Be a Persistent Person

Hey,

I was watching a show about someone who do a lot to achieve his or her dream. There's some people who catch my attention on how they struggle in life. I want to tell you about one person who surpassed his limit to achieve his dream.

The first person is a famous singer from Korea, Park Jin-Young. He has a nickname JYP. He released seven albums, two serial TV, two films, and  got 17 awards, He also a founder of K-Pop record label named JYP Entertainment, one of three biggest record label in South Korea. JYP Entertainment produced some of the famous actor, artist, and group in Korea such as Rain, Wonder Girls, 2 AM, 2 PM, and Miss A.

Do you know that He got rejected from almost all the Korean agency in his young age before he debuted in music industry. One of the biggest record label (SM Entertainment) also reject his application. When his spirit almost gone, he put his last effort in one small agency and he got it. He debuted in the age of 23, it's quite an old age for a debutant in Korean music industry. He tried and tried and tried to get his name in K-Pop industry, never give up is his motto. Now? He become one of the judges in one of the show in Korea that recruit an amateur person to become next Korean Idol. Can you feel the spirit that He had?

Have you ever feel that everything that you do always stuck and don't give any progress to your dream? Believe me sometimes the last try is the door to your dream. Keep fighting, keep persistent, keep the faith, keep your dream. Every effort count, learn from every failure, change it to become a better person, have a Winner attitude. Your life, your dream, your effort, don't hesitate to achieve it. Believe in your self.

See you at the top.

Have a Persistent Day
-EZ

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Doing Better

Hey,

How's life? better? I hope so. Life is a mystery and it kinda fun to solve it. Have you ever think that you doing better and better each day through life? I have.

This is some of my thought that my life is going better everyday.  I hope some of it can motivate you : )

1. You are alive.
2. You are able to see the sunrise and the sunset.
3. You can walk outside and feel the breeze through your hair and the sun’s warmth on your skin.
4. You awoke this morning with a roof over your head.
5. You didn’t go to sleep hungry last night.
6. You often worry about what you’re going to do with your life – your career, your family, the next step, etc. – which means you have ambition, passion, drive, and the freedom to make your own decisions.
7. You are reasonably strong and healthy – if you got sick today, you could recover.
8. You have someone with whom to reminisce about ‘the good old days.’
9. You have access to clean drinking water.
10. You have access to the Internet.
11. You can read.
12. You have hand phone.
13. You have someone to care about.
14. You breath.

The truth is, you’re doing better than a lot of people in this world.  So remember to be grateful for all the things you do have.

True wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau

  

Have a Great Day
-EZ

The picture was taken in Batur, Bali Island, Indonesia.

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Choose the Right Path

Hey,

Many things happen in our life, some bad and some good. How we handle the situation make us grow or shrink. How do you handle a difficult situation?

We usually afraid to choose a different path of our live. Many of my friends who take a financial major in university, choose the financial path in their job and complaining to me that's not their passion. Some of my friend also regretting his job because it's not their passion. But some of my friend take a massive turning  to grab his passion. He was an accountant who worked in a big accounting firm with a nice salary, because he's a genius, he was able to reach a high position in the company. A lot of people saw him as a great person with a nice job and a nice salary, do you know that he was not happy with his life. He made a massive turn.

Now, He's a chef. Can you imagine it? from accountant to chef? But, he's happy with his life. He can move forward to achieve his dream and his passion. Do you have the gut to do that?

Life is like driving a car, the most important thing is your destination. When you don't know where you want to go, then you only driving along to nowhere waiting the gas empty. When you want to enjoy a nice sunset in a beautiful beach in the beach with a glass of refreshing drink, don't go to a mountain. Take a risk to fulfill your dream and passion.

Experience.  Dream.  Risk.  Close your eyes, jump, and enjoy the free fall.  Choose exhilaration over predictability.  Choose growth over comfort.  Choose potential over safety.  Wake up to the magic of life.
Make friends with your intuition.  Trust your gut.  Discover the beauty of uncertainty.  Know yourself fully before you make promises to others.  Make lots of mistakes so that you will know how to discern what you truly need.

Learn when to hold on and when to let go.  Love hard and often and without reservation.  Seek knowledge.  Open yourself to possibility.  Keep your heart honest, your head high, and your spirit free.  Embrace your darkness along with your light.  Be wrong every once in a while, and be okay with it.
Awaken to the brilliance in ordinary moments.  Live the truth no matter what the cost.  Own your reality without apology.  See goodness in the world.  Be Bold.  Be Fierce.  Be grateful.  Be wild, crazy, and gloriously free.

Take Chances. Take lots of them.  Because honestly, no matter where you end up and with whom, it always ends up just the way it should be.  Stop regretting things and start accepting them as the teachers they are.  Your most significant opportunities will be found in times of great difficulty.  Your mistakes make you who you are.  You learn and grow with each choice you make.  Everything is worth it.  Listen to your heart.

I also have some difficulties in choosing the right path, but I am trying to achieve my dream and passion. Let's change together to choose the right path even thought it's so hard to do it. Remember there's no growth in comfort zone and there's no comfort in growth zone.

Have a Choosing Day
-EZ

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Holiday? Why not

Hey,

How's life? I hope it's good as always, if not then it's time for you to take a break from the crowd in the city. Trust me it will refresh your soul and make impact to your life.

Last week I had a great week with my little family, we spent our time in Hongkong and Singapore just strolling around seeing many different places. Tired? of course but it's fantastic experience. Me and my wife have a commitment to have a holiday at least once a year either abroad or in domestic place in Indonesia. Why? because we want to spend our money that we collect about a year in an experiencing event. Plus we can have a refreshing moment in life. We can recharged our soul, love life, family time, quality time, plus holiday is food for my soul, eye, heart, and brain.

You also need a refreshing moment in life, don't over work your life, always work work work, spend you time in a stressful daily moment. Try to take a break, spend some time with your love one, your family, your friends, anyone as long you feel happy with it. In my case, I prefer to take a holiday.

What about the money? Some people feel so bad if they spend a lot of money to go to holiday, hey what's the point of busting your ass everyday to get money?  TO MAKE A HAPPIER LIFE in you. You can find more money again tomorrow, but enjoy your life today.

Experience is important, you live only once in this beautiful world so enjoy it to the fullest.

Have a Great Day
-EZ


ps: The picture is a scene in Symphony of Light in Hongkong

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Share it

Hey,

How's your day? I pray for your success, healthy, and wealthy life..

A couple of days ago, I had a great conversation with my wife, we talked about the future of our life. We shared a lot of things about career, business, family, and vision. Suddenly I realized that it's been a long time since we had such conversation like this. Now, I know what my wife really want in our life, about the future, our kid, our business, our career, many things that I missed.

The next day I declared to my self that I want to make a change in my life to make my wife and my family happy or even happier. I changed my vision, my point of view, and my action. Time is the right thing that I need now, but in the end it will gain the benefit for my family.

Have you ever share your vision, point of view, problem, and your dream to someone that you love or trust?

