Passion in Life

Steve Job had shared his secret to success during the interview at All Things Digital 5 together with the appearance of Bill Gates. He had mentioned that “Passion” is one important driven factor to success, as any rational person would have given up if without passion.

Passion helps us to enjoy what we are up to. Passion helps us to keep up what we are doing. Tony Robbins says that one need to condition their mind in order to succeed. Passion helps us to condition ourselves and stay at the upmost state. We need to truly love and believe on what we desire to achieve. So we could achieve.

Before we can influence one another to take our opinion, we need to 1^st influence ourselves and create such certainty in our mind. We need to drive our mind to influence our body. We need to present ourselves in a positive way with great confidence on what we are about to do or say.

No matter what are you facing now, start to train your mind. Allow yourself to pick up your mind and body. Allow yourself to take charge of your own emotion. Focus on things that you can make a different instead of those you have no control. Talk to yourself positively, and demand for happiness. Remember there is nothing to fear, but fear itself. Do not afraid to fail, because failure will make you a better person. Do not afraid to fail, because failure will lead you to success.

Stay away from those who are trying to stop you for dreaming big. Stay away from those who are trying to settle their dreams on you. Live you life the way you desire, and prove to no one else but yourself. No one can simply please anyone before there is an actually accomplishment, so stay on your feet and keep moving forward. Every step you made lead you one step ahead to your goal. Find your passion and enjoy every little bit you have done for such passion. Live no regret in life, as it is short. Do not allow anyone to stop you from your dream. 

Selfishness

Understood that this is my 1^st post of the year, and I should choose a more positive title to encourage everyone. However, I promise this won't be as bad as you thought and wasn’t any bit demotivated.  I still understand my role as a soft skill trainer, so keep reading on.

Through my career and life, I have always heard accusation of selfishness. Employee accuses their boss being selfish for not increasing the salary or extending work hours. Parents accuse their children being selfish for not listening to their opinions. Brothers accuse one another being selfish for no particular reason. After spending so much time listening to all these blame, I have obtained a simple conclusion; “Poor Communication” or “Misunderstanding”.

All the above accusation of selfishness was due to poor communication or misunderstanding. Employee accuses their boss being selfish, because there is no proper communication between the front line workers and top management, which results misunderstanding. Parents desire to have children to take their advice, but fail to receive their children’s thought. Parents often believe their opinion is better due to experience, but they fail to identify their children as an individual with own ideas. For such, misunderstanding appears.

In fact, I can’t really explain what’s the actual problem between brothers or sisters, because they often accuse each other for no particular reason. Some may say one is not taking the responsibility to take care of the family. Some may disagree with one’s decision or plan. However, I would say it is all about misunderstanding and poor communication. Family with the above problem often do not have a direct communication channel, but through members. Therefore, all the information received has been interpreted already with additional flavor.

Anyway, I just hope this article can awake those yet to understand that there is no such thing call “selfish” in this world. We just didn’t communicate well. Whenever you want to accuse someone for being selfish, think again. Because that someone may have help you or support you in another area, where in this case he or she has just happen to stand in a different point of view against yours. In such way, you will realize that all this accusation is totally meaningless, unless you desire to surrender all support from such person permanently.

At last, share a wonderful quote I obtained from my friend, and may your God bring you peace and happiness for this 2012.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas people. 2011 has almost comes to the end, and we are about to receive 2012 in another week. I wish you all the best on whatever you are up to, and a wonderful year of 2012 ahead. For those who has been following my blog, thank you for reading my thought and being supportive. I will keep working on my words, so I could better express my opinions. May God bless all of us. Last, show you guys a interesting video from Jeff Dunham on youtube, and wish the laughter stays with you all 2012.

Get Your Company A Speaker

Events and media have been the most well know marketing tools so far. Marketing representative utilize different media to present their product to consumers. Events are held for introducing new projects. However, they all focus on introducing the unique selling point of products; those obvious ponts. Mobile devices, computers and other electronic emphasis on tech specs when advertise. Service provider such as hotels and resorts focus on restaurants type, room size and design. However none have get someone who can embrace the product with a story that can inspire people to pursuit a belief; to believe that the product is something they need and always wanted.

The success of Apple was built by thousands of Apple employees, but known through one person, Steve Jobs. Sadly, none has learned from him, and understand the key for Apple’s well known success.

Whenever he was on product launching, he was always selling a dream, not the product. He explained his dream again and again as a story. He linked this dream of changing the way technology was with Apple's new product. “We have reinvented the phone”, he said while introducing iPhone. We can easily felt his belief through those words, and were influenced. Their advertisements concentrated on the meaning behind the design instead of explaining the tech specs. He has built a belief in us, and made us willingly to spend more for Apple’s product.

It is always much effective while inspiring people to do something instead of rewarding them to act. Announcing all those figures behind the product is consider as rewarding the consumer for their action to purchase. Tell them a story and involve them into such story can motivate them to go after the product. To sell a story, one needs a great speaker; a speaker who can influence people through words. Start searching for those talents within your establishment and utilize them wisely. 

Don't tell me words don't matter.

What would you do? part 2

This video was shared by my friend via Facebook. Again reminds us to stand for those needs help. Let's focusing on doing the right things instead of only doing things right.

What would you do?

We, people who claim living in liberal city. We educated our kids not to bully. We complain no one gives a hand when things happen to our family or us. But what have we done for others when they indeed need our support?

I was shared with the attached youtube video, and feel sorry for us who enjoy freedom in our life. We become disconnect with things around us. We focus only on those concerns us. We care only for no one. We stand for no one. The worst, we even scare to stand for our own belief and integrity.

We need to wake up. We need to change. We need to start caring again.

Learn from our younger generation

Through TED, I have got to learn about Adora Svitak, a great young author from America. When I called her young, I mean it. She is only 14. I watched her speech in TED, and was totally blown away. I would strongly encourage everyone to experience her powerful words from http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html. The topic she has shared is “What can adults learn from kids?” and I found this topic extremely important to us, especially to our leaders.

Often we forgotten to listen and lend an ear to our younger one. We tend to share more of our experience to them instead of understand what’s in their mind. We lead them by our pass experience and expect their success. I would say at most of time, we have just simply ignored their voice. We forget the fact that the world has changed, and we did not catch up these changes better than our youths.

We communicate more rapidly through technology nowadays, which in fact we weren’t as good as our youngsters. We can learn more through Internet now, but we spend less time in comparison to our youngsters. We need to admit the fact that we can actually learn from our younger one in many aspects.

By empowering them to share their thought with us, we then get opportunities to learn. We can learn how to improve our management skill through Internet, and yet such learning can be costless. We can learn how to better communicate with others through technology, and again many of these tools are free. Through exchange ideas, we can identify much efficient ways to achieve result, and yet with lower price.

Lend an ear to our next generation, and allow them to share their opinions with us. Allow them to achieve their need of supreme through this little action, and you may avoid them to obtain responsiveness through miss behaviors. We will be surprise with how much we can learn from our youth, and yet how much they would appreciate such interaction from us.