Blessing in Disguise...

What I learned from my Mistake…

Let me share what I learned in this SmartKid program.

As I've said in my previous blog that this SmartKid program, let me learn a great lesson to remind myself about... hey!!! even though we wanted to do something right or at least a right intention but if the action is wrong or not at right time/place, it might caused a misunderstanding....

Well I personally will say that I'm guilty to do something wrong at the second day (11 July), but as a man who kept my promise, I Walk My Talk and I can't tell anything about my mistake, but I'll still share what I learn from it right here...


One of the principle that is so applicative on this case is the one called "Action has Consequences" and yes I did something wrong here and I deserve the punishment and scold. The truth is that I'm very upset and disappointed at myself... but I also remember one of my principle that I always remember, which is


"What doesn't Kill me,
Makes me Stronger"

and yes it makes me looks more clearly about this and let me learn such an important lesson. Indeed I figured that principle from a friend (I'm sure that the person know about it, thank you so much Xu Shi Pei) as I was on a problem too, but the difference is that this time it's my mistake, but it's still applicative.

In fact I also find a great book that really help me to reflect and kinda cheer me up, which is the "Joys & Pains of Growing Up" by Peter Lau. In his book I found many great quotes and for my case this time I found a very nice quote in Principle 2, which is...

“Every Negative Event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater Benefit” – Napoleon Hill

and also from Peter himself

“A thing may not be as bad as it seems. It may just be a blessing in disguise”

Many of people also cheer me up as they talk about this with me even Peter himself also talked to me about this... Special thanks to Peter, Ko Dickson, Ci Mega, Yonis, Lindy, Mona, Dion and also all my friends that cheer me up that day, I really appreciate all of you..

Even though it's not such an easy thing to go through, but I can overcome my own negative thoughts and go on, also with a therapy that I learned from Pak Tung and that I did to myself to let go of that feeling, which is called the "Disassociate", it's so powerful thanks to Pak Tung too. Then the next day I also played the "John Grinder Game" and even do the "Double Disassociate" to myself that I also learned from Pak Tung. Well this mistake also let me practice on how to therapy myself, I learned much from this...

Furthermore this event also let me understand more about Pak Tung's concept about "Whatever happens in our Life, it depends on us, about what Meaning we give to it and how we act to it" that the Meaning I give to this event is that I have to challenge and prove myself even more, which is similar which what Ernest said about "The Way you see yourself determines what you think you can do and that determines what you'll attempt and that determines your success or failure"
...and with all of those plus my greatest principle 'What doesn't Kill me, Makes me stronger", I can now see even more clearer about life and how to fail forward, now I really see that Failing Forward is possible like John C Maxwell said on his book( even though I haven't read that one, but I have to read it too later), it's really a rare opportunity since I haven't made such a big mistake for a long time, so this mistake is so precious and worthed for me...

Thanks for reading...

And as the Wind blows… Cya at the Top!!!

SmartKid and The Fear Factor

Let’s play kids

Smarkids Program 10-12 July 2008

Although, Financial Revolution was so tiring that most of the TDW staffs and me myself left the JITEC at about 2.30 early in the morning, since Ryan drove me home with Ci Mega and some of others staffs. Thankz to them ^^


Well Smartkid is a program similar to SuperTeen, but here some programs are cut and some are added since there are different between kids (8-12) and teens (12-21). Interested? try to visit www.learningmastery.com it's right on my link and so in this program conducted by TDW Resources and Learning Mastery, I come back as a Translator again, such a pleasure working for my Masters ^^

Here are The Smartkids Resources...
Lindy, Adeline, Yonis, Stevia, Dea, Steffi, Mona, Stephanie, Audrey, Stevanus, Aryo, Klemen, Ryan, Liberman, Dion, Darwin and Recca (me)
with the help of TDW Staffs...
Ko Fredy, Ka Lasri, Melia
and also some special help from..
Ko Dickson, Ci Mega, Lisa and Jennifer
of course with our lovely trainers...
Ernest, Ken and Peter

There were so many funny things happening around here, well you see kids can be very exited and if they do, we gotta be extra careful sometimes ^^"
like what happened on the last day, when we're preparing the room for the closing ceremony, something not right is that Dea and Stevia are the ones, who guard the door and as the kids are pushing from outside it's kinda hard to hold the door and so Dion and Me replaced then, but since it's still so shaky, I finally decided to go out and hold them from outside, which was such a chaos. At first I managed to stop them from pushing the door, but then a kid suggested us to take picture and sooo another mess was began. Fortunately for me the door was opened just in time that they started to pushed all around again huff...

