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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Rekomendasi Buku: Left To Tell


Beberapa bulan silam, seorang teman baik -dessy- merekomendasikan sebuah buku yang "breath taking"... Mendengar dia menceritakan apa isi dari buku ini, tidak membutuhkan waktu yang lama hingga saya akhirnya membeli buku ini...


-LEFT TO TELL-

-Mengampuni yang tak terampuni-

-Immaculle Ilibagiza-

-TRUE STORY-


Rwanda, 1994...

Jikalau anda berada di Rwanda pada tahun 1994, maka Anda benar-benar berada ditempat dan waktu yang salah...


Back cover:

Terdengar para pembunuh memanggil-manggil namaku, dan aku mengenali suara keluarga temanku.

"Aku telah membunuh 399 kecoak, yang ke 400 adalah Immaculle. Jumlah pembunuhan yang bagus."

Kututup telingaku, berharap bisa mendapatkan salah satu pisau besar mereka untuk menghentikan suara-suara itu. Kucoba berteriak kepada-Nya tapi aku tak mampu menyusun kata-kata. Tenggorokanku tersumbat. Kelu.


Kisah seorang perempuan yang selamat dari bencana Pemusnahan Etnis di Rwanda


Saat saya membaca buku ini, lembar demi lembar...

Saat saya masuk ke dalam ceritanya,

Berlari-lari di tanah Rwanda pada tahun 1994...

Saya merasa tidak ada tempat yang aman,

kecuali saat saya menutup buku, dan melihat bahwa saya berada dikamar saya sendiri yang aman...

Benar-benar sebuah kisah yang... melebihi rasa takut...

I can only say, what a breath taking read experience...


Salam,

Ferdy D.Savio

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Friday Story: A Lifetime of Planning Pays Off


A Lifetime of Planning Pays Off


"You gotta be crazy!" That's what Lee Dunham's friends told him back in 1971 when he gave up a secure job as a police officer and invested his life savings in the notoriously risky restaurant business. This particular restaurant was more than just risky, it was downright dangerous. It was the first McDonald's franchise in the city of New York - smack in the middle of crime-ridden Harlem.


Lee had always had plans. When other kids were playing ball in the empty lots of Brooklyn, Lee was playing entrepreneur, collecting milk bottles and returning them to grocery stores for the deposits. He had his own shoeshine stand and worked delivering newspapers and groceries. Early on, he promised his mother that one day she would never again have to wash other people's clothes for a living. He was going to start his own business and support her. "Hush your mouth and do your homework," she told him. She knew that no member of the Dunham family had ever risen above the level of laborer, let alone owned a business. "There's no way you're going to open your own business," his mother told him repeatedly.


Years passed, but Lee's penchant for dreaming and planning did not. After high school, he joined the Air Force, where his goal of one day owning a family restaurant began to take shape. He enrolled in the Air Force food service school and became such an accomplished cook he was promoted to the officers' dining hall.


When he left the Air Force, he worked for four years in several restaurants, including one in the famed Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Lee longed to start his own restaurant but felt he lacked the business skills to be successful. He signed up for business school and took classes at night while he applied and was hired to be a police officer.


For fifteen years he worked full-time as a police officer. In his off-hours, he worked part-time as a carpenter and continued to attend business school. "I saved every penny I earned as a police officer," he recalled. "For ten years, I didn't spend one dime - there were no movies, no vacations, no trips to the ballpark. There were only work and study and my lifelong dream of owning my own business." By 1971, Lee had saved $42,000, and it was time for him to make his vision a reality.


Lee wanted to open an upscale restaurant in Brooklyn. With a business plan in hand, he set out to seek financing. The banks refused him. Unable to get funding to open an independent restaurant, Lee turned to franchising and filled out numerous applications. McDonald's offered him a franchise, with one stipulation: Lee had to set up a McDonald's in the inner-city, the first to be located there. McDonald's wanted to find out if its type of fast-food restaurant could be successful in the inner city. It seemed that Lee might be the right person to operate that first restaurant.


To get the franchise, Lee would have to invest his life savings and borrow $150,000 more. Everything for which he'd worked and sacrificed all those years would be on the line - a very thin line if he believed his friends. Lee spent many sleepless nights before making his decision. In the end, he put his faith in the years of preparation he'd invested - the dreaming, planning, studying and saving - and signed on the dotted line to operate the first inner-city McDonald's in the United States.


The first few months were a disaster. Gang fights, gunfire, and other violent incidents plagued his restaurant and scared customers away. Inside, employees stole his food and cash, and his safe was broken into routinely. To make matters worse, Lee couldn't get any help from McDonald's headquarters; the company's representatives were too afraid to venture into the ghetto. Lee was on his own.


Although he had been robbed of his merchandise, his profits, and his confidence, Lee was not going to be robbed of his dream. Lee fell back on what he had always believed in - preparation and planning.


Lee put together a strategy. First, he sent a strong message to the neighborhood thugs that McDonald's wasn't going to be their turf. To make his ultimatum stick, he needed to offer an alternative to crime and violence. In the eyes of those kids, Lee saw the same look of helplessness he had seen in his own family. He knew that there was hope and opportunity in that neighborhood and he was going to prove it to the kids. He decided to serve more than meals to his community - he would serve solutions.


