Rasa Syukur

20:28 rafi 1 Comments


Sore itu aku termenung
Balutan kopi dan kafein yang telah mengusir kantukku
Membuatku tak ingin lagi tertidur ataupun sekedar memejamkan mata

Perjalananku masih panjang
Masih beberapa jam lagi
"Apa lagi yang bisa kulakukan?"
Akupun saat ini tak ingin membaca jendela dunia itu
"Sedang malas", pungkasku

Aku masih termenung,
Mendongakkan wajahku ke Jendela
"Seindah ini yah panorama yang diberikan Tuhan"
Rasa bosan berganti senyuman
Hinggalah rasa syukur yang tertinggal
"Setidaknya aku masih bisa hidup, bernafas, dan bersyukur"
O Tuhan yang Agung

Bahagianya aku kala itu

Ditulis dalam perjalanan Bandung-Jakarta,
28 October 2018, 16:05
Saksi akan ke-esa-an dan ke-agungan Tuhan,
Sang Pencipta Alam
Foto Oleh: Keretaapikita, via phinemo.com

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Review Book: Purpose

21:57 rafi 0 Comments


Hai!

So last week, I attend mba Alamanda's meet-up that will tell about what's in her book.

I know and adore her so much after she resigned from her Jobs (this was a booming tho), and after that, I was following her career & became so much fans after she created Binar Academy, and how it helped the socieities back then.

Everytime she posted something, I will definitely read about it because I am so curious with her. She is the one who always inspired me to do something more with the right purpose (not only pursuing for money and stuff). On several event, such as Proud project event, I saw her but once again, I felt not worthy enough.

So that's the beginning.



I follow her instagram, and felt inspired. Because in here, we are talking about an independent women, whos become engineer, inspiring, and always bring happiness around her. Do not forget about her artsy feed, this is somehow a perfect combination of a human, right?

Ok. not trying being weird, because I dont.

The first time I saw her snapgram about this event, I am directly signing up for this! Of course because she launched a book, and I am that bookworm-ish that so enjoy reading about someone's achievement and biography, and YES it is HER auto-biography, which is, she is the one who wrote it!

The next thing I saw, the event is about PURPOSE. You know, something that I have stuggling with, because currently I don't know why I live. I didn't see clear purpose even tho I already read about bunch of books that talked about this. Purpose, goals, visions, different name, same definition, but somehow nothing really moved me.

"Ok, maybe this is the answer!" I said.

Yet, the same question has been asked by my brother. So ...... I invite him (not really asked him tho, but signed him up for this, sort of force him to attend this, Lol). Yeah, he is confused about his life, not really have any passion in his life. So .... maybe this is also become his answer, right? He might hate listened to me all the time, maybe he needs a new figure?

Registered!

On the D-day. I came. See her directly, tell her stories, what's in it, AND of course I bought it! I bought the books, and I am sold to read it soon!

Not gonna spoiler things up.

I am just so surprised that it felt so good. This book is really really good. I am not lying. Everything is straight forward, there would be no long explanation, but somehow I can relate that. In this book, you will get anything about her family, how she lived, how she became the entrepreneur for her first enterprise. I often judged her being like that because of her previledge, but no, it's also about her being struggling and give the best effort to achieve it. Also ..... Next thing you will get story about Nadiem Makarim, which is also my favorite innovators, and got it from another POV, which is the closest one with him.

Ok .... I am so moved and also jealous, even asking myself what have I done so far in my life? What have I done on campus? Why don't I think like this? Start my own company, meet with outstanding people, get the mentor, and stuff. Aside from it, I am currently asking my self the Why instead of What (I want to be).

Just like what she said on the event, more or less.

"I do want to be Minister of Education, that's why I founded Binar Academy, because I care about the Human development, and education system itself. But that's just the What. Let us stop for a minute, think about the Why we want to be that, and enjoy the process?! And that is the why. Even if I didn't become Minister of Education, I already did the why, right?!"

 Yas, Purpose is a book about the process. It has inspired me to embrace and enjoy all of the process that happened in my life. Personally, I recommend you guys to read it! For me .... It's 10/10!



PS. This a new record for me, to finished the books like .... only less than 3 hours. I want to stop, but no, my body wanted me to read and finished it soon, and takes whatever lesson learned on that books!

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Overthinking dan perlambatan pergerakan

19:38 rafi 0 Comments


Hai!

Sebagai manusia, kalian pasti pernah berada di titik, kalian terlalu banyak berfikir sebelum melakukan sesuatu. Entah itu dalam hal pengambilan keputusan, presentasi, berkomunikasi, hingga bersosialisasi.

"Nanti kalau aku ngelakukan ini, hasilnya gimana ya, bisa jelek dong!"

"Nanti kalau aku ngomong ini, dia sakit hati ga ya"

"Duh, anjir, chat gue salah ga ya, kok dia ga balas-balas? Apa dia marah?"