However as the parents are coming in we asked the kids to stand at the stage, while the parents were coming in. Although they followed our instruction nicely, when they started to see their parents, suddenly some of them wanted to rush to their parents and so some of the resources (included me) who was standing beside the stage quickly squat in front of them and hold them back, but unfortunately for me, I was the one in the center and so as they're instructed to find their parents, I almost died in the middle of the crowd of kids, since I was right in front of them that since those kids ran into me I kinda fall to the floor ^^" Luckily I managed to stand up, what a crazy experience wkwk, can you imagine if I can't stand and all those kids step on me, it must be hurt ^^"

Some photos after the Closing Ceremony...

Narcism begins...


wooo Ko Fredy is here


Kawaii Style ^^



Afterwards we all went to Sizzler to ate our dinner, but since some of us are kinda late, me and Lindy sat on a private table, which looks more likely as a candle light dinner wkwk, and I even gave her flower with the vase itself xD which I found at the table hahaha
Then some other Resources also joined us like Felicia, Andrew and Linsy...

Last but not least we played a crazy game called... The Sizzler Fear Factor!!!How to play this game? we simply mix some things and play roll the salt bottle, the person who is pointed must eat one of the seven deadly food that are mixed each other...

The DEAD Wheel


The Door Prize
(for those who wanted to quit the game wkwk)


actually I wanted to quit yo know, but when Mona came with the door prize, I almost vomit @.@ looks so disgusting woekzzz

I also got about 7 times, some because Yonis cheat grrr damm oma ckck
+the last one OMG!! I think these people really tried to kill me wkwkwk

My Punishment #.#"


Did you see Aryo behind me? He also vomit because of eating those deadly bread, there are so many pepper on it #.#" I also almost vomit but some people hold me and Yonis feed me with that disgusting bread #.#"


Indeed this program also let me learn a great lesson that I'll always remember to remind myself that hey even though we wanted to do something right or at least a right intention but if the action is wrong or not at right time/place, it might caused a misunderstanding. Well I personally will say that I'm guilty to do something wrong at the second day (11 July), but as a man who kept my promise, I Walk My Talk and I can't tell anything about my mistake, but I'll still share what I learn from it so read my next blog...

And as the Wind blows… Cya at the Top!!!

Financial Revolution 7-9 July 2008

Are You Ready for Revolution?

Frankly, Financial Revolution is the moment where many people change their life, that they realize their mistakes and really take action, well something that also happens in SuperTeen. Financial Revolution was also done at 15-17 February and 4-6 April and I also joined them. Make no mistake that I didn't only joined the sales team, but my team won the 2nd place for the last two Financial Revolution.

Financial Revolution is organized by TDW Resources too, that is owned by Mr Tung Desem Waringin, someone that have done something that is so fantastic and announced to the whole world, last month...

Money Rains in Indonesia!!


In fact, Financial Revolution is such a great event that involved more than 6000 participants, what a great atmosphere, its such a rare experience you know and so I arrived at JITEC late at midnight with Ko Fredy and there we stayed at the Novotel Hotel. Straight at the next day, we joined the event. Something new this time is that each group are accompanied by one TDW staff and for my team, we got Owen. Owen has been working with me twice before, at Financial Revolution at April and also Life Revolution and this time we gotta win the 1st price for the sales team award ^^

Team 2 member: Owen, Pak Budi, Caren,Vonny, Devi, Pak Ali and me.

Thus on the last day Owen couldn't come, since she gotta go to Bali and so at the second day (8 July) she asked me to replace her as the Team Leader passed me the stock list and the HT, it's a great opportunity to learn and also s new challenge of responsibility, but I didn't let her down. You see the problem with this event is that sometimes, we could lost our items and therefore the group leader are responsible for it.

and so we sell different items and Seminars, well my favorite is still SuperTeen ^^ but it's kinda messy since at first we're only told that we're going to sell Smartkid Program, but suddenly Pak Tung also announced about SuperTeen and it's caused a unbelievable chaos that suddenly all the Group Leaders asked about the information at the same time, poor Ko Hendro as our boss haha

Here I also met my old friend Budi Waskita, someone that you'll see on the SuperTeen poster testimony at least in Indonesia...
Rains of Money??