Lee spoke openly with gang members, challenging them to rebuild their lives. Then he did what some might say was unthinkable: he hired gang members and put them to work. He tightened up his operation and conducted spot checks on cashiers to weed out thieves. Lee improved working conditions and once a week he offered his employees classes in customer service and management. He encouraged them to develop personal and professional goals. He always stressed two things: his restaurant offered a way out of a dead-end life and the faster and more efficiently the employees served the customers, the more lucrative that way would be.


In the community, Lee sponsored athletic teams and scholarships to get kids off the streets and into community centers and schools. The New York inner-city restaurant became McDonald's most profitable franchise worldwide, earning more than $1.5 million a year. Company representatives who wouldn't set foot in Harlem months earlier now flocked to Lee's doors, eager to learn how he did it. To Lee, the answer was simple: "Serve the customers, the employees, and the community."


Today, Lee Dunham owns nine restaurants, employs 435 people, and serves thousands of meals every day. It's been many years since his mother had to take in wash to pay the bills. More importantly, Lee paved the way for thousands of African-American entrepreneurs who are working to make their dreams a reality, helping their communities, and serving up hope.


All this was possible because a little boy understood the need to dream, to plan, and to prepare for the future. In doing so, he changed his life and the lives of others.


Cynthia Kersey
Excerpted/Adapted from Unstoppable

Copyright 1988 by Cynthia Kersey, www.unstoppable.net

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Seperti Setiap Pujangga...

Seperti setiap pujangga mengatakan, "hari berganti hari, bulan berganti bulan, dan tahun berganti tahun, namun hatiku selalu setia kepadamu." itu lah yang kurasakan...

Depresi hati ini membuat otak tak lagi rasional...
Begitu mudah untuk lari... dan pergi...
Tapi hanya seorang yang pengecut...

Aku bukan seorang pemberani...
Aku bukan seorang saudagar kaya...
Aku bukan seorang yang pintar dan bijaksana...
Tapi aku sabar,
Tapi aku selalu bangun, saat ku jatuh...
Tapi aku... memilikimu sepenuh hati... sumber kekuatanku...

Gelapnya malam, memberikan istirahat bagi pikiran yang lelah...
Dinginnya angin, menyejukan hati yang panas...
Derasnya hujan, membersihkan jiwa yang luka...

Lihat,
Kegelisahan dalam hatiku...
Menetapkan pandangan yang kosong terhadap masa depanku...
Sedikit demi sedikit ku lukis, kanvas itu...
Namun tak kunjung datang visi itu...

Waktu ku kecil... Petualang nama tengahku...
Tak ada yang ku takutkan, kecuali Dia yang Maha Tau...
Kini, sendal pun menjadi bencana...
Dan Dia yang Maha Tau pun semakin ku taruh jauh di pojok sana...

Ah, aku hanya beralasan...
Membenarkan segala sifat buruk ku...
Bersembunyi dibalik kebenaran yang merusak...

Cukup! Cukup sudah...
Sudah saatnya pikiran, jiwa, dan roh ku hidup di dalam harmoni...
Memainkan perannya dalam orkestra besar,
untuk didengarkan oleh Dunia...

Terima kasih... untuk... doa mu,
Ferdy D.Savio

Happiness 2


"... Pikirkan ini: jika surga adalah tentang hati yang damai mengapa harus menunggu sampai mati untuk mengalaminya? ..."


"... Tidak seorang pun bisa memberikan kepada orang lain apa yang tidak ia punyai. Tetapi jika ia tetap bersikeras memberikannya juga, Tuhan akan mengadakannya untuknya sehingga ia mempunyai sesuatu untuk diberikan. ..."


"... Berita buruknya adalah sekarang tidak ada lagi alasan untuk tidak bisa dan tidak mau membahagiakan orang lain. ..."



Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Four Ways to Create Your Legacy



Only by changing the way you live will you be able to create the legacy you want to leave, says John C. Maxwell, a leadership expert. Legacies happen when they are deliberately crafted with years of hard work and dedication. Create your own legacy with these experts’ tips:



  1. Identify your strengths. Think of your core strengths, and then talk to colleagues, friends and family members for their insights. Keep a running list and see which strengths come up most frequently. Often, others see our strengths more easily than we do, says gerontologist Ken Dychtwald.

  2. Think about how you spend your time. "Most of us tend to be drawn—either directly or indirectly—to the settings, activities and people that allow us to express our interests," Dychtwald says. Remember, your legacy should be a labor of love, not a chore.

  3. Write a life sentence. "A life sentence is a statement summarizing the goal and purpose of one’s life," Maxwell says.

  4. Realize your legacy is based upon what you do today. "For most of us, it is the days of our lives taken as a whole that people remember," says Chris Widener, a leadership expert. "If you want to be known as a kind person, do something kind every day for the people around you."

Monday, October 12, 2009

Happiness


Kebahagiaan itu bukan tertawa lebar dan lepas. Itu salah satu ekspresi kebahagiaan. Kebahagiaan juga bukan perasaan senang. Itu efek dari kebahagiaan. Kalau orang menyamakan kebahagiaan dengan perasaan senang, “Itu kebahagiaan murahan” kata beliau.


Kebahagiaan itu, adalah “rasa pasti, yakin dan mantap bahwa inilah hidup yang ingin saya jalani sampai tutup usia”. Hidup yang membuat kita bertumbuh menjadi semakin dewasa; hidup yang membuat kita merasa lengkap dan utuh sebagai manusia; hidup yang... memungkinkan kita mengembangkan talenta yang Tuhan percayakan kepada kita sampai batas maksimal. Itulah kebahagiaan.



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