RSS: #4: How to Quit Procrastinating

An Excerpt from
Stuck On Stop: How to Quit Procrastinating!
by Vicki Hitzges

In the opening scene of a thriller I once read, a small crowd waited to cross a noisy intersection. The sounds of motors honking, the occasional curse word from a driver, radio music, talking, and beckoning calls from hot dog venders filled the air. The pedestrians waited impatiently, but then the light changed and they started across unaware that one of them—a man—had suddenly crumpled to the ground. Dead. One or two pedestrians who noticed the man drop, stopped to help. The killer, a man with poison in a syringe, had quietly and quickly injected the man. No one noticed as he slipped away with the crowd. 

When I think about that murderer, I'm reminded that there are silent assassins all around us. Time killers. 

Like that murderer with the syringe, time killers look innocent enough. A harmless crossword puzzle in the newspaper. The inviting Sudoku game in the back of the magazine. An informative news feed on the Internet. Phone calls. Emails. Tweets. Facebook messages from friends and clients. Suddenly, your morning's gone. Unnoticed, innocent-looking distractions killed your valuable time.

We are often guilty of doing activities we like to do rather than activities we ought to do. We might actually work but still not accomplish what we need to get done. For example, scholars like to study; they don't like to write the paper. A homemaker may grocery shop but spend so much time reading labels that the house stays cluttered. Athletes like to run the winning play but may not want to meet curfew or do two-a-days. But to get ahead, we can't just do the jobs we like to do; we also have to do the jobs we need to do to succeed.

There's a way to do both. And a wealthy industrialist paid a lot of money to find out the secret I'm about to share with you—free.

About one hundred years ago, a man named Ivy Lee went to the president of Bethlehem Steel, Charles Schwab, and made a deal with him. Lee told Schwab he could increase Schwab's productivity as well as the workload of all his managers. What's more, Lee told Schwab he could help Schwab's executives produce a significant amount more if he could just spend fifteen minutes with each of them. To make the offer especially enticing, Lee told Schwab he wouldn't charge anything at all unless his advice worked. "Then, after three months," Lee told Schwab, "if my advice proves profitable, send me a check for whatever you think it's worth."

They struck a deal.

Here's how productive he was—Lee actually spent only ten minutes with each executive. Here's what he told them: "I want you to promise that for the next ninety days, before leaving your office at the end of each day, you'll make a list of the six most important things you have to do the next day and number them in their order of importance."

The executives were shocked that that was all they were asked to do.

"That's it," Lee said. "Scratch off each item after you finish it. Then go on to the next item on your list. If something doesn't get done, put it on the following day's list."

Each Bethlehem executive agreed to follow Lee's instructions. Three months later, Schwab studied the results. He was so pleased, he sent Lee a check for $35,000! (That may or may not seem like a lot of money to you, but this was one hundred years ago. At the time, the average United States worker made $2.00 a day or $4,000 a year. Thirty-five thousand dollars was a LOT of money! Even today, imagine if you spent a few minutes with a group of executives and gave each one the same, simple tip and got $35,000 for it. You'd be thrilled!)

Many people follow Lee's advice today. The founder of the $2.2 billion direct sales cosmetics company Mary Kay praised Lee's idea when she wrote the book You Can Have It All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur . Mary Kay Ash boasted that she herself followed Lee's advice. After all, she reasoned, Schwab was one of the smartest business professionals of his day. If he felt that bit of advice was worth paying $35,000, she ought to try it, too. So, each night she made a list of things to do the following day. But, she added a twist to it. She didn't just number the tasks in order of importance. She always put the hardest or most unappealing task at the top. "This way," she wrote, "I tackle the most difficult item first, and once it's out of the way, I feel my day is off to a good start."

Follow Lee's advice! Before you go to sleep tonight, figure out what you need to do tomorrow. Write down the six most important things you need to accomplish. Not only will you start tomorrow ready to go, but subconsciously, you'll also be working on those six projects while you sleep. Then, follow Mary Kay's advice and knock those tasks out from hardest to easiest.

Don't let your time get snuffed out by what appears to be an innocent killer! Stand guard. When you guard your time, you guard your life. For time is the stuff that life is made of.

credit to: Walkthetalk email subscription

Ramadhan 2014

Assalammualaikum,

Alahmdulillah, tahun ini bertemu lagi kita dengan bulan Ramadhan yang mulia.

Azam Ramadhan ku tahun ini adalah:

• Melaksanakan solat sunat terawih  cukup 29 hari jemaah atau sendiri( semalam dh ter-miss sehari T.T)
• Membaca Al-Quran lebih kerap, and nak khatamkan lah, since sekarang pon dh Juzuk 29.IAllah.
• Istighfar banyak2.

Ramadhan tahun ini berbeza sedikit dengan Ramadhan yang sebelum ini, tahun ni, IAllah aku puasa sepenuhnya di rumah sebab sekarnag tengah cuti semester. Dan tahun ini juga aku kene jaga ibu yang sedang sakit. 

