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Sharing inspirational fruits of thought for self-improvement.

Dealing with Covid19

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As we all might know that the pandemic caused by the Covid19 has impacted and hurt many of us. One of the most damaging impact is of course the financial aspect. In Indonesia, the Large Scale Social Distancing (Partial Lockdown / Quarantine) has been enforced by the government since mid March 2020.

Let us take this Covid19 situation as an example and talk about Subjective (Interpretation) vs Objective (Fact). Always see the Fact first and go with the Interpretation. Interpretation is how you feel about the Fact and you can choose or change it. While Fact is unchangeable.
Example :
Fact : Covid19 situation has a great impact on my income (lesser income than before)
Interpretation :  I am feeling depressed because less or even negative cash flow and started to blame the situation, the government, the people around etc etc (victim mode). OR………………. choose another interpretation such as , I am given a chance now to rethink and grow my personal development, or another interpretation that will make you move forward and feeling grateful. You choose your own interpretation.

And that is the point of this post, to emphasize that in every situation you can choose your own  positive point of view for your interpretation and take responsibility. Here are some of the things that I am grateful for right now (my subjective interpretation):

  • More time with Family especially the kids.
  • Time to learn and practice meditation.
  • Time to do stuff with my Electric Guitar (re-stringing, coil adjustment etc).
  • Time to play some Games that I missed past these few years.
  • Time to finish up all my plastic model kits.
  • Time to clean up my house especially tidying up my office room and to fix anything that need to be fix inside the house.
  • Time to experiment with intermittent fasting and do more exercise.
  • Opportunity to enter the Stock Market in one of its lowest point in the past decade.
  • Time to learn or try something new.
  • Time to read and finished a lot of books that I wanted to read.
  • etc

It is very important to be able to see the positive interpretation in every situation. Even though it is tough to do it sometimes especially if we are the victim (job loss or income loss because of Covid19). But going into negative and depressive state will do more harm than good.

Many Blessings to you and hope that Covid19 situation will be contained soon enough. My question to you : What is your interpretation for this Covid19 situation ?

100 Billionaires Mindset Book

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My first book will launch at the end of this month in Indonesia. It is written by me and other 99 great people. The post compile editing process is done by 3 people. Hence the author name is those 3 people. The title of this amazing book is “The Mindset of 100 Successful Billionaires”.

I will be featured in Chapter 5 on Page 37.

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It is an honor for me to be given chances to be in the same book with other Great People from Indonesia such as Andrie Wongso, Merry Riana, James Gwee, Tung Desem Waringin, Bong Chandra, Ade Rai, Yusuf Mansur, Ellen May and many others.

The book is a compilation of 100 inspiring stories from 100 Great People in Indonesia. Just think of this as a “Chicken Soup for the Soul”, but much way better. I believe I am the only Professional Linguist that are in the book.

The launching date is late March or early April, and early bird Price for this 450 pages book is only IDR 100,000. This price is valid until late of March before it is officially released. Please feel free to contact me right away to reserve your copy immediately.

You could contact me for order at : deddy.effendy@gmail.com

 

3 Mindset Principles that will change your Life.

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Due to my activity, I have met several Business Owner and or Public Speaker in my life. Sometime I got some interesting mindset approach from them. From many metaphors about mindset that I got, these 3 are among my Favorites.

  1. Traffic Light Syndrome.
    Many of you would agree that when you’re driving a car and then you see a Red light, it means you need to Stop. And when it’s a Green light, it means you could Go. However in life, so many people try to wait for their Green light before doing anything. Most of them think that now is the Red light. Usually the conditions that would be associated to Red light are bad economy situation, bad political situation, bad timing and so on.
    But the truth is, sometime the Red light is only exist in our mind. In fact, actually there might be no traffic light at all.
    *note : this is only a metaphor, please always drive safely.

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  2. LHF (Lowest Hanging Fruits).
    Imagine you are in the forest in the middle of nowhere. And you are hungry and need something to eat. You see many trees in front of you and most of them have fruits. So what will you do ? Will you go and find the Lowest Hanging Fruits to ensure your survival. Or you try to grab the highest hanging fruits ? Considering all fruits are pretty much similar, it would be make more sense if you go to the Lowest Hanging Fruits.
    So you need to always look around, the Lowest Hanging Fruits might be there all these times without you realizing it.

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  3. Fire!!! And then Aim.
    How many of you think that before you fire, you need to aim first. Well, I think it will be almost everyone. But if you aim too long because you want to make sure you hit the target in 1 shot, you might miss another target. The logic of this Fire and Aim mindset is, you try to Fire first, and then if it missed, you just aim it closer to your target.
    I have found in my life that when I Fire first, another bigger target (read:chances) would appears to me. If I waste my time to aim the first target, I would not notice that the second target (much more precious target) was there.

There are still dozens of other great metaphors that I learned, but these 3 had given a Big Impact in my life. I will not go into details about how I apply those into my life, because it will be too long for just only a Blog article. Anyway I hope by sharing these principles, some of you out there could learn something new in your journey to success.