We as a human being is destined to life as a team, group, not as an individual in everywhere we live. In office, we need someone to make our job easier, in the family we need someone to run the house, in business we need someone to become a partner, in school we need someone to teach us, in community we need someone to accept us. Human being was created to make a conversation. That's the point to become a human.

Never hold your anger, sadness, problem, dream, happiness, and vision to someone you love. Tell them everything that you feel. If you hold it, it like a time bomb, once you fed up with it then BOOM explode, believe me the outcome always a mess.

So, why don't you try to share your feeling with someone else, ask for their advice, opinion, ask about their point of view about the future, make a healthy conversation, a conversation that will build you and them together. You can share to your wife, husband, best friend, son, daughter, co-worker, someone that you trust. Try it and you will feel the change that you need to make you become bigger, stronger, and happier.

Have a Sharing Day
-EZ

 I got the picture in the top pages from http://500px.com/photo/12073559 by Regina S

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Soup for Soul

Hey,

How's your day? I hope it's great and fabulous. I lost a project this week, kinda sad but it's okay. I learn many things from this. I just let it out and start to do a new project. Remember you are not a loser if you lost, you are a loser if you stop trying.

Many things happen in our life, some good and memorable, some bad and still memorable hehehe. Sometimes we have a great deal of time to forget the bad one. It's a normal thing, our brain is a great piece of thing that control our body and mind. So it's okay to have some bad memories, we can use it to remind us not to do the same mistake again.

If you experienced some bad thing in work, life, or in your career, it's okay. Growth requires pain. – Be patient and tough, someday this pain will be useful to you.  Those with the strength to succeed in the long run are the ones who lay a firm foundation of growth with the bricks that life has thrown at them.  So don’t be afraid to fall apart for a little while.  Because when it happens, the situation will open an opportunity for you to grow and rebuild yourself into the brilliant person you are capable of being.

You will learn as long as you live. – There is no stage of life that does not contain new lessons.  As long as you live there will be something more to learn.  And as long as you follow your heart and never stop learning, you’ll turn not older, but newer every day. Why? because There is a positive lesson in every life experience. – Don’t forget to acknowledge the lesson, especially when things don’t go your way.  If you make a mistake that sets you back a little, or a business deal or a relationship doesn’t work, it only means a new opportunity is out there waiting.  And the lesson you just learned is the first step towards it.

Letting go is part of moving on to something better. – You will not get what you truly deserve if you’re too attached to the things you’re supposed to let go of.  Sometimes you love, and you struggle, and you learn, and you move on.  And that’s okay.  You must be willing to let go of the life you planned for so you can enjoy the life that is waiting for you.

You need to dig deeper into your strength, I always say improve your strength not your weakness, because you can find someone to cover your weakness while you become expert in your strength. Only you know what you’re capable of. – Unless someone can look into the core of your heart, and see the degree of your passion, or look into the depths of your soul and see the extent of your will, then they have no business telling you what you can or cannot achieve.  Because while they may know the odds, they do not know YOU, and what you’re capable of. That's something only you know.

Live happily, love endlessly. Why? Your love creates your happiness. – The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.  When you love, you subconsciously strive to become better than you are.  When you strive to become better than you are, everything around you becomes better too.  During your youth, love will be your teacher; in your middle age, love will be your foundation; and in your old age, love will be your fondest memories and your greatest delight

Choose your peer, surround your self with positive people. Negativity poisons the soul. – Don’t let needless drama and negativity stop you from being the best you can be.  Avoid the drama, and focus on what truly matters.  Life is insanely short and your time is precious, so don’t waste your time on trivial matters.  Let go of the things that are weighing you down.  As you uncluttered your life, you will slowly free yourself to answer the callings of your inner spirit.

Your choices design your life. – You have a choice each and every single day.  Choose to appreciate what you have.  Choose to make time for yourself.  Choose to do something that makes you smile.  Choose to be excited.  Choose to laugh at your own silliness.  Choose to spend time with positive people.  Choose to be persistent with your goals.  Choose to try again and again.  Within your choices lie all the tools and resources you need to design the life of your dreams, it’s just a matter of choosing wisely.

And always remember that This moment is a gift. – The truth is, your whole life has been leading up to this moment.  Think about that for a second.  Every single thing you’ve gone through in life, every high, every low, and everything in between, has led you to this moment right now.  This moment is priceless, and it’s the only moment guaranteed to you.  This moment is your ‘life.’  Don’t miss it..

Have a Great Day
-EZ

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King's Speech

Hey,

It's been a long time since I wrote my last blog, sorry for the inconvenience hehehe.. Happy Ied Mubarak for those who celebrated it.

Do you watch King's Speech? 

The King's Speech is a 2010 British historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The movie was really great. I like it. We can see the struggle that happened in the life of King George VI to overcome his stammer problem.

I analyze three interesting point in the movie. It can change your organization or your life.

First,

Change Happened if the leader want it to happen and do the act to make it happen.
In the movie, the leader was King George VI. You can see that He really want to overcome his weakness, the stammering thing, He really want to change and act to make it happen.
In life, if you want to have a different outcome, let say higher salary, top career, more income, expanding organization, have many branches of your company, create a synergy management, make a great team, then the first thing you must to do is having a great deal of commitment to make it happen. You are the leader of yourself, no one can make you sad without your permission, no one can insult you, you are you. 

Second,

You need a right environment to change.
You can see that King George VI's wife was a supportive wife, she always support her husband to come to therapist to cure his stammer. She always by his side when he need her. King George VI's brother also make the right environment to support his brother to become a king. That's made King George had a bigger need to change. 
In life, you need to find a right environment that support you to achieve your dream, be friend with many positive people, optimist, happy people, hard worker, dreamer, and achiever. Learn from them, have a discussion with them, and do the act to achieve your dream. Like I said before, if you want to fly high like an eagle then you need surround yourself with a pack of eagles not a pack of chicken.

Third,

Find a right mentor to achieve your dream.
King's George VI choose Lionel Logue as his therapist, Logue treated King George as his patient not as a king. King George still need to come to his place when it's the time to do the cure. Logue became his great mentor and his best friend. 
In life, you need you need to find a mentor or an expert to help you fly in the sky. If you want to be an entrepreneur then find an great entrepreneur to become your mentor. If you want to be a CEO then find someone who will teach you to become a CEO or someone who will inspire you to become a CEO. Asking for any advice from this person and you will find your self in a right path to success.

There's some of my opinion in this movie. It's a great movie, you need to watch it and please give me insight about the movie, maybe we can make a discussion about it.

Have a Great Day
-EZ


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Time is Precious

Hey,

How's your day? Always happy and smile? no? why? you can tell me what happened in your life, maybe I can give you a solution or just a company in your life. Re-read my old entry in this blog, some of it can make you feel blessed.

Many of you watched the London 2012 Olympic right? if not then I want to tell you about something that make me think deep.

Couple of days ago, I watched the final of 100 M man's run. Some of the runner are Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake, Tyson Gay, and Justin Gatlin. I found this match really interesting, and an adrenalin pump. You can see some of the fastest human in the world.

