M.W.

7 Kebiasaan yang Membuat Hidup Menjadi Kaya

2010-04-14T14:23:00.001+07:00

Sering kali kita berpikir, bagaimana caranya agar kita bisa kaya secara materil dengan waktu cepat, tapi sedikit di antara kita tidak memikirkan arti kaya yang sebenarnya, kebiasaan kita sangat menentukan arah yang akan kita lalui, ini sedikit motivasi buat agan-agan sekalian yang semoga berguna buat yang membacanya:

1. Kebiasaan mengucap syukur
Ini adalah kebiasaan istimewa yang bisa mengubah hidup selalu menjadi lebih baik. Bahkan agama mendorong kita bersyukur tidak saja untuk hal-hal yang baik, tapi juga dalam kesussahan dan hari-hari yang buruk. Ada rahasia besar di balik ucapan syukur yang sudah terbukti sepanjang sejarah. Hellen Keller yang buta dan tuli sejak usia dua tahun, telah menjadi orang yang terkenal dan dikagumi di seluruh dunia. Salah satu ucapannya yang banyak memotivasi orang adalah, “Aku bersyukur atas cacat-cacat ini, aku menemukan diriku, pekerjaanku dan Tuhanku”. Memang sulit untuk bersyukur, namun kita bisa belajar secara bertahap. Mulailah mensyukuri kehidupan, mensyukuri berkat, kesehatan, keluarga, sahabat, dan sebagainya. Lama kelamaan Anda bahkan bisa bersyukur atas kesusahan dan situasi yang buruk.

2. Kebiasaan berpikir positif
Hidup kita dibentuk oleh apa yang paling sering kita pikirkan. Kalau selalu berpikiran positif, kita cenderung menjadi pribadi yang yang positif. Ciri-ciri dari pikiran yang positif selalu mengarah kepada kebenaran, kebaikan, kasih sayang, harapan dan suka cita. Sering-seringlah memantau apa yang sedang Anda pikirkan. Kalau Anda terbenam dalam pikiran negatif, kendalikanlah segera ke arah yang positif. Jadikanlah berpikir positif sebagai kebiasaan dan lihatlah betapa banyak hal-hal positif sebagai kebiasaan dan lihatlah betapa banyak hal-hal positif yang akan Anda alami.

3. Kebiasaan berempati
Kemampuan berhubungan dengan orang lain merupakan kelebihan yang dimiliki oleh banyak orang sukses. Dan salah satu unsur penting dalam berhubungan dengan orang lain adalah empati, kemampuan atau kepekaan untuk memandang dari sudut pandang orang lain. Orang yang empati bahkan bisa merasakan perasaan orang lain, mengerti keinginannya dan menangkap motif di balik sikap orang lain. Ini berlawanan sekali dengan sikap egois, yang justru menuntut diperhatikan dan dimengerti orang lain. Meskipun tidak semua orang mudah berempati, namun kita bisa belajar dengan membiasakan diri melakukan tindakan-tindakan yang empatik. Misalnya, jadilah pendengar yang baik, belajarlah menempatkan diri pada posisi orang lain, belajarlah melakukan apa yang Anda ingin orang lain lakukan kepada Anda, dan sebagainya.

4. Kebiasaan mendahulukan yang penting
Pikirkanlah apa saja yang paling penting, dan dahulukanlah. Jangan biarkan hidup Anda terjebak dalam hal-hal yang tidak penting sementara hal-hal yang penting terabaikan. Mulailah memilah-milah mana yang penting dan mana yg tidak, kebiasaan mendahulukan yang penting akan membuat hidup Anda efektif dan produktif dan meningkatkan citra diri Anda secara signifikan.

5. Kebiasaan bertindak
Bila Anda sudah mempunyai pengetahuan, sudah mempunyai tujuan yang hendak dicapai dan sudah mempunyai kesadaran mengenai apa yang harus dilakukan, maka langkah selanjutnya adalah bertindak. Biasakan untuk mengahargai waktu, lawanlah rasa malas dengan bersikap aktif. Banyak orang yang gagal dalam hidup karena hanya mempunyai impian dan hanya mempunyai tujuan tapi tak mau melangkah.

6. Kebiasaan menabur benih
Prinsip tabur benih ini berlaku dalam kehidupan. Pada waktunya Anda akan menuai yang Anda tabur. Bayangkanlah, betapa kayanya hidup Anda bila Anda selalu menebar benih ‘kebaikan’. Tapi sebaliknya, betapa miskinnya Anda bila rajin menabur keburukan.

