My Favourite You Tube Personality

Are you consistently searching for ideas on how to improve your life? Is You Tube one of your resources for great ideas? Can you trust the person sharing the ideas? i.e are they credible?

I am a strong fan, if not fanatic , of the world of Personal Development. One of resources is of course Youtube. Are they reliable? Before I follow that perticular youtube, I will review as many as I could their posts. Currently I have so many of personal development Youtube  I like. Can check my FB too on this. A lot of link there. My top one is Tai Lopez. Some people say he is a Scam. That not important. This guy is superb. A lot of insights you can learn from him. He is full of wisdom because he reads one book a day. Sometimes he is sharing some ideas on how his friends making million dollar a day! Is not that great?! That why people say he is a scam... I  do not think so. Most important he has a lot of great insight. He is very positive. We need to hang out with this kind of people. They open up my mind for new possibilities.

Check out his YouTube here ,

How To Make Your New Habit Stick?

Ever wonder how to make your new habit stick? Are there any effective ways to track your habits? And how to make tracking of a new habit fun?

Developing a new good habit is not easy. But developing a bad one is easy :) ! 

Do not worry, I am helping you develop  a good habit here.

The way ro develop a new habit is not that difficult actually ; if you know the tricks.

1. You must track the new habit you want to install in your life.

2. You must have proper tracking system.

3. Have a Trigger.

4. Do it at specific time everyday.

Lets go in detail....

1. You must track the habit you want to develop. Eg of new habit may be wake up early at 5 :30 am daily or doing daily planning every morning before starting your day.

2. Proper Tracking System.

Last time I used  a note book as my Log System. It was manual. I drew a chart indicating the habit I wanted to develop and every nite bofore went to sleep, I put mark '/' if and 'x' not done. Do this very day. Now, I am using Apps " GoalTracker " installed in my iphone. Very easy now day to track my habit. Actually there are a lot Apps out there up you can choose.

3. Have a Trigger.  Trigger is just a like reminder. Eg, you can set alarm or reminder in your smart phone at specific time for you to do certain habit ... Time to take your supplement. One of my friends, set a reminder for every 3 hours to remind him to drink plain water. Another examples of triggers; get your running shoes / running gears ready by your bed side ( if you want to develop running as your new habit) or put book ready on your table the nite before go to sleep if you want to develop reading habit in early morning.

4. Do it at specific time. Eg, take supplement after breakfast. Take a break at 10:30 am. Read 5 verses of Quran after Magrib prayer etc. If you do it at specific time everyday, the chances of habit installation is great.

I wish you luck and what is one habit you want to develop now? Go For it! and share with me how it goes...

Will Power

Will Power is limited. Be mindful if you think you need to use it to achieve anything. It will be depleted if it has been used too much. Aviod doing important task if you had used too much of your will power. It will negatively affect the performance of your next task. 

Replace will power with rituals, habit. Make the activities you want to do as  a ritual, habit, automatic. Then you will be less reliance on the Will Power because  it already became habits.

Less engage your brain with unimportant task...so that you do not use your will power on unimportant tasks. Reserve it for high value tasks.

Some tips to boost your Will Power...

1. Exercise

2. Pray

3. Start with small wins every morning

4. Do Feared Things First (FTF ) daily

Book Review : The Happiness Advantage

Being happy has its advantanges! It is a fact! Success comes after Happiness and not the other way around. This time, as the book suggests, I will share with you one of my favourite books written by an authority in this subject matter. A few months back, I had finished reading his second book:  Before Happiness.

This time, I would like to points some of great points he highlighted in his book that are very practical. Find ways to put these points on your life...and start reaping the happiness advantage....

1. Meditate. If you are a Muslim, this is your 5 times daily prayer. Nothing new!. So, prayers do really help us become happier. The author said " ....research even shows that regular meditation can permanently rewire the brain to raise levels of happiness, lower stress, even improve immune function."

2. Find something to look forward to. Eg, people who just thought about watching their favourite movie actually raised their endorphin level by 27 per cent wrote the author. In the morning, plan yourself on how to reward yourself after office hours. Anticipating future rewards help to light up the pleasure centre in our brain.

3. Commit Conscious acts of kindness. It is about consciously do kind things to others. Eg by the author ; paying the toll of someone behind him on the highway. Cool. Find one or two kindness act
that you can do tomorrow. Do it everyday. See the impact on your level of happiness.

4. Exercise. I remember, one brain expert told, if your are in any of "F" states ; frustrated, fear, freaking, fatigue, etc...go for an exercise. The harder the exercise, the better. It helps to reboot your brain. I found it so true for myself.

5. Exercise a signature strength. What it means is do your level best to do things you are excellent at. Eg, for me, inspiring others is one of my strength. So, if i feel down, I will find way to motivate others or read inspiring books, or write something like this blog. It helps me to regain my positivity.

There you go, 5 ideas you can do immediately to boost your positivity and happiness.

