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As usual, Bob, the branch manager of an office in New York, goes home at 11 in the night. Not as usual, Sarah, his daughter that still in third year of elementary school, opens the door for him. Seems like she has waiting for him for a long time.

“Why you do not sleep yet?” he asks Sarah while kissing her forehead.
Commonly, Sarah has slept when Bob comes home and will get up when he will go to the office in the morning.

While tagging along her Dad, Sarah says, “I am waiting you home, Dad. I wanna ask you how much is your salary?”
“Why do you ask that? You want to ask some money again?”
“Oh, no. Uhm, I am just curious,” Sarah answers.
“You can count by yourself. Every day, I work in 10 hours and am paid about $70. Every month, I work 22 days although sometime I have extra working time.”

Sarah runs to her room and takes a piece of paper and a pencil. When Bob changes his clothes, Sarah comes to him. “If for one day you are paid $70 for 10 hours, means that one hour you would be paid $7,” she says.
“Yes, honey. You are right.. Now, brush your teeth and go sleep,” Bob commands.

Instead of doing her Dad’s command, Sarah asks again.
“Dad, may I borrow your money? About $1.5?”
“Whadaya think? It has been night. What will you do with the money now?? I am tired. Go sleep, Sarah.”
“But, Dad…”
Bob is getting mad. He is very tired and really need some sleep. Then he shouts, “I said: sleep, Sarah!!!”
Sarah gets shocked. Never his Dad did shout her like that. Then she runs in to her room.

Bob feels sorry. He realizes that he does something bad to his daughter. He is coming to Sarah’s room and while coming-a-near he sees her daughter crying. In Sarah’s hand, there are $2.
“I am sorry, honey. I really love you. But why did you ask for money tonight? What will you do with the money? It is twelve o’clock, Sarah. If you want to buy any dolls, you can do it tomorrow. And I would give you more than $2,” Bob says.
“Dad, I did not ask the money. I just want to borrow it. I will refund it after my pin money enough.”
“Okay..okay… But, what will you do with the money?”
“I have waited for you since 5 o’clock. I want to ask you playing ’snake and stairs’ with me. Just 30 minutes. Mom often says that your money is valuable. So, I want to exchange your time, Dad. I opened my savings and found only $2. I need to borrow your money so that I can buy your 30-minutes-time,” Sarah explains sobbingly.

Bob gets speechless. He hugs that young lady tightly and feels so touched. He just realized that the money he looked for by working hard has not enough and might be never been enough to ‘buy’ his children’s happiness.

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There is an aphorism saying fail is the beginning of success. Even though success doesn’t need to be opened with failure, but fail is also not a sin. Here are some reasons why we are acceptable to fail.

1. Fail is fun
Fail is commonly happened when we do something new. Rarely we find fail while doing habits or imitating others’ success. And doing something new is always fun.
2. Fail is benefit
Fail is different with cancel. Fail usually happened through a process. Unless we do something useless, the process will always teach us something. Besides, cancel means do not do anything which gives us nothing.
3. Fail is easy
While facing failure, we have only one choice: how to be success. Meanwhile, success has so many problems, such as proof, competition, and keeping the success itself.

So, let’s start doing something new and reach the success

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Robert H. Schuller has said that goals are not absolutely only necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. The physician Albert Einstein has also said that if you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. And I do agree how important the goal for my life.

We are still in the beginning of 2009. Still there are many time to set the goal if you haven’t yet. So, before we set our goal, you might need to know two different kind of person on seeing their goal.

Dio Martin said there are two kind of person. Goal seeker and Goal Getter. Goal seeker is a kind of person who attempts to find goals in life. He/she advisedly seek his/her goal. It is a kind of good person. Unfortunately, that’s it. He/she moves only until he/she finds the goal, not tries to reach it. The second type, goal getter, is a kind of person who attempts to actualize his/her dreams and goals. He/she will put up a good fight and seek ‘mouse ways’ until his/her dreams come true. The goal getter is not only a dreamer, but also a dream actualizer.

But, is the second type better than the first?
IMHO, not really. To be a great goal getter should start from being a great goal seeker. Would be useless if you struggle for bring your goal into reality if in the end you realize that your pursued goal actually has not through aforethought.

IMHO, again, first phase to be done is being a goal seeker. Knowing what you really want and considering the black and white of your goal. Not stopped, the next phase is being a goal getter. Having known what you need and want, you should find the way to actualize it. It is not an easy thing because when you face a dead end to be goal getter, usually there will appear temptation for seeking a new goal that you think have easier pathways, whereas is not.

Dio Martin also said, this is the critical point that if the goal seeker do not transform being a goal getter, his/her life time will be used to find and always find a new goal with no effort to realize it. As a result, for months and years, the goal seeker won’t produce anything. He/she will look busy but not productive.

Then what the goal seeker needs to transform as the goal getter?
Momentum. Commonly, to make the dream come true, people will say ‘it is not the right time yet.’ Actually, the right time is not to be waited but to be looked for. Everything is should be attempted not be waited to come.

So, moral of the post is let ourselves dream. Dream as high as we can. But don’t forget to place a stirrup in a high place, too. So that if we fall into, we do not need to start back from the deep beginning.

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How you think about yourself will determine what you will be. If you think positively about yourself, your reality will be positive, too. Vice versa, whenever you think negatively about yourself, the fact would be negative, too. This is why positive though is really important for you to make a real positive things happens to you.

