Feeding the vortex of busyness.

I am busy ...

As I reflect while Im blogging this, (nowadays the time to reflect is scarce) I wonder about the word busy.
I am a very disorganized person, living on a day to day basis, I am very bad at planning and executing it (well I do wonder why I am in my position right now, can you imagine a very disorganized managing consultant ?). Then I observe that because of my disorganization (is there really such word ?) the word busy became a monster to me.

Busy ness will drag me around like a vortex, thus priorities are in haywire, commitment forgotten, schedule is a mess you name it.

Hmm maybe then I need to get organized ?


Any thougts out there ?

Entering into Commitment

After an interesting book the dip.

It's interesting. To summarize ... before embarking on the journey, make sure you can handle the dip in the journey. Well actually the bible have the same principle saying before you build a tower make sure you can finish it.

An interesting way to tell a story. you should read it

Real Correlation ?

Crude palm oil price drops ...
Because ...

Oil is not that expensive ...


Renewable energy my AS$

Under Pressure

If you talk about pressure:

1. We worry about it
2. We are depressed by it
3. Our life turn into haywire
4. In short ... we hate it ...

But also in short ... It's time to flourish

Measurement - KPI Setting for My Self in (OMG) a gym when Im surrounded by Narcists

What a lame title. Yey, im finally joining a gym. More like forced to join a gym. I swear though, that my reason of joining was spawned from a deep contemplation, yes, a deep contemplation in a hospital. NO NO NO, not due to any obese related sickness, it was dengue. But still being in a hospital made you think.

And it come to .. how do I measure it.

Balanced scorecard split the aspect of reaching goals into 4 spokes
1. Financial
2. Processes
3. Customers
4. Learning

Well I might as well try to split my goal of being healthy into those 4 spokes:

1. Processes:
For me to go through 6 months of PT (personal trainer) madness. I can't believe it either.
Well I suppose I have to control my appetite ?
2. Customers
To get her involved ... yea yea yea the customer is the wife, but need her to be involved AKA get to the gym also.
3. Financial
Have trouble measuring this one, I just now that we're poorer by quite a sum.
4. Learning
Fat <> Healthy, face it. If I make it this time (after so much failed attempt), better make sure I stay ...

I need to keep measuring what is important. Gym is full of narcists, so one really2 wrong measure for me would be STANDING IN FRONT OF MIRRORS, FLEXING MY MUSCLES ...
Really ... fat, thin, muscled, flabby, I see these narcists admiring themselves.

Appearance not really matters ... Health yes

Shheeeesshhhh

Living in The Realm of NOW ....

You know what pissed me off ...

Those who are living on the realm of what could be. Those who are filled with regret and I should've done a b c d e f g.

You know that people usually pissed off about me? I lived in the realm of what if. Shooting out critical question (and man im good in that) in what if a b c d e f g. Putting doubt in people's mind because Im a critical thinker :p

You know what will solve the problem? Living in the realm of NOW. Humans are heldback by the law of nature that we can only exist in now. The previous is a memory, tomorrow despite of our best laid out plan is merely a fantasy, we can only exist for NOW, adapt for NOW.

I am a cost accounting consultant (primarily), you know what I usually see? People obsessing over BUDGET. Top management would change the budget TONS of time, providing countless of budget iteration. The usual question I asked was "which iteration usually nearest to the actual" ... the answer "the first". Why on earth you spend three months for a process that can take only a month ? It's a "strategic" decision u say it's suppose to be long. B*lls*it.

I would rather have my staff improve our position of Now.


Live in the realm of now ... will you ?

Adapt The Gameplan ...

It's not about me ... well maybe ...

But yesterday I met a client, who clearly have a gameplan in his mind. Mind you this is a long time client that we have, and I already know some of them quite some time.

Back to Mr. "Client", he clearly have a gameplan and it seems he has been cultivating it in his mind for quite sometime. He come to the meeting room room, scribble scribble scribble .. and BANG BANG BANG !!! But he forgot ... His gameplan didn't include ME being in the room ...
After BANG BANG BANG !!! he shoot out sweet words ...

What a ridiculous thing to watch

It got me thinking though, somehow we seem to fall in love with our gameplan. We develop it in our mind, making it grander and bigger. We approach a challenge with our plan ... And mind you the first minutes, plan will have to adapt ..


Or you risk looking like a fool .....


Like the person I met yesterday ...

Business Related Things I Learned at Hospital

Business related things I learned while contracting Dengue and hospitalized (still do on this writing)
1. Sometimes shit happen out of the blue.
2. Prioritize but don't underestimate. those small bastards can still cause problem
3. Crysis times equals crysis method (eat hospital food . blah)
4. Crysis method equals crysis KPI (red blood cell couny?)
5. A sudden upturn while uplifting should be looked at with vigil. (Dengue's first sign of cure actually is the critical part.)
6. The cure will need some new insight (injection of fluid)
7. With something obvious (REST STOOPID !!!)
8. You'll need honest brutal assesment. (Those $$$$ Doctors)
9. While the day to day activities will still be around (eat, changing clothes, pee)
10.Albeit at more complicated crysis induced way.
a. yucky taste
b. changing clothes wt a needle stuck to ur hand
c. peeing with only 1 free hand withovt wetting ur shorts
11.The challenge is surviving the impending aftermath and learn from it...


Man .... HEALTH IS PRECIOUS

Confession of a superhero leader....

Wife always say, you live in a dream world ... usually when she's tired of seeing me in front of the PC ... playing games. Oh and also when she saw me watching cartoons ... superheroes one ...

The more I think of it, Im now quite sure it has something to do with a desire to do something, as a difference maker. People watching superhero movie, playing games (FPS, where we are the good guys) wants to be a difference maker. The Idea of one person, can matter so much is so appealing.

Some of us continue in it's fantasy, others try to follow their superheroes. Well after a while in a leadership position, I found that while the desire to be difference maker is very noble, to execute it in superhero manner .. is a NO NO.

Tried it, to do everything by myself, to make a difference by working harder than everybody. Nope ... toooottt wrong answer ...

Not really claiming that I know the answer, but it's just occurred to me, what if, instead of executing like a hero, I helped people to have that superhero desire. Then execute as human as possible. But maybe ... just maybe ... a lot of ordinary people with superhero desires, will achieve super hero results.

Just face it we are human beings ..