSAN KELAS PERTAMA

Ini adalah intisari pengajian falsafah dan tasawuf dalam islam. Manusia perlu bersyukur dalam serba serbi kehidupan walaupun dalam serba kekurangan atau hidup susah tanpa meminta-minta. Perlu rasa tenang, bahagia, mencukupi apa yang ada (qana’ah), berani, tidak risau tanpa takut kepada sesiapa, rasa bebas merdeka, tidak busuk hati dan hasad dengki, tidak haloba, tidak malas, bakhil, boros dan sebagainya.

Manusia juga perlu percaya pada diri sendiri, suara hati dan naluri. Mesti suka menolong dan memberi. Bersekolah dan menuntut di universiti bukan untuk sekadar mencari ilmu pengetahuan tetapi untuk mencari bagaimana memenuhi keperluan hidup. Ilmu ada di mana-mana bahkan dalam diri sendiri seperti mana motivasi, bukan dari luar tetapi terpenting mencari bimbingan dari dalam diri iaitu taufik dan hidayah.

Proses pembelajaran itu sebenarnya adalah pembentukan pemikiran manusia untuk mendapatkan apa yang di kehendakinya tanpa melanggar hak-hak orang lain. Pengajaran islam melalui rukun iman dan ibadah tertentu bertujuan untuk mengawal pemikiran manusia supaya mengutamakan kerohanian itulah yang sebenarnya yang menjadikan manusia berani, tenang, bahagia, maju, kaya dan terkenal.

Tetapi penganut agama islam tidak mengkaji dan memahaminya seperti mana orang barat lakukan. Itulah yang di katakan bahawa ilmu itu umpama barangan mukmin yang hilang dan perlu di cari, di pungut semula jika menjumpainya di mana-mana. Orang alim itu adalah terdiri daripada orang-orang berilmu yang kenal tentang dirinya, tentang manusia, tentang makhluk-makhluk dan alam semesta untuk mengenal tuhannya. Siapa yang mengenal dirinya nescaya kenal akan tuhannya.

Dalam membaca buku-buku dari barat, hendaklah berhati-hati supaya kita tidak keliru menganggapnya berasal dari barat tetapi sebenarnya mereka mengambilnya dari tamadun islam di waktu kegemilangannya. Orang-orang islam pula menceduk dari barat secara membabi buta tanpa mengkajinya. Jika dikaji tentang Presiden US pertama, Abraham Lincoln dan Mahatma Gandhi dari India dan lain-lain, itupun mengamalkan pemikiran islam dalam kehidupan dan pemerintahan mereka sehingga menjadikan mereka antara manusia agung di dunia.

Saya banyak membaca buku-buku penulisan Carnegie, dan Napoleon Hill yang bertajuk You Can If You Think Can dan Think and Grow Rich dan lain-lain, telah mendapati kebenaran ajaran islam sebenarnya ada di dalamnya. Tetapi orang islam hari ini sibuk dengan perkara remeh temeh yang merugikan, yang merosakkan perpaduan umat islam itu sendiri.

Hati orang-orang islam terutamanya bangsa kita yang beragama islam cukup teruk sebab itu mereka berfikiran negatif, jumud, busuk hati, tidak dapat berdikari, tidak bergantung pada diri sendiri tetapi bergantung pada orang lain, kerajaan, benda lain dalam serba serbi khurafat, tahyul dan sebagainya. Kita boleh jadi kaya berasaskan tauhid kerana islam gemilang kerana iman yang menjadi peledak perubahan.

Dunia ini pentas lakonan, perlumbaan, persaingan, tekanan, paksaan, perhambaan, kepalsuan, tempat tipudaya syaitan dan manusia di mana kita amat memerlukan tempat berlindung, pertolongan, pergantungan iaitu tuhan dan diri sendiri.

Apa yang kita cari sekarang ini adalah produk dan barangan yang senang di jual, di perlukan ramai orang, yang sedia ada dan mudah dimulakan, harga murah, mampu dimiliki semua orang, unik, tidak banyak orang mencipta dan menjualnya, modal permulaan tidak banyak, kalau boleh tidak perlukan kebenaran, lesen atau permit, senang dipegang, dipindahkan dan di bawa ke mana-mana. Tidak memerlukan peralatan khas, seperti peti sejuk, pengangkutan tanpa risiko kerosakan atau tidak habis di jual.

Pengeluaran banyak mana pun boleh orang lakukan, tetapi untuk memasarkannya dan mempromosikannya itu yang bermasalah dan memerlukan modal, tenaga kerja terlatih serta sokongan kerajaan, pihak tertentu. Jangan terlalu mengharapkan sokongan agensi kerajaan termasuk bank-bank dan sebagainya. Kita harus mempunyai daya kerja keras dan usaha sendiri. Inilah hakikat yang akan bakal-bakal usahawan temui dan hadapi agar tidak terperanjat bila sudah menceburkan diri nanti. Selamat berjaya.

Profil usahawan:
En Mohammad b Azoddin adalah bekas pekerja Jabatan Pertanian. Beliau yang bersara awal dan mengasaskan Chengai Indah Enterprise pada tahun 1997, syarikat yang mengeluarkan produk organik berjenama BIOST yang berasaskan teknologi EM. Produk-produk syarikatnya adalah baja dan racun organik, pemulihara tanah, hormon akar, bokashi EM serta beliau juga mengadakan contract farming, membeli buah, membekalkan benih, baja dan tiang buah naga merah. En Azoddin memiliki 3 premis perniagaan iaitu di Alor Setar,Kedah, di Sri Kembangan dan Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Produknya boleh di dapati di semua cawangan Carrefour seluruh Malaysia. Untuk maklumat lanjut sila layari www.biost2u.com.my atau hubungi 012 564 8531.

TEMUBUAL BERSAMA USAHAWAN CENDAWAN: PN ZAINON ARIFFIN.

2007-05-24T14:00:00.000+08:00

Saya telah menemubual seorang usahawan cendawan tiram dari Ulu Selangor iaitu Pn Zainon Ariffin. Pn Zainon, 45 tahun adalah lulusan UITM dan ibu kepada 3 orang anak telah mengusahakan cendawan tiram kelabu hampir 2 tahun. Ladangnya, Genting Permai Resources yang terletak di Batang Kali seluas satu setengah ekar di usahakan bersama keluarga dan seorang pekerja tetap. Saya kagum dengan Pn Zainon yang ramah, tidak lokek ilmu dan sporting menjawab soalan, rasanya perbualan tersebut bukan sekadar temubual, tetapi lebih kepada temulawak.

SAYA: Bagaimana puan bermula dalam perusahaan cendawan ini?
PN ZAINON: Saya bersara awal dari Telekom, selepas beberapa bulan duduk di rumah, saya rasa eloklah berbuat sesuatu. Kebetulan kawan saya dari Shima Agro mengusahakan cendawan dan tawarkan contract farming dengan saya. Orang lain cari kursus dan pinjaman dahulu, saya terbalik, saya tanda tangan kontrak dahulu. Baru cari kursus dan bantuan kerajaan. Pemasaran sangat penting, oleh itu saya ikat kontrak dahulu untuk menjamin pemasaran. Ramai pemborong berjanji akan ambil cendawan dari kita, tetapi akhirnya mereka tidak datang, itu biasa terjadi. Jadi saya mengikat kontrak dahulu bersama Shima Agro dengan modal permulaan RM50 000.

SAYA: Bagaimana puan dapatkan bimbingan dalam perniagaan ini?
PN ZAINON: Pertama sekali apabila menandatangani kontrak tersebut, mentor saya adalah Shima Agro sendiri. Kemudian saya mengikuti kursus Jabatan Pertanian selama 3 hari di Putra Jaya. Saya juga mengikuti kursus praktikal dan teori selama 8 minggu di Agro Pac anjuran UPM. Kami di bawa melawat ladang-ladang cendawan seperti di CMC dan MITA.

SAYA: Boleh puan ceritakan sedikit tentang ladang puan?
PN ZAINON: Ladang saya seluas satu setengah ekar di Batang Kali, Ulu Selangor. Saya mengusahakan cendawan tiram kelabu. Setakat ini hanya setengah ekar yang di gunakan untuk rumah cendawan, rumah rehat dan bengkel. Ada 3 buah rumah cendawan di sini, iaitu rumah cendawan, rumah tuai dan rumah eram. Baru-baru ini pejabat pertanian bermurah hati meminjamkan 2 kuarters kepada saya. Dalam satu rumah ada 6 rak ukuran 20 kaki x 30 kaki. Jarak antara rak pula 17 kaki x 3 kaki. Setiap rak boleh memuatkan 1 500 beg cendawan. Kalau pandai menyusun bolehlah memuatkan 10 000 beg cendawan.

SAYA: Apa kandungan medium yang puan gunakan untuk cendawan?
PN ZAINON: Habuk kayu getah, dedak dan kapur pertanian. Kapur untuk meneutralkan habuk kayu dan dedak itu makanan cendawan.

SAYA: Berapa perolehan dalam sehari dan bagaimana puan memasarkan cendawan?
Jawapan Pn Zainon selanjutnya dan temubual penuh boleh diikuti di blog karier saya: BOKASHI FARMER. klik di sini

THE POWERFUL CIRCLE OF BLOGGERS

2007-05-21T15:49:00.000+08:00

Hi, there! How G.R.E.A.T are you feeling today? I am surfboarding in the sky! Fantastic day it is. Tell yourself that today is a FANTASTIC day.

A BIG FAN OF MY FRIENDS
I’ve been following my friend’s blog and quite surprise with their performance. They created sustainable credibility among the readers, these people keep coming to the weblog for juicy ideas, daily inspiration and motivation. I am always a big fan of them, almost a compulsory to check out their latest articles. Their article is their ideology and maturity. Guess that’s what most blogger feels, they themselves are a big fan of their friends.

POWERFUL BLOGGERS
These powerful, emerging young motivational bloggers such as shueqry, dikmal, linn comel (to name just a few I’m very familiar of) in our local scene are very determined. They are being original, they project solid voice and in time has grown into mature youth. Shueqry himself in these past few weeks has quadrupled his number of visitors compared to mine at 7000 hits! While im hibernating, he’s running on the fast track! Dikmal is another influential motivational blogger from Malaysian generationext. I see her talent in sustaining a harmonious relationship with fellow bloggers and her readers besides serving motivation at their simplest and most practical form.

One of professional blogger that I believe inspires, or at the very least ignites blogging interest in most of us is pakdi. He took blogging seriously at early youth, evolving ever since into a financial based theme of various issues. Esprit the Corps is one of the 70 most influential weblogs in Malaysia recently. So, blogging is a powerful tool, for any means you desire. You want to be radical? This is the s.p.a.c.e. Political review, art & entertainment, social networking, or even job for instance zahiramli, blogging on tax, KHEDN and related matters, is an education for the public.

CIRCLE OF INFLUENCE
Bloggers are influenced by each other. They adapted ideas of others into their writing, hybridizing a new idea with their own and creating new elements which soon will be applied by others. You know why? Robert T. Kiyosaki said the people you choose to make friend with will give a lot of influence to you. By his term, if you want to be a bussinessperson, you have to make friend with bussinessmen. In blogger’s circle of influence, these people from different background, expertise and passion will project bright ideas and different perspective that feed your own creativity. Different individual will be polarized towards different subject. But the application of idea is always there.

In a few years to come, I see these bloggers will have stronger bond with their readers and leading them to a new direction in philosophy and its application. Their tendency towards originality, specific dimension of idea is an indicator of maturity.

LITTLE THINGS THAT MAKES US HAPPY
Inspiring people is a satisfying contribution. You benefits the society, you help the needy, you polishes your skills, talent & ability, you inspires people, nurtures a philosophy, develop your own asset, and you yourself is growing and evolving with the readers. These are the little things that excite us the most.

Excitement is the fuel. The motivation. They are abundance to be explored. EXCITEMENT for me is everywhere, and they can be very simple and principal. I writes email in Hindi to my penpal bhayya (brother), is an excitement. I get some comments on my blog, is an excitement. I get some good info from fellow bloggers is an excitement. I watches people linking back to my blog is an excitement. Excitement could be many things. Create one. It’ll linked to many.

Now, although I will be disappearing every now and then, I will return with stronger formulation and application of self development. Rising from a hard-knock experience need a going and growing motivation. We will plant seeds of success in every hole of painful mistakes using the very basic and most powerful tool, the m.i.n.d.

HEY! BANGUN DARI KEGAGALAN!

2007-05-21T15:46:00.000+08:00

Bangun sekarang juga. Kegagalan yang berlaku bukan episod pertama dalam hidup anda. Saya yakin anda pernah mengalami kegagalan-kegagalan lain sebelum ini. Dalam perjalanan hidup ini kita akan menempuhi lebih banyak dugaan, kita mesti bertekad untuk membuat persediaan.

MELIHAT DARI DALAM TEMPURUNG
Terdampar dalam kesusahan tanpa jalan keluar yang jelas memang membuntukan akal. Entah mengapa rasanya masalah ini betimpa-timpa, makin bertambah pula, dari dulu sampailah hari ini tiada penyelesaian. Agaknya aku ini sudah di takdirkan hidup beginilah, aku sudah tidak mampu melawan takdir lagi. ini rintihan Mr Aku, sesiapa sahaja di luar sana yang senasib.

Mr aku, pemikiran yang begini, tidak berpotensi mengeluarkan diri kita daripada masalah. Anda terlalu mempercayai nasib malang, terlalu hiba dengan kesusahan, emosi yang tidak seimbang dan tidak mampu melakukan apa-apa. Perubahan memerlukan masa. Berapa banyak, atau berapa suntuk waktupun, masa memerlukan perubahan. Selagi tidak di jelajahi pemikiran baru, tidak mencuba kelainan, selagi itu tidak nampak jalan keluar dan peluang yang terdampar di hadapan mata.

Percayai konsep Law of Attraction. Percaya habis apabila anda menginginkan sangat sesuatu, tuhan akan memperkenankan anda memilikinya. Ia akan menjadi kenyataan. Jangan takut bermimpi tinggi. Berfikir cara yang sama akan menghasilkan keputusan yang sama. Jangan takut rebah tidak mampu berdiri lagi. Mengasah motivasi diri memerlukan insan bermimpi tinggi. J.a.n.g.a.n takut g.a.g.a.l. Bermulalah keluar dari belenggu kegagalan dengan bercita-cita tinggi. Tulis, lukis kehendak anda dalam sekeping kertas. Tampal di dinding, tulis dalam diari atau simpan dalam dompet di mana anda boleh membacanya selalu.

Modal insan kelas pertama adalah jati diri yang tinggi. Anda percaya diri. Walaupun menghadapi kegagalan perit anda tetap ada kepercayaan diri anda boleh berjaya. Anda mahu membuktikan sesuatu dari kegagalan. Berusaha mengumpul semangat, dan jangan putus bekalan semangat. Pembekal semangat yang baik adalah keluarga, rakan taulan, takwa dan motivasi.

MEMBINA KAYU UKUR PERUBAHAN
Perubahan mungkin mengambil masa yang agak lama. Anda boleh mengukur perubahan yang anda lakukan dengan membuat perbandingan hari demi hari. Kalau perubahan itu lambat sekali, bandingkan diri anda minggu demi minggu. Adakah semalam anda menangis, hari ini juga masih begitu? Berapa kali anda marah-marah minggu lepas? Dan minggu ini bagaimana? Ucap tahniah pada diri anda jika telah menunjukkan perubahan positif. Teruskan. Jika perubahan itu semakin negatif, jangan lekas patah semangat. Anda sedang melakukan perubahan, anda mungkin memerlukan lebih masa dari orang lain, teruskan berazam.

MENGURUSKAN PERSPEKTIF ORANG LAIN
Di saat anda berazam memperbaiki diri, orang sekeliling tidak menghargainya dan tidak memahami. Anda merasakan mereka masih menilai anda sebagai anda yang dahulu. Jangat patah semangat kerana anggapan orang. Letak semua sindiran dalam folder bullsh*t. Jadikannya pembakar semangat. Anda memerlukan masa untuk berubah, apatah lagi pandangan orang lain yang tidak tahu menahu azam baru anda ini.

RAHSIA MEMULAKAN IMPAK MAKSIMA
Kejayaan itu datang menghampiri apabila anda sudah sebati dengan sikap positif. Mulakan perubahan dengan menanam impian dan azam memperbaiki diri. Anda percaya kepada impian dan potensi anda. Peluang akan datang satu per satu. Semakin kuat anda berusaha, semakin anda menarik satu demi satu peluang. Dengan resapan pemikiran positif, anda menjadi semakin berani bersuara dan mencuba. Dengan menyuarakan hasrat, orang lain dapat memahami kemahuan anda dan mengiktiraf impian anda. ini kerana anda telah mengiktiraf impian sendiri dengan berani menyuarakannya pada orang lain. Ayuh! Bangunlah dari kegagalan

Utusan Malaysia: BicaraJutawan dipantau kerana offer skim cepat kaya?

2007-05-18T20:17:00.000+08:00

hmm.. saya kesuntukan masa sebenarnya, tetapi tidak dapat tidak untuk menyokong kebenaran. bicarajutawan.com (BJ), sebuah forum komuniti tempatan yang di asaskan oleh pakdi, yang juga memiliki blog esprit de corps di siarkan dalam utusan malaysia sebagai laman web cepat kaya!

itu satu tuduhan yang tidak benar. sebagai salah seorg drp 1733 org ahli setia, pakdi selaku founder tidak pernah memberi laluan untuk sebarang scam dan ponzi untuk menjengah ke threads2 di BJ. tuduhan tdk berasas ini memberi promosi percuma kepada pakdi dan BJ, tahniah juga kerana pakdi memahami psikologi pembaca dengan mempromot habis2an aktiviti BJ di blognya esprit de corps. baca petikan dari Utusam Malaysia ini.

37 laman web skim cepat kaya dipantau
(credit to Utusan Malaysia)

KUALA LUMPUR 17 Mei – Pusat Keselamatan Siber Malaysia mengenal pasti 37 laman web yang dipercayai menawarkan aktiviti pelaburan skim cepat kaya melalui Internet berdasarkan aduan yang diterima daripada orang ramai dalam tempoh dua tahun lalu.

Antara laman web yang menawarkan pelaburan mencurigakan ialah www.carigold.com, www.cakapgold.com, www.jutawan.org, www.jomklik.com, www. gurumalaysia.com, www. wangcyber.com, e-bazaar2u. com dan www.bicarajutawan. com.

Pemangku Pegawai Ketua Eksekutif pusat itu, Leftenan Kolonel (B) Husin Jazri berkata, orang ramai mudah tertarik dengan laman-laman web itu kerana ia kononnya menjanjikan pulangan lumayan dalam jangka masa singkat.

“Laman web skim pelaburan itu mendapat sambutan ekoran sikap para pelabur sendiri yang mudah terpedaya dengan tawaran dan janji manis yang tanpa disedari sebenarnya satu penipuan,” katanya kepada Utusan Malaysia di sini hari ini.

Ditanya bagaimana badan itu mengesan status sesebuah laman web itu sama ada ia mencurigakan atau tidak, Husin menjelaskan, pihaknya sentiasa membuat penyelidikan dan siasatan secara menyeluruh terhadap setiap aduan yang diterima.

Ujar beliau, skim cepat kaya menerusi Internet biasanya didalangi orang tempatan namun kebanyakan laman web yang menawarkan pelaburan itu menggunakan hos di luar negara.

“Orang yang ingin menipu sentiasa ada di mana-mana saja tidak kira ia dilakukan oleh rakyat tempatan atau orang asing,” ujarnya.

Menurutnya, Pusat Keselamatan Siber Malaysia bekerjasama dengan kerajaan dalam menguatkuasakan undang undang yang lebih berkesan.

Husin menambah, dalang skim cepat kaya Internet yang berjaya dikesan akan dihadapkan ke muka pengadilan.

Sehubungan itu, beliau menasihati orang ramai agar tidak terlalu tamak dan mudah terpedaya dengan skim-skim pelaburan di Internet.

“Jangan sekali-kali melabur dalam skim cepat kaya Internet. Orang ramai perlu bekerjasama dengan Pusat Keselamatan Siber Malaysia untuk membanteras kegiatan haram ini.

“Kalau betul-betul minat ingin melabur, orang ramai boleh mendapatkan pengesahan daripada pihak kami sama ada laman web berkenaan sah atau tidak sebelum membuat keputusan,” katanya.