If I learned how to manage teenagers in SuperTeen, during Financial Revolutions I learned something new about how to manage adults or at least older people and the truth is that older people are much more stubborner rather than teens that many of them have soooo much things to complain, well for me it's not too bad since it give a change to practice on how to handle objections.

Furthermore, it also let me learn about how to overcome rejection and keep moving forward, since here I have to work as something like salesman that I have to offer products and seminars to the participants. For me personally it's such an amazing experience that let me improve my self esteem, since many people would probably lose his/her motivation as they're rejected, but then in this seminar, I've proved to myself that I'm a good salesman.

The thing is that many salesman and also sales on this event wander around with forms, but nobody really sell anything and so I challenge myself that I took 10 forms and I promised myself that I'll come back to my table with all of them used and I only need about 20-30 minutes to get 10 customers, well maybe you might think that it's easy, but maybe you should try it yourself since the cheapest product is Paket DASHYAT which is 1,2 Million Rupiah and so I sold 2 of them and many seminars, that mostly cost about more than 10 million, it's such a great experience for me that I won the challenge against myself.

Rather than that I also proved to some people that sometimes younger age didn't mean that we're not worthed to do something important, since in my group at the beginning somebody older act as if he's experienced and ignored my advices and so I challenged him to do as I suggested and I guaranteed that I will works and in the end he even give me some kind of testimony at the debrief ^^ well for me myself, I was so graceful, but then I still need to thank my previous teammates that let me learned so many things. Thanks to some of them that are there such as Pak Andy, Mona, Steven, Liberman, Pak Ali, Stephen, and all the others Thank you so much mate.

Last but not least.....

Me as Bodyguard
(even though some people said that it looks more like gang foto wkwk)

And as the Wind blows… Cya at the Top!!!

Purpose behind Purpose...

A word of caution...What you're going to read next is a such a knowledge that is so precious and not everyone can figure this out, so please take a note about this...

Here's what this all is about, well you know many people do this and do that in their life, but sometimes I really wonder how many people really think about why they do something...

I mean this post's title "Purpose behind Purpose" is something that is said by Ernest, I also didn't remember when the first time he told me about this, but I'll always remember this powerful sentence.

During the resources briefing Ernest asked us some question, and one of them are "Why are you here?" well to be honest I know that some people go to SuperTeen without any special reason, I mean some of them are forced by parents, some just looking for fun and some even have no idea why they are here for..

For me myself I have certain goal and this camp is an opportunity for me to Challenge myself and to prove that I can and I will become a Great Trainer. In the beginning, when I started to translate, the truth is that I'm not really good, my intonation sucks and I can't go all the way out and the Best Translator and the man that also help me and give me this opportunity Ko Fredy surely know about this.

Ko Fredy always supported me, give me advices, tell me my weaknesses and push me to do even better and also Ko Dickson a Great man that is almost like my own brother, both of them keep supporting me to become better, special thanks to them.

In fact, some people campers and resources come to me and asked something like..."Hey how can you translate so well? So fast and clear?" many asked that and also something like "Hey how come your English is so good?". When the first begin asking something like that I actually also took a few second and think about this, I mean yes I also didn't realize it..

I remember that if you have a strong reason to do something, it will be a lot easier for you to achieve that and Ernest also said "If you can't, you must". They both are totally right!
In short, since I wanted to become a trainer, becoming a Translator is one of the way to become one!

Let me tell you a secret,, at the beginning I actually do something that is unusual, you know I listen to Ernest's SuperTeen cd that I got when I join the camp, Anthony Robbins tape and as they talk, I translate it, until my speed is fast enough to match them and it helps me a lot. Why would I bother to do that? It's because I have certain goal to reach and so I suggest all of us to find our own dreams, so that we can start setting goals to achieve them.

So I think we always have to ask ourself, why we did something, is it just for fun or do we have a certain goal to reach something precious that gives us the power to push ourselves to the next level. This is so important since many of us didn't really have purpose in life.