7. Kebiasaan hidup jujur
Tanpa kejujuran, kita tidak bisa menjadi pribadi yang utuh, bahkan bisa merusak harga diri dan masa depan Anda sendiri. Mulailah membiasakan diri bersikap jujur, tidak saja kepada diri sendiri tapi juga terhadap orang lain. Mulailah mengatakan kebenaran, meskipun mengandung resiko. Bila Anda berbohong, kendalikanlah kebohongan Anda sedikit demi sedikit.

Sumber : www.kaskus.us

2010-04-08T17:32:00.002+07:00

Wah ga kerasa udah 2 tahun ga nulis di blog ini. Hehe.. Emang lupa sih.. Ingin sekali mengaktifkan kembali blog ini. Banyak bahan yang bisa diposting ke dalam blog ini. Mungkin sekarang aku tidak akan memposting suatu tema khusus, hanya artikel2 artikel yang aku temui di internet. Jadi mulai sekarang, blog ini bukan hanya berbahasa Inggris, namun dwi-bahasa.

Inconsistent Man

2008-12-01T13:29:00.003+07:00

It's been so long since I last wrote in this blog. What I learn is, maintaining consistency is absolutely hard.

There are things that I want to do. There are things in my plan for each day, for my future. But very few came into action. Writing in this blog is one of those things in my plan. This writing is a form of complaining towards myself.

One of the things that I had planned since long time ago is writing proposal for my final task in my college. But untill I publish this post, not a single letter have been writen.

Today, I will write the proposal. It's my comitment for today.. Just Do It!

Reflection

2008-08-13T00:54:00.004+07:00

It's quite much past midnight now. I just finished browsing my Friendster friend list. The list contains names that I haven't met for long time. From their profile, I can see a glance of their life. Many of them are married now. Many of them have got descent job (some even work in prestigious companies). Some of them have reached the land beyond the border of this country (Indonesia).

I don't know what people think of them, but at least for me, they have quite an achievement. Right now, I feel like I have achieved nothing.

Seeing other people's life is like looking through a mirror. We can see our self better. We can even see our self from different angles. We can see things that should and should not exist in our self. Things we should have done.

When I asked the mirror this question "Have I done well in my life?" The mirror answered "No. You haven't".

It means, I still have a lot of works to be done.

Nice Little Happiness

2008-07-26T05:24:00.005+07:00

When is the last time you feel happy? Do you remember when and what made you happy?

Happiness is not always made of big things. And big things doesn't guarantee your happiness. Sometimes small things make us happier than big things.

Yesterday, I felt so happy. It was a nice little happiness. My friend, Rahmat, gave granted me the little happiness. Maybe he didn't realize that he made me happy, I'm quite sure about that. He just said that he like my Blog. Just that. And he made me so happy at that time. I felt that it wasn't just a lip (keyboard) service.

I found that it is easy to make someone happy. Just tell him/her that you like something from him/her. And the most important part is that you tell the words from your heart

Step by step

2008-07-04T11:03:00.005+07:00

Have you ever tried to jog? Well, I have. I've try to jog every day since four days ago.

I admit that jogging is quite exhausting, especially for non-sporty people like me. It require quite much stamina, and breath. In the first day I jog, I could only finish one lap, and it wasn't even a full lap. There were walking and running in the lap, while it supposed to be a whole-running lap. Even though it wasn't a whole running lap, I almost passed out. If I forced myself to do more lap, maybe I could make it. But what would happened if I forced myself to do more lap. The worst case was I ended up in hospital.

That's why it is important to do things step by step, little by little. Doing so get us use to the activities. Our body and mind will learn to endure the hardship. And finally we will break our limitation.

Today, the fourth day of my morning jogging, I could do three lap running, but there was still some walking in it. But I'm sure that in the future I will be able to do ten-lap running without walking.

Where is my Adsense?

2008-07-04T09:52:00.003+07:00

My AdSense is gone. It's nowhere to be found in my blog. It's been several days for now. It had happened before, but after I re-attached the AdSense script to my blog, the ads reappeared in my blog. But now the Ads keep missing from my blog, even after I re-attach the AdSense script.

For Information, the Ads sometimes gone from the blog after I edit the layout of my blog. I've also found that the setting of the ads changed after I edit the layout.

