Motivasi: Menolong Tanpa Pamrih

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RENUNGAN KHUSUS YANG SANGAT BAGUS ... KISAH NYATA YANG MELEGENDA ...... POLANDIA - USA.

JUST DO IT !!!

Ini kisah nyata yg terjadi pada thn 1892 di Stanford University.

Pesan moralnya masih relevan saat ini.

Ada seorang mahasiswa muda berusia 18 tahun yg berjuang utk membayar biaya kuliahnya.

Dia seorang yatim piatu, dan tidak tahu ke mana harus mendapatkan uang.

Akhirnya dia dapat ide yg cemerlang.

Bersama seorang temannya, ia memutuskan utk menggelar  konser musik di kampus guna mengumpulkan uang utk biaya pendidikan mereka.

Konser itu mereka adakan dgn mendatangkan pianis besar Ignacy J. Paderewskip.

Manajer sang pianis  meminta biaya sebesar $ 2.000 untuk konser piano.
Sebuah kesepakat an pun terjadi.

Dua anak muda itu pun mulai bekerja untuk membuat konser sukses.

Hari besar tiba. Paderewski akan melaksanakan konser piano di Stanford University.

Tapi sayangnya, si kedua mahasiswa tidak berhasil menjual tiket sesuai target. Total tiket yg terjual hanya $ 1,600.

Keduanya kecewa, Mereka lalu pergi ke Paderewski dan menjelaskan keadaan mereka.

Mereka memberikan seluruh uang $1,600, ditambah dgn cek sebesar $ 400.

Kedua mahasiswa tsb berjanji utk melunasi cek cepatnya.

"Tidak" kata Paderewski. "Aku tidak dapat menerima." Dia menyobek cek, mengembalikan uang $1,600 sambil berkata kpd kedua mahasiswa, "Ini uang $1,600 kalian ambil. Gunakanlah untuk biaya kuliah kalian.

Aku akan mainkan konser piano tanpa perlu kalian bayar !"  

Kedua mahasiswa  terkejut, dan mengucapkan terima kasih yg sebesar-besarnya.

Bagi Padwrewski, yg dilakukan nya adalah tindak kebaikan yg kecil.

Tapi  jelas itu menunjuk kan bhw Paderewski seorang manusia yang besar.

Mengapa ia harus membantu kedua mahasiswa tsb yg bahkan dia tidak kenal sama sekali ?

Kita semua juga sering menemukan situasi seperti ini dalam hidup kita.

Dan kebanyakan dari kita hanya berpikir "Jika saya membantu mereka, apa yang akan terjadi padaku?"

Kalau seseorang itu benar2 baik dan bijak, dia akan berpikir, "Jika saya tidak membantu mereka, apa yang akan terjadi dgn mereka ?".

Orang2 yg baik dan bijak tidak akan melakukannya dengan mengharapkan balasan.

Mereka melakukannya karena mereka merasa itu adalah hal yg benar yg harus dilakukan.

Sebagaimana diketahui, Paderewski kemudian menjadi Perdana Menteri Polandia.

Dia seorang pemimpin yg besar, tapi sayangnya ketika Perang Dunia I dimulai, Polandia dilanda kelaparan.

Ada lebih dari 1,5 juta orang kelaparan di negaranya, dan tidak ada uang utk memberi makan mereka.

Paderewski tidak tahu ke mana harus berpaling utk minta bantuan.

Dia mengulurkan tangan ke Administrasi Makanan dan Bantuan AS untuk minta bantuan.

Presiden AS saat itu, Herbert Hoover, setuju utk membantu dan cepat dikirim berton-ton bahan makanan utk rakyat Polandia yg kelaparan.

Akhirnya sebuah bencana dapat dihindari.
Paderewski lega.

Dia memutuskan utk pergi bertemu dgn Hoover secara pribadi guna berterima kasih kpdnya.

Ketika Paderewski mengucap kan terima kasih kpd Hoover atas sikap mulianya, Hoover cepat menyela dan berkata, "Anda tidak harus berterima kasih kpd saya, Pak Perdana Menteri.

Anda mungkin sudah lupa, tetapi saya tidak akan pernah dapat melupakannya.

Beberapa tahun yg lalu, Anda membantu biaya kuliah dua mahasiswa muda di Stanford University. Saya adalah salah satu dari mereka...."

Dunia adalah tempat yg indah.

