My Success Adventures

Alhamdulillah..again for Allah’s blessing that I have been offered the scholarship at UMT. Next mid July there I am sitting there for a few hours for the Academic Fellow Scholarship briefing, and yes…the same weekend again with gym, Faiz Wahid and Razi. Where’s Mach? Dude I will chainsaw him the first thing to do to say Hi =D

Ok2, let’s not forget about the paperwork. And do I have to make some presentation? I dont think so, because I have been on the meeting with the VC during my application. And also the UNSW-ADFA application…I need to send the 2 pages of Phd idea-proposal. Ahh..I must do the best on this man.. This UNSW-ADFA admin stuffs must be completed by the end of June. Aiyaaaaaak!!

And my fiance? Ahhh, I cant tell you the happiness and joy that we experience due to this news. Our HOPE is as big as our MUST. Aim for the greatness and live with passion!!

The last journey to Canberra, Australia is one of the memorable memories with my love one, my fiance. We went for the trip for PhD registration and the accomodation for her. We were lucky to have Abg Din & Kak Hana for our 10 days business trip stay, and she manage to sort everything up, and we went shopping together to fill in her suite with proper households, foods and all. My Siti Nor Khadijah is a self-proven planner. She’s the best detail planner of all.

We went to some places although our schedule are tight. Even though it is not a vacation place, we have the privilege to visit the Canberra Parliament House, and make my ourselves familiarize with Canberra Center where my fiance will stay.

Again..I am on my way there. Getting prepared with some paperwork, forms, scholarship stuff, I am close to Canberra again. My departure will be on February or January 2008, depending on the administrative stuffs that have to be sort earlier before.

Getting to work in Panasonic actually give me a great opportunity to shape myself with a strict Japanese discipline. This experience also taught me to work very hard. Despite of all late nite working, I manage to empower my life in the morning with Anthony Robbins Personal Training, and studying Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. At least I learn and getting big money as well, dude,what a concept.

She’s there, I am getting there, and we are getting somewhere. We believe that we shape our future. We are paying with our time and effort, also with emotional cost that we bear to lose.

And also for all of you out there, "Live with Passion"!! Yeah!!

I’ve just received the Panasonic HA Air-Cond R & D Malaysia Sdn Bhd Business Card. It says there " Ahmad Faisal Bin Mohamad Ayob, Engineer, Engineering Department". Some people says that, "someday I might laugh at this". But I laugh just after the moment I received the business card.

The so-called career…This might not be long…

I strongly believe that having own-run business is the best thing to do rather than working for people. I believe in "incentives", the more you work, the more you get. I love working for Panasonic, because I trade my time for financial, and I also have incentives for working until late. But the setback that comes with this is, I lost my time for my favourite stuff. Like being socialize, getting to places, and having nice time with my family, my friends and my love ones.

The other thing is, I have the urge of motivating people around me. I like to talk, giving steps to success to the needy. The career that suits me the most is lecturing, doing research and personal coaching. As far as I am concern, people must do the thing that they like the most to succeed.

Apart from this business card, I just got the letter from University Malaysia Terengganu that says that I am accepted to be considered as a Research Fellow of UMT. I applied for the TPM (Tenaga Pengajar Muda) Scheme last end of May 2007.

I called the Chief Registrar to inform them that I have succeeded to change my PhD research topic, rather than having "Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Race Car", it goes to the "Design of Ship Vessel". Actually I love that race car stuff. But then when I think of the contribution that I have to make to UMT, it is my obligation to pursue this design of ship vessel. And yes, UMT Chief Registrar said that I have to wait for the Offer Letter, might be as soon as this July 2007.

Since having Doctorate will give me the privilege to use my time more efficiently, I am also thinking of preparing myself to contribute and motivate my future students of UMT. Although this might be a long long journey, I think the base must be prepared first. And the base is me. Dr Ahmad Faisal B Mohamad Ayob.

Do you have some habits of procrastination? Do your kitchen sometimes lack of keep just because of "not I dont want to clean it, but later" thinking? Or sometimes you felt very confident with your ideas on starting business, yet there are lots of doubts holding you back?

Progress matters more than process.  Stay focused on moving forward.