As soon the referee cue to start the match, all of the runner ran fast, they pumped their leg as fast as they could. Near the end of the finish line, Usain Bolt suddenly run faster, it's like a car with a turbo and left the other runner.

The result, Usain Bolt won the gold medal with record time 9.63 and broke the Olympiad record. He left the second runner (Yohan Blake) with 0.12 time difference, but the one that made me amazed and had a deep thought was the time difference between the third winner (Justin Gatlin) and the fourth (Tyson Gay) is only 0.01 second. Can you imagine it? because 0.01 second Justin Gatlin got the bronze medal, because 0.01 second, Tyson Gay must put his dream to win a medal in this competition.

Time is a precious thing in this world, have you ever think how many second, minutes, hour, day, week, month, year, we spend in a useless things?

I want to make a new resolution, I won't spend time in a useless way, there's so many things that loss because I spend time in a useless way. Do you want to join me in this resolution?

Have a Great Day
-EZ  

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Give more then Get more

Hey,

How's your day happy people? keep up the positivity and always smile. Remember once you smile it will give your soul a great feeling about happiness and actually hinder the sad feeling. Try it!! ; )

I have some new opportunity in this couple of days, some kinda feasible and some like "too good to be true" and it was too good to be true.I believe in "there's no free lunch" phrase in this world, If you want to get something then you need to do something.

If you want to get a decent job then you must do something to get the job, for example: study hard. If you want to get a new networking then you must make many friends, from one link to another link, you will find a great future business partner. If you want to get a new education then teach people, if you want to be happy then make other people happy, If you want money then you must give money to the needed one, it called "Law of Attraction" The more you give the more you get.

I want to tell you an example about one men who give a lot and get a lot.

He was a president director in one of a financial company in Indonesia. His name is Ario, and I am amaze by his kindness to his colleagues in the office. He's an easy going person with a strict rule about professionalism. I interviewed some of his subordinates and I can see that He is a great person, He always give a big bonuses depends on the achievement of the subordinates, when there's an outing He also give a great deal of money for the accommodation. He also make the policy about 100 times salary bonuses in a year, WOW !!

Now He already left the office and start His own business. The best part was He never forget his old subordinates in the old office, last year He gave his ex-employees a great deal of money just for the wealth of his ex-employees, this year (2012), He gave his ex-employees each IDR 100 million from his company revenue.

I was hearing from the ex-employee the He prayed for Ario to go to heaven. What a wonderful pray, don't you agree? someone make a pray for you to go to heaven. Nowadays we hear "go to hell" more often than go to heaven.

And you know, He still rich and getting richer. That's what I called the more you give the more you get. When did the last time you give some money, food, or clothes to the needed one, poor one, orphan, the elderly, someone who need it?

Do you want to get rich? give more to the needed one, be nice to all the people, make a business, sell something, make other people rich, be positive, make a networking, make a difference, be unique, and pray.

Have a Giving Day
-EZ

The Picture in the top was made by Ben Canales

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Happiness is the Source

Hey,

I made and gathered some of daily happiness quotes to brighten your day and move your mindset in a positive direction.

1. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present.
2. If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, you do have a pretty big problem.
3. Sometimes life gives you two options: losing yourself or losing someone else.  Regardless of the situation, don’t lose yourself.
4. In a world where you can be anything you want, BE YOURSELF.
5. Smile every chance you get.  Not because life has been easy, perfect, or exactly as you had anticipated, but because you choose to be happy and grateful for all the good things you do have and all the problems you know you don’t have.
6. A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it.
7. It’s nice to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s also important to make sure you haven’t lost track of the things that money can’t buy.
8. You don’t need a lot of money to lead a rich life.  Good friends and a loving family are worth their weight in gold.
9. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes.  There is no need to explain or make sense of it.  Just trust what you feel.
10. As long as you are worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.  Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
11. Being kind to yourself in thoughts, words and actions is as important as being kind to others.
12. You are responsible for how you feel no matter what someone does to you. Remember, you are always in control of your thoughts so choose to feel confident and adequate rather than angry and insecure.
13. Don’t be afraid of change.  Oftentimes you will lose something good, and then gain something even better.
14. You define your own life.  Don’t let other people write your life’s story for you.
15. Life does NOT have to be perfect to be wonderful.
16. Worry is a massive waste of time and energy.  It doesn’t change anything.  All it does is steal your joy and hinder your ability to make positive changes.
17. If you want to be happy and bright, let go of your need to always be right.
18. The time spent on hating is the time lost for living a peaceful, happy life.  It is a habit that controls what you see, what you say, what you do, and ultimately what you become.
19. Don’t make a decision based solely on popularity. Just because other people are doing it doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for you.
20. Good things don’t come to those who wait.  Good things come to those who pursue the goals and dreams they believe in.
21. Keep your heart open to dreams.  For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
22. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for.  You become what you believe.
23. Even though you cannot control everything that happens, you can control your attitude toward what happens.  And in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
24. Life will never be perfect, no matter how hard you try.  Even if you pour your heart and soul into it, you will never have that perfection you seek.  There will always be broken hearts, there will always be days where nothing goes right.  But you must accept and learn that even the most imperfect things will always be made better with love and laughter. 
25. It’s not that everything will be easy or exactly as you had expected, but you must just choose to be grateful for all that you have, and happy that you got a chance to live this life, no matter how it turns out.
26. Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness
27. You look the best when you wear your smile.  There is no beauty like the one that comes from inside you.
28. Sometimes you need to be alone to reflect on life.  Take time out to take care of yourself.  You deserve it.
29. It’s nice to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s also important to make sure you haven’t lost track of the things that money can’t buy.
30. Life is not about making others happy.  Life is about sharing your happiness with others.

Do you get the point? please read it slowly and remember it, feel it with your heart. Believe me Happiness is the only source for you to make a life.

Have a Happy Day
-EZ

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Easy to Communicate 4

Hey,

How's your day? Start your day with a smile and end your day with a smile, life is happiness : )

I want to tell you about the last part of easy communicate. The last part is part of visual, it called Body Language. Believe me, body language can determined whether you are confident or want to disappear from the crowd. Use the right body language when you're communicating with someone else.

Some of the weak body language, biting and picking your nails is always weak. fidgeting, putting hands in pockets, rubbing arms, touching legs, stick thumb inside of closed fist, whenever you notice this stuff happening - Stop it!!

Some of the confident body language, palms pointed towards each other like you're holding a basketball, fingertip to fingertip, thumb outside of closed fist, flashing your wrist and showing palms to people.