Orang ramai boleh membuat laporan berhubung laman-laman web yang mencurigakan dengan menghubungi Bahagian MyCERT di Pusat Keselamatan Siber Malaysia melalui talian 03-8992 6969 atau mengirim e-mel kepada cyber999@cybersecurity.org.my.
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hmm..saya sebenarnya sudah menyediakan satu rencana berjudul THE POWERFUL CIRCLE OF BLOGGER, tetapi tdk bercadang menyiarkannya hari ini, nak buat surprise...alih-alih aku yang surprise..

saya menyuarakan sokongan penuh kepada pakdi dan ahli2 BJ untuk menghadapi dakwaan palsu ini. kami akan bersatu dan membasuh dakyah2 merepek ini. lagipun, di BJ lah saya lebih banyak belajar mengenai kewangan, pengurusan masa hadapan, mempromosikan weblog ini dan membina kredibiliti untuk kerjaya impian saya pada masa akan datang. anda boleh lihat perbincangan kontroversi terhangat yg mutakhir di threads BJ, klik di sini.

kudos kepada rakan2 BJ seperti dikmal, the baker's place, En. aku, alyani & lebanon yg memberi sokongan dalam blog mereka. maybe i should elaborate more on the powerful circle of blogger.

Mastering the Secret: Use Your Emotion to Guide Your Attention

2007-05-09T13:31:00.000+08:00

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

-Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

One luminary who seemed to have a grasp of the secret was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He spoke of the process of nonviolence. The process of nonviolence presupposes an understanding that the group or individual that presents violence to a problem of violence only generates a more intense form of violence and no real progress can ever be made that way.

This is an essential element to the teaching of the Secret and will be discussed on my website. What you bring your observation to will come back to haunt you again as an echo of your own attention and intention. It is like the feelings you are emanating, in order to bring more of what you don't want must be hateful, angry, guilty, fearful. However, if you are interested in changing the direction toward which your wheel of fortune is turning, the feelings that you produce by thinking the thoughts you think will give you the most powerful clue to attracting what you want.

from impax:
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MERDEKA CARA BERDAULAT

2007-05-04T11:47:00.000+08:00

50 tahun merdeka bukan tempoh singkat. Negara kita di bawah jajahan asing lebih lama lagi. India mengambil masa hampir 100 tahun memperjuangkan kemerdekaan. Apa pengajaran merdeka bagi rakyat Malaysia?

Peperangan adalah satu saat yang sukar bagi orang awam biarpun perajurit. Menjalani latihan peperangan sahaja sudah terasa peritnya, belum lagi di kejar peluru musuh. Dalam peperangan, heroic hanyalah satu penilaian (penghargaan). Its either you live or die, make quick decisions. Anda pernah menonton combat movies? The thin red line, behind the enemy line atau saving private ryan memaparkan situasi peperangan yang realistik. Tekanan perasaan, kebuluran, penyakit, kekejaman akan merasuk perajurit. Tahanan perang di perlakukan seperti anjing. Nyawa orang awam dan harta benda tiada nilai.

Bapa saya pernah menasihatkan, a soldier who is non political minded is a mindless killing machine. Ia benar, sebab senjata adalah simbolik kuasa. Kita mesti tahu menilai hak dan batil, bukan mengikut membuta tuli. Dengan berfikiran kritikal baru nilai kuasa itu ada harga kemanusiaan. Yang kita dengar dalam televisyen, tentang askar gila yang membunuh, merogol tanpa peri kemanusiaan adalah individu yang berada dalam situasi tekanan dan risiko yang besar, sehingga tidak dapat membezakan betul dan salah. Mereka ini ada kuasa tetapi tiada pertimbangan.

Pokoknya, memiliki kuasa itu penting, memilih penguasa itu penting dan menguasai ilmu itu penting. Mengapa menguasai ilmu akan memerdekakan anda dari dikuasai orang lain? Kalau sudah lama menjadi anjing, di latih menjadi suruhan, bila diperlakukan cara yang salah sudah tidak pandai melawan. Tidak tahu lagi betul dan salah. Jangankan membela orang lain, anda mungkin tidak mampu membela diri sendiri. Pada pendapat anda, salahkah Tuah yang setia tidak berbelah bagi pada Sultan Melaka membunuh Jebat?

Merdeka cara berdaulat adalah memahami kebebasan itu dalam dua perkara. Tanggung jawab kita pada tanah air, harta benda dan orang lain dengan memberikan orang lain hak-hak mereka. Satu lagi ialah mengetahui kebebasan dan hak kita supaya orang lain tidak boleh mengambil kesempatan dan melekehkan kita. The law of attraction. Prinsip keseimbangan alam. What goes around comes around.

Tak mustahil kita di jajah sekali lagi 50 tahun lagi. Sebab itu kita mesti bersyukur dan bersedia. Banyak lagi simbolik kepada kuasa. Bersedialah untuk penghidupan yang ini, dan yang akan datang.

BAGAIMANA MENJADI MOTIVASI KEPADA DIRI SENDIRI

2007-05-03T14:45:00.000+08:00

Insan yang cemerlang dalam hidup mempunyai motivasi diri yang tinggi, di kelilingi insan yang menyayanginya dan tahu melakar bahagia. Insan yang cemerlang juga mempunyai masalah, mempunyai saat sukar dan risiko yang mereka ambil. Namun, mereka memiliki motivasi diri yang tinggi, satu sikap yang menyumbangkan kepada kejayaan dan pengurusan emosi yang baik.

Anda perlu mempunyai moral untuk berjaya. Seperti dalam post saya yang terdahulu, saya terangkan moral bermaksud pembakar semangat, motivasi, inspirasi untuk berjaya. Moral anda mungkin keluarga anda, ibubapa, kekasih, insan-insan yang kita sayangi. Anda boleh menjadikan mentor sebagai moral kerana mereka adalah contoh kejayaan dan menjadi inspirasi kepada anda supaya tidak putus asa. Bagaimana pula dengan insan yang rasa dirinya tidak ada moral? Keluhan mereka, tak jumpa sapa yang boleh aku jadikan moral. Itu bukan alasan untuk tidak bersemangat!

MORAL SAYA ADALAH DIRI SENDIRI
Jadikan diri anda sebagai moral kepada diri sendiri. Beritahu diri anda, AKU ADALAH MORAL KEPADA DIRI SENDIRI. Anda inginkan perubahan dan bertekad untuk menerima cabaran ini demi diri sendiri. Anda faham semua orang mesti berusaha gigih untuk berjaya, tidak kisahlah siapa, apa atau berapa moral mereka. Anda memiliki peluang yang sama banyak dan percaya diri anda boleh berjaya. Dengan memilih diri sendiri sebagai moral, ucapkan tahniah kepada diri sendiri kerana ia menunjukkan anda sudah memiliki rasa percaya diri yang tinggi.

JANGAN BERHENTI BERUSAHA
Empayar Rom tidak dibina dalam sehari. Tan Sri Bukhary mengambil masa 38 tahun untuk bergelar billionaire. Jangan berpatah arang dalam berusaha, walau pun ini kali ke berapa entah anda mengalami kegagalan. Thomas A. Edison, pencipta lampu eletrik semasa di wawancara oleh Napoleon Hill seorang penulis buku Think and Grow Rich pernah berkata, “saya tidak gagal sebanyak 100 000 kali untuk menghasilkan lampu ini, tetapi saya menemui 100 000 cara untuk berjaya”. Islam menganjurkan amalan yang sedikit, tetapi berterusan. Dengan erti kata lain, perubahan itu harus menjadi amalan. Mulakan berdikit-dikit, alah bias tegal biasa. Lakukan dengan rasa senang hati dan berniat untuk melakukannya lagi esok.

SAYA BERDAYA SAING
Beritahu diri anda, saya berdaya saing. Saya bersemangat. Saya bukan lemah dan lembik. Lawan suara-suara dalam minda anda yang mengatakan anda tidak boleh berjaya. Anda mesti menanam tanggapan positif dalam diri untuk mengubah cara anda berfikir. Sikap berdaya saing bukan genetic. Ia bukan khusus untuk atlit sukan, pemidato, eksekutif-eksekutif muda dunia korporat atau untuk mereka yang berpakaian kemas, bertali leher, dan bersuit mahal. Ia satu elemen percaya diri sendiri. Percaya dengan kelainan anda, kekurangan anda, kelebihan anda ada nilainya sendiri. Anda bersedia untuk memperbaiki diri tidak kisahlah ditahap mana anda berada di ketika ini. Anda melihat berdaya saing bukan situasi arnab dan helang yang berterbangan di udara, tetapi perumpamaan anak burung yang tidak berhenti berusaha untuk terbang. Berdaya sainglah secara positif. Semoga percaya kendiri anda bertabah baik.

KERASUKAN

2007-05-02T17:38:00.000+08:00

Saya teringat satu peristiwa setahun yang lalu, semasa saya menyertai khemah tahunan Palapes Unimas ke Lundu, Sarawak. Ia adalah pengalaman pertama berdepan dengan orang kerasukan, kerana saya tidak melihat atau bertemu dengan orang yang hysteria atau dirasuk, dan tidak juga memiliki kekuatan untuk menghadapi kemungkinan itu.

Saya bertugas sebagai salah seorang pegawai muda kepada peringkat intermediate palapes unimas, saya bertanggungjawab dengan kebajikan, keperluan dan disiplin kadet-kadet tersebut. Sebelum masuk peringkat pertahanan, kami berlabuh di tebing sebuah sungai yang indah, airnya sejuk di bawah kawasan riparian (sungai yang diteduhi oleh rimbunan pokok-pokok.). Kami mengadakan bakbeku ringkas pada malam tersebut, selepas mendengar ketua platun (kadet) membacakan perintah pertahanan.

Setelah beberapa hari latihan mara, kadet-kadet keletihan dan agak mengantuk. Beberapa orang mulai sakit dan demam. Yang kurang sihat akan dibantu dan dipantau. Ada seorang kadet perempuan, saya lihat mukanya pucat malam tersebut. Dia nampak ceria, tetapi agak pucat dan mulutnya kebiruan. Kami (pegawai) sentiasa bertanyakan keadaannya, dan dia akan menjawab dia tidak apa-apa, Cuma kesejukan. Semasa penyampaian perintah, kadet ini berpeluk tubuh di tepi unggun api barbeku.

Malam tersebut meriah dan ceria. Kadet perempuan ini kami panggil shark. Shark nampak ceria malam tersebut dan banyak bersembang. Saya mempelawanya daging barbeku, tetapi dia menolak, katanya dia tidak makan daging. Apabila malam makin larut, hujan turun gerimis-gerimis, malam itu terasa semakin sejuk. Shark duduk berhadapan unggun api ditemani rakannya, dia nampak semakin lemah. Shark mengadu kesejukan, dan kami letak kakinya (berkasut but) lebih hamper dengan api.

Saya menghubungi markas untuk meminta kenderaan memindahkan shark ke rumah sakit. Untuk mengurangkan kesejukan, saya memicit-micit badan shark. Keras betul tubuhnya. Tiba-tiba kawan saya menegur kaki shark sudah masuk dalam bara. Kami kaget dan segera mengalihkannya. Masakan budak ini tak terasa bahang? Shark mengadu kesejukan pula dan tubuhnya semakin lemah. Kami mendengar dalam lemah shark mengucap kalimah syahadah berulang kali. Anak matanya tenggelam dalam kelopak mata, shark separuh sedar.

Saya masih tidak mengesyaki apa-apa waktu itu kerana tiada naluri yang pelik-pelik. Tiba-tiba budak itu minta nasi. Bila dihulurkan sepinggan nasi, shark makan dengan lahap. Dia tidak menggunakan sudu yg diberi. Saya waktu itu terlupa shark tidak makan daging, lalu menghulurkannya daging barbeku. Itu pun dia makan. Bila hulur air dia enggan minum.

Tuan razali menyuruh kami mengemaskan barang-barang shark segera dan menghalau kadet-kadet lain balik ke khemah. Saya ajak Kak Tikah, kawan saya untuk memapah shark. Kak tikah menolak. Katanya dia tidak cukup kuat, dia takut. saya pun menjawablah takkan nak bagi orang lelaki yang angkat? Kak tikah membalas, melor tau tak kenapa tuan razali suruh hantar shark cepat-cepat? Kak tikah takut tengok mata dia, Melor tengoklah mata dia.

Sudah terlambat saat saya melopong. Mau tak mau saya, kak tikah dan beberapa orang kadet mengangkatnya ke trak 3-tan. Shark merengus, mendengus dan merota-ronta. Kami berdoa banyak-banyak supaya shark tidak mengamuk tiba-tiba.

Dalam trak, saya dipaksa duduk di hadapan dengan shark oleh kak tikah, saya pun paksa kak tikah ikut. Saya suruh semua kadet yang membantu tadi ikut sama. Kalau kak tikah tak pergi, saya pun tak pergi. Mau tak mau, kak tikah pun ikut di dalam trak. Hujan semakin lebat. Shark tertidur.

Perjalanan itu sungguh panjang dan menyeksakan saya. Bonggol jalan, pembinaan jalan, speed trap, lampu trafik semua merimaskan saya. Saya rasa sangat seram dan geram kerana rasa diperbodohkan seekor jin. Tengkuk saya kejang dan bulu roma saya berdiri. Di suatu bonggol jalan, shark terjaga. Dia nampak terkejut, dan memandang saya dan pemandu dengan curiga, serupa macam yang anda lihat dalam filem seram.

Saya pasti yang ini bukan shark. Dia mencium jari-jarinya dengan penuh hairan. Muka tak puas hati. Lalu di rapati saya yang duduk bersebelahannya dan shark halakan tangannya pada saya sambil bertanya, “siapa makan nasi ni?”

Kalau anda jadi saya, apa yang anda jawab? Saya kata dialah yang makan nasi tadi, saya yang bagi. Lembut dan mesra tona suara saya. Dia menggeleng.

“bukan. bukan saya yang makan nasi, ” katanya sambil mencium jarinya lagi. Dia menghulurkan jarinya ke hidung saya supaya di cium. Tolonglah. Saya sudah menindih tingkap. Saya bertanya dengan senyuman yang menguntum, habis tu siapa yang makan nasi? Shark ketawa kecil. “Adalah..”, jawabnya. Dia ketawa dan menyanyi-nyanyi sebelum tidur semula.

Saya rasa macam hendak melompat dari trak. Tiba-tiba shark bangun dan berkata. “oh, ya. Terima kasih bagi makan, hahaha”

Saya harap saya pengsan saja waktu itu. Cukuplah, cukuplah. Perjalanan itu agak jauh, menyebabkan shark terjaga lagi. Sebelah badan saya rasa sangat seram. Shark kebingungan, dan tanya saya kemana kami hendak pergi. Saya pun ajaklah dia berbual-bual tentang aktiviti malam tadi, kalau-kalau saya dapat mengesan bila dia mula dirasuk. Dia memang tidak ingat dia di rasuk, dan dapat pula bercerita tentang aktiviti malam tadi.
Shark ada berpesan tentang sesuatu yang mencurigakan.

“Puan, pesan kat budak-budak, jangan kencing kat dalam hutan tu, diorang marah,” kata Shark. Saya bertanya hutan yang mana? Siapa yang marah? Katanya lorong ke hutan berdekatan lorong yang menuju ke sungai. Saya teringat petang tadi saya tersesat masuk sebuah lorong semasa menuju ke sungai. Saya tak sedar yang saya tersalah lorong, kerana zaman kadet dahulu kami sudah biasa dengan tempat ini. Bila saya dapati makin jauh ke hutan, saya berpatah balik dan terhidu bau hancing dari sebuah rimbunan. Saya geleng kepala, apalah budak-budak universiti ni tak ada kesedaran sivik. Rupanya ada rahsia di sebalik kejadian.

Sampai di markas tek, sekali lagi saya dipaksa menemani shark. Kak tikah marah bila saya kata itu bukan shark sepenuhnya dan saya tak mau ditinggalkan sendirian. Aduh, kena tinggal lagi. Shark pula tak mau tidur sepanjang malam. Dia merayau-rayau dalam bilik sambil membaca papan-papan notis. Solat saya hilang tumpuan, tak tahulah apa yang saya baca kerana ketakutan. Malam itu, kami habiskan masa dengan berbual-bual sampai ke pagi.

Moral of the story, syaitan akan mengambil kesempatan terutama sekali pada orang yang lemah. Itu sebab kita mesti jadi muslim yang kuat. Dalam hal-hal sihir dan alam ghaib, eloklah kita bersedia dengan pendinding diri. Amalkan ayat-ayat Al-Quran. Antara amalan menangkis bisikan syaitan ialah mengamalkan ayat Kursi. Amalan yang baik untuk menangkis sihir dan ilmu hitam adalah mengamalkan ayat 3 Kul, iaitu 3x surah An-nas, 3x Surah Al-Ahad dan 3x surah Al-Falaq.

Selain itu, jaga kebersihan terutamanya yang berkaitan dengan najis dan darah. Tak kisahlah anda di tengah hutan, di tandas awam atau perhentian lebuh raya, amalkan kebersihan dengan sebaik-baiknya. Semoga kita dilindngi-Nya dari marabahaya dan godaan iblis.

Nilai Seorang Pegawai

2007-05-01T18:13:00.000+08:00

Palapes banyak mengajar saya tentang nilai diri seorang pegawai. Apa etinya menjadi seorang pegawai dan apa harganya menjadi seorang pegawai.

Bagi seorg kadet nak menjadi seorg pegawai tak susah. Sapa2 pun blh jadi pegawai, lepas 3 tahun dapat seketul. Baik yang rajin, rajin menuang, yang aktif, gemuk, kurus, pendek semua blh bergelar pegawai muda. Sistem tidak begitu kejam sampai menapis2 pegawai kadet dengan criteria tertentu utk pass selepas 3 tahun, selagi kau mahu berada dlm palapes, selagi itu kau hidup sbg palapes.

Namun begitu, tujuan menjadi kadet adalah untuk menjadi pegawai. Pegawai yg bagaimana? Yg bertanggungjawab atau lepas tangan? Yg korup atau memimpin?

Kualiti seorg pegawai muda itu di garap dari zaman kadet lg. ciri nombor satu seorg pegawai ialah kepimpinan. Dia mesti tau bagaimana utk memberi arahan dgn jelas. Ia adalah seni membuat keputusan dgn tepat. Arahan mestilah tidak bertimpa2. YO ni cakap lain, YO tu cakap lain, rank holder cakap lain. Berikan arahan yg spesifik kepada orang dan tugasan tertentu.

Pegawai mesti pikul tanggung jawab dan jawab semua kesalahan. Itu sudah mesti. Segala kata putus adalah di tangan seorg YO, kadet dan LLP hanya menjalankan perintah, selaku jentera kpd gagasan. Semua tanggungjawab, keputusan muktamad adalah di atas ‘seketul’ yg di galas d atas bahu tu. Pegawai saya selalu menegaskan, samada apa2 rancangan berjaya atau tidak, kejayaan dan kegagalan yg bakal berlaku adalah di tanggung oleh pegawai. Adalah tidak tepat utk menyalahkan kegagalan atas lain-lain pangkat (LLP), kadet atau org bawahan lain jika kesilapan berlaku, kerana tanggungjawab tersebut di pikul oleh PEGAWAI!

Seorg pegawai ada sifat diplomasi. Mesti ada timbang rasa dgn anak buah. Sapa sakit, sapa ada assignment, sapa punya giliran, mesti ada fleksibiliti yg berasas. Saya masih ingat pesanan kapten saya, pegawai ni mesti ada tolak ansur. Contohnya apabila seorg mat cha’ie bagi alasan tak sihat, nak cuti padahal dia sihat tp mood tak baik sikit, sekali sekali bagi lah dia cuti. Apa? Tak patut? Zaman kadet dulu pun saya pikir begitu. Tapi jawab pegawai saya, pekerja pun macam kanak2, kadang2 mereka pun perlu perhatian. Tanyalah sikit macamana dia rasa, berilah cuti sekali walaupun kita sebenarnya tau dia bkn sakit sgt. mana tahu,dia mmg memerlukannya. Setelah saya sendiri jadi pegawai, saya dapati kata2nya tepat. Itu secara peribadi.