In fact this is a very funny case sometime, ask I was still stacked in the godforsaken German School, there was this rascal which is once one of my Best friend. He's so rich that he only wanted to enjoy his life and depends on his parents, he don't even want to continue his study for the university, what a waste of talent. Stupid isn't it? But it happens to many people too. This also is a matter of fact that can be good or bad (depends on how we look at it) that many students have no goal!!!
Later on I'll also write more about friendship, since your friends the people you're with are the people that will impact your life most.

So if we have no goal, we won't have any reason or purpose to do something.
That's why we always have to ask ourself these few question...

What am I going to do 1year from now?
5years from now?
even 10years from now?

What are the things that I wanted to achieve in my life?

Those things are important lesson that I learned in SuperTeen
and like Peter Lau said in his book...

"Success comes Early,
For Those Who Start Early!"

So let's start early!! That's all from me for now,,,
Thank you for reading..

And as the Wind blows… Cya at the Top!!!

SuperTeen Holiday Camp (Tretes) July08

Moving on to my next journey...

At the 29th of June all of us went to Bandung to eat and finally, went back to Jakarta... but some of us still have things to do...

So after the bus stopped at Museum Satriamandala, Ko Fredy, Ko Dickson, Lindy, Lia and Me, we all went by taxi to the airport and there we have Ernest, Ken and Peter too, that today we're going to Surabaya for the camp in Tretes...

I'm so sleepy that I slept all the way on the plane hoho.. We arrived about 10.00 o'clock in the evening and we went straight to Tretes, during the trip we also pass through the Lumpur Panas Siduarjo or something like that where there are still such a huge smoke around there.

Tretes is such a nice place, well compared to Lembang, it's much much much better wkwk
from the hotel to food they're much better, even Ernest and Ko Fredy said that and I agreed hehe...First thing to do is... to eat wkwk, actually I'm not really hungry, but since it "One for All and All for One" we all go and eat...

Me on Ko Dickson and the training room is right behind us



In fact that we got 1 day off, we actually took some pictures, but I haven't got them yet haha. So at the 30th of June I watched the World Cup Final alone, where others are asleep, well to benost I actually want Germany to win, but Spain won the game haha
Well Spain is also one of my favorite team in this even so it's not too bad lha xD
On the same day, Pak Herlambang and Bosco also arrived and joined us..

Furthermore early in the morning the Resources from Surabaya arrived and we met some of our friends again hoho... Then we go to the meeting room to divide the Resources into different Platoons...

Here we only have 4 Platoons since the participants are also not as many as in Lembang and each Platoon only consist of 4 groups. In this camp we have Assistant Platoon Commanders, since Ko Dickson and Peter have to go at the fourth day and Ken wasn't feeling well, he got diarrhea.
The Assistant Platoon Commanders are Antoni, Timothy, lindy and me myself. Then we also have 2 great people that become our Camp Coordinators, which are Bobby and Olivia.

My Platoon here is BAKSO... With a familiar face as my Platoon Commander.... KEN!!!
So here's our Platoon...

Platoon Commander: Ken
Assistant Platoon Commander: Recca (me)
Resources: Buana, Amy, Budi, Anne, James


...and so we started the camp and experience many new things here, since this camp is much different that Ernest planned everything sooo well, since Peter and Dickson left us at the 4th day.

Before Peter and Dickson leave us we took some pics hwhw


Since our Tai Bo Master Dickson left for the Karate Competition, Lia and Felix replaced him for the Tai Bo at the 5th day and they're actually pretty good ^^ Big Applause for both of them

Oh yeah special thanks for Lia that give me a good picture...
Ciaaaat!!!



Then for the Talent Show here, Timothy the person in charge and all of the resources also planned something special and so for the Resources Talent Time, we did Body Combat, Dance, Breakdance and finally we sang some songs.
Body Combat was performed by Lia, Amy, Anne, Jansen, Kefas and me.
Dance by many resources, but the credit is for Lindy that open the dance with her ballet solo.

Talent Time Meeting



Another different thing is that since Peter left earlier, Bobby and Me become MC for the talent time. Firstly Lindy introduce me then I introduce Bobby and there we go with the Talent Time..

Our Last Performance...



The Great thing about this camp is that we got barbecue and karaoke at the 5th day and it's sooo amazing, never done that before thanks to the EMP staffs and Ibu Eva that have nicely organized that. The barbecue was awesome and the karaoke was so impressive, I'll always remember those moments...