Pada 26 Jun yang lalu, ibu menjalni pembedahan pada lutut kanan. Pembedahan ini dilakukan kerana kaki ibu dah sakit sangat. Jelly yang ade pada lutut ibu dah habis.So setiap kali berjalan ibu akan rasa sakit.

Pembedahan dilakukan di Hospital Slim River, sebab kat Hospital Ipoh terlalu ramai orang.

Alhamdulillah, pembedahan berjalan dengan lancar sekali. Ibu diwadkan selama 6 hari.

Semalam, 2/3/2014, adalah hari ibu dibenarkan keluar wad. Tapi sejak semalam, kaki ibu mula bengkak, dan membuatkan kaki ibu bertambah sakit. Badan mula panas , tp sekarang dah kebah sikit. Berat mata aku melihat ibu begitu. Nak baring lama, sakit. Nak duduk lama, sakit. Nak berdiri lama, apatah lagi, sudah tentu jauh lebih seksa.

Aku tidur dibilik ibu, sebab ibu kerap benar ingin ke tandas untuk buang air. Boleh dikatakan hampir setiap jam sepanjang malam. Aku x boleh nak harapkan abah sangat, dia pun bukan sihat sangat. 

Apa-apa pon aku x boleh biarkan emosi menguasai diri. Setiap kali aku dengar ibu menangis, aku kuatkan hati, aku x boleh nak menangis sekali dengan ibu. Walaupun berat mata aku memandang, berat lagi bahu ibu yang memikul, ak x mampu nak beri kata-kata semangat, kerana aku x tahu betapa seksanya dia. Jadi, aku biarkan sahaja ibu menangis, mungkin dengan itu, dia dapat kekuatan, aku hanya boleh bantu setakat mana yang dia perlu. Harap adik beradik yang lain boleh berikan kata-kata semangat, kerana aku sejak azali, memang x reti nak bagi kata2 semangat. 

Semoga Allah beri kekuatan kepada ibu, dan berikan kesembuhan kepada ibu. Dan semoga Allah ampunkan dosa-dosa ibu.  

I love You Ibu, deep in my heart i always do.

 

DOSA

Assalammualaikum,

Hari ni aku nak sembang tentang dosa. Hmmmm aku rase sekarang aku ade banyak dosa( macam sebelum ni x de dosa je )

Actually, dalam diam aku merasakan berdosa pada Allah dan pada manusia. Macam mana nak explain erk..Bila hati rasa berdosa tp akal masih nak buat..contoh mengumpat dan itu dan ini..

HARI DEMI HARI AKU BUAT BENDA SAMA.DOSA DOSA DAN DOSA LAGI!
Aku marah pada dri ni, cukup marah..Aku sedih pada diri ni..Aku menyesal setiap kali buat dosa.

Aku mohon ampun pada Allah setiap hari, aku beristighfar dengan harapan Allah ampunkan dosa aku..Aku berdosa dan berdosa sehingga aku rase Allah x nak ampunkan aku.. Tapi aku sentiasa ingatkan pada diri ni bahawa Allah itu Maha Pengampun. Tapi aku x nak guna alasan ini untuk terus buat dosa.

Ya Allah , ampuni dosaku dan kelilingi aku dengan orang2 yang baik..Ya Allah, andai aku menjauh dari mu, bawa lah aku kembali pada mu .. Ya Allah, lindungi aku dari dosa dan hasutan syaitan.Bantu aku Ya Allah, kau sahaja tempat aku memohon bantuan.Ampuni aku Ya Allah, kau sahaja yang mampu mengampun kan dosa ku yang stinggi gunung ini , malah lebih dari itu.

#3: National Achievers Congress 2014

Assalammualaikum,

Last 23-25 May 2015, i was very fortunate to be selected by Popular to received a free ticket to NAC2014 that was held in MIECC Mines.

It was my first my first time going to this type of program, i was very excited..
There are many inputs i get, even though sometime i get tired and sleep the whole session of a speaker..haha
One of the speaker i've been waiting for is NICK VUJICIC. I get lot more input from him than the other speaker..Because other speaker only speaks few, but promoting their seminar and program that i absolutely i can't afford it yet..Peng Joon's program is very interesting but it'll cost me RM3997..If i have money, i don't care to spend this amount of money, to get more money..Problem is, i don't have it yet( I'm being positive here..saying not yet, instead of i don't have it lol)

below is my status on facebook, i copy pasted it back here:

quotes that i get from NICK VUJICIC:
"Plant seeds of hope , not fear"
This is very useful to us .. because, we always tends to think negative of everything before it happens..we always gives nightmares to ourselves..
"People will hate me"
"i will fail"
"nobody wants me"
"she'll leave me"
"people will laugh at me"
what else fear have you created for your self.?
instead of planting seeds of fear, why not plants seeds of hope? Coz you never know what Allah's plan for you
"PEOPLE WILL GLADLY THROW SEEDS OF BITTERNESS TO YOU,BUT YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO NOT PICK IT UP"

and i'm so lazy to type what i written on my notes, so here's picture of it (welcome to 21st century :p)