End of the year, did we achieve our dream?

Every early of the year, most of us have something to achieve. A wish that is repeated from the previous years or a really new goal to have. But, at the end of the year, how many of us analyze our wish for the last twelve months?

Most of us, (included me, actually) just give a simple answer; success or failed. It can be continue to next year or just stop it here. The analyze is not just success or failed but, what actually we did with this one year time? Is it really we aim the goal, or it just a wish? And why?

The dream and wish, I guess everybody have it. The different is the force and planning to get it. The exact goal, sometimes we forget to aim, like to shoot without target.

Dream, wish and aim, we need to include the planning and do the plan with it. Yes, some of us already do the plan and run the plan but still not really success. Look at the different angle; perhaps our aim is too high for us or the time is not suitable or the wrong place we went to. At least, we try everything that we can.

With this coming new year, for those who have dream to achieve, I feel that all of you may start plan the best to be aimed. For friends that never have dream yet, don’t just look and see, but grap whatever the good thing comes into your life and I wish all of you best of luck.

JAUH PERJALANAN LUAS PEMANDANGAN

Satu peribahasa Melayu yang menggambarkan pengembara yang melalui banyak tempat mengumpul banyak ilmu.

Dari satu segi, mungkin bukan budaya Melayu untuk mengembara. Cuma sekarang, kita kebanyakan merantau lebih kepada mencari rezeki dan ilmu. Tetapi,kata kata ini, terbukti benar. Bagi seorang pengembara, setiap tempat  yang dilalui akan member ilmu yang berbeza. Satu hal yang jelas, tiap tiap tempat menaarkan budaya dan bahasa yang berbeza untuk dipelajari.Dalam satu satu perjalanan jauh juga, membuka peluang untuk kita mengenali lebih ramai orang, dan mungkin ia baik  jika kita mahu mencari peluang jaringan maklumat. Dalam konteks perniagaan, ia adalah peluang mencari pasaran baru selain mengukuhkan pasaran sedia ada.

Dalam kes pemindahan teknologi, peribahasa ini diguna pakai dalam kes kerajaan menghantar pelajar tajaan ke negara lain untuk hal ini.Hal ini diharap supaya ilmu yang ditimba dibawa balik untuk kegunaan setempat sebagai perkongsian ilmu dan kepakaran. Hal yang sama bagi sektor korporat yang menghantar pekerjanya mendapat latihan di luar atau lawatan sambil belajar.

Dalam berkongsi cerita pengembaraan, kadang kadang ada yang mengeluh, “ susah lah nak makan . di sana  tak ada …..”, “tak nak lah pergi jauh jauh, nanti susah tak ada orang nak tolong..”

Sebenarnya, kerana cara pemakanan yang berbeza membantu kita berdikari dan kreatif untuk kelangsungan hidup. Ramai yang saya kenal, asalnya tidak pandai memasak tetapi disebabkan merantau dal bermasalah dalam hal ini, mereka kembali dengan keadaan mahir memasak. Begitu juga dengan risiko susah. Susah apa sebenarnya? Susah sebab tidak ada orang tua? Sekalipun kita kekal di kampung halaman, ibubapa kita satu hari nanti akan ‘pergi’ juga. Terima lah hakikat ini.  Risiko susah boleh membantu kita buat persediaan awal, contohnya risiko penyakit berjangkit buat kita berjaga-jaga seperti mengambil vaksin berkaitan dan menyediakan ubat yang perlu. 

Practice make perfect.

A school student makes a practice exercise to prepare for the exam while a magician makes a continuous exercise to enhance his skill. The practice is a lifelong learning method to improve our memory, understanding and upgrade our skills.

The continuous practice make perfect for almost all our job. As for me, if we are doing the same thing for ten years, our skill perhaps from zero, should be increase. The increments might be not too much but at least, we can see it. Otherwise, we might ask ourselves, what we’re doing actually at the given time. In most cases, we’re not aware about the changes in our quality of job, but the people surround us does.

That is same when we want to search for the consultant in any field, we will look at the experience, how long the consultant practicing his knowledge in that field. In fact, we will complaint if he is not good in it when he claimed that has an experience for a long time.

And of course, in a journey to gain a perfect, highly skill in a field is not as easy as said. It can’t be done just by a practice but several practices. Within the journey, we might meet the failure, before we meet the answer why we fail and how to entertain the failure. After that, then only we meet the right one that makes us perfect. Even sometimes, the first correct way we meet doesn’t mean that it is the accurate. In many cases, there is several correct ways to do it but a few is the accurate way.