your time is limited so don,t waste it living someone else's life

sometime life going to hit you with the head with a brick
don't lose faith. I'm conviced that the only thing that
kept me going was that I love what I did
......and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do
what you belive is great work and the only way to do great
work is to love what you

your time is limited so don,t waste it living someone else's life
don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other
pepole's thinking
don't let the noise of others opinions drowned out you own inner voice
and most important have the corage to follow your heart an intuition

they somehow already know what you truly want to become
everything else is secondary

7 Principles of Entrepreneurship the CiputraWay

7 Principles of Entrepreneurship the CiputraWay

The 7 Principles :

Definition

Purposes

Traits

Roles

Strategies of Learning

Essential Subjects

Dr. Ir. Ciputra's 7 Questions

  

1 Definition

 Entrepreneurs transform TRASH into GOLD (Dr. Ir.Ciputra)

  

2 Purposes

 Entrepreneurial Person

  Entrepreneurial Community or Organization/State

3 Traits

Innovation

Opportunity Creation

Calculated Risk Taking

4 Roles

 Business Entrepreneur

  Academic Entrepreneur

  Government Entrepreneur

  Social Entrepreneur

5 Strategies of Learning

 Creative Critical Constructive Imagination

  Entrepreneurial Real Life Experience

  Educative Disequilibrium Conditioning

  Coaching and Mentoring with Collaboration and Competition

  Community and Market Impact and Involvement

6 Essential Subjects

 Essential Marketing

  Entrepreneurship Operational Management

  Entrepreneurship Life Skill

  Ethics & Ethos

  Entrepreneurship Financial Literacy

  Essential Business Plan

Dr. Ir. Ciputra's 7 Questions

 Are you Passionate?

  Do you see a big opportunity creatively to serve the market (a possible Blue Ocean Business)?

  Do you have an innovative product that your market can not say no?

  Do you have the capacity to market the product effectively?

  Do you have the capacity to make the product available efficiently?

  Do you know the cheapest way and the least risk to get the "gold" of the opportunity?

  Do you dare to take the risk of hard-work, financial risk and mental risk?

Catatan Penting Entrepreneur Invasion 2012

How to Get Rich / Bagaimana Menjadi Kaya

Getting Rich Through a Career

1. 1
   Excel academically. Whether it's a four year college or vocational training, most successful people pursue further education beyond high school. In the early stages of a career, your employers have little to go off besides your educational background. Pursue an appropriate degree.
2. 2
   Choose the right profession. Look at research survey salaries which indicate average annual incomes for specific professions. Your odds of getting rich are way less if your pursue a career in teaching than a career in finance.
3. 3
   Choose the right location. Go where the good jobs are. If you want to pursue finance, for example, there are far greater opportunities in NYC than in Kansas.
4. 4
   Get an entry-level job and work your way up. Play the numbers game. Apply to many places and conduct many interviews. When you get your job, stick with it to get the experience you need to advance.
5. 5
   Change jobs and employer. By changing your environment, you can increase your pay, experience different corporate cultures and reduce risk. Don't be afraid to do this many times. If you're a valued employee, it's also likely your current company may offer you a raise or other benefits if they know you're looking at leaving.

Getting Rich Through Investing

1. 1
   Invest your money in education. Go to universities and obtain degrees that are considered in your chosen profession. You sometimes have to spend money to make money. For example, if you're interested in business and obtain an MBA, the money you spent on that will likely earn itself back in a few years.
2. 2
   Put money in the stock market. Invest money in stocks, bonds, or other vehicles of investment that will give you an annual return on investment (ROI) that's enough to maintain you in your retirement. For instance, if you have one million dollars invested and you get a reliable 7% ROI, that's $70,000 per year!
3. 3
   Invest in real estate. Relatively stable assets like rental properties or potential development land in steadily growing areas is a good example. These are purchases whose value will likely increase over time. Your odds of that happening are better in some spots than other. For example, an apartment in Manhattan is guaranteed to increase over a five-year period.
4. 4
   Invest your time. For example, you might like having free time, so you give yourself a few hours a day to do nothing. But if you were to invest those few hours into getting rich, you could work towards having 20 years of free time (24 hours a day!) with early retirement. What can you give up now in exchange for being rich later?
5. 5
   Avoid purchases whose value is guaranteed to decline. Spending $50,000 on a car is usually considered a waste because it's a guarantee that it won't be worth that much in 5 years, regardless of how much work you put into it.
6. 6
   Stay rich. It's hard to get rich, but it's even harder to stay rich. Your wealth is always going to be affected by the market, and the market has its ups and downs. If you get too comfortable when times are good, you'll quickly drop back to square one when the market hits a slump. If you get a promotion or a raise, or if your ROI goes up a percentage point, don't spend the extra. Save it for when business is slow and your ROI goes down two percentage points.

Getting Rich Through Saving Money

1. 1
   Pay yourself first. This means before you go and blow your pay check on a new pair of shoes or a golf club you don't need, put money aside in to an account that you don't touch. Do this every time you get paid and watch your account grow.
2. 2
   Make a budget. Create a monthly budget that covers all your basic expenses and leaves a little bit of "fun" money aside. Do not go over this.
3. 3
   Downgrade on your car and house. Could you make do with an apartment instead of a house, or have roommates instead of your own place? Could you buy a used car instead of a new one and use it more sparingly? These are all ways to save a ton of money every month.
4. 4
   Cut expenses. Look at the ways you frivolously spend money and remove everything. For example, avoid going to Starbucks every morning. That $4 you spend on designer coffee every morning comes out to $20 per week, or $1,040 over the course of a year!

How can you attract more clients?

