Your Motivation Today

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

– John Updike

Who is John Updike? John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist known for his careful craftsmanship and small-town settings, has published more than 60 books to date. He was born in 1932 in Pennsylvania. As a child he suffered from stammering and was encouraged by his mother to write. After college, he joined The New Yorker as a regular contributor. He is best known for his series of novels about a fictional alter ego, including Rabbit, Run and Rabbit at Rest. He lives in Massachusetts.

How Important is Your Goals Setting?

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

John Updike

Success is goals, and all else is commentary. All successful people are intensely goal oriented. They know what they want and they are focused single mindedly on achieving it, every single day. Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.

The truth is that you probably have more natural potential than you could use if you lived one hundred lifetimes. Whatever you have accomplished up until now is only a small fraction of what is truly possible for you. One of the rules for success is this, it doesn’t matter where you’re coming from; all that matters is where you’re going. And where you are going is solely determined by yourself and your own thoughts. Clear goals increase your confidence, develop your competence and boost your levels of motivation.

Goals is what you belief. It was July 2005, three years ago, I said to one of my friend as a Researcher that I want to be a Writer. She was smiling at me and said,” Ainy, it is a long way to be a writer. So do you like writing?” I remembered that time I said honestly that,” I do like writing, but I have no experience to write a book except my thesis. But I am sure one day I’ll write a book.”

Realizing that I have no skills in writing but I have a dream to be a writer, I set up my goals as a writer. I also set up my blueprints regarding any action to be taken. To develop my writing skills, I started to join the writing course on 2006, and then practiced my writing by sending the article. I sent my articles to the newspaper many times even though I did know that every time I wrote, every time I was rejected. What I belief on that time was that the more I am writing articles, the more I get a chance to write a book. Honestly, that belief has kept my spirit on writing on and on no matter how many times I was rejected.

Anyone Can Do It. To keep my writing spirit, I write my favorite inspiration sentence from Honda then stick it to the wall. I said this sentence “I’ve failed 99% of my trials, in order to succeed in the remaining 1%” many time especially when I wake up every morning. I also said to myself that, “Ainy, anyone can do it. Honda already did it. If anyone can do it, then I can do it.” Having said that word many times, I feel that I have recharged my energy on and on.

Goal setting is powerful. Within two years following my blueprint for goal achieving, my life had changed once more. I have started writing a book and worked hard to finish it. I realized that this “goal setting” stuff was incredibly powerful. I feel that having goal setting, putting effort and intuition into it has delivered me to where I am now, writing my lovely book.

Living without clear goals is like driving in a thick fog. No matter how powerful or well engineered your car, you drive slowly, hesitantly, making little progress on even the smoothest road. Deciding upon your goals clears the fog immediately and allows you to focus and channel your energies and abilities. Clear goals enable you to step on the accelerator of your own life and leap ahead rapidly toward achieving more of the things you really want. No matter what your education is. I am not the only one example of having my dream comes true by setting my goal. What I found was that these ideas work everywhere, for everyone, no matter what your education, experience or background may be when you begin. Most of all, these ideas have made it possible for me, and many thousands of others, to take complete control over our lives. The regular and systematic practice of goal setting has taken us from poverty to prosperity, from frustration to fulfillment, from underachievement to success and satisfaction. This system will do the same for you and I am happy for your sharing experience. Ok, I am looking forward to know my next achievement and your achievement. There is a light and it is the time to move forward now.

Your Motivation Today

"You are the owner of your mind, feeling the fear or brave it is depending how we deal with it. The more you balance your feeling and mind, the closer you are as self-mastery."

Ainy Fauziyah.

Four Steps To Overcome Your Fears and Anxiety

"Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed."

William Shakespeare

"You are the owner of your mind, feeling the fear or brave it is depending how we deal with it. The more you balance your feeling and mind, the closer you are as self-mastery."

Ainy Fauziyah

Do you feel fears or anxiety sometimes or on and on? How did you manage your fears? Did you just accept it, struggle with it or work around it? Have you discussed with yourself, asking why your fears or anxiety is happened and what have made you feel that? If I said that nothing in life is to be feared but it is only to be understood would you agree that? Well, it’s sound I have too many questionsJ. Ok, let’s discuss it.

First and foremost, I would like you assessed yourself and understand that you always have a choice about how to respond to and deal with fear. You can cave into it, struggle with it, accept it, or work around it. You always have a choice, a choice you can make again and again or that you can change based on your assessment of what is best for you.

Based on your assessment, what has made you in fears? Is it about panic and confusion; saving face; triggers avoidance of the facts; magnifies danger and vulnerability; you want to stop in doing something or originates in your ego mind?