If anyone know the solution of my problem, please share the knowledge. I will be very grateful.

Be grateful for what we have

2008-07-03T08:06:00.007+07:00

I felt grateful this morning cause I had a free breakfast. Maybe some of you think that it's a common thing to happen. Well, I did too. But this morning something different came across my mind.

Almost everyone likes to have free stuff, including free breakfast. And it's a courtesy to say thank you to the one who gave you the free stuff, including the god. But do we really say thank you from the very bottom of our heart? Maybe not.

When people got the stuff they really need for free, while they can't afford the cost to get the stuff, they tend to be really grateful from the bottom of their heart. It's because they really know the value of the stuff that they got. Different thing happens when people who can afford to buy almost anything got a free stuff. They won't value the stuff like people who can't afford to buy.

This morning, I felt really grateful for the free breakfast I had. It's not that I couldn't afford to buy my own breakfast, it's because I must be careful with my own expenses, for now I don't have any regular income. I can imagine the feeling of people who really can't afford to buy their own food. It makes me out more value to everything I have, and I don't want to waste any of it.

I am out of my comfort zone

2008-07-01T11:07:00.006+07:00

Today is the first day went out of my comfort zone. And it really feels uncomfortable.

Yesterday, I quit my job. Actually, I didn't quit my job, I just don't continue my contract with the company I used to work to. I got a job opportunity from another company, but I turned it down. I've decided to follow my dream to build my own business. I am ready to face all the risks of my decision.

I admit that it wasn't an easy decision to make. I must face it that I won't have a regular income, I must work harder than I used to. My parents always expect me to graduate from college, while our family is not a wealthy family, so I must fund my own college. As a man, I also expected to get a regular job in order to make a living with my future family.

But hey, I've faced all those feelings, and now, I am out of my comfort zone. Now I am in a zone where everything can happen. Misfortune can happen. But there also exist vast possibility of fortune.

I've decided to follow my dream. How bout you?

Lesson of Life

2008-06-26T17:00:00.003+07:00

Yesterday, I went to Jakarta for a job interview. It was just an ordinary job interview. I just filled forms and was asked for several question. But something good came in my way home. I met a man. An old man.

There are many old men in the world. But this man shared his wisdom about life to me. As long as could remember, i've never met a man who just share his wisdom to a stranger.

He told me quite many. These are the things that come cross my mind

Work for the knowledge. You can run out of money, but knowldge is everlasting. From your knowledge, you can get more money.

Share your knowledge. Don't be afraid that people who get your knowledge will be your rival, they won't.

Be grateful when your seniors yelled at you but your work, even when it is not your mistake. Tell them that you respect them because they are your seniors or colleagues.

The old man said to me that if i can follow these rules, i will be successfull at work.

Decide Our Own Life

2008-06-26T10:23:00.000+07:00

"10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react."
Steven Covey

What does the quote above means? It means that there are things in life that we can't control, and those things does affect our life. But the more important thing is what we do when we face those things that we can't control.

Living is Changing

2008-06-24T13:58:00.002+07:00

The only thing that wont change is the change itself. Everything is changing. Ourself, our surrounding, our mind. We can't escape change. The only thing we can do to face the change is accept it, and adapt to it.

Change, a significant change, just happened to me recently. My loved one just moved to another city, for a job. A very huge hole suddenly appear in my life. I used to spend many time with her. Share our thought, share our feeling. We used to fill each other's life. But now she's far from me. It cost quite much money just to see her.

But life must go on. No one knows what lies ahead. All we have to do is do our best. We can still comunicate. Communication is cheapper nowadays. And we can still see each other, even though not as often as it used to. Meeting her after a while must be sweeter than before. We can also use our time for more productive activities, building our future.

When you face a change, don't be afraid. Change is a hard thing, but if you can survive, there must be something good awaits you.

You Have Two Choices

2008-02-25T15:44:00.003+07:00

Several days ago, i got an e-mail from my college mailing list. It got an attachment. The attachment is about a positive person named Jerry and how he can be a positive man. The original format is Power Point Slide (.pps), but I adjust it to suit a blog article. Next is the content of the mail attachment.

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant. He is always in a good mood. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins…!".

Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs, so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant.

Why? If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there, telling him how to look on the positive side of the situation. Because Jerry was a natural motivator.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day, I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it ! No one can be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it ?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood. I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I always choose the positive side of life."