Knowing which side of a person's body is more comfortable for them, and which side makes them uneasy, can make a really effective body language. Always start by putting on your good side for 30 seconds to 2 minutes to determine is it compatible, then put the person on your negative side and see how they change. Observe how a person acts around others to figure out their side.
Good side cues:

• Normal tone of voice
• No additional filler words like ummm, errr, etc
• Three power zone are open (Throat, Belly button, and lower body)

Remember some of this step to approach people:

• Ensure a strong introduction, make other person remember you name, introduce using the pause, punch, pause, punch method of " Hello, my name is ... Emir ... Zakiar." Don't forget to smile.
• Treat everyone with respect - don't talk down to anyone
• Make the connection genuine, take your time.
• Get them talking - ask open ended question and get them talking. 
• Be and informant - share something personal about yourself - be up front and honest about whatever situation they are about to be in (If possible).
• Use touch carefully and only when you are making a positive point, just a little touch but remember not every person want to get touch.
• Nod attentively, just enough to make them know that you are interest with their story.
• Be adaptable
• Keep moving - depending on the situation, keep people moving at round and seeing different places with you - the environment changes give them more memories and seem to know you more - as if you were friends longer.

There's a lot of body language that you can learn, email me for some of the detail.

That's all the simple way to communicate with a stranger or with someone you know. Try to learn it and use it in everyday life, if you're afraid when approaching someone then use this simple method:
Tactical breathing:

1. Breath in nose for 4 count, filling lower belly.
2. Hold breath for 4 seconds.
3. Exhale through whistle like lips for 4 counts.
4. Say in your mind "I'm Great" 5 times.
5. Hold your breath for a count of 4 and repeat it for 4 sets

Communication is one of the crucial part of everyday life, in terms of education, family, lifestyle, business, marketing, sales, teaching, talking, doing speech, buying, selling, many things. So why you're afraid of communicating with others?

Have a Communicating Day
-EZ

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Easy to Communicate 3

Hey,

How's your day, I hope it full of happiness.. Always smile to start and when you want to end the day. It help you ease the trouble in your heart.

I want to continue about the communication skill that I already wrote in this blog. The next thing you need to apply when you communicate is your vocal.

Vocal play a big part in terms of communicate with other people, sometimes misunderstanding happens because of the different intonation we use when talking to other people. Have you ever talked to someone who you adore but suddenly you fell the person is a jackass because He or She using an arrogant intonation to you?

Try this simple exercise, you just need to stand in a mirror and say "You drive me crazy"
use that phrase but with different intonation:

1. Angry
2. Brave
3. Happy
4. Humble
5. Calm

Can you spot the difference between one and another intonation?
Can you also notice how your body changed for each attitude? How our voice altered each time you changed your attitude? When you adjust your attitude round other people, they pick up the same feelings you have and begin to experience them for themselves. How much sense does it make to be angry or impatient when you want to make a good first impression? How much better to be excited or warm?

Your intonation make your body react exactly like your intonation. Can you imagine when you want to make a conversation but ended up fail because you are using the wrong intonation? What a loss.
Use the right intonation with different person, if the person you're having a conversation is someone who talked slowly then try to talk slowly, get along with the rhythm.When the person talk fast, try to adjust your conversation with a fast one. This trick can make the person feel the bound between Him/Her to you.

Learn and practice your intonation, let me know if you want to ask something. I hope I can make you learn and make you a good communicator.

Have a Communicate Day
-EZ


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Easy to Communicate 2

Hey,

It's quite a long time since the last I made a post. Really sorry, it's because I had some project and I'm so blessed that the project run smoothly. Thanks to God for this project.

So what's about your self? do you have a great time in this couple of days? I hope so, I pray for your happiness.

I want to talk about the first thing you need to know about "Easy to communicate". The first thing you need to know in order to initiate a conversation is "What do you want to know?"
What do you want to know from the one you make conversation with, is it about work, about traveling, about having fun, about family, about new opportunity, about education, anything. But you need to know what is the subject of the conversation.

If you have a hard time initiating the first step, then I have some tricks to do:

1. Smile while you approaching the person you want to have a conversation. Make an open body language, it will make them see that you mean no harm to them. This is the most important thing. In here, the person will make a quick judgment about yourself whether you're a good person or a bad person.
2. Ask about something general, like weather, time, matchstick (if you're a smoker), the more general the subject then the more easy to initiate a conversation. You will need this to break the ice between you and Him/Her/Them.
3. After you ask the general subject, the next step you can ask about the "What do you want to Know" You must ask first, and let them speak more. Use this "5W1H rule" For example:
• You are an owner of an Italian restaurant in a busy street around the business district. Because you are a new player in that location, you want to know how the customer think with the food and the concept of the restaurant. You can smile and say "Hi I am .......... (put your name in here), I am the owner of this restaurant and I want to make a short and simple questionnaire from you:
• What do you think about the concept of the restaurant?
• Where do you usually go out?
• Why you choose this menu?
• When did the last time you eat a great Italian food?
• How did the food taste? Do you like it?

Do you recognize in here that I don't use "Who" above. You need to be flexible when comes to conversation, Don't be to strict with the rule, it's only a tool to make you easy to initiate a conversation. Remember don't push the person with some difficult question that can make them feel uncomfortable.

4.  Make them talk by asking question, Conversation is like playing tennis, you hit the ball and the other  person will hit it back. Make this one of the rule in conversation. If you see that the person you ask seems not comfortable then you can say, "it's nice to having a little chat with you" then find another person to have a new conversation.

Try the tricks above, practice it, and make the action with it. I mean try to initiate a conversation with other person, for the first time you can have a conversation with someone you know, then after that you can try to have initiate a conversation with a stranger or your boss.

We all the human, don't be afraid when it comes to initiate a conversation, if you have a hard time talking to your superior, try to imagine that the superior is wearing an informal clothes. Say "I'm Great" five times in your thought and smile.

In the next post, I will tell you the next step to make an easy communication.

Have a Training Day
-EZ


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Easy to Communicate

Hey,

Do you know that study tell 70% of mistake in workplace are direct result of poor communication? a lot of people have a great deal difficulties when comes to communicate with others. I have a friend who really smart and have a deep analysis with His subject but have a bad communication, he hardly tell his boss about his idea. Because He's afraid to communicate, he didn't tell his boss about the idea. Do you have a friend like this?

Everything we do is communication, you want to buy groceries, you want to ask your teacher, pay for ticket parking, asking for money, have fun with friends, chatting with your family, meeting with business partner, talking to your children, even when you make love with your love ones hehehe
So why many people seems like being dragged to hell  when it come to communicate in front of people?

Cause of communication difficulties are:

• Lack of information and knowledge
• Not explaining priorities or goals properly
• Not Listening
• Not understand fully and fail to ask question
• Mind made up, preconceived ideas  
• Not understand others' needs
• Not thinking clearly, jumping into conclusion
• Bad mood
• Failure to explore alternatives

 Do you know what will happen if fail to communicate?

• Loss of business
• Mistake cause inefficiencies 
• Lowered productivity
• Poor coordination and cooperation
• Damaged personal or company image
• Frustation and can make hostility
• Dissatisfaction to others
• Lowered morale
• Loss of team spirits
• Conflict and argument
• Loss of Friendship

I have two friend that used to be best friends, two woman with spirit like "best friends forever", but because of failure in communicate between each others now they become hostile towards each others. It so sad, and it happened because of miss-communication.