Second, fear is only to be understood. To understood your fears, you need to shift your mind from thinking : From The First Feeling To The Second Feeling promote panic and confusion promotes clarity and purpose saving face stepping out of your comfort zone triggers avoidance of the facts heightens awareness and perception magnifies danger and vulnerability calls on our capacity to respond to danger you want to stop in doing something wants you to move forward powerfully and safely originates in your ego mind a whole-system response

It is helpful to realize that not all fears are created equal. W. Timothy Gallwey and Robert Kriegel devote an entire chapter to two kinds of fear in their book; Inner Skiing which they call the first feeling magnifies danger and vulnerability while minimizing your sense of competence.

The second feeling is mobilizing your whole being for effective action. It includes a series of marvelous physiological changes that prepare the body for peak performance. The second feeling has focused attention, provided adrenaline for extraordinary effort, and sharpened. It also promotes effective action while the first feeling paralyzes us and prevents action.

Third, let go of all the ways you may have stifled its messages to you. Please do not keep yourself stuck by looking for perfection on this point. All that is needed is that you make a beginning by acknowledging the ways that you turn away from your body's wisdom and affirming that you are willing to be different. You do not need to know how you will change this, only that you desire to do so. You can transform the way you deal with fear by simply holding from day to day a curious wondering. Fourth, I am waiting your action and practice. Do it now or you would waste your life time. Please send me your good news and I am pleased to discuss with you further.

How To be A Good Public Speaker

There are many people that get up front of audiences from the richest CEOs to the classroom teacher. There are definitely characteristics that make each stand out or not.

Genuine Passion. Passion is like laughter, it's contagious. Having someone in front of an audience giving a speech in a monotone voice isn't going to really engage people. It's the people that have passion. The audience can feel this passion in the diction, the tonality, the body language of the speaker. Are these speakers genuinely passionate about the topic they're talking about? Maybe, maybe not. The point is that they can make it look passionate. They make it look like they care about the topic.

Element of Fun. Being able to add an element of fun can really make all the difference. The more emotional levels a speech hits the audience, more rapport is built. It's really an amazing thing. If you shock them, if you make them laugh, if you make it fun, you will be able to powerfully persuade them. The element of fun, doesn't mean a joke. Fun is engaging the audience differently.To figure out what kind of fun you would like to make, it is really dependent on your audience.

Use Visuals. This is a great way to impact the audience with more than just what you say. This could be a power point presentation on a screen or it could be as simple as an object in your hands. You can use something visual to really push a point across.

Interactive. This is what makes a good public speaker. Becoming an interactive and moving speaker is in the grasp of all people. You need to asking the interesting questions to your audience related to the subject that you have discussed. By that you could see either your audience has listened and followed you or not. If you're looking to learn to transform yourself from an ordinary speaker to extraordinary speaker.

Your Motivation Today

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

– Peter Ustinov

Who is Peter Ustinov? British actor Peter Ustinov is best known for his Oscar-winning roles in Topkapi and Spartacus. He was born in London in 1921 to parents of blended pan-European extraction. He wrote several plays as well as a well-received autobiography, Dear Me. From 1969 until his death in 2004, he took on the role of goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, visiting disadvantaged children all over the world. He said his multicultural background gave him automatic loyalty to the UN.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Who is Theodor Seuss Geisel? Theodor Seuss Geisel, the beloved Dr. Seuss, is renowned to generations of children as the author of Green Eggs and Ham and other deliciously absurd picture books. He was born in 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. His first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected 27 times. He wrote The Cat in the Hat after Houghton Mifflin asked him to write a children's primer using fewer than 250 easy-reader words. He died in 1991.

How To Enjoy Your Work?

Imagine choosing to spend one third of your life unhappy. Work is where we spend a great deal of our time, and many people are dissatisfied with their career situation. Why? Often times, it’s our own limiting beliefs that keep us from enjoying our work. We may make it worse by saying things like, “The money’s terrible.” “My co-workers are unreliable.” “I don’t have the skills to get that promotion I really want.” “It’s too tough to keep my business afloat, especially in this economy.”

These limiting beliefs may have kernels of truth, but none of these reasons need hold you back from not only finding enjoyment in what you do right now, but also taking your career and your business to the next level.

The truth is your unhappiness in this area we call work is not coming from a lack of anything. You have the ultimate resource within you to either change how you feel about your life’s work, or change it from a job to a passionate mission. The difference between someone thrilled about what they do, versus someone “getting by” at work, is emotional fitness—the capacity to find a deeper, more empowering meaning that keeps you going.

You build emotional fitness by arming yourself with the tools necessary for peak work performance and fulfillment. These tools can be as simple as improving your state, or your physiology in any moment, or simply the language you use.

