Citra Raya (It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be Part 7)

Part 6 Link

http://senopatibimbelcenter.blogspot.co.id/2015/10/citra-raya-its-not-how-good-you-are-its.html

DON'T PROMISE WHAT YOU CAN'T DELIVER

When selling our ideas, we tend to overpromise in our enthusiasm for our creation. In our vision of how we hope it will be, we leave no room for failure. The result will probably be disastrous, but a little less than expected.

No one will say anything, they just won't trust you quite as much next time. Basically you've blown it. If i instead you undersell, pointing out the possible weaknesses and how to resolve them, should they occur, you are not only building a trusting relationship with your client but you're able to solve any problems.

And if it does turn out the way you hoped, it is a bonus. 

Vocabulary [English - Indonesia)

 1. Enthusiasm = Antusias

 2. Deliver        = Menyampaikan

 3. Tend            = Cenderung

 4. Basically     = Pada dasarnya

 5. Blown         = Sesak Nafas / sesak dada/ yang kehabisan nafas (Adjective) ,
                           melebih-lebihkan

 6. Instead        = Sebagai gantinya, malah/malahan (adverb),

 7. Resolve       = menyelesaikan

 8. Occur          = Terjadi
 9. failure         = Kegagalan
10. Disastrous = bencana

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be (Part 5)

DO NOT COVET YOUR IDEAS

Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you

 

You will remember from school other students preventing you from seeing their answers by placing their arm around their exercise book or exam-paper. It is the same at work, people are secretive with ideas. "Don't tell them that," they'll take the credit for it.

The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you'll become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. Somehow the more you give away the more comes back to you. 

Ideas are open knowledge. Don't claim ownership. They're not your ideas anyway, they're someone else's. They are out there floating by on the ether. You just have to put yourself in a frame of mind to pick up. 

DON'T LOOK FOR THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY. 

THE ONE YOU HAVE IN HAND IS THE OPPORTUNITY.

We are always waiting for the perfect brief for the perfect client. It almost never happens.  

You're probably working on a job or perfect right now and saying, "This is boring, let's just deal with it and get it over with. We'll make the next one good." 

Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can. It may not be great, but at least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you did the best you possibly could, and you may learn something. And you're always free to do an alternative that does satisfy your creative standards.

Good brief don't just come along.

That's true, even if you've earned a reputation for doing good work (although that helps). Succesfull solutions are often made by people rebelling againts bad brief. 

Vocabulary [English - Indonesia)

1. Covet = Mengidamkan

2. Prevent = Mencegah

3. Secretive = Suka merahasiakan / diam-diam / tidak mau orang lain tahu

4. Hoarding = Penimbunan / terpendam / menumpuk

5. Reserves = sikap tutup mulut (noun) / menyimpan (verb)

6. Eventually = akhirnya / nantinya / alhasil (adverb)

7. Stale = basi / lelah/pengap/apek/ tidak menarik/membosankan (adjective),

8. Replenish = mengisi kembali/menambah/melengkapi lagi/menambah lagi (verb)

9. brief = singkat/ringkas/ikhtisariah (adjective) / laporan singkat (noun), 

    memberi penerangan ringkas (verb)

10. satisfaction = kepuasan/keyakinan/kegembiraan (noun)

11. rebbelling = memberontak

See you soon in part 6

Part 4 Link

http://www.senopatieducationcenter.com/online/its-not-how-good-you-are-its-how-good-you-want-to-be-part-4/

Best Regards 

SEC Management

  

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be (Part 3)

HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW THE CLEVEREST PEOPLE AT SCHOOL 

ARE NOT THOSE WHO MAKE IT IN LIFE ?

What you learn at school are facts, known facts. Your job at school is to accumulate and remember facts. The more you can remember facts. The better you do. Those who fail at school are not interested in facts ; or maybe the facts are not put to them in a way they find interesting. Some people simply don't have a great faculty for memory.

It doesn't meant they are stupid. It meants their imagination hasn't been fired up by academic tuition. People who are conventionally clever get jobs on their qualifications (the past), not on their desire to succeed (the future). 

Very simply, they get overtaken by those who continually strive to be better than they are. As long as the goal is there, therre is no limit to anyones achievement. 

DO NOT SEEK PRAISE. SEEK CRITICISM.

IT IS quite easy to get approval if we ask enough people, or if we ask those who are likely to tell us what we want to hear. The likelihood is that they will say nice things rather than be too critical. Also, we tend to edit out the bad so that we hear only what we want to hear. So if you have produced a pleasantly acceptable piece of work yo will have proved to yourself that it's good simply because others have said so. 

It is probably okk. But then it's probably not great either. If, instead of seeking approval, you ask, "what's wrong with is? How can i make better?", you are more likely to get truthful, critical answer. 

You may even get an improvement on your idea.  

 And you are still in a position to reject the criticism if you think it is wrong.

Can you find fault with this ?

Part 2 Link
http://www.senopatieducationcenter.com/online/its-not-how-good-you-are-its-how-good-you-want-to-be-part-2/

To be continue 

See You in Part 4 

Best Regard

SEC Management