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Guy Kawasaki is sure a humble person.
Maybe it is because he has seen a lot. Maybe that’s how he is since the very beginning. Maybe he is just faking it.
The truth is, I don’t know.
Although he’s well known around the world doing things he’s well known for, he never got a problem answering
“Honestly, I don’t really know.”
That is a very humble thing to do. And nobody was taken aback by that answer. Everybody accepted the fact that you don’t have to know everything to make a lot of money.
But come to think of it, would this work with leaders too? I wonder what would happen if somebody ask our Prime Minister about something. Maybe simple question like
“When will you step down?” Or,
“How increasing public awareness about environment will help the economy in the long run?” Or
“When will we push for IPv6″
(Sorry, I can’t think of any politically correct question)
and the Prime Minister said
“I don’t know”
What would the people think about this? Will it make the leader looks weak? Will they cherish him as an honest person?
Honestly, I don’t know.
But I guess you can’t just say I don’t know. You got to acknowledge your weaknesses by saying I don’t know, then back it up with something that you do know.
Like “I don’t know, but I’ll make sure no one will suffer from it”
Or something along that line. That would be enough for me. I know you can’t be perfect, but at least you are doing something about it.
Moral of the story, just be honest and humble.
And family matters. But that’s for another post.
And it’s all about luck. And that’s another story too.
And being humble is quiet easy to duplicate. Just try it out!
Cheers!
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Kawan-kawan,
Marilah berpuisi dengan si buta, si tempang dan si pekak di gelanggang puisi.
http://jomcode.com/jeruy
Cheers!
Arzumy
Pendek betul post nih…
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From Avaaz.org
Staggering new estimates suggest that 100,000 people may have died in Burma’s terrible cyclone. Incredibly, the corrupt and brutal Burmese government has stopped most international aid at the borders and is impeding the relief effort.
In under 24 hours, Avaaz members have donated over 690,000 Euros (over US$1 million – more than many governments!) to help Burma’s monks provide the emergency relief, through their own networks and monasteries, that the government will not. Scroll down to see the email sent yesterday with all the details of how we can help, or click below to help us get over 1 million Euros (US$1.54m) today:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/burma_cyclone/15.php
It’s not just a natural disaster, it’s also a catastrophe of bad leadership. Please help them.
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I got an invites from a guy called Iszuddin or Dino or Kidino. Like me, he comes with many names. By the way, you could call me Arzumy or Jumy or Master or Godfather or My Hero or Baby or Usher. I wouldn’t mind. 
What’s the invite is all about? Here’s a direct quote:
I will be conducting a class on email marketing for offline businesses. This is most suitable for small businesses like restaurants, consultants, spas, etc…
Will it be great?
I don’t know. Barely know him. Only met him once. He was a nice guy, could easily converse with. Have a nice vibe too.
And I’m a simple person. Just be nice and show some respect and I’ll return the favor.
Based on that merit alone, I’ll just go and check it out.
I can’t vouch for the lesson but I can vouch for his vibe so there you go. Checkout the Facebook page here and the link here.
Cheers!
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Yerp, It’s been 40 day since we decided to proceed with JomRead, and as you can see, there nothing much to see.
So here’s a quick head up. First, we got a lot of books; 70 of them. Yeay!
That’s quite a lot considering that we don’t have any members, yet!
And it seems the system development will take longer than expected. And I’m to blame.
My bad…
Rather than developing the website using PHP like we normally do, I’ve been stubborn and used my veto power to stop the development using any familiar language, namely PHP.
Then I code it with Ruby on Rails. A framework I stumbled upon again just a month a go.
awkward silent
Err… No worries, it will be great! I’ll try my best not to screw things up. And I’ll make a nice Error Page just in case you guys screw up the website. LOL.
And that’s about it. Hopefully we can open up beta registration before end of this month. Of course it will be by invitation only.
Cheers!
And to our Facebook fans, thanks!
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You know, it doesn’t take much to impress me. Just little neat surprises here and there would be enough.
For example, when I logged in my blog administrator page today, I saw
WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now
Mine is 2.5.0, not a big deal, just a 0.0.1 bump. So I figure, what the hell, lets just upgrade it.
I logged into my Web Hosting Control Panel, and proceed to Fantastico Control Panel and saw no upgrade available.
Oh well, they haven’t upgraded it yet. I’m in no hurry, plus it’s a small upgrade, like I said - not a big deal. But I figure I should ask them when they’d upgrade it. So I know how long I’ll have to be annoyed by Wordpress, nagging to be upgraded.
I sent an email, set it to low priority. Like I said, it’s nothing important.
Hi guys, any idea when new upgrade for Fantastico Wordpress installation will be?
And 2 hours later
Dear Arzumy, the Fantastico Wordpress already upgraded to 2.5.1. Please test it.
Wow, impressive. It’s nothing big, simple act from them, but impressive.
Talk about good service.
Cheers!
P.s. By the way it’s Exabytes, and this is not an affiliate link.