Yang terakhir, jadilah pegawai yang boleh memimpin, bukan membuli. Kata seorang prebet, askar yg suka membuli ni tak di belasah cukup2. org yg biasa kena belasah tak suka belasah org lain. sebab itu saya kata nak jadi pegawai senang, 3 tahun dapat seketul. Tapi jadilah pemimpin yg memberi inspirasi pd org lain. Membakar semangat dan meningkatkan motivasi dlm diri kadet. Pegawai muda yg baru tauliah paling senang terjerumus dlm kategori membuli utk suka suki. Hati-hati. Nak menyuruh tak salah, biar berhemat, biar berasas, bukan suka hati.

Kalau nilai2 ni tidak d pandang penting dari zaman kadet lagi, tiba masa jadi seorg pegawai, kadet akan bersikap penting diri, autoritatif atau kurang aspirasi. Itu sebenarnya cerita kelahiran seorg pegawai.

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ADA APA DENGAN PUTUS CINTA?

2007-04-26T11:38:00.000+08:00

Life is a learning process. Berapa teruk pengalaman cinta yang lepas telah memberi parut pada anda? Did you learn anything?

Setelah lama menjalinkan kasih, cinta yang putus di tengah jalan akan terasa amat menyeksakan. Anda lemas dalam udara. Fikiran yang kosong terasa menyesakkan. Anda terbakar dalam hujan dan hati membeku di bawah terik mentari. Perkara-perkara kecil yang mengingatkan anda kepada si dia membuatkan anda menangis. Siang dan malam berlalu tanpa sebarang erti. Mengapa begitu? Impak cinta amat besar kerana cinta merupakan motivasi yang hebat.

MORAL
Cinta boleh menjadi moral seseorang. Dalam ketenteraan, moral bermaksud pembakar semangat. Kebanyakan kita menjadikan orang tersayang sebagai moral untuk berusaha lebih gigih dalam pekerjaan, pelajaran, perniagaan dan apa lagi. Insan ini memberikan anda motivasi untuk berjuang. Barangkali jua anda melakukan pengorbanan ini semua untuknya. Orang yang bermotivasi tinggi, juga memiliki impian yang tinggi. Jadi apabila anda hilang moral, anda merasakan hilang semangat, dan mula menyaksikan impian anda menghempas bumi.

PERTAHANKAN ISTANA IMPIAN
Justeru, anda harus berwaspada, kesedihan dan lemah semangat akan menumpulkan kreativiti. Oleh kerana asas impian tersebut adalah insan teristimewa ini, anda mula melihat hasrat hancur lesap apabila si dia tidak lagi menyokong istana kayangan anda berdua. Anda silap sebenarnya, anda sepatutnya membayangkan anda membina istana itu dengan lebih baik lagi! Lindungi istana anda yang tidak bersalah!

Belajarlah memperbaiki diri sendiri melalui pengalaman. Setiap kali perkara buruk berlaku, belajar untuk memperbaiki keadaan pada masa akan datang. Sesetengah perkara adalah takdir di luar kemampuan kita untuk mengubahnya. Itu tidak mengapa, tuhan itu lebih mengetahui apa yang di lakukannya. Tetapi anda tidak boleh menyerah diri pada arus takdir semata-mata, dambakan kasih-Nya dalam satu impian yang lebih baik. Dalam hidup ini, tuhan menemukan anda dengan beberapa pilihan yang salah supaya anda menghargai orang yang betul. Pengalaman akan mematangkan seseorang. Memiliki insan tersebut bukan satu jaminan bahagia. Bahagia itu datang apabila anda teruskan menciptanya dulu, sekarang dan akan datang.

WE'LL CARRY ON!
Si dia barangkali tidak akan kembali. Namun haruskah anda berteka-teki dan terus mengharap kepulangannya? Jika anda masih mengekorinya secara sembunyi-sembunyi, anda masih tidak teruskan kehidupan. You have not moved on yet and he/she is still holding you back. Tanya pada diri sendiri, anda semakin resah dan terseksa atau sudah boleh teruskan hidup dengan tenang selepas mengendap begini? Come on, carry on with your life.

PILIH UNTUK TIDAK MENYESAL
Tahukah anda, anda sebenarnya boleh memilih untuk tidak menyesal? Anda boleh memilih untuk tidak menyesal di atas apa yang terjadi! Tumpukan seluruh fikiran kepada keputusan yang di buat, percaya dengan NEKAD bahawa ia bukan satu keputusan untuk di kesalkan dan berazam untuk memiliki hidup yang baik. PILIHLAH UNTUK TIDAK MENYESAL KERANA MEMILIH HIDUP YANG LEBIH BAIK SELEPAS INI. Sedikit demi sedikit, anda sudah tidak mengekorinya (anda mengekorinya tak?), tidak lagi menangis sendirian, tidak sensitif dan cepat sembuh dari duka.

Maafkanlah segala yang terjadi, jangan menyimpan rasa sakit hati untuk dibawa ke hari esok dan kemudian hari. Anda mesti belajar meninggalkan kenangan lalu jika mahu teruskan hidup.

Law of Attraction - How it Works?

2007-04-24T11:03:00.000+08:00

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne reveals that the only one law rules our life and that is the Law of Attraction. So what do this Law of Attraction tells us? How does it work?

Actually, the speakers in the movie, The Secret, will be launching a home seminar called The Science of Getting Rich. They would discuss more on the Law of Attraction and how to apply it in our daily lives. But basically, the movie states that we can interact with the universe.

Many would ask how? The answer is simple. The universe is made up of energy, and we are also made up of energy. In fact we are spiritual in nature. Our main components are atom and these atoms are made up of energy. It is very hard to explain but this is what the movie tells us. We are composed of energy that can interact with each other.

We can interact with the universe around us. If only that we focus our selves on the good feelings that we have, we are telling the universe to attract all the positive things to us in order for us to rich our dreams. If we focus on the bad side of our life, we are telling the universe about these bad and negative things, so it would always attract our lives. The law of attraction is very simple. Just focus on the things that can make us happy and we will attract good things to come into our life. We may think that it is impossible but there is nothing to lose by thinking positively, right?

To understand more on this issue, just watch the movie The Secret and I can assure you it can change your outlook in life.

Marching the Black Parade

2007-04-23T14:11:00.000+08:00

When I was A young boy, My father Took me into the city To see a marching band. He said, "Son when You grow up, Would you be The saviour of the broken, The beaten and the damned?"~song: Welcome to The Black Parade,by My Chemical Romance.

This song, as described by gerard when he recently appeared on fuse, says the man in the song, they called the patient, is dying in a hospital. And his most treasured memory was when his father took him to a parade when he was a young boy. And gerard says he believes that when you die, death comes to you in any form you want it to. So as this man is dying, remembering his father and the parade, death comes to him as a black parade~ by anonymous

is it hard when the love one is leaving? let it be our little child, spouse, mother, father or if we ourself are in the process of leaving the love one behind.

fear of death.

i have no intention to write about motivation for this post. tell me how you or the people you love encounter death.

I DARE YOU

2007-04-23T14:06:00.000+08:00

by Oscar Bruce

The world at large steals your youthful enthusiasm and unbridled confidence , piece by piece, bit by bit. Fiends and relatives throw sand in your dream machine. They've conformed to the pressures to become ordinary, and insisted you do the same. They compromised by downsizing their dreams and restricting their field of vision.

I DARE YOU to free your mind from these cultural constraints. To RESIST the pressure to become ordinary. To IGNORE those who give you're their version of why you can not rise above mediocrity.

I WANT TO CHALLENGE YOU to free yourself from the shackles of your past conditioning. To break the chains that bind you to false beliefs about what you can do with your life.

I DARE YOU to aim at something worthy of the best that is in you. I maintain that you are a better, more capable person than you have experienced so far, or that others have led you to believe you are.

TODAYS PREVAILING IDEOLOGY IS NOT SELF IMPROVEMENT. It is self preservation. People no longer dream of surmounting difficulties to gain all they desire. Most people live in complete servitude to the "survival mentality". They hope merely for "coping".

I AM PROMISING YOU that living aggressively changes the whole complexion of life. Not until you dare to attack will you master your fears completely. Suddenly you step into a new world of adventure. Horizons are pushed back on all sides. Opportunities open up that were previously unseen. The sleeping giant within you is stirred and awakened. On that priceless day you will discover that have a new power. The power to rise above the lives of those around you.

CHALLENGES ARE THE STUFF OF LIFE. Going after what you want, pursuing what is important to you. Everybody loves to be a winner, a star, a hero. Nobody want to be a loser, a failure. Americans love to be number one.

IT IS THE BASIC NATURE OF MAN TO ACHIEVE. To explore the full potential of the human spirit. Deep down in every heart is the desire to be somebody, to get somewhere, to be respected. Every individual yearns to make something of his or her life.

NO PERSON CAN BE HAPPY unless they are expressing their inherent potential, fully and completely. A life that satisfies is impossible without a sense of achievement and fulfillment.

THE BRAIN NEEDS OBJECTIVES. Most of us begin our journey with no end in mind. Then one day we find ourselves somewhere we don't want to be and don't have a clue how we got there. Nothing diminishes a life more than nowhere to go. A mind with idle time and nowhere to go becomes filled with contradiction and doubt. Nothing enriches a life like being a part of something big.

THINK WHAT IT WILL MEAN TO YOU to possess the calm assurance that you are one of the few people in the world who know exactly where they are going and how they are going to get there - and that attainment is only a matter of time. That you have something to believe in , a mission that gives purpose to your life. Your days filled with meaningful tasks.

I DARE YOU to think bigger, to act bigger and to become bigger and I promise you a richer life, a more exciting life. The rewards for daring in this world teaming with opportunity were never so rich or so plentiful. Science, business, education are all looking for rare individuals who dare to face life creatively and aggressively. Who dare to attach, rather than to defend or compromise.

IS WHAT YOU HAVE NOW, WORTH WHAT YOU MIGHT BE MISSING?

I DARE you to stop putting conditions on the word commitment and dedication. I dare you to stop putting limitations on your dreams

Can You Handle Deferred Success?

2007-04-21T16:00:00.000+08:00

Are you willing to fail to the point of success?

No! Well you should be.

Failure is what leads to success; it is proof of action. All your efforts that lead to failure should be praised and rewarded, for they are moving you in the direction of the success.

In all areas of life, the people who are forging ahead with progress are the ones willing to fail, because they know enough failures lead to success. They know that success is just being deferred with each failure, not prevented.

The only way to surely fail is to stop attempting. If you fail twice and give up, you can now be sure you will not succeed. But you are the one placing the guarantee on it not the situation.

The key is to just keep going.

Thomas Edison sought failure eagerly, he knew with each failure he was a little closer to a solution. The faster he failed, the sooner he got to the prize.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - - Winston Churchill

When the results don't come out as you want it's time to review what transpired then determine a new adjusted plan of action.

There is a success called plan called, plan, do, review, which is self explanatory and simple. But this basic process repeated over and over will bring you closer and closer to the intended result. Implement this simple process I everything you do and you will see two things. You will start to embrace the natural process of discovery and understanding, and you will see success.

Fear is one of our worst enemies when it comes to success. In two ways many people allow fear to defeat them.

One, the fear of failure right from the beginning prevents them from even get started. They are so concerned about what could possibly go wrong that even getting started is too hard. Second, they allow the fear of continual failure to become stronger than their convictions and drive. They allow their fears to meld with worry to sabotage their intentions.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. - -Paulo Coelho

So what does it take to overcome these fears?

1- Determination--Having a very strong drive and focus on the desired result helps to keep one strong through adversity. In the classic book "Think And Grow Rich", Napolean Hill said you needed to develop a white-hot heated burning desire to succeed. When this burning desire becomes strong enough it will override the disappointments of interim setbacks, giving you the drive to persist.

2- Perception--A key trait of the people who can accept failure and forge through it, is they don't see failure as the end. Rather they look at it as a learning opportunity, a point to assess, adjust and go again. How you perceive something and interpret it determines how you allow it to effect you. And this is certainly the case with the fear of failure. The person who can continue through setbacks is one who sees them as momentary not permanent.

3- Self-concept--How you see yourself in terms of your right, ability and worthiness to be doing something can effect your confidence behind your pursuits. It is very helpful to come to a point where you know you are worthy of your desired goal. Know that you are just a worthy as anyone else and that delays and failures along the way are not signs that you don't deserve it. They are merely the means of discovery that everyone experiences. Work on yourself, develop a strong high self-esteem and you will be able to weather the storm.

If you want something bad enough you should be willing to stick with it to the point where there are no more failure options.

Failure really is a good thing. The people who fail the most win the most. I'm sure you have heard before that Babe Ruth with his home run record also holds the record for the most strikeouts. How can this be? Well, more strikeouts show more opportunities for homeruns. If he did not have all the opportunities to keep attempting home runs, he would never have hit them.

More attempts mean more strikeouts and more homeruns. Thomas Edison utilized this principle also, he was relentless and conducted experiments at a fast pace in order to get through the learning and adjusting phase quickly. He knew it was just how the process worked. There was no master conspiracy against him making things more difficult, just the natural process.

Both of these men knew that success was merely deferred, not impossible.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. - -Denis Waitley

Don't get mad, don't get disappointed, just keep going.

Focus your sights in the target and don't let the failures deter you. Visualize the things that don't go according to plan as deferred success, success only delayed for a while. Don't allow failure to be guaranteed by quitting. The success is there, you just need to properly align yourself with it and this may take a few or even many attempts. Are you determined to have a resolve stronger than the setbacks?

It comes down to choice, are you going to succumb to the roadblocks or are you going to take command of your personal growth and choose to learn from the failures? Will you continue to readjust and keep going at it until you eliminate all the reasons why not?

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure. Glen Seaborg - American Scientist & Nobel Laureate

About the Author:
John Halderman Smash stress, anxiety & depression -build self-esteem, self-confidence, motivation, change habits and experience success and happines. Model known success traits. http://www.designalifesystem.com/modelsuccess.html

MANUAL CARA MENGGUNAKAN FOLDER BULLSH*T

2007-04-20T18:21:00.000+08:00

Terima kasih kerana telah mempraktikkan konsep folder bullsh*t. Tahniah kerana anda tidak membiarkannya kosong dan segera mengisinya dengan fail-fail yang berkaitan. Usaha tersebut sangat baik berbanding membiarkannya bersepah-sepah tanpa sebarang tujuan. Jika anda tidak bercadang memasukkan kata2-kata negatif, ejekan dan caci nista itu ke dalam kategori ini, tidak mengapa. Anda cuma di nasihatkan supaya tidak mencampur-adukkan elemen tersebut dengan aspek-aspek kepercayaan diri, kekuatan semangat, keupayaan berdaya saing serta sikap-sikap yang betul bagi orang yang berjaya.

Folder ini boleh di manfaatkan supaya ia tidak di simpan sebagai pekasam dan di lupakan. Jika anda tahu menggunakannya dengan betul, komen-komen yang boleh membunuh semangat anda dapat memberi banyak faedah dan pengertian baru. Kadang-kala, kata-kata yang menghiris kalbu hanya menambah pedih luka lama. Bila lah sakit nak sembuh, pemikiran pun masih di takuk lama kalau luka lama asyik berdarah kembali. Barangkali itu berlaku kerana anda tidak tahu meletak kritikan di tempat yang betul.

Penggunaan folder tersebut ada dua cara mengikut amalan para jutawan seperti yang berikut:

KAEDAH #1: Jangan mempedulikan semua tohmahan dan kritikan pedas yang dilemparkan.
Anda tahu mereka tidak senang dengan kejayaan dan perubahan yang anda cuba lakukan. Idea anda itu melangkaui kebiasaan dan anda mungkin seminggu dua ini sedang bersikap ‘luar biasa’ berbicara ala-ala mat jenin, melangkaui graf normal ‘buang tebiat’. Manusia ini cenderung untuk melihat seseorang itu dengan identiti lama, identity yang biasa di kenalinya. Biarkan mereka dengan kejengkelan mereka. Sebahagiannya pula mungkin tidak sebijak anda. Janganlah anda cepat merajuk hati. Orang lain mungkin tidak faham apa yang anda lakukan kerana tidak celik ilmu, tiada pendedahan dan kurang kesedaran sivik. Anda tentu dapat mengendalikan orang-orang begini dengan lebih baik. Elakkan berprasangka buruk dengan orang lain.

Kaedah #2: Menjadikan kata-kata negatif sebagai inspirasi.
Anda boleh memanfaatkan kata-kata cemuhan sebagai aspirasi dan pembakar semangat. Ia menjadi faktor yang mendorong anda berusaha lebih gigih mencapai matlamat. Zahirkan kata2 tersebut melalui tulisan, lukisan, foto seseorang atau apa saja. Niatkan ia sebagai pencetus semangat untuk lebih berusaha, bukan untuk amalan bomoh hitam atau dendam kesumat. Hati-hati dengan dendam kerana itu tempat bertenggek syaitan.

Bila anda menzahirkannya, anda lebih fokus. Tiap kali hati terasa malas, minda terasa letih dan tujuan sudah lalai, kata-kata pedas ini membuat semangat anda terbakar semula. Tidak rugi menulisnya untuk motivasi diri. Anda mungkin akan tersenyum membacanya suatu hari nanti.

Di harap manual ringkas ini memudahkan anda untuk menyusun perkara-perkara penting dalam hidup anda mengikut keutamaan. Bagi sesetengah orang, melupakan kata-kata yang menyakitkan hati, layanan buruk orang lain serta pengalaman yang pahit itu sungguh sukar di lakukan. Kebanyakan kita juga begitu. Tetapi, mereka ini tidak dapat memaafkan orang lain, dan tidak pula dapat memajukan diri sendiri. Satu pembaziran potensi kerana mereka terlalu menumpukan pada kelemahan, bukan kekuatan mereka.

THE BULLSH*T FOLDER: Critics Management Files

2007-04-19T12:22:00.000+08:00

The ‘bullsh*t’ folder contains a lot of critics and negative statements made by other people about us. It is a folder keeping separated records about whom, where, what had been said and when did the verbal offense happened which does not interfere with other positive thinking databases.

I attended a motivational speech delivered by an MLM millionaire, and the energetic speaker asked the audience what excuses people made when they were invited into the business? What do people say to those whom involved in the business? Not enough time, not enough money, too risky, can’t speak in front of the public, too shy, too short, too square, too oblong, the list adds on quickly until there was almost 44 excuses and negative remarks listed.

Then he strikethrough every single word and said, “these are bullsh*t. They are what?”
The excited crowd replied powerfully, “BULLSH*T!!!”

Now, I might seems like enjoying myself reciting that word too frequent, they are not top paying adsense keyword, but my message here is to make strong impression on the ‘type of folder’. Some people bring your motivation down because they can’t see how you can become better than them. Some felt as if your dream are attacking or challenging them, and they can’t imagine you become better than before, as well as better than them. So save those words in your memory, it is something as important as bullsh*t.

What make a sustainable self development is always think optimistically, despite of what other people tell you. Wealth and success are no genetic engineering; the millionaire has to fight for their goals because someone labeled them as ‘average or less ability’. They think of success instead of failure, and they practice believing in themselves as well as hard work to reduce fear. They ignore critisms and built a very competitive spirit to in the money game.

Just like my sergeant always told us, “kena marah, maki, belasah tu semua, hujung kentut je, faham?”

“FAHAM, STAPPP!!!”

sesuatu yang peribadi

2007-04-18T12:55:00.000+08:00

kali ini, utk post ini, coretan saya adalah sedikit peribadi. ia adlah refleks kpd apa yg saya alami dgn situasi semasa yg berlaku d sekeliling. im feeling sentimental right now.

blog ini adalah satu dedikasi peribadi kepada semua rakan2 blogger dan pembaca di luar sana. saya mempunyai keinginan yg kuat untuk berkongsi pengalaman dan pengajaran yg berguna yg saya perolehi berdasarkan kesilapan2 yang saya lakukan. ini semua bertujuan untuk memberi panduan untuk menghadapi kesukaran dgn lebih baik, berfikiran optimis dan mengatasi konflik lebih baik dari apa yang saya alami. kadang kala, hati yang rawan akan tercari2 tempat bergantung, tercari2 nasihat yg lebih peribadi dan tempat yang lapang untuk menenangkan fikiran. apabila kita sudah mengetahui rahsia kejayaan, kesusahan itu menjadi lubang peluang yg hanya diri sendiri dapat melihatnya.

saya tertarik dgn perincian pembaca2 blog ini yg saya dapati melalui MyBlogLog. adakah anda tahu, melalui mybloglog, saya blh tahu dari mana pembaca datang, apa yg mereka baca dan apa yg mereka klik? [tapi jgn gusar, saya tidak tahu siapa anda, siapa yg klik apa atau sebarang maklumat tentang personaliti anda :) ].

kebanyakan pembaca yang melawat blog saya adalah rakan2 mybloglog.sebahagiannya teman2 bicarajutawan.com dan pelawat mereka. yang menarik perhatian saya ialah pembaca yang datang ke dare To Fail melalui search engine.