As usual, your get the copy of this book Here

Passion : How To Discover Yours

What is passion? My own simple definition is the basically thing or whatever that you really enjoy doing..something that your were born with...something that your are gifted with or talented at...some people say it is your cup of tea. Something that comes very easy or natural to you. When you are at it, times seems to fly...you are really good at it. Just put small effort, it shines. You feel so energized when doing it. Sometimes you even shy to ask for money on the thing that you produce out of that passion ; coz is seems so easy...no need to pay...you just do it for free :) I hope you can understand by now, what I mean by Passion.

Next question : How do you discover you passion? May you can try some of these ideas ;  

1. If you go to bookstore or just newspaper stand, see what kind of reading materials that normally capture your attention? If you pick a newspaper or magazine, which section excites you the most? What kind of articles you like to read? So, if like entertainment / gossip, should you become a singer / artist? Ha, ha ...maybe. But you need to look deeper...may be you can be TV personality for entertaiment plot. Love sports ; maybe be a sport commentator  :).

2. What are your hobbies? What are the activities that reenegize you ? Things that you like to spend more time on? When thinking about, you just feel excited? What is it? Some people say watching TV. Hows that can be my passion? Interesting, that was the passion of Oprah Winfrey too and she made that passion to help her becoming rich !

3. If money is not an issue, what will you do everyday just to fill up your daily life?

4. Any events or past activities that you had done that you really enjoyed and feel so excited and fulfilled?

Next question : what so great about living your passion?

It has been proven that successful people are living there life based on their passions. It has been said that, chase you passion, money will follow! When you do what love / passionate about...you no longer working...you having fun! Passions are contagious. Because of your passion, others will get excited to be around you. 

Best of all, you may not need to quit your current job to pursue your passion. In stead, you can use
your current job / position as a platform for your to live your passion !

Here are some books to help discover your passions:
Finding Your Elements
Passion Test

Book Review : Focal Point ( Part 2)

Did you miss the Part One ? There are many great ideas in this book, but I just wanna share the few points here. Lets explore the gist of this about. Actually it is about asking these four critical questions ;

1. What are the things you should do more?

2. What are the things you should do less?

3. What are the things you should start doing?

4. What are the things you should stop doing ?

So, how to implement this idea in our life? Pick any area of your life , eg career. The more specific , the better the result would be. Example, in  your career, let say it is about your daily job functions. Start answering the questions. 

Question 1.

These are the things that will give more value to you..if you do much / many of these things, your career sure soar! What are those things? If you do not the answers, look at the people that considered successful in that job function. What she / he  does? Copy cat them.

Question 2.

The things that you do , but you must reduce them maybe the value created not much. List them out. 

Question 3

This is about acquiring new skills, knowledge or behaviors in line with you answers for no 1 above. 

Question 4.

About getting rid of all useless activities. Eliminate them. 

To do this exercise / questions, you need to spend quiet time to reflect about ypur current situation. To relook back at your typical day. 

For a start, each question pick only 3 main answers and start doing / tracking on one of the answer first. When you start doing it, you  soon will experience the result. That what "x"  factor all about ; know  what is focal / important.

Other important questions you need to regularly ask yourself;

1. What are my highest value activities?

2. Wh am i on pay roll?

3. What is the most valuable use of my time right now?

Ask these question every moment. They will help you to focus on high value things ; the x thing!

Thanks for investing your time here. See you in next book review.

Motivasi Pagi @ IKim (91.5FM for KL)

Being a "student" to the subject matter of personal developement, I am always looking for a reliable source of such knowledge. One of that sources is radio ikim. There are a lot of good segments that this radio station offers and one of my favourite is "Motivasi Pagi" usually aired daily at 7:30 am. Just that it is my commute time to office. 
Almost every morning I will listen to this segment and it just for 15 minutes. The speaker and the knowledge are good in which the topics discussed are very useful and practical. In fact, not to exaggerate to mention that this program has help to elevate my mood every morning. 

My intentions  to listen to this program among others are ; to get motivation, to learn two to three tips that will be useful for me, to share the knowledge and to stay close to my Creator. 

Every time, I try to get three useful points from the program and when  reach at my parkng lot, I will write them down in my " Knowledge Bank " in my ipad for my future use. 

Here are some of the few wisdoms / ideas that I had collected / generated. They are just pointers that are enough for me do some self reflections;

"Dengar CD Yasin every morning on way to office for the purpose of hafazan"

"Selawat 10x every time after all prayers"

" Tiga amalan syurga ; zikir, sayangi parents and cinta untuk beribadah"

"Tanda-tanda hati dah mati ; buat maksiat tak rasa bersalah, tinggal perintah Allah tak kisah aje..."

"Satu dosa, satu titik hitam melekat di hati...Gilap kembali dengan bertaubat dan berbuat baik."

"Formula hati tenang; 1. Cinta Allah dan Rasul 2. Sayang insan lain kerana Allah. 3. Benci kekufuran 

" Hati adalah seperti kolam dan terdapat 7 saluran yang mengalir kepadanya ; 

Mata, telinga, lidah, perut, kemaluan, tangan, kaki."

" Untuk Hidup Gemilang

1. Jaga Solat. 2. Hidupkan Masjid . 3. Cintakan Ilmu"

There are many more on my knowledge bank :). Maybe I will share some other times.

I hope the above stories will inspire you to also listen to this great radio station. For more info, please drop by at its website : Here