Three Steps to Help You Find PASSION

Udah lama ya gw ga nulis tentang passion. Feels forever! The fact is gw nemuin pemikiran baru tentang passion. Coba deh inget-inget, semua cerita tentang pengejaran akan passion itu patternnya selalu sama. Orang yang suka sama sesuatu, awalnya ada hambatan, but they keep doing it and voala akhirnya mereka bisa kerja di passion mereka and like they have everything in life, happiness, balance and so on. Dan mereka SUKSES. Tapi pernah ga sih kita denger kisah dari seseorang yang pada akhirnya ga berhasil mengejar passionnya? Apakah mereka masih akan menganggap hal tersebut sebagai passion mereka dan mengakui kegagalannya? Ya iyalah Donald Trump bilang bisnis itu passionnya, ya dia Donald Trump, nyong, tapi pasti ada kan Si Budi yang juga punya passion yang sama? Tapi ada dia masih bisa bilang bisnis itu passionnya?

Jadi apa sih sebenernya passion? Ada ngga sih sebenernya? Kalo ada sih pasti ada sih, karena gimana pun juga kita ga boleh melupakan fact bahwa memang ada orang-orang yang sangat suka menari-dilarang orang tua-keep doing it-dan berhasil menjadi penari. Gw percaya itu ada. Tapi ada satu permasalahan lagi nih, ga semua orang tau apa passionnya. Some people are like born to be this and that. Deddy Cobuzier for example. Dalam salah satu TV shownya, dia cerita kalo dari kecil dia udah suka sama magic, di saat anak-anak lainnya mungkin bermain hal umum yang lain. Lalu ada satu orang yang somehow adalah kenalan keluarganya yang adalah seorang magician. Belajarlah Deddy ke orang ini. Sampe orang tuanya marah ke orang ini karena nilai akademiknya Deddy jadi anjlok. Tapi si orang ini cuma bilang ke orang tuanya Deddy, "ya iyalah nilai dia anjlok, he was born to be a magician, never an academician". Masalahnya, bung, gampang aja orang-orang bilang kerja di passion lo dong biar happy, tapi ga semua orang born that way! Most of us didn't know where to put our step. CURANG kan?! Emang iya. Liat deh poinnya, Deddy ini lahir dengan udah punya kesukaan yang mendalam terhadap sesuatu dan actually dia bisa melakukan sesuatu itu good enough than anybody else. Apa namanya kalo bukan curang coba...

Nah terus yang nyebelin juga adalah, kebanyakan orang-orang sukses itu cuma ngasih tau kalo kita harus kerja di passion kita yang nenek-nenek idiot juga udah tau. Tanpa mereka ngasih tips dalam pencarian passion itu sendiri yang lebih jelas dari sekedar "ketemu banyak orang, lakuin banyak hal baru". Well, i did all that without you telling, man. Nah berangkat dari semua pemikiran itu yang gw yakin ga cuman gw yang ngerasain hal yang sama, gw mau sharing dikit tentang proses penemuan passion kita nih. Gw dapet ini setelah gw cerita-cerita sama salah satu director di kantor gw. Dan gw rasa tips yang dia kasih cukup bisa diaplikasikan secara step by step, ga ngawang dan absurd. So here we go.

Three steps to be followed in order to help you find your passion:
1. Find your five top values in life
As mine are: flexible, balance, love, money and appearance.
2. Find three things that makes you thrilled for the last two months
Mine are inspiration by Ironman 3 movie, discovery by my last traveling to Santolo Beach and value-adding by my new role as senior associate in my office.
3. Ask in mind, what could it be? The work that could make you achieve number 1 & 2.

As simple as that. GOOD LUCK MATE!

the time will come

Specialty. Sesuatu yang membedakan satu orang dengan orang lainnya. Seperti yang kita tahu, sudah sejak beberapa tahun terakhir media twitter menjadi salah satu media yang sangat mendominasi dunia maya. Lewat media inilah terbaca satu fenomena baru di mana banyak pengguna twitter yang menyatakan betapa mereka bosan dengan hidupnya dan merasa tidak spesial dalam tweet mereka berikut "tomorrow is boring..", "somehow i just feel ordinary", "if tomorrow is the end of the world, maybe that's better", etc. To be honest i never feel the emotions or feelings contained in that tweets. Beberapa orang mungkin akan kesulitan untuk memahami perasaan dari si pemilik akun twitter tersebut, but in fact setelah mengobservasi beberapa pengguna twitter yang menyampaikan tweet sejenis, terdapat satu kesamaan yang sifatnya general di antara mereka semua.

Dengan sederhana tweet mereka dapat dimaknai secara harafiah. Sesuai dengan yang mereka nyatakan dalam akun twitter-nya, mereka merasa ordinary, kemungkinan besar karena mereka tidak memiliki keterampilan khusus yang dapat membedakan eksistensi mereka dari orang lain. Selain keterampilan khusus, mereka juga sort of tidak memiliki hal yang mereka senangi untuk mereka lakukan. Hal yang mereka akan rela untuk melakukannya sendirian. Hal yang mereka tidak perlu menunggu saat yang tepat untuk melakukannya, but instead hal itu adalah hal yang dapat membuat hal lain dalam hidup mereka menunggu.