Saya selalu akan memerhati dari mana dan apa mereka taip di Google search engine sampai datang ke mari. Anda tahu apa yg mereka taip di search engine? baru2 ini ada yg taip 'kisah2 islam.download', 'bisnes kecil2an', 'jutawan senyap', 'lirik lagu mahakarya cinta', 'motivation failing factor'. Adalah juga 'manfaat e-commerse', 'graf peningkatan umur remaja', 'jutawan kaya' (dah jutawan, kaya lg :P), 'jurusan perubatan', 'kecemasan pelajar menghadapi ujian' yang saya rasa agak lucu.

namun, sebilangan kecil yang buat saya tersentuh hati adalah mereka yg menaip 'bagaimana menghadapi kegagalan dalam hidup' dan 'pengajaran sebalik pengalaman'. carian seperti inilah saya saya ingin jemput lebih kerap ke blog saya. saya akan hasilkan tulisan yg lebih bmanfaat lagi pd masa akan dtg.

tak kurang juga dengan seorang hamba Allah ni yang selalu menaip Dare To Fail di google search engine. hampir setiap hari dia ada. Anda ke tu? :) apa-apa pun, saya ucap terima kasih daun keladi, esok datang lagi kerana memberi sokongan yg padu kpd saya :).

bilangan pengunjung pun telah bertambah, dari satu waktu dulu zero kepada 30--40 org sehari. alhamdulillah. ini jauh lebih baik dari rekod awal blog saya travel to malaysia yg saya dah hantar ke mcm2 direktori. saya juga rasa teruja, sbb itu satu motivasi bagi seorg penulis blog. saya menggalakkan anda menulis satu artikel setiap hari kalau anda suka melakukannya, sbb anda juga akn rasa surprise dgn hasilnya.

semoga kita berjumpa di suatu hari nanti. Amin.

INTO THE MILLIONAIRE MIND

2007-04-17T15:44:00.000+08:00

There is more than one way to live this life. I am currently reading a motivational book entitled The Millionaire Mind, published by Bantam Book, authored by Thomas J. Stanley (2001), a professor of Georgia State University. He spends 34 years researching on the millionaire community. He is one of the modern days Napoleon Hill. His approach is academically oriented research while Hill concentrated on the philosophies and interviews with millionaires.

REAL vs MYTHS ABOUT MILLIONAIRES
What fascinating about the book is it uncovers the real life of millionaires, which most of time surprised me because it is 360degree different from what you see on TV. What kind of house a millionaire will look for when buying a new one? A new, modern house located at young neighborhood? Wrong. They prefer older house in older and friendly neighbourhood, because they believe it is better to purchase existed house than indulge into building business. Cost-effectiveJ. Anyway, who can assure the house really worth the asking price? There is no record yet. What about groceries? Do they go for expensive outlets? They prefer to shop for bulky goods at warehouse stores, they made shopping list, they repaired old shoes rather than buy a new one and most of them refinished their furniture rather than buy a brand new one. Well, that is not too difficult for us to do, isn’t it?

MODERATE LIVING
They live moderately below their earning. How about vacation? Paris, London, New York? Unlike the beauties and celebrities, only 4% skiing in Alps, 3% cruising around the world and 20% went to Paris with some of it subsidized by business purposes. 85% of them spent their nonworking time with tax consultant. Yeap. 86% of them visit the museum and 68% involved in community activities. I feel glad I’m an introvert.

ITS CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE THAT COUNT
These millionaires didn’t shine very much in schooldays (majority of them equals to CGP 2.6). Most of them were told they are not smart enough, too slow in learning and averaged in intelligence. But they are the type of people who think differently, find a niche business they love the most and have high creative intelligence.

THE KEY TO SUCCESS
The key is to think differently. They tend to look at things at different perspective. Rather than follow the crowd, they see a niche that can profit in the future and indulge their soul and energy to make it work. They are the type of students who give two answers and some descriptions in all objective test paper.

So that is what the millionaires do. Finally that makes sense to me what pakdi really wants to say about a classic video clip in his blog. The clip is about a few people who argue on the right formula for a math question. They really have different, silly calculation to get the same answer, just like the millionaires did. There is more than one way to live this life.watch this vid at pakdi's blog: Esprit De Corps

Focus Beyond Success

2007-04-16T13:34:00.000+08:00

Many people get really anxious when studying for the exams such as the PMP (Project Management Professional) or CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) and so their anxiety works against them. The reason that they are anxious is largely because of their fear of failure. We could say that their belief in the likelihood of their failure is stronger that their belief in their success. In order to find a way out of this mess, it helps to know a little of how the mind works.

Everybody wants to be successful. Of course it could be argued that some people obviously want to fail in life – but that means that they want to be successful in failing. And so when they eventually DO fail, they succeeded in achieving their life’s main goal. And that’s a level of success that few of us achieve.

When aiming for a goal, it is very important to concentrate on the successful outcomes of your task, rather than on the goal itself. For example, if you are studying for the PMP exam, you should focus on what you intend to do once you have your certification, rather than just on having letters after your name. You should concentrate on the benefits after the goal is achieved, because your energy ends where you have your focus (I’ll come back to this later).

For example, suppose you are playing soccer and you have to take a penalty kick.
If you concentrate really hard on taking the kick, you will become anxious and may kick the ball badly.

The trick is to imagine that you have just scored the winning goal. Imagine the crowd cheering -- actually hear them in your mind -- and hear them calling your name. Imagine how good the success feels, and how proud of yourself you feel. Imagine the other soccer players running up to you and hugging you and congratulating you.

If you do this, then you will relax and actually score the goal.

Because if you can truly make your mind believe that you can truly make something happen, then your mind will do all that it can to make it happen (this is explained by “expectancy theory”).

So if you say to someone “study hard, and try hard to pass the exam,” that is a waste of time because they are already doing that, and concentrating more on the problems will make them anxious and doubt their abilities.

It is much better to get them to focus beyond the end result. Tell them to think about how good they will feel when they pass the PMP exam. And how good it will feel, pinning on the little gold badge.

Tell them to imagine how wonderful and proud they will feel the first day they step back into their place of work as a PMP, to give the good news to their boss.

Tell them to imagine that they’re being interviewed in the future by a reporter from a big magazine, because the magazine wants to print a feature article on their successes.
Tell them to imagine how good it feels to be so successful in life.
Once they believe that, it will start to happen.

Your energy ends where you have your focus

Now, coming back to this statement. It sounds “New age”, but it’s not. A long time ago I practiced karate for a while. This is a very relaxing sport, which seems to be largely concerned with smashing things. I was trying to break wooden planks, but with no success.

My understanding of the “formula” was:

Strength + technique + tough hands
= (whatever you like/don’t like) smashed to bits.

I had the strength and the tough hands; in fact I could hit the plank repeatedly without hurting myself too much, and the technique appeared to be right too.

But then, as a result of some research, I started really believing that I could break the plank.

So now my formula became:

Strength + belief + technique + tough hands = (whatever you like/don’t like) smashed to bits.

So I focused and my mental and physical energy on a single point on the plank (and pictured it breaking) then hit it really hard. But I still couldn’t break it.

Then some time later I met a really sweet girl, who had an incredible knack for smashing things, let me into her secret.
She said, “Your problem is that you are focusing on the plank, but that’s were your energy ENDS, because your energy ends where you have your focus. If you want to break the plank, you have to focus on a spot 6 inches BEHIND the plank.”

So once my focus (or goal) was to reach a spot behind the plank, my energy ended 6 inches behind the plank, rather than on it’s surface. I would like to say that I was able to smash the plank on my very next attempt. That was not the case, because I was still training my mind to accept the new focus. But only a few days later I was able to smash it.

And I would like to say that the girl and I developed a smashing relationship, but it was not to be, because her focus lay beyond me.

Jim Owens PMP is a career Project Manager, Presenter and PMP Instructor. Director of Certification with PMI W Australia, Columnist with www.PMHub.net and Information Age Magazine. Visit Jim at http://www.PromotePM.org The Home of Project Management. Read Jim's poetry at: http://www.MyLoveIsLike.com

KEBEBASAN KEWANGAN MELALUI JALAN IBADAH (part II)

2007-04-15T14:19:00.000+08:00

BERAMAL DENGAN SELAWAT
Banyak sekali jenis selawat yang boleh di amalkan, namun selawat nabi juga sangat mustajab untuk kekayaan. Paling mudah dan praktis. Sabda Rasulullah SAW:

Siapa memperbanyak selawat kepadaku, maka Allah Taala akan menjadikan kaya kepadanya yang tidak akan fakir sesudahnya.

BERAMAL DENGAN ZIKIR DAN DOA
M. Ali Hassan Umar (1996) menyarankan, la khaula wa la quwwata illa billahil ‘aliyyil ‘azim, kalau dibaca setiap hari sebanyak 300x akan meluaskan rezeki, menghilangkan kesusahan serta menyembuhkan penyakit.
Melalui jalan doa, amalkanlah setiap kali selesai membaca Al Waqiah, bacalah sekali doa bagi surah tersebut.

KHASIAT WIFIK DAN RAJAH
Wifik dan rajah adalah samada huruf2, angka2, ayat-ayat yang merupakan wirid dan doa, sebahagiannya dalam bentuk diagram dan rajah. Ayat-ayat ini juga sebahagiannya adalah nama2 Allah, mana2 satu dari 99 nama Allah bergantung kepada khasiatnya. Wirid Asmul Husna biasa digunakan untuk memohon kepada Allah, sesuai dengan firman Allah dalam surah Al A’raf ayat 180:

Allah mempunyai asma-ul husna, maka bermohonlah kepadanya dengan menyebut asmaul husna itu.

Ramai orang agak skeptical untuk menggunakan wifik dan diagram. Barangkali kerana ia kelihatan seperti tajul muluk dan memiliki kuasa mistik luarbiasa yang merepek. Tetapi M. Ali Hassan Umar (1996) menerangkan, para ulama safussalihin ahlul hikmah wal makrifat, wifik dan rajah boleh juga di amalkan kerana mempunyai khasiat dan faedah yang besar. Ulama2 ini sudah melakukan percubaan2 dan pembuktian melalui amalan yang tekun dan atas dasar iman dan takwa, di sertai solat dan puasa. Bukanlah eksperimentasi kita yang biasa2 ini yang makan banyak bahan kimia, melihat perkara2 yang lagha’ dan hati kurang bersih.

Huruf2 dan angka2 tersebut adalah satu bidang ilmu hikmat yang tidak setiap orang dapat mengusai rahsianya. Itu terpulanglah kepada Allah Taala siapa yang dikehendakinya untuk mahir ilmu tersebut, dapat pula menghasilkan asas2 dan prinsip untuk dijadikan tunjuk ajar. Pernahkah anda terfikir mengapa orang cina memiliki diagram ying yang yang digantung di rumah dan mempercayai khasiat wifik mereka sendiri?

Tujuan saya mengupas buku ini adalah untuk memperkenalkan usaha2 dari segi amalan ibadah dan kerohanian, sesuai dengan pegangan kita bertunjangkan agama islam. Ada banyak lagi zikir, doa dan selawat lain, tetapi saya bercadang hanya untuk memperkenalkan jalan usaha yang boleh kita lakukan sahaja, serta contoh2nya. Anda haruslah mencari sendiri maklumat yang lengkap, contoh wifik dan rajah yang lebih jelas dan amalan yang bersesuaian dengan anda. Bagi saya secara peribadi, saya pernah mengamalkan 20 kali Al Fatihah selepas tiap2 solat mengikut saranan buku ini, demi mahukan beberapa perkara dimakbulkan. Selepas beberapa hari, saya dapat apa yang saya mahukan, beserta beberapa berita baik. Secara jujur, saya belum menjadikannya amalan harian.

RAHSIA JUTAWAN ISLAM TERBONGKAR
Mengulas tentang buku ini, semua jenis amalan yang disaran adalah majority amalan yang menuntut kesabaran untuk mengamalkannya. Anda perlu lakukan zikir beribu2, berpuluh ribu, berhari2 dengan kondisi tertentu. Maka anda sudah sepatutnya tahu, kekayaan dan kejayaan bukan durian runtuh, tuah yang datang bergolek. Begitu besar sekali harga kekayaan dari sudut rahsia islam sendiri. Namun begitu, islam mempunyai rahsia untuk mendapatkannya lebih cepat dari berpuluh2 tahun usaha, iaitu sertakan ibadat seperti ini.

Jika anda membaca buku Chef Li bertajuk Petunjuk Jalan Kekayaan, chef li bertemu dengan Pak Kiai Muhidin, jutawan Indonesia yang sangat warak dan menghabiskan banyak masanya berzikir dan beribadat. Kita mungkin terfikir, manakan dapat berjaya kalau hanya duduk meminta tanpa usaha gigih, namun pemikiran jutawan memang ada bezanya dengan orang biasa2. mereka tahu rahsia dan formula kejayaan. Mereka tahu jalan2 usaha gigih dan bagaimana untuk mendapatkan kebahagiaan hidup itu cara paling berkat sekali. Pak Kiai Muhidin lebih faham tentang rahsia rezeki yang berkat dan tidak putus-putus. Semoga ia menjadi teladan bagi kita.

Rujukan:
Amalan Murah Rezeki Kekayaan (1996) selenggaraan M. Ali Hassan Umar terbitan Darul Nu’man, Kuala Lumpur.
Petunjuk Jalan Kekayaan (2004) tulisan Dr Rusly Abdullah Ph.D terbitan Al-Ameen Serve Holdings Sdn Bhd, Kuala Lumpur.

KEBEBASAN KEWANGAN MELALUI JALAN IBADAH

2007-04-14T17:02:00.000+08:00

Rezeki kekayaan yang di perolehi secara lapang, mudah, di redhai dan melimpah ruah merupakan impian setiap umat islam. Rahsia kekayaan yang terkandung dalam langit dan bumi, dari jalan yang tidak di sangka-sangka bukanlah durian runtuh. Tetapi usaha gigih dari jalan ilmu dan amal yang seiring.

Barangsiapa yang bertaqwa kepada Allah SWT
Nescaya Allah akan memberinya rezeki dari arah yang tidak di sangka-sangka.
(Al-quran, Surah Ath-Thalaq ayat 2-3)

Saya ingin mengupas rahsia sebuah buku, Amalan Murah Rezeki Kekayaan: Berdasarkan Ilmu Hikmat Islam selenggaraan M. Ali Hassan Umar. Menurut para imam dan masyayikh: Imam Al Ghazali, As Sayuti, Ahmad bin Ali Al Bunni, Ad Dairabi, Ad Dumairi, At Talsani, Al Marzuqi, As Syazili, Abdul Qadir Jilani An Nazili, dan lain-lain,
satu-satunya cara yang mujarab dan mustajab untuk menarik, melapangkan, mempermudah, memperlancar dan mempercepat datangnya rezeki dan kekayaan adalah dengan amalan rohaniah berkat khasiat Al Quran, sembahyang, puasa, selawat, zikir dan doa.

BERAMAL DENGAN AL QURAN
Ada pelbagai surah dalam Al Quran yang dapat meluaskan rezeki. Al Waqiah dapat menolak kefakiran, pastinya amalan untuk menjauhkan muflis dan kerugian besar dalam perniagaan atau pelaburan. Cara beramal adalah membacanya setiap hari, pagi atau petang. Berdasarkan riayat Abu Ubaid, Al Harits, Abu Ya’la, Ibnu Murdaih dan Al Baihaqiy dari Ibnu Mas’ud ra. Berkata, aku mendengar Rasulullah bersabda:
Siapa membaca surah Al Waqiah setiap malam maka tidak akan tertimpa kemiskinan, dan surah Al Waqiah itu merupakan surah yang menyebabkan kecukupan bagi pembacanya, maka bacalah dan ajarkan kepada anak-anakmu.

Juga boleh memperolehi kekayaan memdadak berkat rialat (tirakat) Al Waqiah, dengan melakukan perkara berikut:

Puasa 7 hari di mulai hari Jumaat
Setiap kali selesai solat fardhu, baca Al Waqiah 25 kali dan diakhiri malam Jumaat
Pada malam Jumaat yang penghabisan, baca sesudah solat maghrib sebanyak 25 kali. Lakukan ibadat amalan kebaikan sehingga masuk isyak. Selepas solat isyak, baca Al Waqiah sebanyak 125 kali. Kemudian baca selawat 1000 kali.
Selepas itu, setiap kali subuh dan maghrib, jadikanlah Al Waqiah itu wirid di baca sekali masing-masing. Dengan izin Allah akan berkatlah hasil surah tersebut.

Sukar? Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, tiada jalan mudah untuk berjaya.

BERAMAL DENGAN PUASA & SOLAT
Saya petik salah satu amalan untuk memakmurkan hasil pertanian. Caranya dengan bangun malam sekitar jam 1, 2 atau 3 pagi, berwuduk dan solat hajat rakaat. Rakaat pertama, sesudah Al Fatihah bacalah Al Kafirun. Rakaat kedua, sesudah Fatihah baca Al Ikhlas. setelah salam, baca wirid ringan iaitu bismillah sebanyak 1000 kali. Selepas itu, berdoalah minta pertanian itu dapat hasil melimpah. Insya Allah, hasil akan berkembang sehingga menjadi kaya, banyak amal jariyah dan rajin beribadah.

Berpuasa untuk mencari pekerjaan bagi memudahkan rezeki adalah dengan puasa 2 hari pada hari khamis dan jumaat, minggu pertama dalam bulan Qomariyyah. Pada malam Jumaat ketika hendak tidur bacalah 3 ayat surah yusuf iaitu dari ayat 54-56. pada siang Jumaatnya sekitar jam 3 masih dalam keadaan puasa, tulislah ayat tersebut, lipat dan simpan denganbaik. Pada malam Sabtu menjelang tidur, bacalah la ila ha ilallah (1000x), subhanallah (1000x) dan astaghfirullah (1000x). Pada siang hari sabtu, gantung tulisan itu di luar rumah. Insya Allah, akan berjayalah anda mendapat pekerjaan.

Saya akan sambung lagi dengan usaha melalui selawat, zikir, doa dan khasiat wifik dan rajah. Tetapi perlu saya nyatakan di sini, amalan2 rohaniah seperti ini adalah satu bentuk usaha tawakkal. Anda masih perlu berusaha gigih dari segi material, praktikal dan teknikal, selain tawakkal. Kejayaan tidak datang bergolek, rezeki yang Allah janjikan tidak jatuh dari langit!

MAHAKARYA CINTA: Bagaimana Jutawan Memilih Permata

2007-04-13T15:21:00.000+08:00

Kau bagaikan udara
Yang membantu aku untuk terus hidup di atas dunia
Tanpamu ku lemah
Pasti aku tak berdaya
Kerana kau mahakarya cinta

Petikan lirik lagu ‘Mahakarya Cinta’ dendagan Faizal OIM ini sangat indah. Selayaknya yang di sebut mahakarya cinta itu hanyalah Allah yang Esa, tapi cinta sesama insan juga bagaikan udara. Begitulah dengan memilih pasangan hidup adalah salah satu aspek penting tentang masa hadapan. Sudah tentu kita tidak mahu perkahwinan dan kekayaan hancur dengan talak, isu harta sepencarian, hak penjagaan anak dan sebagainya.

Dalam sebuah buku bertajuk ‘The Millionaire Mind’ karya Thomas J. Stanley, jutawan mempunyai kriteria2 tertentu dalam memilih pasangan. Dalam kajian beliau, ada 5 aspek utama yang di garis oleh jutawan. 94% jutawan (daripada 698 orang responden) mengatakan kejujuran adalah asek pertama. Diikuti dengan bertanggungjawab, penyayang, berkeupayaan dan pembakar semangat/supportive. Mereka tahu komponen-komponen perkahwinan yang kekal, rata2 telah berkahwin hampir 20-40 tahun dan komited dengan rumahtangga.

