Your View Matters

As I grow older (ok, I am not that old enough), I noticed that a lot of people are arguing with each other on small issues that most of the time does not really makes any senses. Statements can produce a whole lot of argument and this will create bigger things; quarrels, fightings or even bad mouthing. The reason is very simple - the quotes below explains everything.

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them." ~Epictetus

Politics are heavily influence by this. In everything, there are always a lot of angles one can view. And whatever one might say, they are probably right depending on which view they are looking at. Currently the issue Mat Saby saying that Mat Indera, the pro-communist guy was the hero of the country has created a nationwide issue with everybody saying things to justify their view is the correct ones.

Previously, the Bersih 2.0 issue also was the nationwide issue. I do believe it is a political influence- or if you did not agree, you just simply have a different view with me. Once a statement is out, everybody is debating based on their view they take of them.

Whatever you view is, my advise is to make sure to always look at the positive side angle and always think about what benefits you can derive from the view that you have given.

Doing the hard thing!

"You need to be willing to do what's hard. Why? Because if you're willing to do what's hard, my friend, life will be easy. If you're only willing to do what's easy, life will become very hard. There is a difference, and I encourage you not to fall for the BS that your mind keeps giving you."

This is quote by T. Harv Eker at his wall today. I post this to my blog to remind myself and remind you, the reader of this blog.

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Petua Meluaskan Pintu Rezeki

Assalamualaikum…..

Ilmu untuk dikongsi bersama………… dan sebarkan kepada semua

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Alhamdulillah masih diberi kesempatan untuk terus menulis dan berkongsi dengan anda semua.
Orang kata hidup dalam zaman ni kalau tak berhutang, kiranya tak sah. Tak kisahlah apa hutang sekalipun. Ada juga yang berhutang sehingga sanggup meminjam dari along dan sebagainya. Akibatnya kaum keluarga menjadi mangsa, sama ada diganggu ataupun dibunuh.

Orang kata tidak mustahil kerana wang kita sanggup berbunuhan antara satu sama lain, dan kerana wang juga kita sanggup melakukan apa saja, meskipun ia melanggar batas-batas kemanusiaan.
Adakah jalan keluar untuk kemelut yang dihadapi ? Bagaimana kita nak meloloskan diri dari beban hutang yang dihadapi. Saya kongsikan cerita dan petua ini.

“Aku tidak melihatmu di masjid semalam,” Rasulullah s.a.w. menegur Sayidina Muaz Bin Jabal r.a, sesesai berjemaah Zuhur.

“Maafkan aku, wahai Rasulullah. Aku tidak berpeluang untuk menunaikan solat Jumaat semalam. Semasa dalam perjalanan ke masjid, aku telah dihalangi oleh seorang kaum Yahudi. Aku dikurung dirumahnya dan tidak dibenarkan ke mana-mana,” jawab Sayidina Muaz dengan panjang lebarnya.

“Kenapa?”

“Aku telah banyak berhutang kepadanya,” akui Sayidina Muaz terusterang. “Sehinggalah aku merayu dan berjanji akan menjelaskan hutang-hutangnya apabila beroleh wang nanti, barulah aku dilepaskan,”
Rasul tersenyum sambil menepuk-nepuk bahu Saydina Muaz berkata, ” Aku ajarkan kepadamu dua potong ayat. Jika engkau mahu mengamalkannya, Allah akan meluaskan rezekimu untuk menjelaskan semua hutangmu, walaupun hutangmu sebesar gunung banyaknya.”

“Mahu..mahu, wahai Rasulullah,” jawab Saydina bersungguh-sungguh.

Rasulullah s.a.w. pun membacakan dua ayat al-Quran dari Surah Ali Imran iaitu ayat 26-ayat 27. Sayidina Muaz mendengarnya dengan cermat dan teliti, sebelum ikut membacanya semula. Selepas itu dia terus mengamalkannya dua potong ayat yang banyak khasiatnya itu. Sehingga Saydina Muaz menjadikan ayat tersebut sebagai wirid hariannya.

Berkat daripada kata-kata Rasulullah tersebut, akhirnya Sayidina Muaz telah menjadi orang yang berjaya dan maju dalam bidang perkerjaannya. Dengan jayanya itu membolehkan ia melunaskan semua hutangnya.
Mungkin kita juga boleh menjadi seperti Sayidina Muaz yang berjaya melunaskan beban hutang yang ditanggung. InsyALLAH dengan pengamalan wirid ini akan melapangkan pintu rezeki kita. Saya tinggalkan anda semua dengan terjemahan bagi kedua-dua ayat yang dimaksudkan.