Here we are!!


Resources Squeeze!!!



In addition, we also got some extra help from Lisa and Jennifer. Lisa is one of the SuperTeen Graduates that have graduated years ago in Singapore and I began to learn about her at the OASIS Class where we're part of the coaching team and she's such an amazing lady, like Lindy and Adeline ^^ Jennifer on the other hand is Ernest's friend from Medan and something funny about her is that she often called me Jay Chow haha, well she said something about me, like my style, how I talk and how I'm in front reminds her of Jay Chow.. and the funny fact is that actually if you look at my friendster.... Jay Chow is the artist that looked most like me haha


Frankly, there are also something unique that occurred only this year in both camp Lembang and Tretes that in both of the camps, the Camp Leaders (Male and Female) actually came from the same Platoon!!
In Lembang Cornelia and Hans from Cendol and...
In Tretes Veronica and Raka from Bakso...
as long as I remembered this never happened in the past camps before and another funny fact is that I'm on the same Platoon as those Camp Leaders, even Cornelia was in my group, wow is this accidentally? or are there anything else that effect this? It's still kinda mysterious for me haha
So many mysterious thing during the camps this year hwhw


During this camp I also learned something different than what I learned in Lembang, well I'll tell you in my next blog, this important lesson is actually first told by Ernest, but also special thanks for Ken, Peter and Ko Dickson that also helps me to understand, even though it's kinda confusing for me at first and I even consult with my friend Lindy about this... but that's just part of my story since as Peter said in his book that
"Do not feel down when bad things happen to you. A bad thing may well be a blessing in disguise"
So figure it out on my next blog...


Here's our photo...



You can't see me!!! hahaha try to find me ok?



Something sad about this camp is that Lindy and me have to leave during the closing ceremony with Pak Herlambang to chase our flight and later on Pak Tung, Ibu Yani and Bosco. Another sad thing is that some of the resources didn't know about it =="
The truth is I'm also confused since Pak Herlambang also just told me on that day like "Recca, Lindy we go now ok? Our plane is at 21.00, Lets go" he only said something like that and we left hahaha

But then since I got no ticket, I went on another plane at 21.50 ==", fortunately Ko Fred waited for me and we went to JITEC, Manga Dua Square to prepare for the next event... Financial Revolution...

Check my next blog!!!

And as the Wind blows… Cya

SuperTeen Holiday Camp (Lembang) June08

Finally, I can write my blog about SuperTeen, which is the BEST Holiday in my life.


Well at the 21st of June we met for the briefing and divided the resources into different Platoon, but since some of our Platoon Commanders like Peter, Ken and Dickson wasn't there (only Adeline and Lindy), we finally decided to choose the Resources Leader first and let the Resources Leader choose their members.

At the beginning I actually almost paired up with Ken again, but then Ernest suggested that I go to Lindy or Adeline, but most shockingly at first I'm not allowed to become a resource =="
Well it's because holding too many position might kill me haha, but it's ok I understand, but luckily Lindy and Adeline suggested that I become resource with somebody else in 1 group and so he agreed.

Then I was assigned as Resources Leader again (I'm actually not supposed to, I'll tell you more)
and My Platoon Commander is..... Lindy!!! My old friend and My Platoon Commander at July 2007 too, you know I realize that every June/July each year I'll be 1 Platoon with her, well let's see about next year xD

However even though I was a Resource Leader, my focus here is actually as a Translator since as I've said many times, I wanted to become a Trainer and not just a trainer, but a Great One, that's why going to this camp really give me the opportunity to practice my public speaking skill, which is a great challenge for me.

Our Platoon is called Cendol!!
This is our Main Members: Platoon Commander: Lindy Resources Leader: Jeanice and Recca(me) Female Resource: Stevia,Michele,Monica, Meily Male Resource: Stevanus,Marino, Yosu, Liberman, Ryan

Cendol Resources: Up: Marino, Ryan, Yosu, Monica, Jeanice, Lindy,Meily Down: Liberman, Recca (me), Stevanus, Stevia, Michele



That's our photo with the pictures of Cendol that the girls made at lembang.

So our Platoon Cendol got orange as the colour, well it's kinda strange actually, Orange Cendol wkwk, but it's unique you see...

Here's our Platoon Cheers that is made by Jeanice...