"But it's not always that easy,” I protested.

"Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business. He left the back door of his restaurant open. And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed men. While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I‘d be twins. Want to see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices; I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live." Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the Emergency Room and I saw the expression on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read ‘HE IS A DEAD MAN’. I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything." 'Yes, to bullets', I replied. Over their laughter, I told them I'm choosing to live. Please operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”

"Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.

I learned from him that every day you have the choice to either enjoy your life or to hate it. The only thing that is truly yours - that no one can control or take from you – is your attitude, so if you can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.

I hope this article will help us becoming more positive minded.

Link Exchange

2008-02-21T13:56:00.004+07:00

I welcome anyone who wants to exchange link with me. Just post your link in the comment, including the desired label for your link.

There is only one condition to put your link in my blog which is "Put my blog adress in your blog too!" and give my blog link label M.W. or Mardiyanto Wiyogo. If I find my blog adress in your site, then i will put your link in my blog.

I check my blog at least once a week, so your link will appear no later than a week after you post your link.

I'm looking forward for your link.

Pursue Your Dream

2008-02-20T11:29:00.006+07:00

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steve Jobs(1955 - )

Do you know your own dream? Or at least, do you know what you want in life? Whether it is going to college, or becoming an entrepreneur, or becoming a musician, or anything else. Whatever your dream is, just pursue your dream. Cause by pursuing your dream, you can live your life to the fullest.

Don't listen to the cynics. They don't understand your dream, cause they lost their dream. They are just a bunch of losers who lose to the life. They are just closed minded, not knowing the height of the sky, the depth of the sea, the vast of the earth. They just don't want you to win your dream. No matter what they say, you will gain nothing but regret.

Listen to the winner. They understand your dream. Cause they had been dreaming too, and catched their dream. They know how to catch your dream. They will help you catch your dream. They want you catch your dream.

Be a winner!

What makes a winner different from the losers? The losers give up their dream. While the winners keep on pursuing their dream, no matter what the losers say.

Learning From Mistakes

2008-02-20T10:50:00.013+07:00

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction"
Al Bernstein

Many successful people made their success from their mistake. The initial intention was different from the result.

Next is the quotation I took from an article in the Internet

"... The history of invention has plenty of such creative accidents. In the fall of 1895, Wilhelm Rontgen, a professor of physics in Wurzburg, Germany, was working in his laboratory with a Crookes tube - an early version of an electronic vacuum tube. He wanted to know how easily the glow from a Crookes tube could be masked, so he covered it with dark paper, powered it up, and darkened the lab. The paper blocked the tubes glow, all light, but across the room Rontgen noticed that a screen treated with barium platinocyanide, which was used to demonstrate fluorescence, was now glowing, and when he moved the screen closer to the tube, the glow brightened. AH visible fight from the tube was dearly blocked by the paper, and further experiments showed that any energetic partides (shortly to be named electrons) were also blocked from the screen. The glow was, Rointgen concluded, being caused by a new kind of invisible light that could pass through all but the densest materials. In testimony to the aura of mystery that seemed to surround the phenomenon, he called the discharge X-rays. In a matter of weeks, X-rays were used by German physicians to examine a bullet wound-perhaps one of the fastest translations into practice of any scientific discovery.
The twentieth century saw its own share of creative accidents, a la Teflon. The idea for radar came from the observation that radio waves accidentally bounced off passing ships. The microwave oven occurred to an experimenter when a chocolate bar melted in his pocket while he was working with a magnetron. Perhaps the most famous of all was Alexander Flemings discovery of penicillin from a stray mold on the surface of a bacterial culture. ..."

The key point here is no matter what we do and fail, there might be bright sight behind it. As long as we can keep cool, we can turn the bad condition to good condition. And if we do nothing we will get nothing, nor success, nor failure.

Passion of Mine

2008-02-19T15:59:00.004+07:00

"There are two great days in person’s life, the day we are born and the day we discover why"
William Barclay

I read a blog today. And the quote above made me stunned. It touched my deepest soul. I myself often ask myself. What am I? Why am I born? What should I do in my live? And until now, i haven't found the answers for those big question.

When will I come to the big day..

The day where i realize that i am doing my passion. The day where i realize that i don't do work at all, for i do my passion. The day where I realize that i don't climb the rocky mountain, but having an adventure.