Communication is two-way street, we have to give as well as gather. Don't forget, we communicate to get information, motivate, give advice, chatting, greet, sell, praise etc.

So try to learn how to communicate easily, communication consist of three basic things:

1. Verbal, The massage that we deliver. We must have a clear information about what we want to deliver. Is it about business, traveling, education, happiness, etc
2. Vocal, The voice that we convey, people tend to hear the voice intonation then the massage. Try to say I'm Hungry in different kind of mood (Happy, Sad, Angry, etc) You will find the difference between intonation
3. Visual, Our body language, Believe me, this is the most important things in communication. Almost 80% people make a judgment by it's cover. Even though it's wrong but we live in this kind of world so adapt to it or vanished. Using a fit clothes, clean shoes, nice hair, some perfume, brighter face, smile (this is really important), and you can become a chameleon in here. After that using a good body language to get the attention.

Pay attention with this three basic communication skills, I will tell you how we communicate easily in some next post in here, so better subscribe to my blog, I assure you this information can make you become a better communicator. And Hey, being able to communicate easily with other people is really fun : )

O yeah I have a post also about communication in here and here

Have a Great Day
-EZ

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Brainstorming not Debating

Hey,

How's life? I hope it's great and full of Happiness. We live to be happy, right? I have a great business going on now, I make a business strategic for a new company in Indonesia. I move along with my passion in strategic and marketing. Do you move along with your passion?

I want to talk about brainstorming, do you know what kind of creature is it? Brain storming is a way to solve a problem, we share our thought with people in the team about solving the problem. Brainstorming is a process for developing creative solutions to problems. Brainstorming works by focusing on a problem, and then deliberately coming up with as many solutions as possible and by pushing the ideas as far as possible. One of the reasons it is so effective is that the brainstormers not only come up with new ideas in a session, but also spark off from associations with other people's ideas by developing and refining them. In here we learned to say what we think and learn to know new knowledge.

There are four basic rules in brainstorming (Osborn, 1963) intended to reduce social inhibitions among team members, stimulate idea generation, and increase overall creativity:

• No criticism: Criticism of ideas are withheld during the brainstorming session as the purpose is on generating varied and unusual ideals and extending or adding to these ideas. Criticism is reserved for the evaluation stage of the the process. This allows the members to feel comfortable with the idea of generating unusual ideas.
• Welcome unusual ideas: Unusual ideas are welcomed as it is normally easier to "tame down" than to "tame up" as new ways of thinking and looking at the world may provide better solutions.
• Quantity Wanted: The greater the number of ideas generated, the greater the chance of producing a radical and effective solution.
• Combine and improve ideas: Not only are a variety of ideals wanted, but also ways to combine ideas in order to make them better.

why new knowledge?

This is the difference between brainstorming and debating. In brainstorming, we tend to learn many thing from the team or the people to solve the problem. We can give our thought about something and we can get new knowledge from others. In debating, we tend to win the subject without solving the problem. A lot of debating only shows the ego of the speaker, they only tell the good one and reject any advice from the other speaker, it a shame. You won't get anything from debating, trust me.

Brainstorming can be useful not only in business, you can do brainstorming in family circle (for example, choose the next holiday place, you can have a brainstorming with your wife, husband, son, daughter, parents), you can do brainstorming with your friends (for example, choosing where you want to hangout in the next Saturday night). You can solve many things from brainstorming. People who like to do a brainstorming have a growth mindset. When did the last time you have a brainstorming with your peer, partner, boss, friends, family?

Your life can be much better if you can solve many problem that happen in your life. Brainstorming is one of the tools to make it easier when you want to solve a problem or many problems. Put aside your ego and try to learn new things.

Have a Brainstorming Day
-EZ

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Get Rid that Tolerance

Hey,

How's your day? do you spend it in a positive mindset or negative mindset? I hope in positive mindset, because I already told you that our mind is our future. If you want to be success then have a success mind, let your pathetic mind go away.

I have a friend that always look for a brighter side in his problem, he always look so energetic and full of vision plus he do some action to achieve his dream not just talking like many people nowadays. I like to talk to many people, success people, broken people, bad people, good people, many types of characteristics. Do you know what is one of the most obstacle that can make you go far away from your dream? It's TOLERANCE. wow, wait what? Emir, our parents teach us to be a tolerate person, yeah I know, my parents also taught me that. Do you want to know what kind of tolerance that can make your dream *poof* and fly away with other people dream?

Let me tell you some tolerance that you must rid in order to achieve your dream. You must stop tolerating:

Your own negativity. – Be aware of your mental self-talk.  We all talk silently to ourselves in our heads, but we aren’t always conscious of what we’re saying or how it’s affecting us.  Start listening to your thoughts.  If you hear negative thoughts, stop and replace them with positive thoughts.

People who bring you down. – Relationships should help you, not hurt you.  Spend time with nice people who are smart, driven and likeminded.

Unnecessary miscommunication. – Say what you mean.  Mean what you say.  Speak clearly.  Ask questions.  Clarify things until you understand them.

Fear of change. – Life is change.  Every day is different.  Every day is a new beginning and a new ending.  Embrace it and make the best of it.

All work and no play. – Enjoy yourself and have a little fun while you can.  If you’re smiling, you’re doing something right.

Doing the same exact thing over and over again. – You are the sum of your life experiences.  The more you experience, the more interesting your life story gets.

Infidelity. – Intimate relationships are a sacred bond – a circle of trust.  If both parties aren’t 100% onboard the relationship isn’t worth fighting for.

An unsafe home. – If you don’t feel safe at home you’ll never feel safe anywhere.  Build a loving household in a safe area that you are proud to call ‘home.’

Being unprepared. – Life is unpredictable.  And there’s a big difference between being scared and being prepared.  Always be prepared.

A work environment or career field you hate. – Don’t settle on the first or second career field you dabble in.  Keep searching.  Eventually you will find work you love to do.  If you catch yourself working hard and loving every minute of it, don’t stop.  You’re on to something big.  Because hard work ain’t hard when you concentrate on your passions.

Inaction. – Either you’re going to take action and seize new opportunities or someone else will.  You can’t change anything or make any sort of progress by sitting back and thinking about it.

This kind of tolerance that you need to get rid in your life. Tell me, I believe some of you are having a big tolerance of one or more from the list above, be honest with yourself hehehe.

So do your best to achieve your dream, I will do my best so we can see each others in the future with our own dreams together.

Have a Happy Day
-EZ


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Talked to Stranger

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Have you ever talked to a stranger? I had, at first it's kinda hard to do and a little bit awkward but after a couple of times it feels easy. I always think that opportunity comes in every way and stranger in here not only someone that you don't know but some one that you already know and you have a hard time to talk to them. In example your director, your boss, your company's owner, your crush, your parent's friends, someone at the wedding, a new potential business partner, anyone.