CENDOL July 08
LET ME HEAR YOU SAYHEY2 CENDOLhey2 cendol
NOW LET ME HEAR U SAYCENDOL IS THE BEST!Cendol is the Best!
CENDOL CENDOL HU HU HUCENDOL CENDOL HA HA HAfrom the East..to the WestCendol is the BEST!!!YESSSSAHOOoo


Some photos from this camp...

Here we are The Trio xD



This two wonderful lady have been a great and supportive friend for me and I have known them for couples of years and they both are such an amazing role model for many people with their character and great leadership, I'm sure that they'll become even more successful in the future :)


Graduation day...



Hmm... Tha's Stevia n Me haha


Stevia is my partner in this camp, so we both become resource together in one group, but to be honest she's actually the one that did most of the job, since I have to leave the group in the middle. I'm impressed by what she did ^^ Well done Stevia.
More than that she's also the Zen Master on our Platoon..

Deaaa



Dea is a girl that have grown and improved even more in this camp, last camp we worked together in one Platoonm, where I was the Resources Leader and she done a great job back then, but just now.... She did even better hehe Nice job Dea ^^

We Love SuperTeen



This girl is called Edwina.. I've known her since she was a camper at 2006. This girl have been working with me couples of times and she's now improving and becoming even better and better, even though we're not in the same platoon this camp, but she has been such a nice friend for me the last few years... And since she's going to Canada this August... All the BEST for you!!!

Wiena


Hey in this camp, I met many good and funny person and Wiena is one of them haha,She's such a wonderful lady, that also become the Platoon leader for his Platoon and also Assistant Camp Leader wowww
you know this is so funny, I have no idea how it happens, but even though we're not from the same Platoon many things connected us.

Let me share some of them...
....Actually at the Leadership Game (only SuperTeens will understand hehe)
I'm not really joining, I'm just wandering around the campers, but this girl suddenly drag me all the way with her, until we finished the game haha..
...At the Waterboom Game she's also one of people that bombs me so many times and of course I bomb her back wkwk
..In one session on the 5th day I'm the one who scared her xD (you know what haha)
...Then at the graduation, she's also the one that give me the SuperTeen sticker.

and guess what we're one of the few people that got 2 stickers.. look carefully




Before we leave the hotel...



This camp is actually such a challenge for me, since it's the beginning of my great journey on my summer holiday hehe...

Even though I didn't have put their photos, but I have some people that I admired alot for this camp...

Ernest, Ken, Peter, Ko Dickson, Ko Fredy, Ka Mega for their guidance, support and advice during this camp.

Cendol!! The Resources in my Platoon, Stevia, Stefanus, Jeanice, Michelle, Adrian, Yosu, Marino,Monice, Ryan and Meily for their great job during this camp.
Good to know that both Male and Female camp leader are from our Platoon you know, it's the first time I guest. Such a Great Leadership from Cornelia and Hans, Great Job!

My Fantastic Group Member Vigor, Cornelia, Liona, Jessica, Pandu, Ricky and Valerio ^^

Also big applause for all the Resources Leader that have organize things well, Linsy, Evelyn, Jessica Hamid, Linsy, Jeanice.. Richard, Pandu, Alfons, Steven (+me haha)

Then my old friends that also come back, such as Dea, darwin, Yonis, Lia, Eric, Yosen, Patrice and all the others of course... thanks for the friendship^^

also for all TDW staffs, Ka Lastri, Melia, Pak Herlambang, Fajar and Herman for their great job on organizing this event.

To all The Resources and Camperz of SuperTeen!!!
It's been such a pleasure spending my time with all of you cheers!!!

I actually learned so many things that I decided to write them seperately so check my next blogs too ok? I still got a lot to write haha...

And as the Wind blows… Cya

My Memorable Holiday ^^

Wow it seems like I haven't write anything new for about 1month!!

These are things that actually happened...

1st week my internet connection broke down
2nd week SuperTeen Holiday Camp at Lembang
3rd week SuperTeen Holiday Camp at Tretes
4th week Financial Revolution + Smartkid

huff what a challenging holiday hehe

and now I'm finally back home with my internet hwhwhw

There was so many challenge in this holiday...
That's why in this loooong holiday I learned lots of things...

So I think I post them one by one hahaha

enjoy my blogss