Translate Web Page Online

2008-01-31T14:42:00.001+07:00

Have you ever stumbled on a foreign language site and you realy want to know the content of the site? Or at least you want to know the navigation of the site? But unfortunately, you dont understand the language of the wesite at all? Now, that wont happen again cause Google has a tool to translate a webpage online. It's Google Translate.

Google Translate can translate any given valid page in these type of translation :

Arabic to English
Chinese to English
Chinese (Simplified to Traditional)
Chinese (Traditional to Simplified)
Dutch to English
English to Arabic
English to Chinese (Simplified)
English to Chinese (Traditional)
English to Dutch
English to French
English to German
English to Greek
English to Italian
English to Japanese
English to Korean
English to Portuguese
English to Russian
English to Spanish
French to English
French to German
German to English
German to French
Greek to English
Italian to English
Japanese to English
Korean to English
Portuguese to English
Russian to English
Spanish to English

There are quite many choices, aren't there? But unfortunately, there are some flaw in the translation. The translation is not always gramatically correct, even felt weird. But Google Translate ask do our opinion for better translation.

We can also use Google Translate to learn other language too. By moving the mouse pointer to a certain word, or sentence, we can see the original words or sentence. It's a great function for me.

To translate a webpage, you just have to paste the URL of the webpage and then pick the apropriate translation you want to use. And, the target webpage appear in the same window/tab in a translated language.

Google Translate is not only a webpage translator, it also can translate a given text. For example, you have an english story, and you want to translate it to french, you just need to copy your story and paste it to existing place. pick the "english to french" translation and let Google Translate translate your story. And there you got your french story.

In a simpler way, you can use Google Translate as a dictionary. But i think there are tons better online dictionary exist.

High Quality Manga

2008-01-25T17:16:00.000+07:00

"I am one of the Otakus...!"

Maybe that's not apropriate to say. I do like manga, but i don't think i am an Otaku. I'm not so devoted to manga like the Otakus.

I like reading. I think manga is some kind of literature. Not different from Novel or any other kinds of literature. I also read Novels, even though not many, cause reading novel take quite some times.

In my opinion, there aren't many high quality manga being published. When I say quality, it means "the soul" that bring the reader to curiousity, sink the reader deep into the plot, and finally touch the readers' heart with true emotion.

For me, the High Quality Mangas are :

One Piece
Beck
Fairy Tail
Shin Angyo Onshi
Hajime no Ippo
Shanaou Yoshitsune
(the list can grow, as I don't remember all and haven't read all)

And the Best of all is One Piece

M.W. in Technorati

2008-01-25T15:16:00.000+07:00

Today, i joined Technorati. It's a blog search engine. So now, M.Ws is in Technorati.

You can link to my blog by using Technorati, but i don't know how, yet. I'll post again when i know how to link to people using Technorati.

Right now, i don't have any slightest idea how Technorati works, and why people using Technorati. I guess i realy have to find out.

I am not Sexy

2008-01-25T13:59:00.000+07:00

I am not sexy. That's the fact. There is fat in all over my body. In my tummy, my arms.

Some people had told me that i am fat. My girl told me that too. She even drew a picture to show me that i am fat (i wish i can show you, but i think the picture is gone). It's like an arrow right through your heart. One of my best friend even laughing out lout at me when we went to the swimming pool together.

Now i am trying to get rid of the fat in my body. I have search some method in internet. And i think have found one that i will follow. Maybe sometime i'll post the method in this blog.

Recently, i do sit up and push up every morning, right after wake up. I think its a good start. Myself! Keep up the good work

Be Sexy!!

I change my mind

2008-01-25T13:51:00.000+07:00

I think i cant afford to make a blog bout forex. I have no experience and knowledge bout the forex. Maybe i'll try it later.

Now, i am trying to learn Joomla! and make a website bout Joomla!. I think i'll stick with this one. but i'll not post many bout Joomla in this blog. I'll most the article in my new website.

But still, this blog is bout my growth. My growth in general.

The Begining

2007-10-09T16:01:00.000+07:00

At last.. i've decided to create a blog..

Actualy, I had wanted to write my own blog since a long time ago. But i didn't make the first step to writing a blog. But now, I've made up my mind. I must write a blog.

This blog is about my growth in business and as a person. The business aspect is about forex trading, internet business, and also self motivation including success stories from famous people.