What I learn from messing up with mashing up

Messing up or mashing up?

Robert Hruzek has initiated projects title “What I Learn From” or WILF, it’s a group writing project where you are given a challenge about what you have learned from a certain topic. The topic is changed every month, and this month’s is “What I Learn from… Mashing It Up!”

Mashing it up!? It’s a new word for me too. Initially I was just reminded of mashed potato as well, wondering if it’s the same thing. And strange… it’s not! Here is Robert’s definition on mashing it up…

It’s where somebody combines two or more things together and produces something really really good.
~Robert Hruzek

What have I mashed up? Or maybe messed up?

I guess I have mashed up or maybe messed around with this blog. You may notice that I have been experimenting the past 1 month. I started guest post exchange, group writing project, marketing review, and the latest is the product review. Supposedly, I wanted to increase my traffic and subscribers. On the other hand, my subscription is more or less the same for the past 1 month, few people unsubscribe, none participates in the project, and emotionally I’m very disappointed as well.

The lesson

Stay to the course, young man!
~Donald Miller (Making Sales Making Money)

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Five reasons why you need networking break

HELP! Are you feeling tired of networking?

Network, network and network! Your career needs networking, your business needs networking, your daily social life needs networking, and finding your life partner also needs networking. When should you take a break from networking?

Yesterday, my very first guest post has just published. It is titled “The Trap of Networking” and it is posted in Jason Jacobsohn’s blog: NetworkingInsight.com. It also talks about networking, but the trap that it might have. What I am emphasizing there is networking with the focus on the result and not the activity. It’s not the issue of how many people you’ve got to know or how many networking event you have attended. It’s the matter of how many win-win relationship you have formed. Check out the article to know what the trap is.

While some suggested practicing networking to become better at it, I find that taking a break from networking is equally important. And even more, it’s actually advantageous to your networking. Let’s find out why:

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The 7 interesting (and useful) facts about my flaws

Can you laugh over your flaws? How about considering them as your friend, interesting and helpful?

[This article is edited and republished for better clarity and structure, together with additional links and resources]

Two bloggers, David and Amy tagged me to share 7 strange/interesting facts about me. At first, I planned to put random facts, but eventually I wanted to write more, my story on turning limitation into advantages.

Mastery is attained by understanding our vulnerability and working with our situation.

Evan Hadkins (That Which Doesn’t Kill Us . . . Can Leave Us Maimed)

This is the second part of my series on turning limitation into advantages. The first part shared with you the five steps to win with your limitation, in short we have to acknowledge our limitations, own them, express them, turn them into advantages, and stretch them.

In this article, I will share my 7 flaws that many consider as limitations, but those are the ones that made our life interesting, not perfect but interesting.

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The five steps to win with your limitation

Do you have limitation?

I watched a TV program few weeks ago, it’s called I Journalist, an opportunity for amateur journalist to practice their journalism skill. The episode I watched that time is the struggle of someone with some kind of physical disability that troubled him to walk properly and to live a normal life. I can’t remember most parts of the show; but there is a statement that caught my attention while watching the show…

Everyone is disabled in a way, only that the physically disabled is more visible.

Sometimes I envy disabled person…

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All you need to know to create your own happiness

How do you define happiness?

Many relate happiness with something they need to pursue and have. Many say that they need to have this and that to be happy.

But here is my finding about happiness, taken from Dan Gilbert video on TedTalk.

We synthesize happiness but we think happiness is a thing to be found.

Dan Gilbert

If I have to define happiness, it is not something that you need to find somewhere; happiness is an option of your response to your circumstances. Happiness is your choice, not what the circumstances give you. Happiness is something you can synthesize…

How can you synthesize happiness?

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The Contagious Smile

I came across an interesting blog by Terence Chang, Smile That Made My Day, giving you faces of smile around the world.

My first reaction of looking at that blog?… Smile, lots of smiles =)

It is so true that smile is contagious, have you ever got flu when you sit next to a person with flu? Similarly, you will smile when you are around a happy and smiling person.