Let’s face it, fewer moments are more awkward than trying to strike up a casual conversation with someone you don’t know very well.  Here are some quick tips to lighten up the situation:

1. Talk about who you know and what you have in common.  Mutual friends, bosses, hometowns, etc.
2. Ask relevant questions about life, work, hobbies, and pop-culture.  Keeping abreast of current events will provide you with great conversation builders.  Lead with “What do you think of…?”, “Have you heard…?”, “What is your take on…?”, etc.  Stay away from negative or controversial topics, and refrain from long-winded stories.
3. If you notice yourself getting bored with what you’re saying, stop talking, acknowledge the situation, and move on to the next topic. Don't try to stick with the topic, it's usually happens when you try to sell something to the person.
4. Listen more than you talk, you can find some hints about the interesting topics that the strangers like to say.
5. With people you have never met before, limit stories to the last few moments of your life.  Bring up casual points about your current surroundings, like the funny music playing in the background or the tasty martinis the bar is serving.
6. Know a few interesting historical fact, like this one:  As a child, Albert Einstein seldom spoke.  When he did, he spoke very slowly – indeed, he tried out entire sentences in his head until he got them right before he spoke aloud.  Einstein did this until he was nine years old.  His parents were worried about his lack of talking.  But at last, at the supper table one night, he broke his silence to say, “The soup is too hot!”  Greatly relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before.  Albert replied, “Because up to now everything was in order.”
7. But realize that no one likes a person who thinks they know everything.
8. Prolonged pauses are the best time for that interesting historical fact.  Most people would rather listen to you talk about anything than listen to an awkward silence.
9. Watch your body language  People who look ill at ease make others uncomfortable.  Act confident and comfortable, even when you’re not.
10. Let strangers interrupt you.  They’re not being rude, they’re assisting you.  Let them speak, and wait to be prompted before continuing your story.  It’s usually a good sign that they are actually listening to you.
11. If all else fails, just talk about the weather, which always gets people riled up.Tell them how hot today, or how rainy today. Weather can be a great ice breaker in conversation.
12. And have a few exit lines ready so, if needs be, you can both gracefully move on.  For example, “I need to check in with a client over there,” “I skipped lunch today, so I need to grab a quick bite,” etc.

As long as you avoid anything personal, political (some people really avoid it) but if the political issue is a common things to talk about in your area then it's okay, or controversial – at least during first encounters – and know which questions to ask, you’ll be talking the talk of certified socialite.  Also, read Dale Carnegie’s classic, How To Win Friends and Influence People, for a great read on this topic.

Try it, you will amaze with the outcomes.

Have a Communicating Day
-EZ

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Thought that can Change Your lIfe

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What are you thinking is what will you get? do you believe in this? I believe. Why? because our strength lay in our mind. If you think that you are weak then you are weak, if you think that you are gonna be a rich person, then with some action you can be a rich person. If you think that you won't gonna make it then you will fail, but if you think you will get it then you win. read about his thing in my post Never Give Up you will feel the differences.

Here are some of provoking thought that you can read and think deep inside, not too serious but keep it simple to achieve it.

1. You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
2. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
3. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Soekarno etc
4. If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
5. You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
6. Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
7. You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
8. Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.
9. Don’t think of cost.  Think of value.
10. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
11. Be happy.  Be yourself.  If others don’t like it, then let them be.  Happiness is a choice.  Life isn’t about pleasing everybody.
12. Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
13. Love and appreciate your parents.  We are often so busy growing up, we forget they are also growing old.
14. If you don’t like something, change it.  If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
15. What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while.
16. If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past.  If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
17. Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s happening inside you.  Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.
18. It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.
19. You don’t drown by falling in the water.  You drown by staying there.Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.
20. No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life.  Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

 Here's some of the thought that worth thinking. Be a great person, put it deep in your mind. Believe me If you think you can do it then you can do it

What You think you will become, so think about the positive things you will become a positive person -Emir Zakiar

Have a Great Day
-EZ

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Good Tought for A Bad Day

Hey,

How's your day? I have a wonderful day. Not to brag but I feel so happy with my life. Many things happened in my life some good and some bad. It's a common to have a bad day, the way we overcome it what make us a great man or great women. I already told you that everything revolve in our head, it's all in the mindset.

If you want to be happy then be happy, why wait? I have some trick to make your bad day become a good day by overwhelming your mindset. Here it goes:

We are all in this together. – Nobody has it easy, we all have issues.  When you look at a person, any person, remember that everyone has a story.  Everyone has gone through something that has changed them, and forced them to grow.  Every passing face on the street represents a story every bit as compelling and complicated as yours.  You will never know exactly what they are going through, and they will never know exactly what you are going through.  We are all fighting our own unique war.  But we are fighting through it simultaneously, together.

Tough times help us grow. – We work hard to disown the parts of our lives that were painful, difficult, or sad.  But just as we can’t rip chapters out of a book and expect the story to still make sense, so we cannot rip past chapters out of our lives and expect our lives to still make sense.  Keep every chapter of your life intact, and keep on turning the pages.  Sooner or later you’ll get to a page that brings it all together and you’ll suddenly understand why every page and chapter before it was needed.

No matter what, you have a purpose. – Having a bad day?  It’s okay.  Put your hand on your heart.  Feel that?  That’s called ‘purpose.’  You’re alive for a reason.  Don’t give up.  You may lose the people you love.  You may lose the things you have.  But no matter happens, never lose yourself.

You don’t always have to be happy and cheerful. – Sometimes you have to deal with issues and show others your uncomfortable side.  It’s perfectly okay – it’s a natural part of being human.  And the good news is that these tough moments will often show you who will accept you at your worst and who won’t.

You aren’t supposed to be perfect. – Live life.  Experience everything.  Take care of yourself and those closest to you.  Have fun – be a little crazy and weird.  Go out and make mistakes – you’re going to anyway.  Enjoy yourself, and exploit the countless opportunities to learn something along the way.  Figure out what works and what doesn’t.  Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human and being YOU.

There's a reasons to smile and it's all around you. When I see a beggar having fun with her child - I smile, when I see a man having a chat and laughing out load with his friends - I smile, When I see my son laughing when playing with his toy - I smile, many things can make you smile. On days when you don’t have much in your life to smile about, watch those who do and You will smile too.

Right now is a fresh start. – Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your problems.  It’s a bright new day – a new beginning.  Your future is too bright to waste it fighting needless battles with old issues from the past.

So I hope some tricks that I wrote can make your mindset act more positive. We live to be a happy person and make others happy. So why so sad?

Have a Happy Day
-EZ

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Be an Optimist Person

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Do you know what is optimist? An Optimist is a person with a positive outlook on life. The contra of optimist  is pessimist, Pessimism is a state of mind in which one anticipates negative outcomes.You can see from the translation, one is positive and another one is negative. Optimist have a positive mind and pessimist have a negative mind. Which person are you?

We need to be an optimist person, why? because we live in this world to spread the positivity to others. You can imagine a world with many positive things, if all the people is an optimist person then there will be no poverty, why? because poor people will show optimist attitude to overcome their poverty, they will find a way to have an income and keep their optimist attitude flowing in their vein.

