super

last saturday night, i was abandoned at home, alone together with boyfriend. scrambling through button after button on remote control, i accidentally dropped at mario teguh(mt)'s show on o channel. i used to see the show once in a while simply for mt's bold masculine voice (and old-yet-charismatic hotties have always been on my list of interests). tonight it was a rerun, and although i'm not an avid sucker of self-help stuff except, nowadays, ones for career development, private business building, pre-wedding consultation.. ok, so i need a new personality, anyways i supposed boyfriend could dig that kind of (business-counseling) show, so we watched it.

perhaps it was boyfriend's enthusiastic manner that contaminated me so that i kinda felt a bit enlightened because of mt's super (this is his original lame term) advise and tips. i only cite some that gave me a pang on the chest. here are the excerpts:

1. make a positive short-limited insistence to self. he made an example, common people would typically say, "my target is to be rich by the of age 40." he asked us, which one do you prefer: a task with short or long deadline? if we chose long deadline, let's say a week, that mean would we would have to bear the burden for one week long. but if the deadline's only a day, then a day is all we need to be liberated from that burden. so accordingly, we should shorten our targeted success or 'happy' period, to make us motivated and also rushed.

2. see our job or mundane tasks as a part of something big and noble, instead of seeing it as a monotonous and insignificant thing that we have to do merely for the sake of money. example, X says "my job is to put a brick next to another", Y says, "my job is to build a wall," while Z says, "i'm gonna make a beautiful home where children and a family can stay and live a happy life." so in conclusion, we gotta try to behave like Z.

3. if you're living a job where the condition or the work nature corners you into the state of depression and bad performance, you should not quit it. at least dont quit it when you're performing badly. you should quit when you can prove that the company needs you to do the job.

and boyfriend went, "hear, hear."

hmm let's see... bigger and more noble picture about programming is... what? to make this company sells more tractor?