Apabila di minta untuk menggambarkan pasangan mereka, jawapan2 pertama jutawan adalah merendah diri, tidak pentingkan diri, ada nilai tradisional, sabar dan memahami. Mereka juga menjawab rupa paras, tetapi ia bukan satu2nya factor, serta mereka miliki naluri terhadap kualiti2 lain. antara 5 kualiti yang menarik minat jutawan kepada pasangan mereka dahulu ialah bijak, jujur, periang, boleh bergantung harap dan menarik. Bijak yang mereka maksudkan pula adalah the ability to learn and adjust to anything. Tidak semestinya dari segi tangga pendidikan.

Azizi Ali dalam bukunya ‘Jutawan dari Planet Jupiter’ meggariskan 4 cara ke arah kebebasan kewangan. Pertama kita bekerja, kemudian aset yang bekerja untuk kita, durian runtuh dan akhir sekali mengahwini wang. Marrying into Money. Walaupun pilihannya atas tangan anda, adalah lebih baik kalau aset yang bekerja untuk kekayaan kita sepanjang 24 jam. Tidak menjamin jalan bahagia jika mengahwini seorang lelaki/wanita kerana wang, kemudian ditinggalkan pada suatu hari nanti kerana orang lain yang lebih penyayang atau masih hidup bersama2 tetapi seperti orang asing.

Tidakkah islam sudah menggariskan criteria pasangan ideal untuk umat islam? Anda akan dapati ia serupa dengan ciri2 yang diceritakan oleh jutawan2 ini. Pertama dalam senarai adalah agamanya, kemudian keturunan, hartanya, rupa dan ilmu. Alangkah islam itu sudah memberi panduan kepada perkahwinan yang menyumbang kepada kejayaan hidup.

Kajian ini berbeza dari apa yang kita saksikan dalam akhbar dan media eletronik tentang kehidupan selebriti yang penuh kontrovesi. Pemikiran jutawan tentang hidup adalah berbeza dari orang kebanyakan, pendekatan mereka adalah keseimbangan hidup dan rasa bersyukur. Mereka juga golongan yang berbelanja secara wasatiah, bersederhana dan percaya atau tidak, mereka sebenarnya berbelanja dibawah kemampuan mereka! Maknanya rumah agam yang anda lihat itu hanyalah sekelumit dari pendapatan mereka.

Dapat disimpulkan, jutawan mempunyai ilmu dan panduan mencari pasangan hidup yang sepadan. Mereka percaya kepada perkahwinan yang kekal dan bahagia itu lebih seimbang dari hidup membujang atau bercerai-berai. Mereka percaya wujud korelasi yang selari antara perkahwinan yang berjaya dengan membina kekayaan.

FEAR OF FAILING

2007-04-12T21:22:00.000+08:00

THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF SUCCESS
Why do we tend to make more excuses when feel afraid of failing? Excuses are always there. It is our nature to create ‘logical reasons’, ‘facts’ and ‘the truth’ to compliments the ‘fear of failing’ defense mechanism. Most of the time, we are not ready for the consequences. We don’t dare to take the pain, to hear the bad news or to risk the reputation. According to Mark Victor Hansen, the author of Dare To Win, F.E.A.R may be seen as acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself…~ Franklin D. Roosevelt.

FEAR DRAINS YOUR SELF CONFIDENCE
Fear is human natural defense system; it is good in critical time. But be aware, this type of fear limits us from trying. It is the biggest enemy of success! It creates roadblocks, anxiety, guilt and defensive behavioral which lead to a dead-end. It paralyses your desire. The more we think we want to make a change, the more uncomfortable the issue becomes. Do you notice how fear corrodes your self-confidence, self esteem and ambition? As long as we let fear control us, we will never dare to fail, or win. What makes you afraid the most, fear of failure or fear of success?

Confront your fear, and you can make them disappears ~ Napoleon Hill

MOMENTUM AGAINST INERTIA
To overcome fear, you need momentum against inertia. Momentum is the energy to MOVE an object from immobile state to moving state. Inertia is the energy inside a still object which REFUSES TO CHANGE from staying still, into moving. Fear of failure, is principle of science, you know. So there is solution to it and you can free yourself from fear.

Success is not something you get too easy, well, so do in getting failure.

BREAK AWAY
the key is to overcome fear. whenever you are push into difficult situation, face the fear. automatically calm yourself, not paralyzed yourself. take it as you are. dont feel paralyzed by the thought of making mistakes, be cool after mistakes, remember it is a lesson. a part of success. think of doing whatever you can do to make it work. whenever you want to do something different, DARE yourself. what do you got to loose when you dare to try? loose you fear.

FULL METAL JACKET: the spirit of teamwork & leadership

2007-04-10T15:20:00.000+08:00

teamwork and leadership are marriage made in heaven. how it is true. when i was a cadet, our coaching officers always emphasized on teamwork spirit and leadership quality.

i can still remember how my captain took it seriously.
when we were juniors, after a celebration on the end of annual training camp, we were supposed to regroup or we call it "roll-call" before dismissed. the rank holder counted our strength, and 3 of our squads were missing. they went home early to sleep, one of them went somewhere outside camp and they missed cleaning the place after party was over. we were tortured as long as they didnt return to the squads. my three poor friends get a loud slap across their faces. we felt pity for all the blame they had to take. and they felt guilty for putting everybody else into trouble.

flashforward after 3 years, we were in senior year. the final year is very critical for students, we have projects, datelines and tournament to entertain. all of us have personal commitements, we were torn between teamwork commitements and individual needs. without team spirit, our goal in tournament is nothing but a participation. Again we were tortured in the middle of the night and spend the night evaluate our priorities. it was not easy for everyone to settle on one decision, but right desicion making is number one in the list of winning the game.

a strong teamwork is crucial. different individual have different value and habit. we see discipline, ethic and commitement rather SUBJECTIVELY. when you think punctuality is very important, there are other people who dont take it serious. in order to syncronized the differences and bring people together, we need guidelines. to foster a team spirit needs leadership.

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Learn What Constitutes A Great Leader Then Become One Yourself
Leaders are born. Do you agree or disagree?

Sorry, there are no scientific proofs or guiding rules to substantiate this allegation.

Simply put, the potential to lead is based on the ability of a person to persuade or make others follow willingly. Leadership is a skill. Like any other skill, such as driving and biking, it can be learned.

Most of the well-known leaders started from zero, hardly knowing anything related to leadership. Others were even a burden to society until some twist of fate or circumstance brought forth their good side and provided the opportunity for them to show their leadership abilities.

If leadership can be acquired, it is worth considering what constitutes a great leader:

1. Some leaders did not plan to become one. They just made the right action at the right place and at the right time. A person who makes wise decisions and equates the right action in pressing times has the capacity to become a great leader.

2. The ability to command or delegate without coercion or intimidation is essential in a leader.

3. A leader takes responsibility for his follower's actions. This is under the principle of chain of command.

4. The attainment of objectives and welfare of his followers are of paramount importance to the leader.

5. Leaders do not have the monopoly of knowledge. In certain cases, the follower is more intelligent than the leader. This is especially true when it comes to specialized fields.

6. A leader knows how to give credit where it is due. He recognizes the help and inputs of his team and followers.

7. In making decisions, a leader must be objective. He seeks all information and listens to opinion of his team. From there, he makes his own decision.

8. A leader must know the best time to utilize monetary and non-monetary compensation to motivate followers to the achievement of the team's objectives. Uninspiring leaders only use material compensation to command obedience from his followers.

9. A leader knows how to capitalize on his followers' capabilities and strengths for the attainment of their objective.

10. A leader must be able to inspire others, show enthusiasm, and arouse interest among his followers.

Leadership is a skill that can be learned. It hones the persuasive abilities of a person in order to convince other people to take the best option.

With this checklist on hand, are you ready to lead? All you have to do is read the list and seek to apply each point in your everyday life. Pretend if you have to but do it. Do this and you will soon embody the skill of a leader.

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'Dopey' Sylvester Stallone- Made his Dream of Stardom a Must

2007-04-09T16:03:00.000+08:00

Surely one of the best examples of the power of commitment and how 'doing whatever it takes will get you what you want' is the story of Sylvester Stallone.

At his peak, Stallone was one of the most popular and highly paid stars in Hollywood, commanding a fee of US$20m per movie. Was he just born under a lucky star? Was he a naturally talented actor? Was he at the right place at the right time? Hardly. He was someone who seemed to have all the odds stacked up against him.

His family was so poor that his mother had to give birth to him on the doorsteps of a school. A blotched delivery by students caused a facial nerve to be severed, leaving him paralyzed on the right side of his face. As a result, Stallone had to live the rest of his life with slurred speech. He even had to deal with having a drooping lower lip and being made fun of because of his name 'Sylvester' (associated with the Looney Tunes cat). Despite all these limitations, young Stallone dreamed of becoming an actor and inspiring millions of people through his movies.

As you know many young people go through a phase of wanting to be an actor, a star, the difference between Stallone and the rest of youthful dreamers was that his dream was not a merely wishful thinking. To Stallone, it was an absolute must. He was truly committed to doing whatever it took to make it happen.

First he enrolled in acting school and then started going for auditions. Predictably, with his wooden acting, his dopey looks and his slurred speech, Stallone was rejected for every part he applied for. But he never gave up. Doggedly he just kept changing his strategy and taking action.

The way he landed his first part is a fine example of how he was willing to do whatever it took. When he was rejected after yet another audition, he pulled up a chair in front of the manager's office and sat down, refusing to leave unless they gave him a chance. After sitting there for hours, they were so moved by how much he wanted a chance that they relented and gave him a part. Although he appeared for a couple of minutes (as an extra), it gave him that first breakthrough he was after.

Unfortunately, that experience was followed by yet another string of unsuccessful attempts at getting another acting job. At that point, his wife told him to give up his 'stupid dream' and get a real job. His reply was, 'If I get another job, I would lose the only thing I have got going for me, my hunger.' 'By quitting and getting a job, I would be selling out on my dream'.

Stallone eventually wound up so broke and desperate that he was forced to sell his dog for $50 in order to survive. It was the saddest moment in his life because his dog was the one friend he had got left.

At this, the lowest point in his life, he watched a boxing match between then world heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali and Chuck Wepner, an underdog that everyone thought would be defeated within three rounds. What no one expected was Wepners' determination and tenacity. He lasted the total of fifteen rounds with Ali, just refusing to go down.

Sly was so inspired by what he saw that he had visions in his head about a movie that he was going to write. He started writing profusely for 72 hours non-stop until he finished the manuscript for 'Rocky'. He was so excited by the script because in his mind he knew that this was going to be the movie that would change his life and his fortune.

But when he went round attempting to sell his script, everyone felt that it was too predictable and that nobody would be interested in watching a movie about boxing. But he didn't give up. He kept on going and going until one company made him an offer of 125,000 for the script and the rights to make the movie. This should have made Sly overjoyed but his dream was to be an actor and not a writer.

So, he told them that the condition of sale was that he be cast as the lead actor. They objected saying, 'You're a writer! you're not an actor!' 'There is no way we will let you act!' But Sly stood his ground and refused to sell the script if he wasn't the lead actor. They even increased their offer to $250,000, but Sly kept insisting that he fitted the role of 'Rocky', and no one else. Although he was broke and hungry, he refused to sell out his dream for a six- figure pay check. That was his level of commitment!

Eventually they reluctantly agreed, on the condition that the movie be made on a shoe string budget of less than a million dollars and Stallone would get only $35,000 for the writing, directing and acting. Sly would however, get a percentage of the profits, if the movie made money. He agreed immediately.

The first thing Sly did when he got his money was to go in search of the man who bought his dog to buy it back. When he finally tracked down the man, he offered to buy his dog back for $100. The man declined his offer saying that he was not interested. Sly upped his offer to $500. Still the man refused. Sly again upped his offer, this time to $1000. The man still would not budge saying, 'No amount of money will ever convince me to sell this dog.'

While most of us would give up at this point, Sly knew that if he was committed to do whatever it takes, he would find a way. Eventually he did get his dog back. He paid the man a whopping $15,000 and also gave him a part in the movie as part of the deal.

When Rocky was launched at the box office, it grossed over $225 million and was nominated for ten academy awards (including best actor), eventually winning an Oscar for Best Picture & Best Director. Sylvester instantly shot to fame as an action star and lucrative offers came in for future blockbusters, which were to eventuate in First Blood, Rambo and the Rocky sequels. His eventual success came from the fact that to him, becoming an actor was truly a must. He believed that when you are committed enough, there is always a way!

About the Author:
Adam Khoo is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and a self-made millionaire by the age of 26. Discover his million dollar secrets and claim your FREE audio CD program '6 Ways To Achieve Anything' here.

CHEF LI: MENJEJAKI JUTAWAN SENYAP

2007-04-08T20:57:00.000+08:00

Saya ingin mengulas buku motivasi ini kerana (Dr Rusly bin Abdullah PhD) Chef Li mengutarakan konsep kejayaan yang sepadan dengan tema blog saya. Chef Li memberi inspirasi kepada insan biasa supaya mengejar kejayaan hidup dengan sabar dan mulakan secara kecil-kecilan. Walaupun bukunya yang masyhur ini sudah lama berada di pasaran, tetapi manfaatnya tidak ada istilah luput.

“Anda patut menjadi kaya. Anda tidak berhak menjadi miskin. Hidup di Malaysia tetapi tidak kaya adalah malang” ~ Chef Li

JUTAWAN SENYAP?
Siapakah jutawan-jutawan senyap yang di singkap oleh Chef Li dalam buku-bukunya? Istilah jutawan senyap di sini adalah golongan insan yang sudah mencapai tahap jutawan, tetapi tidak dikenali, langsung tidak glamour, dan mungkin tidak dikenalpasti oleh masyarakat. Jutawan Senyap ini menjalankan peniagaan yang tidak sensasi seperti peniaga pasar malam, penjaja di lorong-lorong kecil, peniaga jalanan yang tidak di pandang orang. Sebahagian mereka buta huruf, tamat darjah enam, janda atau ibu tunggal.

Tidakkah itu membuatkan anda terfikir bagaimana mereka melakukannya? Pertama sekali, Chef Li memperkenalkan anda kepada golongan misteri ini, kisah duka mereka dan bagaimana mereka melakukannya. Chef Li memberi petunjuk kepada anda bagaimana untuk mengenal mereka serta memahami konsep perniagaan betul. Tiada gunanya bisnes yang besar itu kalau keuntungannya kecil. Untuk memahami rahsia kejayaan ini anda perlu melihat dengan teliti dan membetulkan persepsi anda tentang perniagaan.

KISAH TELADAN UNTUK PEMBAKAR SEMANGAT
Melalui kisah-kisah kejayaan mereka ini, kita dapat memahami perniagaan dari ertikata etika dan sikap yang betul. Sikap itu yang membawa perniagaan tersebut menjadi atau hancur. Saya dapat memahami kegigihan billionaire bumiputera, Tan Sri Bukhari dari perjalanannya sebagai anak kampong sehingga bergelar billionaire. Chef Li memberi panduan bagaimana untuk memiliki semangat yang besar dan melupuskan segala rasa malu, rendah diri dan takut gagal.

Barangkali masih ramai diantara kita yang mempunyai tanggapan kerja pasar malam, tanam sayur, bela ayam dan jual cendol itu tidak ada potensi dan masa depan. Pelajar-pelajar di universiti juga tidak terlepas dari pemikiran tersebut sebenarnya. Berapa ramai yang tamat pengajian dan menulis resume berbanding yang tamat pengajian dan menulis kertas kerja projek. Walau pun begitu, kecenderungan masing-masing adalah sesuatu yang kita harus terima sebagai subjektif. Apa yang saya ingin sampaikan disini adalah, rezeki yang tidak di pandang orang itu kadang kala adalah rahmat yang tidak di singkap, di bongkar dan di selongkar oleh manusia.

Saya sangat-sangat mengesyorkan buku ini sebagai penunjuk jalan bagi teman-teman yang mencari haluan mula dalam perniagaan. Chef Li sendiri telah menyedari kewujudan golongan jutawan senyap ini semasa beliau bekerja sebagai pegawai bank dan bertemu ramai insan yang seumpamanya. Beliau sanggup berhenti dari pekerjaannya dan memulakan peniagaan pasar malam kerana ingin mengubah masa depannya. Kini, beliau adalah pengasas kepada institute teknologi kulinari Anjung Utara (ITKAU) dan pakar motivasi yang banyak memberi inspirasi pada orang lain.

Bukunya yang berjudul “MENJEJAKI JUTAWAN SENYAP” adalah terbitan Al-Ameen Serve Holdings Sdn Bhd. Setebal 222 muka surat berharga RM29.00 (semenanjung) @ RM 32.00 (sabah/sarawak). Untuk maklumat lanjut anda boleh layari www.ameenbooks.com.my serta website ITKAU di www.itkau.edu.my.

Sampai manakah kesabaran kita

2007-04-07T20:58:00.000+08:00

jundulloh menulis "MENYINGKAPI MARAH"

Kita semua tahu tentang perasaan marah. Kita akan menjerit dan berteriak malah sanggup menampar dan menyakiti seseorang yang kebiasaannya kita sayang dan ambil berat. Namun kita tidak peduli dan ambil berat perasaan tersebut. Menurut kajian didapati setiap seorang daripada empat orang penduduk U.K adalah sebenarnya menghadapi risiko disebabkan oleh perasaan marah ini.

Kajian itu juga mendapati 1 daripada 10 orang hilang kawalan terhadap kemarahan sekurang-kurangnya sekali sehari. Ramai daripada kita yang berpendapat bahawa dengan meluahkan perasaan marah itu keluar adalah salah satu jalan terbaik untuk mengatasi rasa marah yang melampau. Itu tak semestinya.

CEPAT MARAH, CEPAT MATI
Kata seorang ahli psikologi dari North Carolina, U.S iaitu Profesor Redford Wiliams di Duke University. Pengkaji di Duke telah membuat kajian terhadap pelajar-pelajar di sana dari jurusan perubatan dan undang-undang. Hasilnya mereka mendapati pelajar- pelajar ini boleh dipecahkan kepada 2 golongan utama iaitu satu kumpulan yang mempunyai kecenderungan yang tinggi untuk hilang kawalan kesabaran sementara satu kumpulan lagi bersifat pasif.
Wiliam mendapati untuk satu tahap masa yang diperhatikan hanya seorang daripada 50 orang orang dari kumpulan PASIF itu meninggal dunia berbanding 1 dari 5 orang dari satu kumpulan yang lekas hilang kawalan kesabaran. Kata Wiliam,"Nampaknya marah itu suatu faktor besar yang merendahkan tahap kemampuan kita untuk melawan penyakit".

Beliau juga menunjukkan bahawa pesakit jantung di hospital akan dapat keluar dari hospital lebih awal sekiranya mereka diajar untuk mengawal perasaan marah mereka. Dan hasil kajian daripada pengkaji U.K dan U.S beliau percaya bahawa kita sebenarnya meletakan diri kita dalam keadaan berisiko untuk mendapat penyakit semata-mata kerana perasaan marah yang tidak dikawal.

DEFENSE MECHANISME
Seorang ahli psikologi, Joe Griffin (Mindsfield College in Sussex) menerangkan bahawa marah itu suatu tindakan respon kecemasan "lawan atau lari" (fight or flight) yang berguna untuk tindakan kita keluar daripada sesuatu bahaya.
Namun ia boleh dicetuskan pada masa lain untuk sesutu tujuan yang merosakan dan membinasa. "Apabila kita marah,asid lemak dikeluarkan ke aliran darah dan darah kita dipam dengan lebih cepat. Apabila kita berada di meja kerja,aliran darah yang cepat itu menyebabkan tekanan darah kita meningkat dan akan sampai ke tahap kita akan menghadapi serangan jantung." Sebelum itu, kemarahan yang melampau juga boleh membawa kepada sakit kepala yang berulangan dan insomnia.

Menurut Joe Griffin, ini sebenarnya kerap kali boleh diatasi dengan cara kaedah terapi. Mereka perlu patuh kepada terapi yang dijalankan itu. Kita boleh mengajar mereka kemahiran perhubungan yang lebih baik dan kemahiran komunikasi untuk menolong mereka menyelesaikan segala selisih faham tanpa perlu marah!" Bagaimana untuk mengawal kemarahan? Jawapan Oleh Wiliams.

KAWAL MARAH
1. Kita perlu mengatasi rasa marah itu sebelum ia merebak lebih jauh yang akhirnya akan sukar dikawal. Memahami apa yang menyebabkan kita rasa marah itu adalah penting.Kerap kali kita kecewa dan marah terhadap perkara yang remeh walaupun tak sepatutnya kita kita letak perasaan marah itu terhadap perkara tersebut.

