Bumpy rides

What makes a person tick? What makes a person to push himself out of his comfort zone? Basically what makes him think outside the box to provide solutions to his problem? He has to push himself to the point that he has to do whatever it takes to survive.

I have to learn to work under extremes pressures. It was a bumpy ride today.

People pleaser

Fuck me. Sorry about the language but that's what I think about myself at the moment. I'm a fucking people pleaser.

Sometimes, we tend to please people to save ourselves from trouble. I did that always. In relationship, business and work. After sometimes, it backfired. It always do and it hurts real bad.

Well, I guess I need to start to be more honest to myself and the people around me. Sorry to the people out there. Sometimes, being a person with integrity is really challenging. Inevitable. That's growing up.

Lesson 4

When I was young, people said I'm a good boy. I listened to advises. Thats what my parents told me. So did my closest relatives. Maybe that's what contributed to not being able to defend my opinions, needs and decision after all these years. Not being able to say "no".

I realized that the moment the whole world turned its back on you, that's the moment that we will truly be able to believe in ourselves and stick to our decisions. It's probably the pain from the rejections and scorn from the people closet to your heart that make me strive even more to show them that they were wrong.

The Pursuit of Happiness is currently my all-time favourite movie. It certainly reminds me of what I want to be, the challenges that I'm facing and how strong I need to be to overcome it. Thank you Will Smith and Christopher Gardner for the inspiring story.

Primal fear

Today Bryan make me knock more than 100 houses. Basically, I just stretch myself to the max. I'm more adapt in the night. I'm no longer afraid of rejections from customers. In desperation, humans grow at the fastest rate. Instead of thinking too long, knock first ask questions later. Even though I fail to close any sale , I shouldn't give up at this point.

Base on todays feedback, I still lack the attitude and enthusiasm when meeting potential customers. Apart from that, the presentation wasn't so fluent due to the lack of confidence. There is always room for improvement. Always.

Leadership vs Management

It's been seven days. Finally the word independent starts to make sense. Independent for the first time. The concept of doing the right things right also finally make some sense. Previously,I just thought that doing the right things is already enough. A one year mistake.

Leadership and management is two different things. Leadership revolves around the right brain while management revolves around the left brain. I've learned it from Stephen R. Covey in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. While leadership is more towards determining your life directions, management is more towards the step by step analysis and mechanical implementation towards the determined direction .

Reading and acquiring knowledge is good. But without practice, the knowledge is as good as garbage. I learned a lot about the business world during my university days. I've got a lot of support and mentors. But my biggest mistake was I didn't get their help when they were just beside me. I didn't apply what I've learn in real life. Instead, I just played Mr. Dedicated and Hardworking. Simply just showing people that I put lots of effort ...but not the right productive effort.

The management program so far has made me noticed several weak points in my self that I wish to develop in 3-5 months.

1. Do whatever it takes attitude
2. Sales skills
3. Personal management and development
4. Team building skill
5. Problem solving
6. Proactive and positive actions

We're just human

We are just human. Weak and vulnerable. A recent death of my friend clarified this statement. Somehow, life is just too short. It makes me think back about things that really matters to me most. The people around me. Am I neglecting them? Or am I simply to busy getting interested in myself? I wonder.

I began to imagine that life can be illustrated like a burning candle. It will go off one day, whether when the candle ran out or blown off by the sudden wind. An IBM manager Philp Tan once told me a story about a group of managers having a company meeting. Then, one day the general manager told the others to do a peculiar task.

"I want you to take a blank paper and start writing....your obituary." says the general manager. The other managers were perplexed but didn't dare to question him. They just did as instructed. "Why do we need to write an obituary now? "..the GM later asked.

His reasons were simple.To know exactly what you want to be, where you want to be when you leave this world.

Lesson 3

In a business, nobody will help you if you fucked up. Only your true friends will. So make more allies.

It's also important to being able to separate business and personal matters like the Aussies do. Malaysian simply fucks you upside down even after you are out of the office.

Treat everyone as a person. Even to the little people. Always put yourself in another person's shoes and feel how that person feels.

Everyone are present here because of themselves, not the because of the managers or the team mates.

An interesting story.Hound dogs generally is much faster than rabbits and were used by hunters. One day, Hound dog went to chase rabbit at the field. The rabbit managed to escaped after running for an hour. The hound dog was disappointed. How could the rabbit outran the hound dog that was way faster??

The reason is simple: The reason the hound dog ran is just to catch its food..which can be anything. While the reason the rabbit ran was simply.....to save its life from being eaten!

Men lived through the age of the sabre tooth tiger. Men managed to hunt them down because men were very hungry. It drives men to push over their limits for the sake of survival. Today, men don't hunt for food anymore. We can just order food by dialing 7552525 pizza Hut Special delivery. Slowly the survival instinct is gone due to laziness. To succeed today requires those survival instinct to be developed.

Bryan

In sales, we don't sell. People buy from us. Always know how to pitch according to customer needs.

Analyze yourself everyday using the system. Think of the solution of each problem and make sure to improve it at the following day.

Lenny

Lesson 2

Robert Kiyosaki once asked me a question in his book Guide to Investing. The question sounds like this.." Can you see a different worlds of money can exist? A world of not enough money and the world of too much money." Sometimes, I find it hard to believe that the latter exist.

Today, I knew deep in my heart that it exist. I see Greenbacks and Ringgits everywhere.. It was just under my nose and I failed to notice it. Have you?

Shin Sekai

Shin Sekai was written as a personal live journal. It was written to empower myself and the people who reads it to live more courageously in this complicated society. It reveals the other side of me , who wants much more wonderful things in this life than what is presently held. It may contain views and thoughts that is not generally accepted by the norms. It's just a written thought by a person who does not think of himself as weird but unique. As he writes, his unknown journey begins.