Selain itu, ketika ditilik lebih lanjut, kebanyakan dari mereka juga adalah individu yang typically selalu membatasi diri mereka sendiri, instead of wildly let themselves free. Jadi suatu saat, ketika mereka mengeluh bosan, mereka akan menyampaikan berjuta alasan untuk menolak berbagai tawaran yang diajukan untuk membantu menghilangkan kebosanan mereka. Dalam hal ini, ada banyak alasan yang melatarbelakanginya, bisa gengsi, malas atau bisa jadi karena terlalu takut untuk keluar dari comfort zone.

Yang jelas, entah karena faktor yang mana, kebosanan dan perasaan menjadi manusia yang tidak spesial adalah dua hal yang tidak mengenakkan untuk dirasakan (sepertinya). Dan kalau dengan memiliki specialty, passion, hobby or whatsoever you may call it kita dapat meniadakan dua perasaan tersebut, maka it is worth to be looked for.

Keep looking, because eventually your time will come if you at least keep looking. Good luck, people!

keep doing it

Recently, i was being asked to write two articles for two different occasions and places. First, in Lemariage Magazine. It is a wedding magazine and i've got rubric relationship for me to write. Second, there is this bulletin some of women in my office would build, and i was being asked to write an article for them. It is quite an experience for me although the first one is more challenging, emm maybe i was just more liking it. Soon, i hope two of them will be published and i'll get the preview for you.

Keep doing what you like, people.

Cheers!
Alice Ayu

new-post-button

everytime i wear this earphone, running this songs list from my i-Tunes and click the new post button on my blog page, i feel different. i feel that i am so much different from anybody else. i feel special. the truth is, we all are special until sometimes at some point, somewhere inside our body says that we're not and it keep saying that until we believe that we're no different. many times ago, i was somebody far away from i am now. i could say that i am better than i was before. for me, it's not all fair if we are allowed to say "we get better" only after we compare ourselves to another. instead, we could compare ourselves to ourselves before.

i never know how many people coming by to my blog and reading my post. it wont change anything anyway. even the truth that nobody is reading wont broke me, because no matter what, i do something about something i like. so dont be afraid of loosing. you're being a looser only if you are too afraid to do something you like. fail is not when you're trying and it doesnt work. fail is when you're not trying at all.

ciao.
aliceayu.

interest it is

So many times i took to talk about passion. I thought, maybe the writing is too difficult to be understood. For some of you maybe? And i just thought, why dont i just use the word interest instead of passion.

Maybe my face will bright so much if you ask me to talk about life, love, dream, passion, religion and God, nature and world, but yours maybe not. So what i need you to do is to find your things, your interests that could make your face turns into sweet pink while you talk about it.

Cheers!
Alice Ayu

A point where i cried

This is the first time I cried so bad about something unworthy to be cried about.
This is the first time I felt so injured in my heart.
This is my handwriting and this is my story.
Im not brilliant or something but I know myself well and also love myself well, and it makes me able to do a lot of brilliant things.
And if you though that I am proud of myself, I am. What makes me not to? Or are you not becos youre just…..bad? Well, but I am not bad, because I am not you.

And if you ever once think that my wants to tell the world to please remember their dreams is only a matter of showoff thing, you are wrong. Totally. It is me begging all of you to chase your dream. Why? Because you have no idea how happy I am when I take a time to write, and I want all of you to feel it too. Because it isn’t fair if it is only me. I want all of you to feel proud about yourself to have something that you are really good at. Because it is amazing, because it raised up your confidence. Because it makes you feel as ‘someone’; it makes you feel valuable and useful as a human being. It makes you feel different or unique, not ordinary. Basically, it makes you SPECIAL.

This is why it is all about im telling you..

And if as all you can see from this is still about how arrogant I am, then maybe youre just not born to be a winner.

p.s: thank you for you having a lack of personality, cause it only makes mine looked better.

Attainment.

Hi, readers. Sorry for no writing for these couple weeks, I was on my have-no-idea mode recently. Ooh, by the way, are you a teenager? I mean like 18 – 23 years old? You, yes you! If you are, just take a look yourself for a moment and think about what have you done in life. I am 20, and since last June (since my 20^th birthday) I have so many (or lets say too many) thoughts about attainment, about achievement. Well, I have blog, maybe about 20 something people read it, but there are plenty thousands maybe billions people in this universe have much much much more adorable blog! I can write, but who doesn’t?! And just like that, the thoughts keep going on and on and on, till me get embarrassed, but also enthusiastic. The more I be ashamed, the more I high-spirited to reach some attainments.

These days, there are heaps of teenagers who are great in doing their things; music, dance, writing, and so on. Keep moving to the greatest, fellas! And for you who haven’t find your things yet, find it soon, it ‘ll make yourself more human and alive and feel valuable. And the most important thing is knowing that in the beginning it’s not for others, it’s just for you yourself.

p.s: huge! by this 1st of December I’ll be a part timer at the back office of V Hotel and Residence, Bandung. I’m so excited and happy, because actually I always want to make some money for myself. so, wish me luck there, ciao, xo.