I have lots of friends who love to watch football. They have their own favourite player, their favourite team and sometimes it is cool to watch football together because we can spend some great time chatting, feel the victory or at least get socialize positively.

But what is the essence of football that we can relate with life? Is it stupid for a bunch of people fighting for a ball? Why cant them have their own ball?

Even though lots of people love to watch football, they have missed lots of points that can be related to life. What will happen if in football game, they dont have goals? The primary objective in this game is to score goal as much as possible, and defending own goal to win. Two teams have their own goal that they have to defend and the goals for them to score. If there are no goals in football, players will end up fighting on the field fighting for a ball.Period.

The situation is the same in life. We need goals to achieve in order to make living. Some people have big goals such as paying bills, or thinking where to eat today, or to watch TV to follow the next drama episode. Some of us have such bigger goals such as to seal a million dollar sales agreement, or to build the next business empire, or to constantly contributing himself for the growth of mankind on earth.

Goal setting might sounds too familiar, but this is the most fundamental step. Fundamental means the very basic of knowledge, or application, or practice. Everybody must gone trough this fundamental stage in order to succeed. Set short term goals, long-term goals and write it whether it is impossible to reach or not. Once you have set your goals, live it. Always question yourself how to achieve, how to ma
ke it happens, brainstorm yourself to get ideas.

It might seems hard to achieve when we are in unresourceful state. Be positive with your own ideas. Your brain has gone trough series of chemical reactions, electrical pulses to generate ideas. Please support it. Dont give such negative commentary to yourself. Sometimes you feel unconfident, but if you have what it takes, just remember S.U.M.O. Shut Up, Move On.

Until next time my success partners, be happy and have fun!!!

How many times in your life that you feel very energetic? How many times in your life that you feel successful? Can you remember the feeling of success, the blood flows gushing to all around your body creating the action of YES! ?
    Last few months in TV3, I watched the 8 pm news and saw a boy who born with small legs. He walks using skateboard from canteen to his class which is located at the 3rd floor in his school. This short documentary showed the day in life of this kid starting from he wake up until he arrive and learn in his school. He is so independent. I can see his sharp eyes tell Malaysia that he is perfect as all of us.
    The primary question is, what drives him?
This kid live as normal as ours, live without asking for help or sympathy. Living with the same body condition, some of us might ask "Why I am not as perfect as the other people?". But this kid is thinking the other way around. "What can I achieve in life? Same as the other people?" "How I can be the best student?"
    The right question will lead us to the right path. Failing to ask the right question will lead us to failure. If we ask to ourselves "Why I cant have a rest?", "Why my life is constantly beating out of me?", "Why laa kereta amoi ni mcm nak langgar aku je?". Then we will have bad answers, dis-empowering answers due to dis-empowering questions.
    Instead, I ask myself, "How can I enjoy my working time in a very powerful and fun ways?", "What I can learn from this driver", "How can I work hard and enjoying this, being success in a fun way?"
    To recapitulate, the empowering question will empower us while the dis-empowering question will dis-empower us.
Be happy and have fun!!!

The opportunity to be successful is available to everybody.
In this life, we can see opportunities if we open our mind and open our
eyes. But why, some people feels that they aren’t going anywhere? Why
they feel stuck in the vicious cycle of paying bills, working to be
sufficient in life? Why some people can’t have the abundance of money?
In this case, I shall derive some essence of success in an
easy-to-understand manners.
  We already knew the concept of carrot and stick, Heaven and Hell,
rewards and punishment…But how we can relate it to the way our brain
works? This computer located between your ears is the most special
creation on earth. Most of our action is derived from the way our brain
understand, which is to avoid pain and to gain pleasure.
    In
order to gain monetary abundance, or to achieve other success is to
relate the pain of not achieving success so intensely that our brain
will drive us to success. This is because our brain is programmed
mainly to avoid pain than to gain pleasure. Imagine the pain of
procrastinating to open new business, or to break a relationship, or
not having competence in workplace. If you perform this practice
intensely and regularly, be assured that your chances to be successful
with increase infinitely.
    You are not thinking negatively, you
have give the positive target to your brain. The thing that you are
doing is to instruct to the brain about the importance on achieving
your desire.
    Well, I think that would be all today, remember,
your destiny begins with small and constant effort. Achieving Success
is Fun & Powerful!!