SESUAI ATAU TIDAK?
2. Kemudian tanya diri kita sama ada perasaan marah itu berketepatan dengan perkara itu. Adakah setiap manusia normal seperti kita perlu berasa marah terhadap hal begitu?Kalau jawapannya adalah YA maka tanya diri anda apa yang anda boleh buat? Kita mungkin terperangkap dalam kereta api yang sedang meluncur laju. Namun apa lagi yang boleh kita buat? Adakah perlu kita terjun keluar dari kereta api tersebut? Oleh itu tidak perlulah kita berasa terlalu kecewa.

PERLUKAH JADI MARAH?
3.Cuba anda jawab soalan terakhir ini. Adakah perlu sangat dan penting kita marah? Jika anda menjawab soalan itu dengan jujur dan YA maka anda perlu mengambil beberapa tindakan yang mengiyakan jawapan anda itu. Namun sekurang-kurangnya anda harus memutuskannya pada keadaan fikiran yang rasional.

dipetik dari www.ukhwah.com

Sharpen Your Intuition And Grow Rich

2007-04-07T20:34:00.000+08:00

Intuition, is it something you use? Maybe you call it by a different name. Gut feeling. The little voice inside your head. A hazy image that passes before your eyes. You blink and wonder if you are seeing things. Or you know an outcome with certainty. Before receiving confirmation by phone or person. Like a mother who wakes up suddenly in the night. She knows something is wrong with one of her children.

These are all expressions of intuition. I feel that it is very important that we start listening to our intuition now. Start to re-learn this language. Start to become fluent in its many subtle nuances and syntax. Why? Because we need new ways of thinking beyond our current thought paradigms. Our global problems need solutions that emanate from a higher level of consciousness. Intuition is like hearing messages from a higher consciousness. From the heart. From the soul. From the universe. It reveals our inner truths. Our universal truths. Yet it gets mixed up with head thinking. My head gets filled up with lists of things. Things I need to do. Things I should do. Things I don't wanna do. Lots of doo-doo.

Technology is speeding up our head thinking. Faster images. Quicker music. annoying txt messages. More advertising channels. More buttons to press. More stuff coming in. Attention span is getting very short. Hence the head struggles to take it all in. I ask myself, where is the melody of life? Too much rapid movement and loud noise. Boom, boom, boom.

So lets look at ways you can access your intuition.

1. Take A Walk In Nature.
Get away from the computer. Turn off the cell phone. Go for a walk within nature. Just be among nature. Your body, your head, your soul longs to hear the sounds and silence of nature. The song of the birds. The whispers of the wind. The breaking of the wave. The silence between the sounds. The silence between your thoughts. Go there now. Your intuition will speak when the head is silent.

2. Clean Up Your Energy Fields.
If your personal or professional life is stressful and soul-destroying than this will affect your energy fields. Your thoughts and emotions are like bioelectrical currents that radiate out from your body. Polluted toxic thinking creates dirty energy fields. It comes through in your words, your thoughts and outlook on life. How many negative people do you know? Do you like being around them when they complain and moan about life. Be careful because you will pick up their negative energy vibrations. Eventually they will pollute your thinking unless you consciously keep your energy fields clean. Deep breathing combined with isometric tension movements are very good ways of cleaning your energy fields. You can even do this when you are out in nature.

3. Start To Speak To Intuition Language.
You must learn to speak and understand your own intuition. Remember the times when you have sensed an outcome before it happened. Or had a bad feeling about a person or situation. Later your feeling was proved correct. Just remember these times. Identify the subtle nuances and syntax in which your intuition communicated with you. Maybe it was a tight feeling in your belly. Or a tiny voice that spoke within your mind. Not the usual mind chatter. Or an image that appeared in a dream. Then you saw it the next day. These are all signs and symbols that you must learn to trust. Each person will have their own intuition language. Yet it will be like learning a new language. Frustrating at first but satisfying when you can converse easily and sincerely.

Your intuition is like the language of the inner self. It can open doors to your palace of higher wisdom. Start now to share your riches with the rest of the world.

About the Author:
Hirini Reedy is a Maori metaphysicist, former military officer, martial arts founder and personal coach. He combines ancient Maori wisdom with modern teachings at http://www.maori-secrets.com
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The secret: REVEALED

2007-04-06T15:31:00.000+08:00

Inspiring. Motivating. Excites to infinity. What is it that makes THE SECRET is a powerful documentary of success?

Last night I accepted an invitation to watch ‘the secret’ from a friend. She’s currently doing an MLM business, and the Kuching branch is screening the movie at their business centre. This girl came to my house cycling one evening, and invites me to watch this documentary called ‘the secret’. What caught my attention is when she says the film reveals the secret of millionaire’s mind. It is a series of interviews with the millionaires.

So last night, I went to the centre with her. We arrived late and the movie was already running almost 20 minutes. There were almost 100 attendees and all of them look absolutely content with the movie.

THE TECHNICAL PART
It is indeed a documentary, series of motivational speech from highly successful people who walk the talk. Each story was narrated in interesting way with vivid images, playback, synchronized audiovisual along with powerful messages. Unfortunately, I can’t read the speaker names because I was sitting at the backseat and without my eyeglasses. But I can remember the motivational speakers are millionaires, businessman, ex-cancer patient, famous author etc.

THE SECRET INGREDIENT
The secret ingredient for this film is the concept of ‘The Law of Attraction’. Law of attraction reveals to you that your mind is a magnetic field. If you think of negative thought, you attract negative results. If you build a castle in the sky, you live in it and believe in it, you will achieve those dreams. Sounds too exaggerating? No, no my friend. Not after you watch the film yourself.

The secret is all about POWERFUL VISUALIZATION. these speakers assure you all you need to become successful is imagining you are already successful. you imagine driving your favourite car while sitting in your favourite couch. you imagine your dream house by drawing them in your notebook. you can feel the air of your wealth wherever you breath. although you own nothing yet to this moment, you BELIEVE what you visualize is ABSOLUTELY REAL.

i believe all of us can afford to do that, no matter how unfortunate we seems to be at the moment. Remember to put the foundation to the palace that you build in the sky.

i have so much to share with you about the high-impact movie, my story will go endless and endless. its a valuable experience to actually watch it yourself. if i could get the DVD, i want to play it 24-7, ordered dozens of it and give one to you absolutely for free.

my friend told me the DVD are exclusive. the movie is not for sale to the public and only those who own the permit is permissable to own the DVD. it is only available to the authorized people and their leaders dont even know how they can get the DVD.

but i believe we can get the movie anyhow.

How Learned Happiness Can Overcome Acquired Fear

2007-04-04T21:53:00.000+08:00

Carefully, silently he peers around the corner and when the air is clear he ducks and dashes from one safe place to the next. His habitual reaction is ‘flight’. At the slightest unexpected movement or sound, he saves his hide – fast as a flash and silent as a mouse…. In the five years little Ben has been with us, there hasn’t been a single incident that endangered his life or harmed him in any way. Yet he is always on the run and trusts only one person and sits only in one lap.

He was a rescue cat; a half starved, abused and sick little creature – saved from feline hell just in time to survive. Now, he’s safe in a haven of gentle caring and still he scuttles, dashes and runs. It took me a while to understand that Ben doesn’t run because he’s afraid anymore, he runs because that’s what he has always done. The fear he acquired has turned into a habit that defines everything he does.

Even when the house is quiet and no one else is around, this little black fur ball doesn’t stride gracefully like any other cat, he moves like a flash and at best he trots. For the first 9 months of his life, that’s what assured him survival and now, long after the causes have been forgotten, the behaviour continues – a habit acquired through fear.

Watching him makes me realise how the experiences from early childhood create habits that become deeply ingrained – how unconsciously they influence everything we do. It also gives me a profound sense of gratitude that unlike that driven little cat we humans have a choice of replacing acquired fear with learned happiness.

Whether our early childhood years were marked by happy memories, safe surroundings and confident comfort or whether we had to dash and dive, undoubtedly these experiences will influence our self-esteem as much as our perception of the world as a safe place. And until the moment we realise that we do have a choice on how we allow these early years to influence our lives, we are pretty much their prisoners.

But then, when we understand that it is within our power to let go of the fear and learn joyfulness instead, something incredible happens.

We stop running, scuttling and hiding and we let go of the need to blame. As the realisation of our own power increases, the force that once dragged us back into the past diminishes. That’s when we begin to gracefully glide through life. But how do we ‘learn’ to be happy?

First, by making the simple decision to be joyful; and then by committing to follow this path ‘no matter what’. The great times will be when we are distracted by happy experiences and forgetting about the past is easy to do. But the moments will come when it all floods back and wallowing in what ‘was’ will seem the only thing possible. That’s fine – accept it and then decide to be happy again.

Make it easy for yourself by developing your personal joyfulness strategies – healthy ones, not the chocolate-by-the-pound kind. Write a list of things that would make you really happy and create a plan on how to use them when you need to.

My happy hormones flood my system when I take a long brisk walk, when I dance or sing along with a favourite tune, when I look at an image of something really beautiful or share special moments with a special person.

By making the conscious decision to let go of the less happy memories from my own past, I have learned to be joyful. I feel free of blame, guilt and resentment. On a good day, I glide through life like the cat who ate the cream – fearless, happy and free.

About the Author:
Annett Tate helps people transcend their anger through her "Subtle Energy" seminars and coaching. Her website is a treasure trove of information on stress management, relaxation, meditation, self-hypnosis, and much more.
www.stress2bliss.com

Meraih Peluang Kedua

2007-04-04T21:13:00.000+08:00

Sukarkah untuk meraih peluang kedua selepas melakukan kesilapan?

ramai org takut pada kegagalan. kerana percaya tidak mampu meraih peluang kedua dalam hidup. saya ingin ceritakan satu kisah yang saya alami dari perbualan dengan seorg pelajar junior di universiti saya.

semester ini saya harus bekerjasama scr kerja kumpulan dgn junior2 course saya untuk menyiapkan tugasan yg d beri. Semasa meeting kami yg kedua, seorg ahli tidak muncul. salah seorg rakannya memberitahu saya tidak perlulah terlalu bergantung kpd ahli tersebut untuk menyiapkan tugasan, kerana nasibnya di universiti belum pasti lg. Saya terdiam sejenak, kemudian melahirkan rasa simpati. Walaupun saya tidak tahu apa yg terjadi, tetapi saya faham pelajar ini dlm situasi yg sukar & bersendirian.

semalam adlh hari terakhir kami bekerjasama. saya memerhatikan pelajar ini agak pendiam dan tidak mahu menimbulkan byk masalah dlm kumpulan. dia blh memberikan komitmen kepada apa2 kerja yg diberi. pada hari tersebut, saya bertanya padanya apakah perkembangannya sekarang?

pelajar ini menceritakan dia menunggu keputusan seorg datuk. apa yg dpt d lakukannya ialah merayu kpd datuk tersebut utk meringankan hukumannya dan membenarkan dia menduduki peperiksaannya semester ini. dia teruskan jg belajar dan dtg kuliah walaupun keputusan universiti adlh sebaliknya. Buat masa ini dia enggan memikirkan apa kata org lain.apabila pulang ke bilik, dia hanya mahu memikirkan nota2nya shj. surat universiti yg sampai ke rmh tdk d berikan pd ibubapanya. dia memendamnya sendirian.

saya tahu keadaan ini amat sukar baginya. saya katakan teman saya yg d berhentikan universiti pun melakukan hal ini. mereka tidak dpt menceritakan perkara sebenar kerana ia terlalu pahit. dia terkejut. dahulu saya pun memberi reaksi yg sama. saya berikan cth2 teman2 saya yg senasib dgnnya, bagaimana mereka melalui saat2 sukar itu dan bagaimana keadaan mereka sekarang. salah seorg mereka sudah pun menjadi CEO syarikatnya semasa datang pd pentauliahan kami. kami semua slim2, hangus dan cengkung, teman saya ini datang dgn BMW, tunangnya yg cantik, dan perutnya yg ke depan.

pelajar ini memberitahu, partner in crimenya meninggalkan dia sendirian menanggung semua kesalahan. dia sangat marah dan tiada sesiapa dpt menolong. dia pernah terfikir utk terjun bangunan. ia begitu perit baginya kerana makin tinggi kita naik, semakin tinggi tempat menjunam. walaupun begitu, pelajar ini optimis. dia tdk mahu tersungkur. biar kesalahannya yg telah berlalu d jadikan pengajaran berguna dan dia mahu teruskan hidup.

pelajar ini adalah contoh insan yg sedang melalui kegagalan dgn tabah dan sabar. keadaan yg sukar sedang berlaku dlm hidupnya pd waktu ini, tetapi dia menerima kesilapannya dan tlh mula merancang langkahnya pd masa akn dtg.

saya meluahkan rasa kagum dgn kesabarannya dan berharap itu tidak mematahkan semangatnya utk bersaing d universiti ini. Saya berikannya URL ke website billy lim. Supaya apa saja berita buruk selepas ini tidak membuatkannya melompat dari bangunan.

DE SECRET: DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE SECRET MOVIE

2007-04-04T21:08:00.000+08:00

this is a post from my friend franxbudi about the movie "THE SECRET". i am very excited to see the movie tomorrow night, an invitation from my Lampe Berger buddy. and i know this must be a powerful documentary to sparks motivation.

It worth the click :)
DE SECRET: DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE SECRET MOVIE

HUJAN BELUM TEDUH

2007-03-30T21:44:00.000+08:00

kalau hujan belum teduh, haruskah kita merempuh hujan menuju destinasi?

tuan-tuan,

cabaran itu datang dalam hidup kita bermacam rupa. ada dugaan yg menguji kesihatan, keupayaan, cinta, wang dan maruah. seumpama musim yg berganti, Allah menetapkan kehidupan berputar dlm keadaan yg berbeza2.

"Adakah manusia itu menyangka bahawa mereka dibiarkan saja mengatakan; "Kami telah beriman," sedangkan mereka tidak diuji? Dan sesungguhnya Kami telah menguji orang-orang yang sebelum mereka, maka sesungguhnya Allah mengetahui orang-orang yang benar dan sesungguhnya Dia mengetahui orang-orang yang berdusta." ( al-Ankabut: 2 - 3)

MENGAPA IA BEGITU PAHIT DI TELAN?
Mengapa yg di namakan 'kehidupan' di rencanakan sedemikian rupa?
fahamilah bahawa ini satu proses membina pelindung bullet-proof pd jasad dan rohani.
anda seorg pejuang. seorg jihad. semua orang berjihad di jalan masing2, ada erti dan sasaran penghidupan. pengalaman demi pengalaman akan membina sistem kendiri anda sendiri. setiap pengalaman pahit adalah selapis pembaharuan dlm sistem kendiri. seperti juga kereta, penghasilan kereta berkualiti dan peningkatan mutu perlu UJIAN KETAHANAN. berulang2. dari dimensi yg menyeluruh. Begitu juga konsepnya dgn membina diri anda yg lbh berkualiti.

BILAKAH IA AKAN BERAKHIR?

ia akan berakhir. tuan-tuan & puan-puan, semua ujian ada hasilnya. masalah anda mungkin berakhir selepas 10 hari, 10minggu, 10 tahun. di ketika ini, ia kelihatan seperti tidak ada penghujungnya. tetapi jgn tuan-tuan lupa, apa lagi yg blh berlaku 10 hari, 10bulan atau 10tahun lagi bergantung kpd anda.

jangan lupa, 10 hari lagi tetap akan tiba. tetapi bagaimanakah anda memilih utk menghadapinya?

"Janganlah kamu bersikap lemah dan janganlah pula kamu bersedih hati, padahal kamulah orang-orang yang paling tinggi darjatnya jika kamu orang-orang yang beriman." ( al-Imran:139)

yang pertama dalam persediaan, ialah pilih utk menghadapi masalah tersebut seadanya dirimu pada masa ini. apabila dugaan itu merempuh diri anda dalam bersendirian, hadapilah ketakutan dan kekusutan itu. lihatlah dugaan itu sbg rempuhan angin. ia datang, berterusan, berat, sukar dan lama. tetapi anda terima dengan telus, terima dgn sabar, terima dan biarkan ia berlalu sepantas ia datang. hadapinya lagi. teruskan menongkah arus, tuan-tuan. bersikap terima tanpa anggapan yg bukan2. jalani dugaan dgn sikap yg telus dan jalan yg sabar.

"Dan mintalah pertolongan (kepada Allah) dengan jalan yang sabar dan dengan mengerjakan solat; dan sesungguhnya solat itu amatlah berat kecuali kepada orang-orang yang khusyuk." ( al-Baqarah: 45)

mintalah kepadanya. Allah pemilik segala d langit dan bumi. yg mengetahui hikmah d sebalik segala kejadian.

semoga lebih gagah menghadapi segala cabaran. saya bersama mereka yg berusaha menghadapi cabaran dgn penuh kesabaran :)

hujan belum teduh, tp jangan terganggu oleh hujan yg d luar kawalan

'Mind Control' or Creativity? - or - Why Holding On Is As Important As Letting Go

2007-03-28T21:31:00.000+08:00

LIFE: THE ELEMENTS
Life is full of contradictions, opposites and mysteries and yet, when you let go of analysing, dissecting and isolating everything, and look at the bigger picture, mind control and creativity suddenly go together perfectly well. They are two sides of the same coin. Here’s why...

When it comes to being creative, we first think of letting go of limitations, restrictions and all those logical, analytical activities of the brain’s left hemisphere. Delving into the limitless world of our imaginative right brain is an important part of entering that exhilarating state where new ideas flow. But that alone doesn’t achieve the balance we need for creative harmony.

The last few months have been hectic as I’ve set up a new business – as a single parent, this isn’t always a breeze. Apart from creating my own brand of training courses and seminars, we’ve built a lovely website containing many articles on holistic wellbeing. Even though this is the work that I’m passionate about and love to do, not everything runs smoothly all the time. Retaining the ‘creative flow’ is a must.

MIND CONTROL
I’m sure many of you will know the feeling of ‘life getting in the way’ – too many errands to run, bills to pay, autumn leaves to rake and complicated homework riddles to solve – and the list goes on… So, how DO you retain the creative flow?

The answer is simple really – through mind control!

The idea of mind control might seem opposed to having boundless creative energy, but it isn’t at all.

Being creative means letting go - ‘going with the flow’ as that well worn saying goes. It’s about allowing the delicate breeze of inspiration, imagination and ideas to tickle your fingers into a dance of many letters as the words flow onto paper (or into your PC files). And in order to let go enough for this subtle, elusive energy to come out to play, you first need mind control.

The mind control path to creativity means being able to leave behind the noise of incessant mental chatter, the harrowing images of ever growing un-ironed washing piles, the frantic pre-Christmas shopping shuffle and whatever else might be occupying your thoughts and undermining your creativity.

Take time out in the midst of the madness. Let go of the pressure of the to-do-list and the need for household perfection - and the guilt that may result from that - and take time for silence, for nature and for simply being with your Self. Once you learn to control your mind, you achieve the inner silence that allows something ‘sublime’ to happen.

Try my top three tips to quieten the mind and increase creativity:

#1 Find five minutes for yourself as early in the day as possible.
Lock yourself away. Make it your time. If necessary buy some noise cancelling headphones! Sit in a comfortable chair, close your eyes, and relax. Imagine you are breathing in creative energy with each breath, and exhaling pure light.

#2 Walk.
Become super-sensitive to what’s around you – bird song, traffic noise, laughter. Don’t analyse or judge, just look, listen and use the rest of your senses.

#3 Play this creativity game.
Pick up the nearest book. Go to page 12. Count to the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth words. I just did this and the words were “order to achieve”. Pick, one two or three of these words, and use them to write about tomorrow. Don’t analyse, just write.

“Tomorrow I’m going to order an omelette at the shoe repair shop. It would be good to see the look on the face of old Jenkins. Maybe he’ll even crack a smile for once. You never know what you can achieve until you try.”

And then, enjoy going with that creative flow! Have fun…

If you don't really know how creativity is relevant in your life or you haven't quite found the outlet for your own creative energies - next time I'll share some ideas on finding the perfect way for you to express who you are.

About the Author:
Annett Tate helps people transcend their anger through her "Subtle Energy" seminars and coaching. Her website is a treasure trove of information on stress management, relaxation, meditation, self-hypnosis, and much more.
www.stress2bliss.com

WHEN A TRAGEDY SRIKES AT BAD TIME

2007-03-28T20:51:00.000+08:00

People in stressful situation tend to flood their thought. With everything they couldn’t handle.