Some people are more optimistic by nature, but optimism is not a fixed attribute.  It’s a choice we have control over.  Every morning, we either choose to wake up grumpy or wake up with a positive outlook.  Research has shown that, in the long run, optimistic people handle stress better, get sick less often, live longer, and are happier and more successful than their pessimistic counterparts.

I have some trick to make you an optimist person, I hope it will help, and I hope you try it so you can feel the positive energy flowing in your life.

Find the opportunity in every difficulty.
‘Optimist’ is a word which here refers to a person who focuses on the positive.  For instance, if an optimist lost her left arm in a car accident, she might say in a hopeful voice, “I’m alive.  I don’t have my left arm anymore, but I do have my right one, and my life still to live.”
Optimism does not mean ignoring the problem entirely; it means understanding that setbacks are inevitable, often temporary, and that you have the skills and abilities to combat the challenges you face.  What you are dealing with may be difficult, but it is important to remain hopeful and positive about a brighter future.  Optimism will inspire a sense of hopefulness and the confidence that is required to take full advantage of the opportunities that do exist.  Remember, the most beautiful rainbows come from the sunlight after a very dark storm. 

Surround yourself with positive people.
You are only as good as the company you keep.  If you’re around gloomy people, there’s a good chance you won’t to be smiling.  Make it your mission to dodge negativity.  Surround yourself with supportive friends who have positive outlooks.  As they say, if you want to soar with the eagles, you have to stop hanging out with the ducks.
Optimism is a learned habit, and it is positively contagious.  Surround yourself with people who could infect you with positivity.  In turn pass your new good mood on to a friend or stranger in words and deed – let somebody have that parking space, let that person with only a few items cut in front of you at the market.  The simple act of doing something nice for others is actually a good pick-me-up all by itself.

Be realistic, and expect ups and downs.
Trying to be 100% positive all the time is wanting to be an ocean in which waves only rise up and never come crashing down.  However, when we recognize that the rising and crashing waves are part of the same one ocean, we are able to let go and be at peace with the way things are.
Bottom line:  Prepare for the worst but hope for the best – the former makes you sensible, and the latter makes you an optimist.

Inspire yourself with a smile and positive reminders.
If you expect the worst, the worst will happen.  If you let things bother you, they will.  But if you smile, you’ll feel better.  Studies have shown that putting a cheerful smile on your face can trigger a part of your brain that actually makes you feel happier and more optimistic about the present and future.
Also, feed your optimism with positive reminders.  Write down short statements that inspire optimism.  Put them in places where you’ll see them every day, such as on your bathroom mirror, the inside of your locker, and on your computer monitor.

• “Anything is possible.”
• “Lead a life of positivity.”
• “The only thing I can control is my attitude towards life.”
• “I always have a choice.”
• “Even the longest journey begins with a single step.”
• “I will look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism shine.”

Smile and Count Your Blessing
You can see in your self that you are actually pretty lucky, you can read this post is a sign that you have some money to buy a hand phone, buy a PC, have an internet connection, and the real deal is you can read. A lot of people in this world actually can't read. Can you imagine how lucky you are.
Smile often, it can boost your mood. Have you ever so angry and sad? next time when you're angry or sad, try to smile. You will feel much better, trust me. I already did it and always do it.

Focus on the present.
People often obsess themselves with the past and the future.  But life is happening right now.  You can’t learn something or remember something that’s happening now if your mind is stuck in another time. It takes about eight seconds of intense focus to process a new piece of information into your long-term memory.  So don’t let your life and your mind slip away.  Instead of dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, practice being and living in the present moment.  Remember, right now is the only moment guaranteed to you.  Right now is life.

Listen to A Good Damn Music
Listen to the music that can boost up your emotion. Not only listen to them but try to comprehend every single lyric in there. Some pump up music can boost up your spirit. When your spirit of life seems diminish, listen to a pump up music, not slow music, or sad music. Listen to mood booster music and your emotion will lift up again.


Life is great, surround your self with optimist attitude and positive attitude so you can be a great person in life. I'm not telling you it's gonna be easy, but i ASSURE YOU IT'S GONNA BE WORTH IT.

A pessimist see every difficulties in every opportunities, an optimist see every opportunities in every difficulties - Winston Churchill

Have an Optimist Day


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Never Quit

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I read many success story from a lot of success person in the world, I found some of their habits that exactly the same habit to success. One of habit that every successful person have is Never Quit to achieve their dream.

Do you know, if Howard Schultz gave up after being turned down by banks 242 times, there would be no

Schultz learned the importance of determination. “So many times I have been told that it can’t be done. Again and again, I’ve had to use every ounce of perseverance to make it happen.”
Under Schultz’s leadership, Starbucks went from a handful of stores in Seattle to more than 15,000 stores and 150,000 employees. Today, Starbucks coffeehouses are in 43 countries. After stepping away from day-to-day operations and serving as chairman of the board for seven years, Schultz returned to the chief executive’s position in January and began unveiling his vision for an even brighter Starbucks future.

Do you know, if J.K. Rowling stopped after being turned sown by multiple publishers for years, there would be no

Rowling may be rolling in a lot of Harry Potter dough today, but before she published the series of novels she was nearly penniless, severely depressed, divorced, trying to raise a child on her own while attending school and writing a novel. Rowling went from depending on welfare to survive to being one of the richest women in the world in a span of only five years through her hard work and determination.

Do you know,  If Walt Disney quit too soon after his theme park concept was trashed 302 times, there would be no

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland. In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim on the grounds that it would only attract riffraff.

Do you know, If Colonel Sanders give up His effort after getting refused by 1009 times before he got his first yes, there will be no

How did Colonel Sanders become such an unbelievable success? Was it because he was born wealthy? Was his family rich? Did they send him to a top university like Harvard? Maybe he was successful because he started his business when he was really young. Are any of these true?
The answer is no. Colonel Sanders didn't begin to fulfill his dream until he was 65 years old! What drove him to finally take action? He was broke and alone. He got his first social security cheque for $105, and he got mad but instead of blaming society or just writing congress a nasty note, he started asking himself, "What could I do that would be valuable for other people? What could I give back?" He started thinking about what he had that was valuable to others.

He spent two years driving across America in his old, beat-up car, sleeping in the back seat in his rumpled white suit, getting up each day eager to share his idea with someone new. Often, the only food he had was a quick bite of the samples he was preparing for perspective buyers. How many people do you think would have gone for 1,009 no's - two years of no's! - and kept on going? Very few. That's why there is only one Colonel Sanders. I think most people wouldn't get passed twenty no's, much less a hundred or a thousand! Yet this is sometimes what it takes to succeed.

Do you know, if Soichiro Honda lost his will to success after being turned down by Toyota, there will be no

The billion-dollar business that is Honda began with a series of failures and fortunate turns of luck. Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started making scooters of his own at home, and spurred on by his neighbors, finally started his own business.

If you give up too soon you will never know what you will be missing. Keep going and never quit.
The key to success is to decide what's most important to you and then take massive action each day to make it better, even when it doesn't look as if it's working.