Surah Ali Imran Ayat 26.
Katakanlah, “Ya Allah, yang merajai kerajaan, Engkau memberikan kerajaan kepada siapa yang Engkau mengkehendaki, dan melucutkan kerajaan daripada siapa yang Engkau mengkehendaki, dan Engkau memuliakan siapa yang Engkau mengkehendaki, dan Engkau menghinakan siapa yang Engkau mengkehendaki. Di tangan Engkau yang baik; sesungguhnya Engkau berkuasa atas segala sesuatu.

Surah Ali Imran Ayat 27.
Engkau menjadikan malam memasuki ke dalam siang, dan Engkau menjadikan siang memasuki ke dalam malam, dan Engkau mengeluarkan yang hidup daripada yang mati, dan Engkau mengeluarkan yang mati daripada yang hidup, dan Engkau memberi rezeki kepada sesiapa yang Engkau mengkehendaki tanpa perhitungan.”

Prestige Leadership Programme

I am currently in Awana Genting for the PLP, Prestige Leadership Programme. This programme is intended for the middle management which is potential to be the future leaders, leading one division of an organization. PLP is designed for Malaysian GLCs to explore the potential, dig in their talents and equipped them with the necessary tools to become a future leaders.

Today, 5 days past and I am at the final night in room 19554. It was a tiring moment especially the programme running from day to night with little rest in between. Before I came here, I was thinking to absorb all the knowledge possible that I can gain throughout the entire session. However, being a secretariat, with the table location at the back of the room, my mindset is set to be the secretariat more than the participant. After all, I need to be sensitive to the environment. The roles and duty makes my focus changed hence I did not learn the most. Of course by listening passively behind, not much I can learn, unless I participated during the discussion, asking questions and giving opinion during the session.

All and all, I enjoyed every moment I spent here. Aside from the abundance of foods, I have learn a lot of valuable lessons through all the execution of the programme as well as observations. Things does not always goes well, and from all this mistakes and hiccup I learn better. The speakers involves, Dato' and Tan Sri, aside from all the professors. These people, especially the Tan Sri have the ability to give a good insight from the little words that they said. The little words comes from experience and experience is something too much valuable.

Hope to have more opportunities to learn through this kind of programme in the future and may Allah grant my wish.

Kepimpinan Belia Dalam Dunia Siber 2011

Persidangan Belia Dalam Dunia Siber 2011 Peringkat Kebangsaan was initiated by Kementerian Belia Dan Sukan and MMU was invited to supply the trainers and facilitators. What was the most interesting thing happened during the event was my existance there as the facilitator. :)

I have been working in few companies and I understand different working cultures. However, working with government certainly have a different culture and protocols need to be followed. For example, the formal malay language (as per subject Bahasa Melayu in school) is actually what they are practising. It isn't something good or bad, but it is their way of communicating especially in a meeting. Syazly can explains more on this I guess (btw, Syazly is the handsome man that sitting beside me - or I can describe better as the second handsome man after me :) ). And the most exciting part was everybody start to imitate the way of speaking during the event and it continue until now.

It was indeed a good experience to handle 100 crowds from different background, but they are all Belia. The topic was interesting, about dunia siber. But the youngsters catch-up faster when it comes to IT. All the cyber-thingy can be understood easily by them, even they know better than the trainers in most cases. Working with the body who have the funding (i.e. the government) is indeed some kind of luxury where you can stay at the 5-star hotel, having free food and yet they pay you with certain fees. This is the lifestyle that I desire, where I am preparing myself to and hopefully in the next few years I will achieve this kind of job. Giving a speech, people pay me, people give me good accommodation and people feed me with good food. So, let us become trainer, having a lucrative rewards and enjoy luxury lifestyle. :)

How to gain Happiness

"If we want to look young, we must be happy. The happiness of being in love is very noticeable. It is difficult of course to be happy all the time. But if you count your blessings every morning, you will feel happy." - Memoirs Tun M. pg 584

National Achievers Congress 2011

I just came back from the NAC2011 at Sunway Convention Center. The seminar is featuring the Incredible Hulk - Lou Ferrigno as the highlight of this year event. Other speaker such as Ron Kaufman is part of the most well-known in personal development industry and author of many books in the customer service field.

