That's quite a cool picture huh.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Goal April 9
Goal April 9 - Verbal Agreement to Sale.
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And now, I shall make a judgemental pov of how to access the office culture in a potential hirer. It just came to my mind whilst reflecting on my cold calling today, so credibility is quite questionable, but here goes anyway. Make a cold call and pretend to want to sell something to the department you are applying to. If the person listens patiently and politely with sincere explanations of what they feel about your proposition, then that department has a warm environment with good team communication. Reason is that the constant liaising has imbued good social awareness and tolerance to unfamiliar ideas. However, if you receive a short, snide and curt retort, you'd better be the kind who likes peace and quietness with minimal communication.
As you can probably infer from my biased observations, I'm the kind who prefers cross-communication. There is a role for all types of personalities and I just sway to one side more at work. Of course, I actually do like solitude time as well. Who doesn't? It's energy sapping to be around people always. But watching the UK version of The Apprentice just now really brought back the memories of how much I wanted to do sales/marketing which involves the product development right up to the handshake to seal the deal. The fluidity, creativity, and autonomy.
Monday, April 05, 2010
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
I come home to watch a show, recorded over the weekend, and it just had to be a damn depressing one.
Jogged like a tortoise just now. I don't know. It's just a very depressing period I'm undergoing. Nothing seems to be really bright at the moment.
Work, love life, yada yada..
Occasional meetups with friends(and her) lend some respite. Most days, the drives to and fro work are the only good moments from the otherwise monotonous days. Damn it. I actually feel quite stressed up that I'm taking money from the company but not bringing in revenue. You know, it's like a relac one corner stress. Like you go to an old man half naked sprawled on a bench and ask him "wadsup ah pek?" and he replies "I'm damn stressed".
But anyway, the depressing show I watched is "seven pounds" and it's a really good show, albeit the already mentioned depressing aspect. Well, now that I'm typing this out, it just dawned on me that - Hey, it's okay to just be happy at the moment with someone even if there's no guarantees whatsoever. Ya know, you can plan a very happy future in your head but you never know what's going to happen tmr. So just appreciate whatever comes along everyday. Oh wow, I feel better already. I feel like a gal writing a diary now. What a wuss. I'll blast some trance in my car tmr.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!) | Video on TED.com
Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!) | Video on TED.com
He's right. And if anybody gives u a cynical reply, look at him/her and ask "Is he/she rich?"
Without a doubt, you want to take advice from a person with a good track record.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Sunday, February 07, 2010
Jump in
It's a lazy Sunday afternoon and I'm clearing the clogged up mailbox. Clicked open the Vault Weekly Career Update and scrolled down, browsing quickly, and these words by a certain Charles R. Swindoll caught my eye -
"The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind--jump in."
For a moment, I thought I was reading a Citibank email instead of a Vault one. I mean it makes sense right? The credit cards want us to have the experience now even though we cannot afford it. But no, it was in a Vault email. Somehow, that lent quite abit of credibility to the above quote.
You know, what this guy says holds substantial truth in it. You can wait and wait for the circumstances to be 100%, i.e. perfect, but the matter of fact is, we never have a 100% setting most of the time. Btw, I stole that "never a 100%" idea from the film, "Invictus".
In my opinion, luck really plays a part in alot of things. Whether you become rich, or become poor, luck is very important. It's indeed unnerving to leave things to luck when life is so precious. You can slog till the skin peels from your hands and you might still become a bankrupt. Does that make your hardworking attitude a negative tick off the statistics chart? No it doesn't. It's still a virtue, but you just had bad luck.
I believe it is important to acknowledge the luck factor, but still have a plan of where you want your road to head to. Walk the road you want, but if you fail, shrug it off and blame it on your bad luck. It'll help to soften the fall and pick yourself up faster.
Well if you ask me, luck is just a statistical game anyway. We just don't have the luxury of a million years lifetime to test each variation in course of action and will never know all the consequences of every action, so we just call it luck. If you lived forever, you wouldn't be relying on luck. You'd have all the time in the world to gain infinite experience to make a perfect choice, every single time.
"The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind--jump in."
For a moment, I thought I was reading a Citibank email instead of a Vault one. I mean it makes sense right? The credit cards want us to have the experience now even though we cannot afford it. But no, it was in a Vault email. Somehow, that lent quite abit of credibility to the above quote.
You know, what this guy says holds substantial truth in it. You can wait and wait for the circumstances to be 100%, i.e. perfect, but the matter of fact is, we never have a 100% setting most of the time. Btw, I stole that "never a 100%" idea from the film, "Invictus".
In my opinion, luck really plays a part in alot of things. Whether you become rich, or become poor, luck is very important. It's indeed unnerving to leave things to luck when life is so precious. You can slog till the skin peels from your hands and you might still become a bankrupt. Does that make your hardworking attitude a negative tick off the statistics chart? No it doesn't. It's still a virtue, but you just had bad luck.
I believe it is important to acknowledge the luck factor, but still have a plan of where you want your road to head to. Walk the road you want, but if you fail, shrug it off and blame it on your bad luck. It'll help to soften the fall and pick yourself up faster.
Well if you ask me, luck is just a statistical game anyway. We just don't have the luxury of a million years lifetime to test each variation in course of action and will never know all the consequences of every action, so we just call it luck. If you lived forever, you wouldn't be relying on luck. You'd have all the time in the world to gain infinite experience to make a perfect choice, every single time.
Personally, I feel the phrase "No Guarantees in Life" has helped me put things into perspective regularly.
Friday, January 15, 2010
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