Cherry's Note
Do the things that worth for you to do!
Jonathan Yabut
“Never think that you are too small to dream big”
To success, you need a vision that enables to direct you into the right track in achieving your goal! In your life, people often being dilemma in between 2 choices. We often find out difficult to make a decision is due to the lack of envisioning that has in their life, in terms of what we want to gain. In short, don’t underestimate the decision that you are going to make. In additional, every small or big decision that you have made today, will eventually bring you to the path on who you are today or in future.
Straight away, here are the few tips that he has shared for an hour session about how he commit to the goal that he has in order to be the winner of Apprentice Asia:
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Preparation + opportunity = SUCCESS
“You don’t have to be the smartest people to win, but the most prepared person.”
He claimed himself as the people who is always prepared to every week challenge that is offered by the TV Show. He keeps himself both physically and emotionally in a good condition, so that he is able to perform well. To add on, he believes that by doing sufficient preparation and when the opportunity knocks the door, ultimately it will lead to the SUCCESS pathway. As what he did during the competition, he used to stalk and research about AirAsia, the CEO’s and other candidate’s background to know how he can work with them better. As by only know how to work well with people, then we can do the work as an efficient and effective team.
2. It is the same important as to determine what to do and what not to do.
Everyone in this world has been given the same amount of time which is 24 hours to achieve their goal. It is impossible for everyone if they would like to achieve several things at once. Therefore by doing priority, people will know what to focus and what to abandon. It is never a good thing to say “YES“ to all the opportunities that is available out there, there must be some part that you have to let it go. He adds on, there is a worst situation whereby, if someone insists to do a lot of thing on his plate at the same, it will end up by completing nothing in his life, unless he is capable and manage to cope with it.
p/s: It has been supported by Pareto Rule (80/20) where out of all the customer that buy your product, only 20 of them are the one that contribute to 80 percent of the sales of the company. Again, focus on that 20 customer that contribute the most and remember that Quality over Quantity.
To end the session, here the words goes,
“You never have to be in great condition when you just started, but you have to be start to be great!” .
3. Stand out and Stand Back
In Jonathan’s case, during challenge period, he is rarely taken any project manager position and instead giving it to the volunteer who is willing to take the responsibility.
In analogy of football team, we can assume that whereby a leader consider success in leading if the team still able to survive and gain a score even without their leader in the football field. In the other way round, leadership failure portrayed is once the leader is not in the field and the whole team is going to collapse and lose immediately from the opponent player.
It is all about on how the leader has to maintain its team, even without being there to assist, also is about on how leader can keep their legacy too.
5. GRIT – Recipe to Success
It is about the Passion and Perseverance that someone has if they really want to achieve something. People end up to achieve their goal is due to the high desired and interest that they have in their mind (it must be something that you have passionate on over the time) and the persistence (as a fuel for them to continue their tough pathway to the success track).
4. Work Smart, Not Hard
People tend to feel being proud when they are actually being the earliest to the office and being the latest one to leave the office. However, it’s not all about the effort and time that you have spent, but is about how effective and efficient in completing the particular task.People is smart when they are able to complete the given task in a well-mannered, at the same time able to connect themselves with their loved ones. They are able to divide themselves in a proper way, so that they are able to enjoy their life and not only do it for the sake of doing it. Therefore, here comes to the term of “being productive or being busy!”