Actually, how does the positive though would make a positive reality? Uhm, I don’t really know. But based on my own experience, it will really happen. For example, when I had to follow a mathematics exam; something that I really didn’t like because of the difficulties. Since few days before the exam, I told to myself that math is easy. Math is easy. Math is easy. Math is easy.  And not only that, before started to study and after pray, I told again to myself. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. Then, the result is so amazing. Usually I only got 6 from total score 10. After I do positive though, I got 9.

Another example, I was one of the seminar committee held by one big company. Five days before the seminar, I noticed that there are many problems happened. The speaker canceled their plan to come in that seminar, the participant had not fulfill the quote yet, and other technical problem. I was so confused since the problems came from my division. I told to myself that I could do this. I had to sure that I could solve those problems. That faith made me feel more relax so that I could think clearly to find the way out. A few days later, the participant came one by one till the quote had been fulfilled and I found another speaker that was really good and gave cheaper tariff.

I believe that God won’t give His mankind an ordeal beyond our ability to solve. This faith lead me to a positive thought and optimism that I could solve any problems come to me better and better.

What about you?

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A man who teaches English asks something to his students. The students’ first language isn’t English.
“Make a sentence using words: pink, yellow, and green,” the man said.
A student says, “When the yellow morning sun comes, I saw a pink Cadillac running through the
green green grass of home”.
“Wow. That’s great.”
Another student that don’t want to lose, says “I heard the phone green…green… then I pink up the phone and I said ‘yellow?’”

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A friend of mine sent me an email. It was about a quote “You don’t get promoted because you work hard, or because you work long hours, and deliver superb result. You have already been paid for that! But in order to achieve the highest level in a company you must work extra and able to distinguish yourself by volunteering and sacrificing your free time to deliver something outside your job description, to bring values for the company and people around you.”

Many people think extra work as an overtime work and over effort so that the work result will be more optimal. Go home at night, do the assignment tidely, careful, and as perfect as you can with a hope will get a good performance appraisal and then your career path will boost up oftenly done. That’s why sometime we attempt to spend time in the office and as much as possible look busy.

Do you know that what management see sometimes aren’t what employee do? Oftenly employee only thinking about their routine and their job description. Otherwise, as what is quoted above, all the job description done have been paid by the management monthly.  So, we need another extra work so will appraised differently with others.

What you need to do to make the management impresses is easy. You just have to do something outside your job description. For example, as a production staff, you could help HRD staff to organize working load employee. Or if you are a marketing staff then you could help the HRD staff give a training about AutoCad.

Of course, what you do outside your job description is something that you really capable of. Don’t train about AutoCad if you really don’t know about it. And the most important thing is that you are allowed to do this extra work if your own job description have been done well.

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A man was hired as a security guard for a company which is often robbed. The robbery is usually done by employees that have night shift. To prevent another robbery, every day before the night shift employees go home, they are checked by the security guard.

Days to days there are no special event and everything goes fine. Until one day, an employee comes pushing a pushcart that is fulfilled with newspapers. Thought the employee scrounged and concealed hot goods behind the newspaper, that security guard asks the employee to unload the pushcart. But there’s any hot goods found. So, the employee can safely pass the security.

One year left with the employee go out from the company pushing a pushcart. Until one day, supervisor of that company call the security guard. Without any words said, the supervisor fires him.
Then he asks, “Why? Why do you fire me? What did I do wrong?”
“It is your responsibility to keep everything safe and nothing’s stolen. And you come nothing nought,” the supervisor said.
“W-w-wait. What do you mean? There was nothing lost under my surveillance.”
“Really? So how will you explain to me about the lost of the 365 pushcarts?”

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This is an example of editing photo using PhotoFunia.Com.

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Yeah, we know we face a crisis. Caused one of them by subprime mortgage, have made American financial geting down and down. Unemployment, poverty, and bad debt being common condition day to day. Some people say it is the same crisis that Asian faced ten years ago. At that time, the Asian could faced and solved this problem. That’s why we have to be sure that we can do so.

First thing that you should have is an optimism. Optimist that the crisis will be end. Life is like a wheel. Sometime up, sometime down. So that the crisis. Suppose the crisis is the time when we are down. The we could be up, the time when the crisis is end. The optimism will push you to find the way out from the crisis. This way out will led you into success.

Then, don’t be panic. You are what you think you are. Don’t think that crisis is the end of your life. There always be the way out. When you are panic, you won’t think clearly. Whereas think clearly will make you able to notice the best way to stay survive before, during, and after the crisis.

Don’t forget to act based on schedule. Time is still about money. Basing your activity on the schedule will make you more diciplin. And diciplin will led you to be productive.

Take a safe way. Maybe it may sounds cliche and won’t be done by a winner or even an entrepreneur. But, during the crisis, the first thing you must achieve is being survive. You won’t be a a winner if you can’t finish the game. For example, these days, property is a kind of harmful business. High risk slow return. Noticing this, don’t put your money on that business. It is same as you seek for die. Put your money on another thing which is useful for you long term benefit.

Stay on your routinity. Do what you usually do. Put some suitable thing on your routinity. For example, to save the electricity costs, use the electricity as efficient as you can.

You can aso think about something that may harm your financial. If you are a manajer of a holding company, recognize which part of your company is the frailest one to the crisis, either it gives the most financial loses or have so much debt. Then, you should find the root problem of that company’s part that makes him frail. Consider its long term possibilities. If it will be so benefit for long term, seek a way to save him by bailing-out ao someway else. If otherwise, leave it. Or even claim your bancrupty.

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