The latest post when this post is written, showing a smiling poor boy, here is what the photographer said…

a smiling face greets me when i visited victoria garden today morning and it made my day. and i wonder what this boy knows that makes him so happy. Despite the fact that he told me that they have no money, he doesn’t go to school and life goes on.

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The five reasons why you’re no ordinary

Will you say, “I am just an ordinary person”? Or will you say with me, “I am successful!”?

This article is inspired by an article by Wyatt Song in his blog Ueverse.com, titled “The incomplete statement - “if I can do this, anyone can…”. As what he mentioned, I know many people say that they are just an ordinary person; they are saying “I’m just an ordinary person, if I can do it, anyone can do it.” It sounds humble, but does it right?

Wyatt mentioned in his article a new statement that I like better,

I’m a successful person, if I can do it, anyone who wish to, can also do it

Wyatt Song

That statement only is not enough, Wyatt also continue on that wishing is not enough, there are needs of taking action and making changes. Ask if you need, and persistence and discipline is necessary as well.

Instead of thinking that you’re ordinary, why don’t you start thinking that you’re successful?
Here are the five reasons of why you should start saying that I am successful…

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Be comfortable with who you are

“Be comfortable with who you are!” That’s the title of the Podcast from Joel Osteen, my favourite message that I have listened over and over. The message is about how we can be comfortable with how God made us to be!

Have you ever felt not belong to a certain community? Feeling as if you’re an ugly goose in the middle of ducks, an introvert in the middle of extroverts.

That’s what I felt recently, an introvert in the middle of all my housemates who are extroverts. While I’m so tired after work and relate with people, I have to see all my flatmates are in the happy mode enjoying talking and laughing to one another. Most of the time, I can’t keep up with them and staying by myself in my room. Sometimes, the inferior feeling is just overwhelming.

Should you feel inferior just because you’re an introvert?

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Limited mindset of introvert

I’m not a good speaker, I don’t think I will be successful!

She is so good with people, having so many friends and connections, future seems so bright for her!

I’m not attractive, people don’t like me, I’m too deep and people find it bo…ring!

Sounds familiar? I believe this relate to an introvert with lower self-esteem very much! Introvert who reflects too much, complaining about not having other people’s capabilities, and being jealous towards others, especially those who are very different from them. This is what I say the limited mindset of introvert.

We need to be aware of this mindset, having this mindset, hardly you will be successful. Whoever you are, you can be successful! Here is quoted from Jack M. Zufelt in his book DNA of Success…

Your mind-set may be that you must be an extrovert to be successful. Although extroverts can be successful, so can people who do not like the limelight. Some of the most quiet, laid-back people I have known are extremely successful.

Jack M. Zufelt

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Leader under construction (Tips not to beat yourself)

Men at work, building under construction, infrastructure cannot be used, that’s what the signboard is trying to tell us.

Today, I’d like to talk about disappointments with ourselves.

Does this statement sounds familiar? “I should not do that”, “I have got that experience before, why didn’t I learn”, “why am I so stupid?”, “every thing’s messed up now”, “I should have said no”. It’s what normally happens when we have disappointments.

You made a mistake, you supposed to learn from it, you made promise to yourself not to do it again, but again you do it again!!! How can’t you say that you’re stupid?

You perform your best, putting all your heart, energy, and even money to something, yet things result in ridicule and mockery!!! How can’t you say that you’re lousy?

Facing disappointments, it’s vulnerable for us to let go our dream, first we are no longer confident that we can achieve the goal and second, we’re afraid of further disappointments. Do not ever let go of dream because of disappointments. Possible with other reasons and enough assessment, but never with disappointments.

Facing disappointments, instead of declaring a war against yourself, rebuking and insult yourself for the mistakes you made, let’s try to visualize the dream under-construction signboard when you’re faced with disappointments. For me, it’s “Leader under construction”, for you, try “[your dream] under construction”.

That means…

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