When having a problem is already painful, growing negative thoughts in your mind just added the burden. These collective of negative thoughts are the cause of dead-end solution. Do you realize that bombarded questions usually paralyze your mind?

PARALYZATION
The immobilization happened because you are sending too many requests to the brain and cause 'bottle-neck' situation. ‘Bottle-neck’ situation is a term when you have to pick a solution from variety of choices. You tend to prioritize your solution when facing several options or your mind just too jammed to work on any decision.

If you ever experience these difficulties, you are not alone. i'll give you an example. Mark Victor Hansen, the author of ‘Dare to Win’ suffered the same symptom. He was doing extremely well in his business when the global economic downturn swipe out his wealth and leave him dead broke and bankrupt. He couldn’t accept the truth. He was in an ‘escaping-reality state’ for a few weeks, sleeping from sunlight to sunlight, around the clock and just couldn’t face the fact that he is a penniless man. But those situation was the best time for him to start everything from the begining.

mike horn, an artic explorer said in National Geographic magazines
"if you worry, you die,
if you don't worry, you also die,
so why bother worry?"

How to clear those negative thoughts and replace it with positive attitude?

BACK TO THE FUTURE
take a deep breath, my brother. skip today, and fast-forward your life to next 2 years. imagine you are walking or driving calm and stress free along the same road you've been driving these years. imagine that it has been 2years after the tragedy swipe everything you own. now you are back on track, running and making a leap in your life.

you are not escaping anything. by imagining a better future, you are releasing the stressful energy and fear from your mind. you have to see your future, my brother. you have to see how you should face the pain and survive the ordeal. see yourself after the tragedy. then trace a way back to the present. be patient when you come back from the future.

3 Ways People Deal With Failure

2007-03-26T15:25:00.000+08:00

What separates people who enjoy success from the majority who end up never getting what they want is how we respond to failure. It is what we do about failure that makes a big difference.

There are three ways in which people respond to failure.

Pattern 1: Give Excuses, Lay Blame & Give up

What do some people do when they don't get what they want? They will start giving themselves lots of excuses and blame everything and everyone around them. They say things like, 'it's not fair', 'I'm just not smart enough' 'It's just too difficult', 'I'm too young' or 'I'm too old', 'I just didn't have the luck', 'the depressed economy affected me'.

Feeling helpless and frustrated, this first group will stop taking action and give up! They will resign themselves to their goal being out of reach and live a life of mediocrity.

Pattern 2: Keep Trying the Same thing Over and Over Again

These are the people who have a lot more determination than the first. When they don't get their outcome, they will not quit. They will get themselves to take action again. The motto of this group is, 'I failed because I did not try hard enough' 'If I keep trying, I will eventually succeed'. So they keep taking action, putting in more time, energy and effort. No matter how many times they fail, they just keep trying harder and harder.

Will they eventually achieve their goals? It depends. If they set small, incremental goals, they may, with enough time and effort eventually succeed. However, if they set big and exceptional goals, like becoming the top in their field, they will never be successful by just trying again and again. They may experience a better result, but they won't reach the goals they desire. Why?

Because, although they keep taking action, they do not change their strategy. If you keep using the same approach, you are going to keep getting the same result. I have seen so many professionals and businessmen repeat this limiting pattern.
I know many businessmen who fail in their business only to start again and do the same thing. They keep putting in ads that don't work, they hire ineffective people or they use the same business model.

Pattern 3: Get Feedback, Change Strategy and Take Action until you Succeed.

So what is the pattern that all successful individuals exhibit? When they don't achieve their goals, they don't think of it as failure. Instead, they perceive it as feedback. Either feedback that the strategy they used was ineffective or that they did not take enough action. They then use this feedback to immediately change their strategy and take action again.

If they still don't succeed, they will get more feedback, change their strategy and take action again. They keep repeating this process until they get what they want. They do whatever it takes. So, remember, every time you don't get what you want, it is life giving you feedback. It is this continuous feedback you need to help you adjust your approach until you hit your target.

Thomas Edison took almost 10,000 attempts before inventing the light bulb. When asked how he did it, he said that he had to first find 9,999 strategies of how not to invent the light bulb. He then used this feedback to change his strategy until he got what he wanted.

Successful people re-look and change their strategy whenever they encounter 'failure'. They understand that failure is feedback. Understand this principle and you will overcome failure and achieve success in no time at all.

About the Author:
Adam Khoo is an entrepreneur, best-selling author and a self-made millionaire by the age of 26. Discover his million dollar secrets and claim your FREE audio CD program '6 Ways To Achieve Anything' here.

Adventures In Relieving Stress

2007-03-26T15:14:00.000+08:00

Whether we are at work, traveling, or at home, we’ve all had bad days. Those stressful times can be difficult, but important, to shake. Your mental, emotional, and physical health depends on you to find ways to relax and regain equilibrium. I’m going to be sharing some practices that you can do to help throw off that stress and reclaim your Happy Self in no time!

THE STRESS CHEMICALS
First, let me explain a little bit to you about Stress Chemicals.
Stress and other forms of negativity affect your sympathetic nervous system and endocrine and hormonal systems. Stress sends nerve impulses to the adrenal glands, which in turn puts a number of different chemicals into your blood stream. They affect the pituitary gland, which causes yet even more chemicals to be released. These chemicals include corticosteroids, such as adrenaline and noradrenaline, other hormones, and neurotransmitters. All the chemical reactions can turn into a vicious cycle making it harder to clear yourself from them and the damage they cause.

The good news is there are a broad variety of tools you can use to relax your mind and body to relieve the stress chemicals before they cause too much harm. Let’s go on an adventure and try a variety of activities to find what works best for you!

TOOLS TO RELAX
My favorite thing to do to help me get back to my Happy Self is to take long hot baths. Bathing works to clear the stress chemicals from our topical bodies, relaxes our muscles, and it feels wonderful! Epsom salts, Bath Salts, or Sugar Scrubs are perfect agents to use. I also use aromatherapy products such as candles or incense. Soothing music is a beautiful touch as well.

Another important thing to do is to Move Your Body! Yoga, Pilates, or any stretching exercise will help release the stuck stress chemicals from your muscles and spine. Any sort of stretching will do, touch your toes and reach up high into the air, as high as you can reach and then bend back down to touch your toes again. Even one minute of stretching is beneficial.

Try to take several mini stretch breaks throughout your day. Take a walk, dance, jump up and down, do whatever you can think of to just move, even if only for a couple minutes a day out of your hectic schedule. You’ll be amazed at how this increases your energy and gives you more stamina against stress.

THE SIMPLEST TOOL : BREATHING
Good breathing practices are critical. Of course, you HAVE to breathe. Good breathing takes some practice and will give you the most benefit of how the oxygen circulates through your bloodstream. Use good breathing to replace stress chemicals with clean energy. This helps your body tremendously and helps your mind react with more stability. The simplest method I’ve found is to breathe in slowly and steadily. Try it! Take three nice deep breaths, through your heart.

Now, focus on your diaphragm filling up like a balloon each time you inhale and deflating softly with each exhale. Allow this process to be very natural and steady. This is the perfect practice that you can do anytime, anywhere. I encourage you to practice this one as often as you can think of it. I find rush hour is a particularly good time for me to work on breathing techniques!

VISUALIZATION
Visualization techniques are another great practice to focus on from time to time. Don't worry if you can't actually SEE what you are trying to visualize. Every person sees things differently. What’s important is your intention. For example, think of your favorite desert; really think about it, the way it tastes, the texture, and the colors. How are you doing at imagining that?

That imagining is exactly what visualization is. You are all ready an expert! Let’s put that expertise into motion with some visualization exercises. Find a relaxing area, sit or lie down, any position works wonderfully for this. When your comfortable, imagine a ball of bright white or very bright blue light as a little spark that starts in the area of your sacral chakra (Your tummy area), allow it to grow into a flame. Allow that flame to grow within you and outside of you. Let the flame fill your whole space and imagine it "burning" out all negative blocks or murky feeling areas.

Now, imagine the flame blowing out of you and disappearing into the distance, taking all the negativity with it. Now breathe! You can also do simple visualizations of your favorite Happy Places. The beach, a beautiful sunset, or a loved one always works well for me. Whatever your very own special Happy Places are, spend some time and go there in your heart and mind and notice how refreshed you feel after your “journey”.

WRITE DOWN THE PROBLEM
One last I’ll leave you with for now is to begin a journal. Use it to record where your stresses come from, what you did to relieve yourself from it and how that turned out for you. You’ll be able to use your journal to fine-tune the methods that work best for you. While you are doing this, remember to mix it up a bit. Try practicing visualization or breathing techniques as you soak in a nice hot bath, or when you are stretching. Mix all the techniques up to find your own variety of stress relief tools. Then, when those yucky, stressful days hit, you’ll be well prepared to handle them with ease!

About the Author:
Tracy Togliatti is a Holistic Practitioner and specializing in Energy Psychology and Reiki. She also offers a free advice service and free email Reiki lessons at http://www.happyher.com.

DUIT BUKAN PENGHALANG

2007-03-25T21:53:00.000+08:00

i have to write this. saya belajar sesuatu dari kadet2 saya. apa ertinya bermati-matian mengubah taraf hidup.

AL-KISAH..
baru2 ini semasa pulang dari perpustakaan, saya d approach oleh junior palapes saya. dia mengajak saya join satu perniagaan, memandangkan saya suka berniaga. lagipun sudah hampir sebulan saya berhenti meniaga gerai popia di simpang jalan itu. dia sungguh berahsia ttg kompeni tsebut dan mengajak saya ke ofis mereka d simpang tiga, kuching.

oleh kerana ini sudah pelawaan kedua yg seumpamanya, penuh misteri dan menggeramkan, saya pun setuju nak pergi. saya tinggalkan d rmh semua kad ATM dan cash money, utk mengelakan join tanpa pikir panjang. beria2 junior saya ni ke rumah saya menjemput dgn kereta sewa. sesampainya d ofis mereka, saya makinlah terkejut bila bersalaman dgn hampir 10 org kadet dan pegawai muda palapes unimas d sana. saya mmg terperanjat besar kerana saya kenal muka2 ini!

ZIPPED MY LIPS
maaf, saya pun xdapatlah nak mendedahkan nama kompeni tersebut. sekadar menghormati rakan2 yg terbabit dlm periuk nasi tu. sudah polisi mereka.

semasa wakil mereka show plan kat saya, sardin je muka dia bila minta saya invest rm2.5k. dan dia menyebut dgn lancar dan tenang bila menyarankan saya invest rm12.5k terus. saya rasa macam blur. dan mengorek lagi bagaimana kadet2 ni blh cari rm12.5k sbb saya tau mereka xada duit.

BERUSAHA KUAT & TEKAD
mereka berusaha high&low utk kumpul rm12.5k tu. malah ramai yg labur rm30k. walaupun mereka tidak miliki wang sebanyak itu. mereka mengorek tabung, meminjam dari kawan2 yg jarang jumpa, adik beradik, ibubapa dan ada yg bjaya kumpul dalam 2-3hari! saya rasa kagum!

jgn menyalahkan kompeni tersebut krn bdk2 ini buat loan sana sini. plan kompeni tersebut terbukti berkesan dan ramai yg sdh membuktikan kjayaan mereka. lihat dari sudut ini: wang bukan penghalang.

WANG BUKAN PENGHALANG
apa itu driving force yg buat mereka kumpul duit sebanyak tu sms mereka tau mereka tiada sesen pun. bagaimana mereka berusaha? kalau mereka dapat robohkan halangan duit, mengapa tidak kita?

anda mgkn merancang utk buka pniagaan sendiri. mereka juga. mereka mgkn melabur dlm pniagaan org lain, anda pula melabur dlm idea dan pniagaan sendiri. itu lebih baik! saya tidak mengatakan melabur dlm kompeni org itu tidak baik, ttp melabur dlm idea sendiri itu jg langkah berani. anda juga blh bermula dari kosong.

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
fikirlah melangkau kekangan kewangan. berfikir di luar kotak kewangan dpt menghindarkan jln buntu dan mati akal. by hook or by crook, duit itu terpaksa d cari juga. jadi, jgn membunuh idea perniagaan anda terlalu awal. bersabarlah dan fikirlah jauh ke hadapan.

kalau mereka dapat melakukannya, kenapa tidak anda!!

SAYA MENDOAKAN KEJAYAAN ANDA

DARE TO FAIL

2007-03-23T14:57:00.000+08:00

"The fear of being judged, looking stupid, being wrong or feeling like a failure can take away all your creative energy."~ Billy Lim

MILLION DOLLAR TAGLINE
What is it behind the tagline? DARE TO FAIL. Feeling fine and indifferent after making so much failure you start to believe you are such a looser,
or there is diamond hidden in the dirt. Is it possible?

THE HARD-KNOCK CLUB
Hell yes. In every possible way, hard-knock experience can be the turning point in one’s life. There was a story about one millionaire who went bankrupt during the 2007 recession. He was dead broke and lost all his assets. He.and his wife had to sell nasi lemak and pulut panggang by the side road for survival. But the strong couples never gave up on themselves. They braved through the rain, expand their business and become millionaire again. If you noticed back ten years ago his success story used to be publicized by the local television channel.

A BOOK FOR THE SOUL
DARE TO FAIL actually is a title to a motivational book written by Billy Lim, a successful Malaysian motivational speaker. The book is no. 1 bestseller in Malaysia and had inspired a lot of people. One of those people is me, myself.

Billy Lim ignites distinctive self acceptance and self value by applying mistakes and failures as valuable tools. He gave a lot of examples from his own experience. Billy succeeded in transforming negative thinking to optimism and recreates the right attitude toward success. A good read for spiritual sparks and entrepreneurship.

GET THERE!
You can also visit his website, Dare To Fail at http://www.daretofail.com/ where failure is a part of success..

disgrace & glory (part III)

2007-03-22T10:21:00.000+08:00

BURNT TO THE GROUND

It was Wednesday evening. My roommate, Nelly and I were doing our own businesses at our hostel apartment. It almost 5.30pm when we heard knocked on our door. Before I could reach the door knob, two familiar guests stepped in. They were looking for me.

“You don’t have any class today? Where’s your room, Jasmine?” she asked me.

I couldn’t utter a word and point my finger to my room. The two ladies were Miss Cordelia, our hostel principle and Miss Jennifer, our facilitator. Miss Jennifer quickly walk to my room and said to Nelly, “Could you please step outside and let me make a quick checking around your room, please.”

“What is this all about, ma’am?” I said in wonder.

Puzzled Nelly walked out of the room and Miss Jennifer shut the door behind her. Miss Cordelia walked to my computer across the living room.

“Is that yours?” she said with her finger pointing to my computer. She browsed through my things lying on the desk next to the PC. My heart just stop beating when she lifted my client’s books, printed articles, letters, and post-it-notes on my PC and held them tight. I instantly catch the meaning to it all.

“Can you show me your computer files, please? I would like to have a look at them,” she said quickly.

I was burnt in silent anger. As I grabbed the mouse, I said in between my breath, “you don’t have to do this. I know what it is all about. It’s about the translation, is it? I did nothing wrong. I have no problem showing you everything I do. I have no problem to co-operate. All you have to do is ask. You really don’t have to do this.”

She remained silent and copied everything I show her to her portable drive. Miss Jennifer appeared from behind and said she found nothing.

“Why are you doing this? Im not a criminal. You can ask me anything. You don’t have to do this,” I said in low deep voice.

She is not satisfied. “What is your name?” she asked Nelly.

“She has nothing to do with this,” I quickly said and shook my head weakly. Oh, my god. She is not involved. “I did everything on my own. Please leave her out of this.”

“Jasmine, don’t interfere. We are not doing this for fun. We are just doing our job. Why are all of you cadets always behaving like this? ” she said to me.

“All of you? Who are you referring to, ma’am, it’s only the two of us in this room,” came my replied. Why do they always generalize us in such a way?

“Ma’am, please understand. You came into my house, you said nothing, rummaging into my things, it’s my privacy… and you won’t listen to me. This is very hard for me to take. I did nothing wrong. Who made you do this? ” I said. I almost begged.

They said nothing.

“We can’t tell you. We are not allowed to. Please understand that we are just doing our job!” she replied in a persuaded voice.

I was speechless for a moment. I said, “but who? You must tell me. ”

MERENTASI KEMATANGAN

2007-03-16T20:24:00.000+08:00

persinggahan hidup
seperti kelongsong peluru
yg berketuk,
cela bila membebaskan belerang yang garang
meninggalkan bekas bakar
kelak pastinya berkarat

keupayaan ku diuji
dalam perjalanan yang terasa sungguh jauh
kemampuanku
adalah kenderaan yang di desak melalui
segala lorong dan lohong
dalam lebuhraya ini.

impian tidak bertunjang mimpi
rasai serpihan belerang ini
untuk kali ini
supaya esok
kenderaanku bisa kalis peluru ini lagi

aminnn....

JUTAWAN: Sifu Kewangan Luar Kampus

2007-03-16T20:21:00.000+08:00

UNIVERSITI & DUNIA REALITI
Pernah terfikir x, adakah universiti mengajar kita jd berjaya dgn jd KAYARAYA?
jwpn saya, universiti mengajar kita berjaya dgn jd berilmu. varsiti mbuka pluang pkerjaan yg semakin baik, peluang kpd pluang kpd pluang nak maju dgn lbh luas. tetapi.. dak U semue kita mesti sedar...utk jd sukses n byk harta, kita mesti BELAJAR JD KAYA. sesuatu yg anda mesti cari sendiri.

BERITA BAIK
itu berita baik sebenarnya. itu bukti Allah maha adil kpd semua makhluk. hatta pendatang asing, penoreh getah, OKU atau si buta huruf pun boleh jd jutawan. berita baik pd rakan2 yg gagal masuk universiti dan terasa kecil diri. atau pas spm je pastu sara famili. rupa2nya rahsia menjadi seorg hartawan tidak diajar di universiti.

kalau pemikiran jutawan benar2 diterapkan dlm minda siswazah, saya percaya budak ekonomi n bisnes adlh graduan plg cemerlang, dahsyat lg dr dak sains, kuar dgn idea n mentaliti keusahawanan yg kental, kurang pengangguran dan makan gaji.jgn marah, itu bkn salah anda atau sesiapa dan maafkan saya, saya langsung tdk berniat memperendah2kan rakan2 ekonom n bisnes.

SAMALAH KITA..
graduan sains pun senasib jg..ye tak? cuma, kalau subjek membina kekayaan ni diimplement di U, pasti course bisnes ni membongkar formula kaya, sehinggakan kita berasa gerun tgk bakal2 apprentice ni.malah dak bisnes leh ajar undergrad lain rahsia berfikir spt org kaya.tetapi secara umumnya, kita kuar U dgn nasib yg hampir sama. pun begitu, bkn salah universiti. TIDAK

Aku pun x kaya seposen habuk semasa sdg menulis blog ni. tapi saya dah bertemu simpang menuju KEBEBASAN KEWANGAN yg dipusu2kan olh ramai org. jd, marilah kita berkongsi pengetahuan, walau sekadar maklumat

FINANCIAL FREEDOM
ideologi, prinsip2 membina kekayaan harus DIPELAJARI SENDIRI drp jutawan. zmn skrg la senang nak blajar dr jutawan dan taikoon bisnes. jgn takut perkataan bisnes. jgn pandang rendah diri sendiri.cari media massa. baca buku motivasi pniagaan, audio kaset, cd.join seminar kekayaan, labur lah skt wang utk seminar. cari mentor dlm bisnes. belajar keusahawanan, pniagaan, pelaburan dan asas kewangan.

mana nak cari?
ini saranan saya, belajar di bicarajutawan.com dan juga wangcyber.com. ini penting, supaya anak2 bangsa kita tau mengurus kewangan.byk org2 yg berjaya disana mengajar budak2 cam kita spy berjaya. semua aspek WANG, dibincang dgn jelas dan hemah.cth keusahawanan, bisnes, hartanah, pelaburan..mereka budiman dan sanggup menolong kita. jgn tunggu lepas grad. jadilah lbh bijak dr bdk kilang yg xmampu msk U tp tau mengubah nasibnya.

HARAPANKU KEPADAMU
harapan saya, antum semua dpt manfaat yg xtersangka2. biar buka mata. saya tdk perlu jd gah utk berkongsi ilmu yg berharga ni. saya hanya perlu jd seorg teman yg menyampaikan khabar gembira.