Apa yg terjadi di sekitar kita biasanya datang dari apa yg telah kita lakukan....

Pesan moral kisah di atas:

Pada saat kita ada kesempatan utk membantu sesama, JUST DO IT !!!

Jangan pernah meng- hitung2 soal pahala atau mengharapkan balas budi.

Kita tidak perlu tahu dari mana dan dgn cara apa balasan itu akan datang kepada kita.

Selamat pagi.
Selamat Bekerja dan Berkarya

http://amazingreallifeinfo.blogspot.co.id/2014/03/a-time-of-need-story-of-herbert-hoover.html?m=1

Selamat Tahun Baru 2014

Tahun baru datang lagi. Begitu cepat rasanya. Selalu ada penyesalan. Selalu ada harapan.

Penyesalan di tahun baru karena kita belum tuntas mengerjakan yang seharusnya dikerjakan di tahun sebelumnya. Resolusi yang kita buat pada tahun baru sebelumnya masih tertinggal sebagai janji. Niat yang sudah kita canangkan belum diwujudkan menjadi tindakan. Rencana belum semua terealisasi. Banyak pekerjaan yang belum selesai.

Nasi sudah menjadi bubur. Kita tidak mungkin lagi berputar kebelakang. Yang  bisa kita lakukan adalah tutup buku. Sudahi yang sudah. Perbaiki yang belum sempurna. Tambahlah yang kurang.  Canangkan niat baru. Percayalah pada harapan. Yakinlah pada masa depan.

Tahun baru sudah tiba. Saatnya kita hidup baru. Semangat baru. Awali tahun baru ini dengan keyakinan bahwa kita akan menjadi lebih baik di tahun ini. Lebih  baik lagi ditahun-tahun selanjutnya.

Selamat tahun baru. Bisa!

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish: Steve Jobs' famous speech

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
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It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me - I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Source:

http://www.ndtv.com/article/technology/stay-hungry-stay-foolish-steve-jobs-famous-speech-139029

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Motivasi: Petani Jagung

Petani Jagung ..

Alkisah ..
Di negeri Amerika terdapat petani yg menanam jagung unggulan dan seringkali memenangkan penghargaan petani dgn jagung terbaik sepanjang musim.

Suatu hari, seorang wartawan dari koran lokal melakukan wawancara dan menggali rahasia kesuksesan petani tsb. Wartawan itu menemukan bhw petani itu membagikan benih jagungnya kpd para tetangganya.

"Bgmn Anda bisa berbagi benih jagung dgn tetangga Anda, lalu bersaing dengannya dalam kompetisi yg sama setiap tahunnya?" tanya wartawan, dgn penuh rasa heran dan takjub.

"Tidakkah anda mengetahui bahwa angin menerbangkan serbuk sari dari jagung yg akan berbuah dan membawanya dari satu ladang ke ladang yg lain. Jika tetangga saya menanam jagung yg jelek, maka kualitas jagung saya akan menurun ketika terjadi serbuk silang. Jika saya ingin menghasilkan jagung kualitas unggul, maka saya harus membantu tetangga saya untuk menanam jagung yg bagus pula", jawab si Petani itu.

Petani ini sangat menyadari hukum "keterhubungan" dalam kehidupan. Dia tidak dapat meningkatkan kualitas jagungnya, jika dia tidak membantu tetangganya utk melakukan hal yg sama.

Dalam kehidupan ini, jika kita ingin menikmati kebaikan, kita harus memulai dgn menabur kebaikan kpd orang-orang di sekitar kita. Jika kita ingin bahagia, maka kita harus menabur kebahagiaan untuk orang lain. Jika kita ingin hidup dgn kemakmuran, maka kita harus berupaya pula utk meningkatkan taraf hidup orang-orang di sekitar kita.

Anda tidak akan mungkin menjadi ketua tim yg hebat, jika Anda tidak berhasil mengupgrade masing-masing anggota tim Anda. Kualitas anda ditentukan oleh orang-orang disekitar anda.

Orang yg cerdas itu sejatinya adalah orang yg mencerdaskan orang lain, begitu pula orang yg baik adalah orang yg mau membaikkan orang lain. Dan akhirnya, apa yg kita tanam, itulah yg akan kita petik kelak.

Semoga bermanfaat.

(Kisah Nyata : James Bender, How to Talk Well, New York, 1994).