And the list can go on! Banyak banget si manusia pemikir ini fikirkan. Mungkin karena aku masuk ke bagian Melankolis atau si pemikir kali ya .... Hehe.

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Emang ada yang salah dari berfikir?

Tentu saja tidak! Berfikir itu salah satu anugerah dari Tuhan loh, jadinya ga ada masalah sebenarnya. Tapi, emang rumus ini selalu benar, sesuatu yang berlebihan belum tentu ngasih yang terbaik. Memikirkan cara presentasi yang efektif, itu jelas baik. Namun, berfikir sampai apakah yang kamu siapkan sudah benar, atau melebihi ekspektasi orang, atau bagaimana tanggapan mereka jelas ngga worth your time! Kenapa? Itu sesuatu hal yang diluar kontrol kamu, ngapain fokus kesana? Yang benar, coba perhatikan Business Questionnya, udah bisa menjawab atau belum, dan sudah cukupkah analisis yang diperlukan, itu yang benar.

Berfikir dalam konteks belajar misalnya. "Duh, apaan nih dosen, kagak ada jelas-jelasnya nerangin materi." atau .... "Duh, ini buku kagak lengkap banget, gimana dong gue harus belajar? Materinya beda!" atau .... "Presentasi nanti gue akan dibantai ga ya? Dude, deg-deg-an banget, bikin ga fokus!". Hal ini tentu saja tidak pernah benar. Lagi-lagi hal-hal diatas diluar kuasa kamu, jadi? Yah mau gamau effort belajarnya dinaikin lah! Kalau 1 sumber buku ga mencukupi, cari yang lain, google kan banyak, atau .... Kalau lo gamau dibantai, yah coba pastikan lagi dek itu materi udah sesuai sama arahan dosen/ asistennya belum? Kalau udah yah tinggal disiapin materi detail yang ngga lo presentasiin tapi buat jaga-jaga lo siapin, atau paling ngga lo bisa siapin materi yang sangat efektif lah. Inget, Power Point, bukan Power Paragraph :p

Konteks menulis. Berfikir materi apa yang akan lo ceritakan dalam artikel lo, itu jelas penting. At least, do your research well lah. Apa yang lo akan ceritakan harus unik, ga plagiat, atau disertai dengan sumber-sumber terpercaya yang mumpuni. This is writer done well. Yang salah itu ..... tulisan yang lo udah buat, ga jadi lo publish karena lo malu/ takut/ khawatir tulisan lo akan jelek, diejekin orang, ga sesuai ekspektasi, kurang sempurna, belum comprehensive, dan sebagainya. Aku punya satu teman yang ga jadi mencoba nge-blog hanya karena takut tulisannya jelek, not good enough, etc. Ini yang gaboleh. You need to embrace all of the process, yang tadinya not good enough bisa jadi the best karena dalam prosesnya dia akan belajar "Oh, yang ini benar, yang itu ga-benar. Yang ini bagus, yang itu ga-bagus. Yang ini menarik, yang itu nggak."

Terakhir, gue mau berbagi pengalaman kerja.

Ada 1 waktu, dimana gue sedang provide dahsboard & Reporting terkait efektifitas campaign bisnis yang sedang dijalankan project-nya. Setelah beberapa hari ga-kelar-kelar karena ini the least priority yang dapat selain request adhoc analytics guna membantu orang bisnis dalam mengambil keputusan. Gue ngelakuin sekitar beberapa jam gitu ya karena building logicnya udah dicicil sejak beberapa hari lalu, jadi tinggal lanjutin aja.

Semuanya udah kelar, dari monitoring set-up hingga hasil yang disesuaikan dengan metric & KPI untuk tiap proses.

Masalahnya, bos gue lagi cuti, dan gue harus nge-deliverin sesuatu dong di hari itu. Gw discuss sama temen gue, katanya head gue lagi sibuk (emang ini lagi end of Q3), jadi doi focus untuk budgeting yang super complex. Sometime, He can be genuine and harsh lah kalo udah sibuk. Baik. Gue disaranin pake e-mail aja sama temen gue wkwk. After several words, gue somehow stuck dan males buat jelasin tuh chart 1 1 di dashboard. Belum lagi ...... mungkin bisa ga dibaca karena head gue ini focus banget orangnya.

Tara, gue langsung aja dong datangin ke mejanya. Bodo amat kalo ditolak, at least gue coba approach ...... Diterima! Kita buat fruitful discussion, gue dapat ide secara bisnis processnya dari dia, ya emang dia ngucapinnya sembari mumbling sih, tapi make sense dan gue take notes di otak gue. Dia pun oke dengan format yang udah gw buat, dengan sedikit revisi dan beberapa tambahan slicer.

Well received with thanks. Hal yang gue pikirin aneh-aneh ga terjadi ...... Dan gue akhirnya nge-deliver target gue hari itu. Hoho. Just do it already, don't be overthinking, and face it like a man!

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