IRFAN KHAIRI: Rahsia Seorang Jutawan Internet

2007-03-16T20:18:00.000+08:00

Pernah dengar nama IRFAN KHAIRI? dr. irfan khairi, anak tempatan yg bergelar jutawan pd umo 25tahun lepas salah satu bisnes internetnya berjaya mengaut rm1,000,000. sejak dua menjak namanya menjadi sebutan, irfan khairi (28thn) menjadi sifu kpd peniaga2 internet, pakar2 industri dan newbie2 yg mula nak bertatih dlm perniagaan online/e-commerse ni.

BELAJAR DARI KESILAPAN!
dr irfan khairi belajar dari kesilapan, dan pengalaman. pd permulaan, e-bisnesnya tdk bgt menguntungkan. beliau mula meneroka dan mengkaji teknik2 yg jutawan2 internet dunia gunakan utk mencungkil rahsia bagaimana mereka mendirikan LAMAN WEB YG BOLEH MELARISKAN JUALAN.

RAHSIA INTERNET TERBONGKAR
berkat usaha gigih dan pengetahuannya, dia bergelar jutawan hanya one click away from home..gune laptop je seh..dr irfan menegaskan, bukan modal besar atau web gempak yg buat org memilih produk kita, tp laman web yg ringkas dan byk beri manfaat pd pengguna yg buat org setia, dan percaya bisnes virtual kita ni jujur.

AKU YANG TAK PASTI
so, apa faedah kita bisnes kat internet ni? especially yg ko reti cume main game, layan friendster,donlot2 anime, tak pun beli tiket airasia online...jwpnnya ialah modal permulaan dan sewa tapak lebih rendah dr org wat gerai burger, masa kerja adlh terpulang pd kita dan bakal pelaggan sgt ramai. kalau suka nak buka perniagaan, cari duit lebih dan paling bahagia sekali KEBEBASAN WANG belajar dari jutawan...org yg tlh tbukti berjaya

pniagaan mana zero risiko beb, sbb itu mesti ada ilmu menghasilkan kedai yg berjaya. dr irfan mengajar beribu2 org berjaya di e-biz dlm bukunya "rahsia jutawan2 internet terbongkar". buku ini buku pniagaan internet/kwangan plg laris d M'sia. mudah d baca, mudah praktik dan semua golongan umur blh mempraktikkannya. Aku mengesyorkan kawan2 yg nak wat duit sampingan membelinya. layari rahsiainternet.com klik link tu. kalo korang beli pun saya tak untung apa2, saya bukan affiliate pun tp ilmu tu sgt bagus utk anda.

saya hrp kawan2 bertemu dgn pkerjaan yg paling disukai anda supaya hidup ini terasa puas dan setiap hari adlh hari yg memberangsangkan.

BLOG MOTIVASI DR TUAH ISKANDAR

2007-03-16T20:12:00.000+08:00

BLOG DR TUAH ISKANDAR
orait. this is dr tuah's blog: eTuah . my reccomendation to those looking for creative, juicy motivations in various aspect of self-development. aku terpengaruh dgn dakyah dak housemate aku, yakni seorang cikgu yg rajin membaca majalah2 dewan bahasa. akak nilah yg rekemen aku baca blog dr tuah, memandangkan aku pun dah sememangnya surf addict.

PENULIS YANG PROLIFIK
dr hm tuah iskandar al-haj, adlh leading motivator di mesia yg ahli dlm bdg psikologi dan perwatakan manusia. beliau berceramah pasal kpimpinan, personaliti, team building, pendidikan dsb. selain itu, beliau jg seorg penulis prolifik yg menulis utk 18 buah mjlh dan tlh menerbitkan 50 buah novel. antara hit beliau adlh stefa isle, hatimu utk siapa, inikah cinta, enrique mengundang jauh & aku di hatimu. dr tuah jg tlh dnobatkan sbg the most outstanding people of 20th century olh international biographical centre, 1999.

blog dr tuah sgt mengujakan minda, feeds the needs. beliau menulis artikel2 ttg motivasi utk pembangunan diri, dari sudut pandangan aku, berkonsepkan utk menghapuskan pemikiran jumud 'saya xcukup bagus macam org lain'. dr tuah mengajar pembaca berfikir cara betul, dan berfikir cara sihat. sesuai bangat utk manusia yg serba silap dan merasa diari hidupnya mmg telah d tulis gagal setiap mukasurat.

BERSAHAJA & JUJUR
that's not all. dr tuah menterjemahkan pemikiran insan berjaya dlm penulisannya. dgn menulis scr santai, jujur dan bersahaja, dr tuah enterprete minda cemerlang dgn kisah2 teladan, kiasan dan pernyataan yg lebih terus terang sesuai bg semua peringkat umur. bdk2 sekolah, cikgu2, makcik pakcik, siswa siswi dan bagi sesiapa sj yg menyukai motivasi.

dr tuah jg menulis ceramah2 bersiri ttg merawat cinta remaja & meyingkap rahsia lelaki (jeng, jeng, jeng..). yg ini teman2 harus mendaftar jd ahli dulu, baru blh dpt kemudahan e-ceramah ini. yg free kat sini just e-artikel.

MENARIK DI BLOG eTUAH
lain2 bhn interaktif selain e-artikel dan e-ceramah, adlh e-book (jualan buku2 dr tuah), e-kaunseling (khidmat kaunseling scr sms dan online), e-video (tajuk: kendali iri hati), e-teman (cari2 jodoh..teman2 online), e-mobile (tajul muluk etc )dan e-news (pembabitan dr tuah d media penyiaran).

YANG SAYA SUKA
ini ada sesuatu yg menarik. saya mmg sgt cenderung dgn ilmu astrologi, numerologi dan tilikan nasib ni. skdr menyelami potensi diri sendiri dan sbg satu motivasi! saya tertarik dgn rahsia di sebalik tarikh lahir melalui khidmat sms tuah rahsia, casnya rm1. saya taip TUAH RAHSIA dan taip tarikh lahir seperti ini:

TUAH RAHSIA xx.xx.1983

dan hantarkan ke 33221. kemudian, saya dapat reply ini:

xx.xx.1983 anda seorg yg UNGGUL.
selalunya memiliki IDEA BARU.
anda JUJUR dan boleh MEMIMPIN.
bagaimanapun, elok jg mendengar pendpt org lain.

hehe. bagaimana?
saya sangat sukakannya sebagai satu penyuntik semangat. apa kata anda pula mencubanya sendiri.

orait. anda harus merasai sendiri baru dpt mengerti faedah blog dr tuah.
cheerio!

Disgrace & glory (part II)

2007-03-16T19:49:00.000+08:00

Launching A Dream

When the demands grew bigger and more than I could handled, I started to offer the job to my friends. I thought of an idea on how to keep the money flowing into my pocket without having me working on every single paper.

The idea is networking. I made a network of 5-6 people to do the job and took 20% commission on each client as a project finder & founder. We translate or type a page of article for RM1.50. That is very reasonable compared to some translator who requested RM5.00/page! To give my networkers a boost of motivation, they get 100% profit out from their first client. However, at those times, little did I realize I was building a network, a very powerful tool for entrepreneur to become successful.

When business gets better, I felt it is time to promote and advertise the services. So I began designing posters and get my housemates to evaluate it. Was the poster understandable? Was it too crowded? Does it focused enough on the service or is it too general? I posted them on every faculties and notice board around campus.

We translate or type a page of article for RM1.50. That is very reasonable compared to some translator who requested RM5.00/page! Pasting ads in campus needs approval. I had to get the faculty’s cop and staff-on-duty’s signature. Once approved, my posters were everywhere.

Students beginning to rang my cellphone. Old friends appeared at my door. New friends become buddies.

Disgrace & glory (part I)

2007-03-16T19:37:00.000+08:00

Disgrace and glory are only chapters in your diary. It’s true both acronyms molded mindset. But they can’t change who you are right now. Thought the past predicts the future, only you could make the difference.

The Reason is Money

one year, I was very desperate searching a way to make money. I was washing dishes mounting inside the kitchen sink at my ground floor hostel room. My mind was wandering outside an empty space seeking for a solution. Money is the ends to a mean. The contract of my study loan just finished the previous semester. Here I am, decided to extend 2 more semesters to finish a few subject I’ve not yet taken. My parents were not in a good financial condition at that time and I don’t have the heart to ask them for money.

Business premises around the neighbourhood turned down on me. They prefer a permanent worker rather than part-timer undergraduate. Or they want a night-shift waiter to work until 2-3am. Or its too far away I seemingly will be spending half of my wages on transportation alone. For 2 weeks, I’ve been searching for a job, high and low.

The thought of working as an interpreter suddenly arise. That is one of the skills I can be very good at (and you might say I’m not so bad J). At that time, I see that I have only few talents, few things I can do. My self confidence was at a very low par. I was recovering from a long heartache.
To be an interpreter, I don’t even have a clue where to start. Suddenly, Anita, my senior appeared behind the kitchen’s window and sent me good news.

“I have a friend who is currently looking for a translator,” she said.

Immediately I thought that god must have heard me.

“If she’s not in a hurry, I can help,” goes my reply.

“Apparently, she is in a hurry. That is why she needed help. And she is willing to pay. I’m not very good in English, so I’m not suitable for the task. So I thought you might be interested,” Anita said.

I immediately agreed, and we went back to her hostel room. There, her friend, a lady around late thirty sitting on her bed and was holding a paperwork.

She quickly expressed her relief, “thank you very much. Frankly, I can do this by myself, but I have 2 individual assignments due in a few days. My teammates return early to Johor for mid semester breaks and we have to submit this group assignment in a week. I just can’t focus on three things at once,” she said innocently.

I was nodding slightly. Trying to catch every detail she mentioned. Her name is Janice, a school teacher from Johor Bharu, Johor. We were in the same faculty, I took chemistry and she took biotechnology. Both Kak Jane (sis Jane, that is what I address her) and Puan Nita (Nita and I were both military reserved officers, so I address her as Puan: ma’am) are Johorians. They must have met each other in Johorians community club.

After agreeing on a few details, she immediately took out RM50 from her purse. I said she could wait until I have finished the job in the first place. However, she insisted. She look quite desperate and needed a confirmation that it will be done just like promised. I felt pity for her and assured her it will be completed like we agreed. So from the day onward, I decided to become an interpreter, translating BM to English and vice versa. Other than that, I am also a freelance typist.

KETAHUI 4 SUKUAN DALAM DUNIA PEKERJAAN

2007-03-15T15:35:00.000+08:00

KENALI SEBABNYA..
Mengapa memilih keusahawanan?
walaupun jwpnnya subjektif kpd individu berbeza, tujuan yg jelas ialah menjana byk wang atau memiliki KEBEBASAN keWANGan.

seperti yg dikatakan robert kiyosaki dlm bukunya "bussiness school", manusia bekerja ini ada empat sukuan
i. sukuan I : makan gaji
ii. sukuan II : bekerja sendiri
iii. sukuan III : memiliki perniagaan/empayar perniagaan
iv.sukuan IV : pelabur

sukuan I: org makan gaji.
pekerja yg makan gaji terpaksa menukarkan masa bekerja kepada nilai wang yg tetap.
upah perjam adalah tetap, jika pekerja tidak dtg bekerja, maka tiada wang yg masuk. lebih masa yg dilaburkan, lebih wang yg diperolehi. sampai pd suatu tahap, graf perolehan akan mendatar utk tempoh yg sgt lama.

sukuan II: bekerja sendiri.
mereka ini menggunakan kepakaran dan kemahiran sendiri. cth peguam, doktor, arkitek.
mereka bekerja utk kekayaan sendiri. mereka memiliki kebebasan masa bekerja, tetapi aliran wang terhenti apabila mereka tidak bekerja. mereka biasanya profesional.

sukuan III: pemilik perniagaan.
golongan ini mempunyai pekerja. mereka menggaji org lain utk bekerja dlm perniagaan mereka.
pekerja mereka bekerja utk mengumpul kekayaan peniaga ini. wang mengalir masuk semasa mereka tdk bekerja, sedang tidur, berehat, bermain dsb. mereka memiliki lbh masa berkualiti utk dilaburkn kepada aktiviti2 yg mereka mahu.

sukuan IV: pelabur.
golongan ini sangat sedikit. mereka tidak menjalankan bisnes tetapi melaburkan wang dlm saham, hartanah, bon atau stok dan bijak mempelbagai sumber kewangan dlm pelaburan. pulangan besar.

PILIHAN TERBAIK
dlm ketiga2 golongan ini, beliau menyarankan kehidupan sukuan III. untuk memiliki kebebasan kewangan, seseorg perlu menganjak dari sukuan pertama ke kedua, kedua ke ketiga dan seterusnya. sukuan ketiga itu adalah rezeki itu melimpah2 seperti sebatng sungai yg tidak keputusan air. ia merupakan identiti seorg pipebuilder.

sukuan pertama terpaksa menukarkan jam kepada wang. seumpama seorg pembawa baldi air, lebih besar dan byk baldi yg dibawa, lebih byk upah. jika hari tersebut diA TIDAK MEMBAWA BALDI,TIADA UPAH.

saranan burke hedges dlm bukunya "pipe builder" ialah be a pipebuilder, not a bucket carrier. walaupun begitu, tidak semua org meminati bisnes. hanyalah, konsep kehidupan ini diajar oleh mereka yg telah bergelar jutawan, dan telah mengalaminya sendiri..

MENGAPA MEMILIH KEUSAHAWANAN?

2007-03-15T15:32:00.000+08:00

BERKOBAR-KOBAR MENYERTAI BISNES
Ramai rakan2 saya setelah tamat belajar saya dengar menyertai pniagaan MLM, selain makan gaji sbg pekerja sambilan sementara mencari kerja tetap. sebabnya mudah, mereka sudah perlu grab kerja. an initial launch of job search.

yg masih belajar dan perlu berdikari, kebanyakan kita makan gaji, kerja waitress, assisstant cybercafe, agen nasi lemak dan salesperson.

Mengapa tidak memilih keusahawanan?
rakan saya telah membeli sebuah kereta kancil semasa dia tahun dua, dan buat bisnes sewa keretanya.

bisnes kereta sewa mcm pisang goreng di unimasss..sekarang sudah 3tahun berlalu, dia tetap maintain seperti biasa. tak heboh2 pendapatannya tp memerhatikan cara hidupnya sungguh menarik sekali. dia mampu menghadiahkan cincin emas putih kpd kekasihnya, travel sana sini, kerap makan di restoran yg happening sekitar kuching dan samarahan, kerja di kedai IT yg bagus dan byk tolong rakan2.dia jg bercakap sdh mampu sewa rmah luar tp tak perlu lg... pokok pangkalnya dia tahu bagaimana mahu menjana wang.

Nampak kebebasan kewangan yg dimilikinya?
seorang senior saya spttnya grad selepas 3 thn pengajian..tetapi extend 2 thn.

dia seorg yg aktif dan ceria, tetapi extend 2 tahun sangat sukar bg sesiapa pun.apa yg dilakukannya ialah belajar menjahit di dewan suarah di daerah muara tuang, selama 6 bulan yg disediakan oleh giatmara utk budak2 kampung disitu scr percuma. selepas tamat kursus, semua budak2 palapes akan mencarinya untuk tempahan baju. dia pulang ke kpgnya dgn misi membuka kedai jahit.

MEMENUHI KEPERLUAN ORANG LAIN
rumusannya, rakan2 saya MEMENUHI keperluan orang lain...mereka cepat di cari kerana org lain ada keperluan untuk dipenuhi. walaupun permulaan mereka agak sukar, tetapi adat niaga tidak ada apa perniagaan boleh bertahan tanpa dijaga dan diusahakan semahunya. satu yg saya lihat, mereka menuju ke sasaran sendiri tanpa sikap terikut2 dan menonong-nonong sahaja.mgkn kerana itu, peluang mereka berkembang lebih luas dari rakan2 yg terpkasa bekerja utk org lain.

PIJOL THE PIPE BUILDER II

2007-03-15T15:19:00.000+08:00

"hilang akal ke? jauh tu nak gali terusan. sori, jol. kenot go, " balas enal. dah pujuk2 taknak2, dah pujuk taknak, pijol bina paipnya sendiri...

mula2 org kampung laugh kat pijol. jauh tu nak bina paip..wat kubu pon piawai..

upah pijol menurun. but pijol go on..go on..go on.. satu ari, pijol dapati paipnya dah 75% siap! hah, dia gumbira sbb paip nak settle n dia pun bley angkut lebih baldi.

bila paip tu siap sepenuhnya 2 tahun kemudian, air dari sungai samarahan tu melimpah ke takungan kpg kenanga tu tak putus2.. sume org kpg cam kenot believe it!! depa sume dok puji2 pijol, cerdik tol dak ni. bukan itu saja, malah usahanya sgtlah berbaloi bila upahnya juga mengalir tidak putus2 ...seperti paip yg tidak ditutup2.

time jamming ngan pasukan kompang the Labyrinth, pijol buat duit, time buat tahi mata, dapat duit, time makan pun wat duit. huh, kaya. so pijol pun bina la masjid sebiji kt kpg dan bina masjid juga didalam kehidupannya. dia kawin ngan anak tok kiyai, siti lene.

dia pun ajak si enal. kini enal dah lebih yakin n positif ngan prospek bisnes ni. lg pun dia dah tak larat lg nak bw separuh pun drp seratus biji baldi sehari sbb tgn dah sakit. so depa pun join venture

walaupun tok kiyai nak promote pijol jd deputi merangkap penghulu kpg yg seterusnya, dia tak nak. dia nak bina paip ke serata mukim UMINASS!!!

oleh itu adik2..amatlah penting dlm hidup ini kita pandai membina paip... jgn angkut baldi spjg hidup..

LET BECOME A PIPE BUILDER..NOT A BUCKET CARRIER.

PIJOL THE PIPE BUILDER

2007-03-12T14:26:00.000+08:00

Cerite ini aku rompak dr penulisan Robert T. Kiyosaki (rich dad poor dad) dlm bukunya 'business school' . nama2 karektor aku dah ubah supaya yg berkenaan tu terpengaruh ngan AGENDA suci & ikhlas aku ni.ngeh ngeh ngeh..(palms rubbing & smiles naughtily)

si penglipur lara: tersebutlah kisahhh...

audience: taibbb.....

Pada zaman Kesultanan Melaka dahulu, disebuah kampong bernama Pekan Kenanga tinggallah dua org sahabat baek bernama hang pijol dan si enal. mereka berdua org miskin..CAIS pagi, makan pagi, CAIS petang, makan petanglah. kalao tak keje sehari, tak mengais la diorg, soru illek

Penghulu kpg tu, Kiyai Hakimi buka la sebidang tanah bendang yg sgt luas. dia nak tulong org kampung, nak merancakkan ekonomi Kenanga. masalah problemnya adlh sumber air tu jauh sangat dr bendang. So tok kiyai upahlah dua org pemuda ni, pijol n enal 2 do the dirty job (kuang kuang kuang). depa kena angkat baldi berisi air dr sungai tu ke takungan air di bendang. setiap baldi di beri upah satu sen..

So, depa kerja keras. sehari depa bleh angkut seratus baldi air. In the end of the day, pijol n enal masing2 dibayar upah SERATUS SEN sehari!!!! kaya!! kaya!! pakcik kaya!! hah, depa di puji2 org kpg..maklum la dah jd org kaya baru. sebulan keje cam ni dah blh beli keta lembu.

Selepas lapan hari membanting tulang, pijol dah sengal2 badan. tapak tgn dia dah merah dan bengkak. mula la upah dia menurun, tak byk baldi lg dia blh bawa. pijol rasa kecewa. mau tak mau, kerja tetap kena kerja. pijol mula berfikir, apa aku blh buat utk ringankan beban? aku takkan mampu kerja mcm ini sepanjang hayatku. aku tak cukup rehat. badan semakin sakit. aku pun semakin hari semakin tua. bila nak kawin?

Ting!!! (light bulb) pijol dapek idea. yes, apa kata aku bina paip dr sungai ke bendang? daripada dibayar ikut bilangan baldi lebih baik kalau aku dapat duit yg tak putus2. mungkin aku terpaksa kerja keras utk bina terusan tp bila dah siap aku tak perlu kerja2 lg. air paip itu akan mengalir tak putus2. mmg visionary betul si pijol ni.

So dia pun ajak sahabatnya enal..

Tu bi kontiniu in Pijol the Pipe Builder II