10 guides to Excellent LIFE

1. ***** PASSION, PASSION, PASSION.
WOW-projects, obsessions, the love that was tainted with insanity!
YOU GOTTA WANT IT BAD ENOUGH and Heaven Forgive! YOU WILL FIND A WAY TO GET IT. Passion is the SINGLE most important factor is any type of SUCCESS! If you do not have it, forget it, do your regular-works, which will usually amount to nothing special.

2. ***** FREE YOUR MIND, BREAK THE RULES.
In the crazy times like this, it requires the crazy attitudes to succeed. To break the barrier, to try something different and special. To WOW! and to destruct. The times of revolutionary. Creative approach toward business (and LIFE!) is more important now than ever. And believe me, INNOVATIONS are in a very short supply, so if you do GET IT, go and BANG!

3. ***** BE DISTINC.
The new millennia needs a Distinct Brand You, something special. Do you have it? Can you explain why YOU (and not your friends or competitors) SHOULD SUCCEED? The world is insanely competitive, -me-too- products and services are all over the places. If you are not DISTINCLY DIFFERENT and INSANELY GREAT, you will get nowhere fast. The Market Place does not need anything usual, but it cry out for that SPECIAL SOMEONE or SOMETHING that can deliver EXELLENCE, and nothing less that that.

4 ***** TAKE INITIATIVES.
**Dive in, Head First, Eyes Wide Open**. The era of READY-SHOOT!-AIM is here to stay. Time is sliced into nanoseconds and we are always at the deadline! Decisions can not wait, and you got to do it now, do it fast and move on. Things change in real-time, we manage in real-time. There is no place for reconsideration and rethinking. Time is sacredly valuable, it is YOUR MOST PRECIOUS CAPITAL. Be stingy about it. **Good things come to those who relentlessly pursue them. Waiting is for bus stops.** (Mario Vittone). Take initiative, be proactive, JUMP IN, NOW !

5. ***** FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITIES, NOT PROBLEMS.
We always have problems, difficulties and the minors of any services, let it be solved the best way by them, WE FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITIES, we seek the 10 times way to do things better, incrementalism is a goner, jump-start is in!. We create new way of doing business, we seek a striking change to do things W-A-Y BETTER! Do not waste our precious energy (even when we got that animalistic energy in our vein, save it!) on mundane and trivial things. Focus!

6. ***** GROW YOUR NETWORK.
Friends, friends, friends, the best WEAPON one can have in the path toward success. We have to grow our network, our friends, our chain of links. There is professionalism, there is ability, skill, hard works, but still the FRIENDS that will help you when you need some helps (and believe me, every too often you WILL NEED THEM!). Sweetness and willingness are the keys. Mutual benefit, mutual trust. We need them and they need us. Grow your network religiously.

7. ***** LEARNING.
I hate people who is LAZY TO LEARN, it sucks! What are they thinking? The world stand still? EVERY SECONDS, new inventions emerge, new technology evolve, and NOBODY can have enough. LEARN, LEARN, LEARN. By PRIORITY, by PASSION. The world is now an open book, what it really need is only OUR APETIDE to digest it.

8. ***** GO INTERNET.
Yes, The net changed the world of business with more force that the rock that offed the dinosaurs. YOU GOTTA BE INVOLVE, nOw!

9. ***** HAVE FUNS!
Life is already too bitter, too grey, to scary to live by. Yet we want to LIVE OUT LOUD, so FUN! is mandatory! With the war among the frighteningly smarts, the wacky brilliance, the guys with the animal energy, the monumentally impatiens, we GOTTA HAVE FUN when we FIGHT ahead. Sometimes even the best is not good enough, so Fail if we must (at least we tried!), and we have all the FUN! along the way. THAT relieve me.

10.***** TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY.
What has to be done today, has to be done today. Tomorrow has its own worries, its own works and its own projects. DO IT TODAY, DO IT NOW! Do Not Delay!

Life at the fast-lane is sometimes exhilarating, but always exhausting. Only PASSION is likely to see us through the 18 hour day, month after month, and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the success process.

Tanadi Santoso.
from the old archive, this note is almost 10 year old.