Do your best at any condition

So many times we experience something differrent from what we expect. Take one example, we get low paid. What shall we do in such situation??. So many people only complain and complain. They demotivate at work place, do their jobs even below their performance could be. Many times they say "why we shall work hard if we get low paid, just make us tired". They reluctant to spend more time to work, more time to learn new things in their work place.
They don't realize that such mind set and attitude will never deliver good job. At the end their work performance will be much worst and expectation to get better paid away in the sky.

My dear friends,
if you are in such situation right now, please go wake up!!! stop complaining!!! don't let your externals controls over your mind!!! Your mind shall control over the externals!!!. As many motivational experts say IQ get you hired, EQ get you promotted, and AQ keep you "survive" in difficult situation and keep you at the top.
My dear friends,
Let me share my own experience in such condition.
I realized complain would lead to even much worst situation. So, I tried to think positive things of my job and my work place.
Do you know what I think of my job??.
First, I tried not to think how much my contribution to the company because if I think so, my mind would think how much I get paid. What I think was what were my contribution to life of people working in this company and life of people living near by this factory thru my job in this company. I knew well it's not only me who contribute to growth of the company. Each year, the company grew sustainably and need more and more worker to support the growth. That means each year more and more people (worker and their family) get life from the company to which I had contribution. More and more people work in the company also give positive imfact to people living near by factory. More rental rooms build up, more food seller come everyday, more motorist has contracted passager. Ended, I talk to my self that I indirectly contribute to life improvement of so many people and I consider it as my service to my God and expect nothing in return from the company I work for. I am happy.
Second, I look around my work place what I could learn. I invest my time and energy to learn about company daily operation, both business side and production side. I talk to my self the company pay me to study here. So, even it's low paid it's ok. I am very keen to learn many things new that I believe one day God will give me chance to apply my experience and knowledge, of course we have to put our best effort to get that chance.
Third, I talk to my self that my hard work is an investment that I will enjoy in the future. I believe not only bad smell but good smell will also go everywhere, and as wiseman said "time is the fairest judge" in our life.

In short, I would like to say put your best effort to your job without any condition and talk to your self that your hard work is your service to your God, while you work you also study/learn, your hard work is your investment. This positive self talking will train your AQ. Practise it again and again....

"God is always hearing and never sleeping"

"We are what we are thinking"

Good luck!!!!

I should not miss any moment of your growth, my sons

To you both - my beloved sons,

Deep in my heart we don't want to miss any moment of your both growht. We quite keen to be with you both whole day, playing together, having meal together, taking nap together.....

We look forward to hear you both loughing, seeing you both smiling, serving you milk,........

We look forward to witness every second of your both growth......

But...

In the other side, We have to work to make money for you both - to buy your toys, your milk, your cloths, your health insurances, your schools......your future. We will do everything for sake of your both future.

Every night we pray to the God wishing you both all the best.

Your mom & dad

Love

Don't think how much you get paid

After six months stayed unemplyeed, May 1994 I was hired at first time by a Taiwanese shoe manufacturing company in Serang. My job was as an compound mixing machine operator. Frankly speaking this job was not suitable to my education at all, junior high school garduatee could do such job, no need associate degree. But I thrown away such thinking from my mind. I learnt to enjoy such job and beside I used to do any kind of physical-needed jobs. I found happiness doing such job, ended.

A month later, I was so lucky to get my second job - still in footwear manufacturing company. I worked in marketing department handling communication between our company and customers both local and overseas. I enjoyed such job much more than my first job. I had no experience at all in this area but becuase I enjoyed such job, I spent much of my time and energy to learn everything related to my job. Almost every day I worked from seven in the morning to six in the afternoon. But I loved it.

I had chance to interact with many people from different cultural background and level, such American, Canadian, Philipinos, Korean, Taiwanesse, Chinesse. Also I had chance to learn many other job, such as development, pricing, purchasing, production, export, import, and personel and general affair matters. I never thought how much I got paid. What I tought was that I needed to learn everything about company operation because I believed I would need it some day and for me as a marketing communication officer, it's very important to know all of the company daily operation so that I could give comprehensive information to our customers and they did not need to go around to get information, one channel was much better.

I was quite happy at time when I received copy of 'Nike Factory Evaluation' issued by Nike Inc. Jakarta representative to top management of our company in which they quite positively commented on my performance.

Seven years later I moved to another smaller company with slimming organization and my position required comprehensive knowledge and experience about manugacturing operation.

Because of Dream

I was gratefull for life difficulties I have experienced specially during my college years.

My memory go back to 1990 till 1993 the time when a poor student struggled for higher education without having anything but high motivation and passion I and my family had.

When I applied for enrollment testing, at night before, my father seriously realized me that we did not have anything to support my school if I passed the test. What we had only dream and "8 pieces of bones" to work. I always remeber this even till now.

Three years persued associate degree in University of Bengkulu was the most difficult time during my life so far. I should stay away from my family. It took 2/3 hours by bus.

My father and I should work quite hard to make money to support my and my sister school necesities. After school hours, I should do anything, even just to have a dish of rice. Many times I collected fire wood and sell it to my rental room neighbors, help my neighbors cut down big trees to send to saw mill, help my neighbors climbed their coconut trees just to have one coconut in return for my cooking.

Many times I should wash my friend cloths just to be able to wash my own cloths, or to borrow their cloths to go campus that I ussualy did by foot.

Many times I had no other to eat, only rice or even only one meal in whole day. The most unforgottable moment is that when my father sent me money ONLY Rp 3.000,- (three thousand) for my one month life together with a piece of paper onwhich he hand-wrote "my beloved son, we are so sorry that we could not send you more than. Your father had been sick for almost two weeks, be patient and don't forget to always pray to God. God was just testing us"

Some time I had chance to do better work which were to teach at English course or to translate my friend's artilces to Indonesia or to English. I was happy to get paid Rp 250 - Rp 500 per page because at least I could buy noodle for my meal. If I wanted better meal, I should go fishing.

When school holiday came, I could not go vacation as my friend usually did. I had to make money to pay my semester school fee. Usually, I and my father got order to repair or build up house. Some times I was sad that I could not enjoy my holiday. The only thing made me and my family happy was that I alway be one of big five best student eventhough I almost never bought school books and spent most of time to make money.

In three years I completed my associate degree. My family came to my graduation day and we're all quite happy and froud of.

Two month later I went to Jakarta to persue my life.

My beloved Family

My beloved family,

you are the reason I work hard....

you are the reason I life.....

you are the reason ........

Control Our mind set

(This is my own experience that I hope it will motivates other blogger who was boorn in a 'unlucky family' like me).



I was born 37 years ago in an 'unlucky family' financially. My parent is a poor farmer who had to grow 4 children. I am the only son and the oldest one.

From the childhood I strated already helping my parent in our ricefield or helped them to make money by selling sand or split or fish that I cought to our relatives so that I could buy books or other school necessity with my own money.

When I was in senior high school, my parent was getting difficult to support financially our daily life including our school fees.

This difficult condition made me to find anyway to help my parent. I did many kind of 'blue collar' jobs such as part time truck/taxi driver, selling fire wood, handy man, even repair used WC. Such jobs usually high school student 'shy' to do, but I had to. I had no time to get vacation as my freinds usually did.
I talked to myself that it's ONLY temporary jobs and some day you would be some one. I repeated this self talking again and again whenever my tired & shy came to bugging me.
When I graduated from senior high school, I was very proud of, because I was a 2nd best graduatees in my small town (district). Eventhoguh, I almost never bought school books.


to be continued....