Times are hard.  But hard times are also opportunity time if you can help your clients achieve more with less.

In good times, businesses need more clients to grow and prosper.  In hard times that becomes an absolute imperative.

When you’re clear about what you do and the benefits you bring your clients, the next obvious question is “How can you attract more clients?”

It’s a given that every €, £ or $ has to work harder.  So how can you make that happen?

• Be totally clear on why a new client should buy from you
• Be totally clear on how you can recognise a good, new client
• Recognise that a majority of clients are looking for new and better ways of doing more with less.  How can you help them?
• Recognise that ultimately, differentiation come about from people.  Email and social media can only take you so far.  How do you sound to your clients?
• Be an expert in what you do.  Even a small effort to improve yourself applied consistently will make a big difference

What is your unique value?

It is such a simple question, yet at the same time such a hard question for most business people to answer.  So often the answer is coloured by what you’d like as opposed to the reality.

Often it’s easier to start with “What are clients buying and why?”  If you are honest and objective about coming up with an answer, it might surprise you.

When you get to the “Why” bit of that question, what sort of shape are your answers taking?  Are you talking about your capabilities, or the benefits they provide?

The sorts of things you should consider include:

• Are there things you’re doing that don’t have value to your clients?
• Are you doing enough of the things that do have value to your clients?
• What are the things you do that bring your clients and you the greatest returns?
• When you are talking with clients, are you talking about the things that really matter to them and they can instantly identify with?
• Are you sounding generic or focused?
• How can your sales and marketing messages be improved?
• Is your elevator pitch totally client focused?

Greatness Comes to Those Who Dare to Fail

There seems to be an increasing number of Indonesians that are interested in being entrepreneurs. Strong indicators of this interest are the numerous events that have popped up recently offering education, business forums and courses in entrepreneurship. Just last month alone, thousands of enthusiastic individuals flocked to two large entrepreneurship festivals in Jakarta and Bandung seeking knowledge and opportunities.
 
However, there are also thousands of people who pass up entrepreneurial opportunities for the same reason why people in general are reluctant to try something new in their life — the fear of failure.
 
Mankind has long been programmed with a natural desire to learn, improve or achieve something. This can be seen with the various technological advancements we have seen in the last two decades. Without this desire, we will still be living in the Stone Age. There are those, however, that have become too comfortable in their perceived comfort zone. Any change is taken negatively rather than positively, and taking a risk in something new is just not worth the disruption to their lives.
 
As such, you can expect a plethora of feeble excuses from these people to stay put and avoid the unknown: I’m not ready. I don’t have the time. I don’t have what it takes. I don’t have enough money. What will people say? How can I compete with others? 

And the biggest excuse for inaction would be: What if I fail?
 
It seems that fear of the unknown and worrying are fundamental aspects of being human. It is a natural instinct of self-preservation. However, it is best to change one’s mindset regarding failure. Fear of failure prevents us from trying new life experiences: a new hobby, a new relationship, a new business, etc. Luckily, self-limiting beliefs are not unbreakable. Fear can be overcome. Worry can be rationalized. Failure can be mitigated.
 
First and foremost, we need to wrap our head around the fact that we need failure in our lives. Failure gives us feedback in order to succeed. Every successful person I have known has failed one way or another. It is how they used failure as a learning experience to bounce back and become successful again that is the hallmark of a true entrepreneur. 

Steve Jobs was a shining example of being able to sustain failure. Today, we remember him for his turnaround at Apple and the introduction of life changing devices such as the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and the new iMac line of computers. However, few would remember him being forced out of a boardroom coup at Apple in 1985 after a run of bad products (the most notable being "Lisa," a computer that costs tens of millions to develop but was considered an epic fail), or his attempt at starting a competing company, NeXT which ended up as a flop — depending on which side you are standing on (Apple bought NeXT for $429 million in 1996 as part of the deal to hire Jobs back). As Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak mentioned in the Innovation and Creativity seminar in Jakarta last month, it was Jobs' failure in his previous stints that drove him to do better when he returned to the company he founded.
 
Secondly, for those who still tremble at the word "failure," try to refocus and re-classify failure as "practice" or "experimentation." A professional football player attempting to perfect a trick would have to practice it hundreds of times first during training sessions before daring to try it out on the big stage. Each of these practices are actually miniature failures — from the feedback he gets, he will attempt to either replicate the same action or change the way he is doing it in order to achieve the desired result. 

Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid FC is a perfect example of this. Many laud his God-given talent on the pitch, but few know of the number of hours he puts in after training each day practicing his craft to fulfill his ambition of being the world’s best. If we can do the same with our lives and keep practicing until we succeed, then every single failure we have brings us closer to our goal.
 
Finally, we need to manage and learn from failure. Know your limits and fail within the "safety zone," that is, when failure occurs, it is not catastrophic or affects your life in an adverse manner. You also need to stand up to failure. Analyze what created that failure and treat it as a life lesson. Don’t run away from it and try to bury your head in the sand like an ostrich. Most of all, never be afraid to attempt again. I like to think the cost of failure is akin to your "tuition fee." By making mistakes and failing, you are gathering life experiences that give you the insight to improve and become a better person.
 
Be it in business or in everyday life, if we dare ourselves to be a little bit more adventurous, confront our fear, muster the courage to try a few simple but new things or to pursue your true calling and savor the ups and downs, you will eventually succeed. You will also feel empowered and in control because you took the opportunity and gave it a try. After all, we all need to get around the fact that failure is part of life, and is also a necessary step towards success. Once you dare to fail, you are on your way to success.
 
Brandon Chia is Chairman of HDI Group of Companies and recently assigned to oversee the business unit in Indonesia.