There are several interesting speakers to name, but the one among all that I don't know prior joining the event which I felt a very good impact is Andy Harrington. He's way of delivering his talk is similar to Tony Robbins, and he did shared with us that he's attended Tony Robbins' "Unleash the Power Within" and "Date With Destiny" Programme And he did share some of his story during that events. No wonder he's method is similar to Tony Robbins - and he also mentioned during his 2nd session that "I'm going to be your Anthony Robbins".

Of course as per every year of the congress, many of the featured speaker will give some information or teach few basic techniques and principles before they sell their so-called 'advanced' 2 or 3 days seminars. And I find out that the way Andy Harrington sells his seminar was quite unique and something that I can learn. And his offering one of the most cheapest seminar which is RM2997.

What so special about him is he really can connect with people during his speech. He did shares some of his techniques such as you need to talk to individual for about 5-7 sec before you scan to other places. I have never tried this before but maybe... I said maybe because it could only my theory... maybe by looking at that specific person, you are talking to an individual rather than talk to many, in terms of your presentation. But then you random to another person for 7 sec. The message will sounds like personal, but it is being delivered to the mass.

Other that that, Kevin Rae also telling something about Joint Venture - the most effective (and probably cost-effective) technique to grow your business. For example, Disney partnering with McDonalds and it really create a synergy between the two. Kids will like the toy as-well-as the food when they gone to McD and the toy will indirectly influence the kids to asked their parents to watch the movie. Brilliant! But there are several steps to create an effective JV. I can't explain it here because I don't have the notes with me. It's in my bag and I am very lazy to open my bag which is 2-feet away from me.

Ron White, the #1 Memory Expert (you can google or youtube the name if you don't believe me!) also shared his technique (which I find quite difficult to follow) on memorizing effectively. According to him, it is nothing wrong with brain. But the reason why people can't memorize is because their brain is not been trained. He taught us one technique of memorizing and the rest of the technique is paid for RM5000++ (seriously I can't remember the price and I actually need to attend his course). To make sure that he is really good, he start his session by recalling more than 40 peoples name and it came to surprise that he can recall each and every one correctly. And to make things more interesting, he call out 25 participants and each give a pair of random number. He can recall all the 50 numbers and not just that, he can say it backwardly.

Before I attend that seminar, I was wondering, why they called up Lou Ferrigno to become their main highlight. Because he is incredible hulk? Or because he won the Mr. Universe twice? Until the last session I can't figure out why is it the 'incredible hulk' is their main speaker. Why not Ron Kaufman who wrote so many books and featured in some megazine - including Malaysian SME as a columnist. Beside he's session was so very much interesting.

The CEO Richard Tan is asking Richard Branson to come for the next year session and if this really happens, the next year NAC would be something that everybody needs to look forward. But if he rejected, hopefully they don't invite George W. Bush as their main speaker.

All-and-all, congratulations to Success Resources for an awesome event!

Alya@Columbia Asia

Alya Mysara, my second daughter was admitted to HTAN - Hospital Tuanku Ampuan Najihah, Kuala Pilah. The symptom was the stomach is abnormally bigger. She was admitted on Thursday to the ICU for babies. After the next day, most of the lab test was found normal. However, the root cause still unknown. They took some sample of the feces and the sample can only be sent to Seremban Hospital and HKL on Monday. The result probably on Tuesday.

Because of the frustration of waiting and slowness of the diagnostic process, I have decided to transfer the baby to Columbia Asia Hospital. After all, the hospital is the panel for my company and the insurance will take care of the bills.

Been admitted to Columbia, the process was so much faster and action taken also firm. Even on Saturday, the doctor at least provide us with some reasonable progress and results of all the test. The visiting hours also more flexible and the location also very convenient for all close relatives to visit the mother and the baby.

As this is the 3rd time my wife stayed at this hospital, the environment is very familiar for me. And for the past 2 times, I've been accompanying my wife and shared the bed at night. But for this time, the nurse didn't allow me to stay overnight. She asked me to go back home or sleep outside. From the words she used, it is clear that the lady stayed at next bed wasn't feel comfortable with my existance. As a tolerate person, I pack my things up and straight away travel back home at 11.30pm. I don't blame the hospital nor the lady because by being in their situation, they have their right in asking so.

Today, as the measure taken yesterday to stop breastfeeding to the baby, the results show some positive feedback. The stomach slowly getting smaller. The doctor asked my daughter to stay for 3 days for observation, hopefully after the 3 days she is back normal and we all can be back home.