"You are not a loser if you lost, you are a loser if you give up" -Emir Zakiar

Have a Vigor Day
-EZ

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Habit You Need to Get Rid

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Every one want to be a successful person, I want it and I bet you want it too, but do we ever get rid some habit that makes us go far away from the word "success"? this question makes you think about the things that we often do and it actually make us going far away from success.

When we think about how to achieve success, we often focus on the skills and habits we should add to our lives.  But sometimes the key to success actually lies in our ability to give up certain habits and behaviors. The habits you need to give up are:

Waiting. – The way you spend your time defines who you are.  You don’t get to choose how you are going to die, or when; you can only decide how you are going to live right now.  Trust me, a year from now you will wish you had started today. So, start your success life today and don't hesitated to move along with your dream.

Excuses. – Many times we make an excuse when we must do something, worse if we want to achieve our dream. Sooner or later you will come to realize that it’s not what you lose along the way that counts; it’s what you do with what you still have.  When you let go, forgive, and move on, you in no way change the past, you change the future.

Doing things you know are wrong. – Nothing is more damaging to you than doing something that you believe is wrong.  Your beliefs alone don’t help you grow and thrive, your behavior and actions do.  So always do what you know in your heart is right, for you.

Worrying about past failures. – Accept your past without regret, handle your presence with confidence, and face your future without fear.  You are today where your thoughts and actions have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts and actions take you. Remember failure is good for you to learn a lot of new things.

Blaming everyone else. – Either you own your situation or it will own you.  Either you take responsibility for your life, or someone else will.  Blame is a scapegoat – it’s an easy way out of taking accountability for your own outcome.  It’s a lot easier to point the finger at someone or something else instead of looking within.  Blame is not constructive; it does not help you or anyone else – nobody wins in the blame game.  The amount of energy and stress it takes to place blame elsewhere takes away from your ability to move forward and find a real solution.

Letting others decide what you can and can’t do. – In order to live your own authentic life, you have to follow YOUR inner heart, not someone else's.  When others say, “You can’t do it!” or “That’s impossible,” don’t lose hope.  Just because they couldn’t doesn’t mean you can’t. You are not a loser if you lost, You are a loser if you give up.

It's your life anyway no one can steer the car that you rode, you must be the one that make the ride full of enjoyment. Drive your dream like you drive your car, it pointed to a direction, if you don't have direction then you only driving along until running out of gas in the middle of nowhere.

Have a Happy Day
-EZ


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Help Others

Hey,

How's your weekend? I hope it's great full of happiness. If not, then you should read some of this interesting stories below. I found it in the internet and really make me feel gracious with life. I hope you can overcome your sadness, because there's a lot of people in this world who wanted to be just like in your place now.

In total I have 10 stories, if you want to get another story please comment and I will post it, Here's the stories:

1. Today, in a little African village where I volunteer as a nurse, I passed out food to hungry children. And since I knew her only food for the day was the slice of wheat bread I had just given her, I did not let her see me cry when she tore the slice in two and gave the bigger half to her little brother.
2.  Today, when I was walking to dinner outside in the cold with my elderly mom, she started walking slower and slower and digging through her bag. I often act out and get impatient with her. But when I finally had enough and was about to say something, she pulled out a five dollar bill and told me to give it to the homeless man sitting on the street curb.
3. Today, for a moment I was frustrated to go to work on a Saturday morning. Then I remembered waking up in a safe warm bed when others don’t. I contemplated driving in my nice car, while others walk. I sipped on my warm coffee and ate a slice of toast while I thought about how others went to bed hungry last night and woke up this morning, still hungry. Instead of fretting about working today, I choose to smile. It’s my goal to find someone who woke up cold and hungry this morning, and give them what I make today, hoping it will make much more than a day’s difference to them.
4. Today, I found one of my old high school friends, who used to tutor me in math, begging for money outside of a convenience store. I took him out to lunch and he spilled his guts to me about how his wife (also an old friend from high school) died from cancer last year; and that due to a combination of lack of medical insurance, the loss of his job, and the downturn in the economy which forced him to foreclose on his home, he has nothing left. I set him up with a place to stay in my second bedroom, and told him we’d be roommates for as long as it takes him to get back on his feet.
5. Today, I was at my job as a hostess. It was an especially hard day, and many customers had been rude to me. One man was sitting alone, eating at a table beside me. As I stood there, close to tears, he looked me in the eye and asked me what I wanted to do with my life. I told him I was going to school to be a teacher. When he left, he hugged me and handed me a twenty dollar bill. He said, “Make a difference, sweetheart,” and left.
6. Today, my son is confined to a wheelchair and can’t participate in a lot of things because of it. This past weekend we went to an orchard to buy apples. The orchard staff was offering wagon rides for a small price. He wanted to go but we couldn’t get his chair in the wagon. A couple of men working at the orchard picked him up, chair and all and took him on a 20 minute trip around the orchard. When they returned they unloaded him and refused to take the wagon ride fee. My son had the biggest smile on his face.
7. Today, while walking my dog I saw a homeless man holding a box of kittens. When I asked him about them, he said that someone had abandoned them next to a dumpster in the alley way where he sleeps. “I’ve been feeding them whatever food I could find,” he continued. “But I could use some help if you know someone who could give them a better home.” I called my dog’s vet, who is the ultimate animal lover, and told her the story and where to find the homeless man. This evening I received a voicemail from the vet. She said, “I just wanted to thank you, and let you know that I have temporarily adopted the kittens. I will make sure each of them finds a permanent, happy home. Also, I was so moved by Shawn’s (the homeless man) goodwill, and the fact that he seems levelheaded, that I have offered him a part time job at the animal clinic and a free place to stay until he can get his act together. Not sure how that will go, but I figured it was worth a try.”
8. Today, when my wife showed up to do a 5K walk in support of her breast cancer, over 400 of her current and past students (she’s a high school English teacher) and several of her colleagues showed up, unexpectedly, wearing pink shirts with her photo and a caption that read, “We’re going to beat this together.” I’ve never seen my wife so overwhelmed with joy before in my life.
9. Today, my dad brought me into the city to one of his favorite restaurants. He ordered a large amount of food and only ate half of it. On the way home, he drove a route I was unfamiliar with. He pulled over near an alley and said, “I’ll be right back.” Then he grabbed the leftovers, ran into the alley, and returned empty handed. When I asked him what he did, he replied, “There’s a homeless veteran back there who I’ve been giving leftovers to for the last 10 years.”
10. Today, I watched a teenage boy help an elderly woman with a cane onto the city bus I was riding. He was so careful with her, assisting her every step of the way. The woman had the biggest smile on her face. They both sat directly across from me, and just as I was about to compliment her with having a wonderful grandson, the boy looked at her and said, “My name is Chris. What’s your name, ma’am?”

World will be a much more beautiful place if we helped each others. If you find or see a needed person, go and help him or her whether young or old person. They need your help. And believe me in Law of Attraction when the time come and you need a help, someone else will help you.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. ~ Mother Teresa

I got the picture above from http://www.mylot.com/sais06

Have a Helping Day
-EZ

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