Melaka, June 2022
– Jumps @ Kuala Sungai Baru, Melaka, Malaysia, 4th June 2022
– Sunset @ Encore Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia, 5th June 2022
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Motivation and Momentum
Last week one of my Mastermind Group members in our long lunch meetup (every 2 months) suggested that we have an accountability call once a week, where we tell each other our progress of what weekly plan we shared the previous week, then declare the following week’s plan.I immediately agreed. So he and I will start on 27th May 2022 (Friday) 8am, and every Friday 8am. We invited the other 3 members of the Mastermind Group to join the call, too.Although I review my monthly plan with my own coach every month, I jumped on this idea from the Mastermind member because my “weekly reviews” that I do by myself have not been consistent, especially with a family emergency I had in April and then Raya (Eid) break in May. I know that my motivation and momentum are at peak when I am consistent with weekly reviews.In 2019-2020 when a friend and I were building new daily habits for ourselves, we WhatsApp-messaged each other our day’s scores before we go to bed. Sometimes we miss a night, but this went on for about 4 months till we were okay to be on our own. 😊With my wife, for more than 6 years now we go on regular off-site quarterly retreats that are both a break from home-life and also "review" time. She reviews her past quarter plan and she builds her next quarter plan. As a couple, we also use those retreats to review and plan what we call our Couple Plan of common things between the two of us. ❤️When lockdown came, physical quarterly retreats had not been possible so we decided to do it every 6 months now. Post-lockdown, we feel once in 6 months is fine because we are at "steady-state" now.Us doing our couple planning (annual and interim) for me was inspired by my late mentor, who with her husband every Friday night dinner had a ritual of their weekly (individual and couple) reviews. What a ritual!An “extreme” ritual would be by one of top coaches in the world, Marshall Goldsmith who nightly reports his checklist of questions on a call to someone he hires just to listen! See: https://marshallgoldsmith.com/articles/how-to-get-better-at-almost-anything/Image below: Some of my to-do's -
“Quantum leap your life!”
Robbin Khoo says, "Quantum leap your life!"
@ Pantai Minyak Beku, Batu Pahat, Johore, Malaysia
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Exploring Self-Directed Learning
LEARNING ALL OVER THE PLACE!
“What is the biggest challenge in learning?
– I didn’t know whether I learned enough, I did not systematically apply and learn and review and adjust or look for new information, new experts and whatnot. So I was all over the place.”Thank you to Charmaine Yeap Xun Fang for interviewing me for her research title, “Exploring Adult Learner’s Self-Directed Learning Characteristics for Lifelong Learning in Their Professional Career.”
View the 0.5-hour video of the interview (Exploring Self-Directed Learning) above.
In the interview I shared how self-directed learning can become highly effective by taking 7 steps: find, inspect, delve, practice, review, achieve, and wrapped in a project management plan!
I thank again Johan Irwan Kamarozaman for introducing to me the field of “heutagogy” for me to make sense of my self-learning. He shared with me the valuable book, “Self-Determined Learning: Heutagogy in Action” edited by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon.
Another reference that I found is technically detailed, yet a useful book to further guide me in my self-learning: “Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective” by Luc P. Beaudoin.
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Picard on FEAR
In Season 2, Episode 6 of Star Trek: Picard, Jean-Luc Picard’s wisdom comes from his mother, Yvette Gessard-Picard! In this intriguing time travel twist, he appeases his great-great -aunt, Renée Picard about fear.
Sometimes those who shine the brightest feel the sting of fear and melancholy in ways that others can never understand — Jean-Luc Picard
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Picard needs a breakthrough
Even the great Picard needs a breakthroughIn the heartMarch 2022 heralds Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard, yay! In episode 1 Guinan points out Picard’s final frontier to come. -
LinkedIn page – “Hasannudin Saidin – Malaysia Peers On Demand”
“Malaysia Peers On Demand” are weekly (Wednesday, 2-3pm MYT) events for professional peers to get to know each others’ businesses, get ideas, give ideas, make new connections, look for collaborations.
They are free, online (Zoom), 1-hour sessions.
Consider participating, promoting or showcasing your business in these events.