But first take a deeper look into what’s really troubling you at work. Once you start replacing disempowering beliefs with empowering questions, you give yourself support toward enjoying your work instead of enduring it.

“A happy employee needs to feel that work is important,” says Jane Boucher, author of How to Love the Job You Hate: Job Satisfaction for the 21st Century. “There has to be a sense of empowerment and independence.”

Exercise: Improve Your Work-Life Now! Complete the exercise below to determine what could be holding you back from improving your work situation now. (Note: these same questions could apply to any area of your life).

1. Write down one challenge happening within your work or business right now. Do you like your work but feel overwhelmed? Are you experiencing conflict with a boss or co-worker? Do you want to ask for a raise yet are afraid to? Do you want to completely change what you do?

2. How could you use this challenge as an opportunity for growth? For example, a consistent argument with a co-worker could open the door for stronger communication, learning how to empathize with others by stepping into their shoes, and improving your overall ability to influence others positively.

3. What one or two small actions could you take? Could you take that co-worker out to lunch; or commit to doing one small thing a day to strengthen your relationship; take interest in a project they’re working on, or praise great effort?

The Man Behind Honda Company

"I've failed 99% of my trials, in order to succeed in the remaining 1%"

"I've never refused competitors' visits to our factory. I've welcomed them at any time. Because I am willing to jump to new innovations when they try to follow us."

Soichiro Honda never forgot the day he became a small figure who ran hopelessly after the first motor car he ever saw. Long before it actually reached Yamahigashi, a small village in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture (now called Tenryu-shi), its own extraordinary noise heralded its imminent arrival. The small boy who heard the rumble was at first astonished, then excited, and finally enthralled, by it.

Later he would describe that moment as one of those life-changing experiences. He was seeing his first car, and as he began to tremble the closer it drew, and the dust cloud of its passage engulfed him, something inside him was triggered off.

"I turned and chased after that car for all I was worth," he said later. "I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run."

He had no chance of catching it, and the experience became a symbol for his life: always he was chasing something that was just beyond his reach. By the time the road was empty and the car long departed, the young boy continued to stand there breathing in its gasoline stench. When he came upon a drop of its precious lifeblood spilled on the dusty track, he dropped to his knees and sniffed the oily stain like a man in a desert smelling water.

Soichiro Honda was born in Yamahigashi on November 17 1906. His father, Gihei Honda, was the local blacksmith but could turn his hands to most things, including dentistry when the need arose. His mother, Mika, was a weaver.

Honda's subsequent spirit of adventure and determination to explore the development of new technology had its roots in his childhood. The family was not wealthy, but Gihei Honda instilled into his children the ethic of hard work, and a love of mechanical things. Soichiro soon learned how to whet the blades of farm machinery, and how to make his own toys. A nearby rice mill was powered by a small engine, and the noise fascinated him. He would demand daily that his grandfather take him to watch it in action. At school he got the nickname 'black nose weasel', which is less derogatory in Japanese than it sounds in English, because his face was always dirty from helping his father in the forge.

Soichiro Honda's childhood days are full of examples of technical ingenuity, including using a bicycle pedal rubber to forge his family's seal on school reports that were less than promising. The bicycles had another use: those that his father sold from the shop he subsequently opened helped Honda to hone his engineering skills. As he grew, the dream of the car on the country road acted like a magnetic force, drawing him ever closer towards things mechanical. In 1917 a pilot called Art Smith flew into the Wachiyama military airfield to demonstrate his biplane's aerobatic capabilities. Honda raided the family's petty cash box, 'borrowed' one of his father's bicycles and rode the 20 kilometers to a place he had never before visited. When he got there he soon realized that the price of admission, let alone a flight, was far beyond his meager means, but after climbing a tree he watched the plane in motion, and that was enough. When Gihei Honda learned what his son had done to get to the airfield, he was more impressed with his initiative, determination and resilience than he was angry with him for taking the money and the bike.

As customers brought in Mercedes, Lincolns and Daimlers for attention, Honda's experience grew in proportion with his ambition. Four years after that first race he started his own Art Shokai auto shop in Hamamatsu. It opened its doors for business on the day that, thousands of miles away on Daytona Beach, Frank Lockhart crashed to his death trying to break the land speed record. April 25, 1928. The American track star and the Japanese kid lived in different worlds but had much in common besides their willingness to take a risk. Lockhart's mechanical genius had set new standards for record car design, and in the years that followed Soichiro Honda's own technological ideas would similarly revolutionize Japan's motorcycle and automobile industries.

