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Do you need encouragement?
If you do, please read and subscribe to this blog. I am Robert, an Indonesian who stays in Singapore, the founder of this blog. This blog is all about reasons to smile, and it is about encouraging you to be happy in your success journey.
It is a lesson from a person who is working on his limitation and striving for success the same way as you do. This blog is all about turning limitation into advantages and helping you to be successful.
Turning limitation into advantages
Why don’t we ignore these limitations instead? Overcoming our limitations cannot be done by ignoring or resisting them; that comes when you befriend them. Robin Sharma, a leadership guru shares a quote that affirms my belief about our attitude towards our limitation…
What you resist will persist, but what you befriend, you will transcend.
Robin Sharma
To know more about me, you may want to read “my interesting (and useful) 7 flaws” article that explains to you my 7 flaws I am working on. You will also see examples on how we all can consider our limitations as advantages.
The article is one part of the whole series on turning limitation into advantages. For the complete list, I will recommend the following articles worth reading…
- The five steps to win with your limitation,
sharing with you the five steps to win WITH your limitation. - The 7 interesting (and useful) facts about my flaws,
sharing with you much more about me and my 7 interesting flaws. You will see how I can see my limitation into strengths and advantages. - Now you can consider your limitation as advantages,
sharing with you the reason why your limitations are advantageous to your personal growth. - When it comes to relationship, limitation “sells”,
sharing with you how limitations are very important piece in any relationship.
Helping introverts to be successful
Is this blog only for introverts? I’m an introvert by preference, working on my introversion and limitations. Putting the “introverts” word there not to exclusively direct my message to the introverts; it is there to give you some understanding on what kind of limitations that this blog will share a lot. Few from the list are shy, selfish, low self-esteem, greedy, indecisive, and naive. And this I believe applies not only for introverts, but also extroverts.
What is success? I believe each of us want to have a successful life, whether it’s in career, life, love, health, or may other aspects. But we often have a hard time to define success. Here is a definition about success taken from Craig Harper:
…successful person (success of course being different things for different people) is not necessarily the one with all the talent but rather the one who simply uses more of what he/she has been given when compared to what the bulk of the population does (or doesn’t do) with their potential.
~Craig Harper (Potential for Greatness) [emphasis added]
Success is relative, it’s not meant to be compared to one another, it’s meant to be compared with your potential. Have you lived up your best enough? This is a question we all need to ask ourselves in our success. Here is the complete article that I wrote about success, How to be successful, uniquely yours!
This blog will help you -whatever personality you have- to understand the process of growing (Wisdom category), to accept who you are right now (Serenity category), and to step out of your comfort zone and grow to be successful (Courage category).
If you are new with this blog:
I’m on holiday at the moment and I won’t be able to update my blog within these 2 weeks. I will be sharing more when I came back. For now, you may want to use the link below to find what you want to read.
How to find my best articles that suits your need
- Check out Insights category for featured and insightful articles.
- Check out News category for inspirational news and updates.
- Check out Library page to get articles inspired by a particular book or resource.
- Check out Personal Story category to know more about me and the blog history.
Besides that, you can check out my Sitemap page to get the full article list based on the category that you are interested in.
Any feedback or contribution, please contact me at [robert at reason4smile dot com]
Thank you, and I hope this blog will motivate and inspire you to become a better you.
Robert Antonius Henru
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16 Comments
Another great article. It is always a pleasure to stumble your posts.
How did you get so wise - so young?
Hi Corinne, thanks for the compliment!
First, is that I’m looking forward to God, every day looking forward to wisdom from God! Not many posts I have in hand to be posted, so looking forward to Him to teach me something and give me wisdom to be shared to my readers!
Second, is that I’m reading books, blogging has boosted my reading speed as never before, whenever I find some interesting statement, I underlined them, and I wrote the page number at the end of the book, for me to refer to them again when I’m about to share them! Teaching and sharing in the blog makes me learn much much more!
Third, I’m also inspired by many blogs in the blogosphere, and one of them is yours! Thanks for sharing your wisdom, Corinne!
And by the way, I’m still young =), doing is not as easy as writing or talking, the reason I wrote down is
1. to declare what I’m pursuing, to be a better person…, sometimes we can’t affirm but we can start declaring
for more info, check my post..
Start declaring (though you can’t affirm)
2. as an action plan to learn from my failure in the past, so facing the same situation again, I can be reminded to do the right way…
It’s shared by Jonathan Frye in his blog, LeadershipJot.com
check this post for more info
Write it out!
Really appreciate your comment,
Robert
Hello Robert,
You have a good blog… very interesting to go through your blogs. Keep it up.
Hi, paradise =),
Thanks for visiting! Pardon me for the late reply, I just recovered the comments in my About page for the new theme.
Hope you enjoy the blog more in the future.
Robert
HI Robert,
I’ve got a technical question. How did you get the . dots, before each category and post in your sidebar. Are they part of the theme? Did I somehow erase that or did you add it? I like it!
Thanks
many good ideas to help people growth and success in life..
thanks
rezeki’s last blog post..Segulung ijazah dan penganggur
Hi Rezeki, thanks a lot for your comments! You’ve got an interesting blog as well. I’m from Indonesia, so Malay shouldn’t be a problem for me. Hope to see you again, do share your thoughts whenever applicable!
Appreciate your visit and comments,
Robert
Hi Robert,
There’s some good articles here. I’ve subscribed for next articles I look forward to seeing.
Best,
Tejvan
Tejvan Pettinger’s last blog post..Some 30-day self-improvement ideas
Hi Tejvan, thank you so much for letting me know that. I’m looking forward to inspire you more =). Thanks for the comment and encouragement.
Wish you all the best too!
Robert
Hii Robert
How are you?
Well, I read your article and it blesses me very much… i never knew that GOD gives you a writing talent
Well, I’m glad i can find you and knowing that you are alright and you become an excellent person in Christ
Well, are you still in SG? when will you come back to Ind? Well, contact me when you’re back… i love to see and chat with you again.
Bye and GBU
Regards,
Rahadian
Hi Raha, how are you doing? It’s been a looong time =)
Thank you so much! for all the compliment and the blessing.
I also never knew this talent before, I guess we have to work it out and stretch ourselves with whatever we have. And from there, our talents will grow and expand.
Yup, I’m still in SG, looking forward to meet you when I’m back!
Cheers and God bless you too!
Robert
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Hi Frederic, thank you for approaching me… I will contact you shortly.
Robert
Hi Robert - thanks again for joining Askablogr. In response to your recent question, the Askablogr community is made up of all the participating bloggers and blog readers who are using the service. All the members, their (and your) questions and answers are all published on Askablogr.com, and as this community grows the benefits of membership grow: our site is being discovered more and more often via organic search, and the more this happens, the more readers will be discovering you and your blog through us.
Thanks again for participating, and I look forward to seeing your reader Q&A on Askablogr.
Cheers,
Chris
Hi Chris, thank you so much for your reply.
Great to become a part of it. Hopefully it will benefit my readers as a channel for them to ask as well.
Thanks,
Robert