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Nostalgia and The Experience Economy
Photo: Marsila and I, together with hosts Aziz, Asiah and Azam on our last day yesterday
What makes a guest of SukaSuka Lake Retreat in Lenggong, Perak, Malaysia go and stay there 68 times?
As for me, the first reason I became first-time guest there until yesterday was to reunite with the owner, Aziz as he had been the manager who hired me into the first company I worked at. Having not met him for more than 35 years, we could reminisce.
My second reason was to experience the Malay kampung (village) setting he had created. Boy, was that nostalgic! Dinners taken seated on the floor, the assortment of Malay food that triggered my childhood memories and tongue sensations of my grandma’s and mom’s dishes and how they were prepared, the Malay house architectural design quirks, the sleeping in the mosquito net with just the fan on, the utensils and artifacts that I could have sworn were taken from my grandma’s house, and more.
As a bonus, there is the scenic lake and with choice of all the activities that can be enjoyed lakeside and on the lake! And not forgetting taking a boat ride to the other (original) part of the retreat: the island recluse.
When Aziz Manaf and Asiah Mohd Ridzuan left city life, they went "off grid living" to become Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Crusoe on this island, much to the surprise of everyone, and later started taking in guests into small chalets.
They built the lakeside (i.e. on mainland) Malay village later when it was less practical to send son Azam to school travelling from the island.
Aziz said his guest who has been there 68 times gave him feedback that the number one reason the guest comes back is the consistency!
Other guests report how they feel the authenticity of not only the setting of nature and culture, but mostly of Aziz, Asiah and Azam. I certainly felt this family of three’s heartful hospitality. After all, as Aziz said, they are merely sharing their lifestyle.
Other than those 2 lessons in superior customer experience, I notice that despite their inventory of hundreds of stories (culture, history, archeology, agriculture, etc., etc.) and lots of permutations of what guests can do, their itinerary and stories for guests are made just enough (truly customised) for the variety of guests.
Aziz says he is not staging anything. I say he is a master stager.
Of course the overseas guests (80% of their guests) get more activities and stories on Malay culture, but yet curated to not becoming overwhelming.
As an aside, I found 17-year-old Azam the son to be highly matured, confident and intelligent, thanks to the guests from 130 countries over the years whom I regard as “bringing international school to Azam” in the retreat.
For a Malay kampung boy like me, I got a dosage of nostalgia, laced with stories that appealed to my wife, Marsila and I such as the the area’s history including the 11,000 year-old “Perak Man” and the 1.8million-year-old stone axe found nearby.
For other Malaysian guests, they get varying degrees of deeper appreciation of Malay culture.
As I was about to check out from our 4 days, 3 nights stay, a few teachers walked into the retreat to verify what they had read, as they were organising a trip for their school children to come and better understand Malay culture. I think the teachers really got it.
Aziz says it is experiential tourism.
Joe Pine (co-author, The Experience Economy) and Santhakumaran Atmalingam (Founder, CX Expert Asia) will do a better job than me to unravel more than just the 3 lessons I highlighted.
Me, I wrote in their guestbook that I’ll go there 68 more times (despite there being no air conditioning and only patchy internet).
Other photos of Marsila and I there can be found at the Facebook Page of SukaSuka Lake Retreat:
– https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158181268411755&id=27071046754
– https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158183308206755&id=27071046754
– https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158181280941755&id=27071046754
I also did a Google review with 10 photos to accompany the same words as above:
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Hasan Saidin Brief with Jeffrey Tan, Pathfinder at Life Trek
My brief interview on 9th February 2022 with Peers On Demand member, Jeffrey Tan, Pathfinder at Life Trek.
To become a member of Peers On Demand, join any of our events. Then if you’d like, request to me for a brief interview.
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“Accelerating Career Growth”
“Accelerating Career Growth” was the topic that I was interviewed on by Sabrina Alya (https://www.facebook.com/sabrinaa.alyaa) and her colleagues in “University of Malaya Accounting Club” (thank you, UMAC!). I responded to their many questions with my opinions and stories. 😊
Here is Sabrina & team’s 5-minute excerpt of my responses to a few of the questions.
The full 50-minute interview is here:
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