Yet Honda himself never sought dominance in his homeland. At a time when nationalism was at its peak, he always saw the bigger picture. "I knew that if I could succeed in the world market," he said, "then automatically it would follow that we led in the Japanese market."

Soichiro Honda was the prototypical F1 engineer. He was always probing new limits of technology, always seeking better and greater feedback from the men who rode or drove the machines that bore his name. He preached the gospel that ambition was no sin, and that success was the reward for hard work and investment. Honda was the first major manufacturer to understand that motorsport was the perfect crucible in which to develop not just superior machines, but superior engineers, and today every global player in the F1 game rotates its engineers through its motorsport programs.

Yet there was more than even that to Honda. He and his wife Sachi both held private pilot's licenses, he was still skiing, hang-gliding and ballooning at 77, and he was a highly accomplished artist. And he was a man of rare understanding. He had never wanted to follow his father in the smithy or the bicycle shop, and he and Fujisawa made a pact never to force their own sons to join the company.

Today Honda continues to leave honorable footprints in the motorsport sand, for it has been racing ever since that day in 1917 when Soichiro Honda left his own footprints chasing an automobile - and a dream - down a dusty road that had no end.

"I've failed 99% of my trials, in order to succeed in the remaining 1%".- "I've never refused competitors' visits to our factory. I've welcomed them at any time. Because I am willing to jump to new innovations when they try to follow us." Soichiro Honda never forgot the day he became a small figure who ran hopelessly after the first motor car he ever saw. Long before it actually reached Yamahigashi, a small village in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture (now called Tenryu-shi), its own extraordinary noise heralded its imminent arrival. The small boy who heard the rumble was at first astonished, then excited, and finally enthralled, by it. Later he would describe that moment as one of those life-changing experiences. He was seeing his first car, and as he began to tremble the closer it drew, and the dust cloud of its passage engulfed him, something inside him was triggered off. "I turned and chased after that car for all I was worth," he said later. "I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run." He had no chance of catching it, and the experience became a symbol for his life: always he was chasing something that was just beyond his reach. By the time the road was empty and the car long departed, the young boy continued to stand there breathing in its gasoline stench. When he came upon a drop of its precious lifeblood spilled on the dusty track, he dropped to his knees and sniffed the oily stain like a man in a desert smelling water. Soichiro Honda was born in Yamahigashi on November 17 1906. His father, Gihei Honda, was the local blacksmith but could turn his hands to most things, including dentistry when the need arose. His mother, Mika, was a weaver. Honda's subsequent spirit of adventure and determination to explore the development of new technology had its roots in his childhood. The family was not wealthy, but Gihei Honda instilled into his children the ethic of hard work, and a love of mechanical things. Soichiro soon learned how to whet the blades of farm machinery, and how to make his own toys. A nearby rice mill was powered by a small engine, and the noise fascinated him. He would demand daily that his grandfather take him to watch it in action. At school he got the nickname 'black nose weasel', which is less derogatory in Japanese than it sounds in English, because his face was always dirty from helping his father in the forge. Soichiro Honda's childhood days are full of examples of technical ingenuity, including using a bicycle pedal rubber to forge his family's seal on school reports that were less than promising. The bicycles had another use: those that his father sold from the shop he subsequently opened helped Honda to hone his engineering skills. As he grew, the dream of the car on the country road acted like a magnetic force, drawing him ever closer towards things mechanical. In 1917 a pilot called Art Smith flew into the Wachiyama military airfield to demonstrate his biplane's aerobatic capabilities. Honda raided the family's petty cash box, 'borrowed' one of his father's bicycles and rode the 20 kilometers to a place he had never before visited. When he got there he soon realized that the price of admission, let alone a flight, was far beyond his meager means, but after climbing a tree he watched the plane in motion, and that was enough. When Gihei Honda learned what his son had done to get to the airfield, he was more impressed with his initiative, determination and resilience than he was angry with him for taking the money and the bike. As customers brought in Mercedes, Lincolns and Daimlers for attention, Honda's experience grew in proportion with his ambition. Four years after that first race he started his own Art Shokai auto shop in Hamamatsu. It opened its doors for business on the day that, thousands of miles away on Daytona Beach, Frank Lockhart crashed to his death trying to break the land speed record. April 25, 1928. The American track star and the Japanese kid lived in different worlds but had much in common besides their willingness to take a risk. Lockhart's mechanical genius had set new standards for record car design, and in the years that followed Soichiro Honda's own technological ideas would similarly revolutionize Japan's motorcycle and automobile industries. Yet Honda himself never sought dominance in his homeland. At a time when nationalism was at its peak, he always saw the bigger picture. "I knew that if I could succeed in the world market," he said, "then automatically it would follow that we led in the Japanese market."