Reflection by Faiez H Seiyal

Reflection by Faiez H Seiyal

The Almighty God is never be a discriminative. The problem is that we have put many barriers for ourselves development. We think that 10 hours of sleeping is must, we think that 3 times of eating is fixed requirement for surviving, we think that we could not work more than 8 hours per day. We have already been familiar with comfortable life, living with either air conditioner or heater. We think that we could not have a walk farther than 10 – 15 miles at once, because it is not humanly. Those kind of thinkings are the restriction for ourselves

For all people achieving success throughout the era are people who could define the norms, rules, habits by themselves. They spread their wing everyday, looking for the chances for benefiting potentials from their bodies, mind , and souls. If you want to grow, so you should emerge your comfortable zone. Spread your vision into the new horizon of lives. Challenge yourself with new things which have value of lives, then take a look for the blessing that God already gives to us. Actually, we have unimaginable capacity for achieving somethings. Our bodies, mind, and souls have incredible flexibility in adjusting to what we need. We could train ourselves in many ways.

The Almighty God gives us the unique abilities like this. That is we could train our bodies, mind , souls in any circumstances. It's flexibility is the only one gift in which Allah gives for human, not for other creatures

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Failure Facts - Faiez H Seiyal

Failure Facts

According to Faiez H Seiyal, throughout the history of success people and companies, there were many failure facts which had occurred.

1. For the first year of coca cola companies, they only sold out 400 bottles of coca cola

2. The basketball superstar, Michael Jordan , was rejected by his supervisor as basketball player in his high school team. The supervisor said that Michael Jordan was not capable one for playing basketball

3. Winston Churchill was not accepted as a student in University of Oxford and Cambridge

4. Dissertation proposal of Albert Einstein was rejected by University of Bern because they said that the dissertation was not relevant and full of imagination

5. Albert Einstein could not speak until 4 years old and could not read until 7 years old. His teacher named Einstein as undeveloped-mentality child.

6. Louis Pasteur was an ordinary guy during his education period, and finished his study with the lowest rank in Chemistry class

7. When Alexander Graham Bell found Telephone, he demonstrated to the President. The President said that his invention was good but difficult to be used

8. Abraham Lincoln's grade in military was detached because the military board assumed that he was not deserve for

9. During his study in MBA program, Federal Smith got C mark because of his idea about courier company. His lectured said that his idea was not practical

10. Henry Ford had experienced 5 times of failure before he was success with Ford Motor Company

11. During the childhood of Thomas Alpha Edison, he was slowed learner so his mother thought him at home

12. Before Thomas Alpha Edison was success for inventing electric lamp, he had experienced 2000 times of failure

13. In the age of 39 years old, Franklin D Rosevelt had physical deformity because of polio, and he had experienced 4 times of failure until he was success be a president

14. When he worked for newspaper company, Walt Disney was ever fired by his editor because the editor said that Walt Disney was lack of idea. Before he was success for forming Disneyland , he had faced many failures

15. Many of Thomas Alpha Edison's teachers said that he was too slow for learning something

16. Isaac Newton had difficulties to finish his study.

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The ESQ - Ari Ginanjar Agustian

The ESQ Power – Ari Ginanjar Agustian

We might have already familiar with the ESQ Power concept ed by Ari Ginanjar Agustian. To make an easy understanding I will call ESQ Power as Ari's concept. First time i read the Ari's book I feel so surprise with ari's concept. The impression which was emerged in my mind was a creative, unique, and smart one. In my opinion, Ari's concept tried to combine between psychology and Islam. At that moment i supposed that Ari Ginanjar was a trend setter of the new way of thinking. If we take a look for awhile that few people in Indonesia could be a trend setter or most of Indonesian are a follower. However,here Ari can be a trend setter of thoughts. Objectively i admire him as a good pioneer.

In first chapter of his book he tries to review about the obsolete idea of IQ. He mentions that IQ not anymore being the most important gift. Deliberately i use the world “gift” to emphasize that most people in the old decades assumed IQ as the most precious blessing from God. When parents will have babies, most of them beg to God for having babies with higher IQ. It might that they hope to have babies with Einstein IQ level. Their thought are simple because if their children have high IQ so their lives will be easy. In other words, having high IQ can guarantee what future will be. The bright future could be reached as long as we have high IQ. I'm absolutely sure that until now most Indonesian still assume IQ as the important gift for their children.

U Can If U think U can - Normant Vincent Peale II

...When we could stabilize our emotions, our potentials for solving the problems could emerge easily.
There is contrary reason, why we should not afraid with problems because those are the accessories in most people lives. They are surely surrounded by problems because we live in the normal world. So be careful if you don’t have any problems due to you do not deserve to live in this world. There is interesting statement from Peale. He said “you should be afraid if you don’t any problems in this world, if you don’t have, you should go to your own room and beg to God. Praise and say God please, give me problems, I want you treat me like a normal human”.
This statement firstly looks so strange. However if we muse this, we could find the truth from this. The existence of problems is along with the existence of human being. It is like 2 parts that can be separated. Then we should realize that when people are bravely to live so they should ready be peppered by problems. The important thing is we should play in the wise, realistic, and effective lines.
In many parts of this book, a lot of stories are served well by the author. The stories are about the problems from the people in which the author met. Firstly, those people are collapse when they are fallen into troubles. They feel that theirs lives have ruined. Then the author guides those people how to react when facing those troubles. And finally, the author offers the possible solutions that might be. Here the author locates himself as a problematic consultant. He could help people who really need his helps.
The author used repetitive phrase. That is ‘u can if u think u can’. It is the core of this book or the main idea and could be said as the author’s formula. I said that as a formula because the author become popular because he uses the icon ‘ u can if u think u can’. In most stories in this book, the author always proposes this powerful formula for solving the problems. Then the author completes each story with the successful ending as consequences for implementing his formula. Its look that the author attempts to proof that his formula works well for many cases.
The whole book contains of the facts that we surely would face. Those are problems. When the problems arrive, we should remember the Norman’s powerful formula, YOU CAN IF YOU THINK YOU CAN.
Objectively or without any tendencies, I highly recommend all to read this book. We could pick many benefits from this book. The book are available in most book stores in Indonesia such as Gramedia, Gunung Agung , etc. Have a good reads and enjoy your reading.

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