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Daniel sent me an invite today, he said
‘Guy Kawasaki coming in two weeks.’
I said
‘Really? Wow… How much?’
‘200 bucks.’
‘What? That’s cheap! Are you sure it is Guy Kawasaki?’
‘Yeah, he sure is.’
‘Wow. How does it get so cheap?’
‘It’s a secret. Heh.’
200 bucks to meet Guy Kawasaki is freaking cheap. But if you pay after 12th May, it will go up to 350, which is still quite cheap, considering this is the Guy Kawasaki.
So head up to ideapreneuer for details or checkout the Facebook page.
Cheers!
P.s. Bucks as in Ringgit Malaysia ;-p
P.p.s This event is in conjunction with Netbash @ WCIT
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Every time you want to achieve something. Let world know.
Maybe it’s a specific goal, a business plan, an amazing dream or simply an idea. You just talk about it to everything that moves.
Now why you want to do that?
Because it is simple and duplicable.
Take me to your leader.
Whatever you say, not matter how stupid, if you really believe in it, it will spread out like a virus. People will share the same belief. In fact, some will even follow you. People don’t follow the smartest person around who always knows what to do, people will follow the person who believes in something. You might be a rookie, but if you really believe in you goal, even the experienced leader will go out of way to help you.
Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth?
By keep on repeating it, you will reinforce it deep within you. You’ll believe with the words coming out of your mouth. It’s an affirmation. You are not going to tell lies to yourself right? The stronger you believe in it, the easier it will be. It’s like the world revolve around you goals.
Human are bounded by the their promises.
It’s like making a promise. Once you say something to somebody, you are under direct agreement to make it happen (except when you are lying of course). You’ll have to make it happen. A man will be judged by his own words.
But this is where it becomes trickier. To understand the point, here’s a story about me:
Like I said, I’m a man of idea. Idea makes me feel alive. In fact it keeps alive. So when I come out with an idea, especially business idea, I’ll talk about it to everyone. Few people will be sold out to the idea and we’ll start looking into it. Most of the times, after consideration; we’ll abandon the idea. One or two will actually take off the ground. It’s pretty normal really.
Out of 10 ideas, 9 bound to fail. Out of 10 startups, 9 bound to fail. So chances are, only ONE idea from new startup will succeed, out of ONE HUNDRED ideas. There’s a lot of reasons to it, but lets talk about that later.
Here’s the problem: After you talk about a lot of ideas to enough people, and yet to successfully execute it, people will start questioning you.
“Bila nak kaya?” “When you’ll be rich?”
“Bila nak start next project?” “So when is you next project?” (Sarcastically of course)
“Idea lagik? Yang dulu pun tak jalan” “More ideas? Even the last one never kick off”
Special remark:
“Bincang jek keje, takde hasil pun” “Talk, talk, talk. And nothing.”
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We already knew that the secret for a happy life, is a happy wife.
But how can you make her happy?
Easy. Just give her what she wants.
But what do they want?
Women, they only want one thing in life:
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I’m an idea person and believe me; it’s marvelous! Without fail I can come out with a lot of ideas, every single times. A lot of them are plainly stupid, some of them are good, and one or two might be really great.
Few people envy me, some think I’m lucky and a lot of them think:
“I got better ideas than you”
As much as I’m grateful with this gift, it’s also my biggest weaknesses.
Having a lot of ideas tend to make me lost focus and sidetracked before I could even say, DUPLICATE!
Every time I come out with new interesting idea, I will, without fail, sabotage it by thinking too far ahead. I will easily come up with ideas on how this project will evolve, how many features I can put in, amazing integration with existing projects and a lot of future upgrades.
I even think of solutions to problem that I might be facing in future. Can you imagine that? I barely started the project yet I’ve spent so much energy into solving problems that not even existed yet, heck, it might not even be a problem at all.
Before I know it, the project bloated with features and I’ll be overwhelmed with a lot of task. I will make an easy quit and just let the project fails.
So for JomRead Project, I’m doing a very systematic way to get things done. It’s a simple yet duplicable system.
I have one big goal in mind for JomRead, but in order to achieve it, I’ll break it down to smaller goals and missions. So every day I just do one small simple thing for JomRead. Most of the missions can be done within an hour. Everyday I’ll achieve small goals.
And by tasting success everyday, I get motivated everyday too! Everything seem a lot simpler when you do it one step at a time.
For example, we started with Facebook Page first then only decide; hey, wouldn’t it be better if we have our own domain name?
Or, we decided to ignore the potential problem of not having enough books because for now we don’t even have any members. Having one book at this time can be considered as a surplus, therefore there’s no such problem as not having enough books.
That’s the best thing about setting small goals and missions. If I make a mistake or fail to achieve a goal, the impact will be less threatening to the project as a whole. And like I said continuous successes no mater how small, will continually motivate people.
So there you go, simple system that I hope can be duplicated throughout the entire development of JomRead Project.
Cheers!
Update: I spent an hour a day doing things I enjoy doing with JomRead Project
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