Actually the main purpose of my cycling is, God willing, to help me stay fit and healthy so that I can see my grandsons, Hyder (4 years old this year) and Huzayl (8 months old now) graduate from university and start working.
I wonder whether “university” will still be relevant in future for them. Anyway, let me live long enough to celebrate them starting to “work,” a concept I also cannot predict 20 years from now!
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I was a guest of Faz Kamar and Nurul Fathiyah Muen in a live-streaming show for a bookchat on Adam Grant's book, "Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drive Our Success."
Poster courtesy of Nurul Fathiyah Muen
Haslinda asked a question ahead of the bookchat, “Can we give too much?”
We certainly can, but at what cost?
Once upon a time from the giver perspective, I did give too much. At the cost of me collapsing then being driven to the emergency room of Putrajaya Hospital!
I wanted to be hero. I took on a 3-day training assignment at short notice. Ahead of and during the assignment I kept “perfecting” the training materials so slept little. That drained me.
Lessons learned. I could have still delivered excellent training without burning myself out. I could have earlier insisted on more complete materials from the training provider. Or even have declined the assignment. I could also have had a healthier lifestyle of exercise that could have made me hardy and fit for the physical demands of the assignment.
View the video for the full story and our discussion on the book's Chapters 1 to 4:
Video courtesy of Faz Kamar and FazForward Facebook Page. I merely added the intro and outro music.
Intro and outro music are from this song:
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How do we face our worries and anxieties over the Covid-19 situation? As a human being in danger, fight or flight? Accept and acknowledge it first. Acknowledge that it is a feeling. Feelings will pass. Then only we can be in action, instead of wallowing in the feelings.
Watch the 1.5-minute video:
Related videos:
1. Video of my Part 1 contribution to the webinar (7 minutes): https://youtu.be/fuxDsyty_aA
2. Video of my Part 2 contribution to the webinar (5 minutes): https://youtu.be/Qbth3TQp0OU
3. Video of the full webinar (1 hour): https://youtu.be/GuZdqQ_tqC0
Credits:
1. Cheryl Witha and Siow San Yee for organising the webinar
2. My coach, Jeanne Sharbuno who reminded me, "This will pass…"
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This is Part 1 of my contribution to the panel session webinar in the M E Series organised by Cheryl Witha and Siow San Yee.
This part (7 minutes) has me giving my response to Moderator Cheryl on the question on acknowledging feelings and taking care of well being during the Covid-19 situation
Further reading:
Is there a right way to worry about coronavirus? And other mental health tips, by Miranda Bryant, The Guardian
Siow San Yee's takeaway from participating in the Thriving Workshop, and my further comments
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In collaboration with Enible, I am happy to share my knowledge on a host of topics, either to public audiences or at in-house organization events. Each talk is up to 90 minutes.
The topics listed here are readily available and customizable. Contact me by emailing to hasan@rubah.my or messaging me at my mobile phone +60122003251 for your requests, including to explore with me topics that are not listed.
The topics listed here are in categories of:
I am adding more categories and topics.
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Level Up Through Self Leadership
Category: Developing Self
The overarching mission of self leadership is to become a better person. That “better person” is subjective to your individual vision for yourself. It is a process through which you control your own behaviour, influence and lead yourself through the use of specific sets of behavioural and cognitive strategies. Self leadership is to set, act on, and reach for your dreams. It is to become who you want to become in a healthy way.
Think Further
Category: Developing Self
How effective and efficient is your cognitive process? Are you aware of your unconscious biases? How do you self-regulate your thought process? Understanding the process of thinking, being metacognitive and applying cognitive standards will help you think effectively, think clearly and think further in your daily work.
Optimize Time
Category: Developing Self
Time and energy management is a crucial component to daily productivity. Allocating and prioritizing time ensures that you manage and deliver to your goals and objectives. In this program, you will discover simple methodologies that will allow you to maximize productivity by gauging and leveraging your energy levels.
Growth With Feedback
Category: Developing Self
In communications, feedback (and feedforward) is an important component for growth. In the “four levels of learning,” feedback is a means to create awareness of a blind spot. Once this blind spot is conscious, one develops actions and becomes competent through discovery.
Have Your Best Year Yet
Category: Developing Self
The coming 12 months, whether or not is the calendar year, is a significant period to achieve your professional and personal goals. You do have the inner wisdom to make them happen. You can be spirited to enter the coming 12 months, and based on that, be able to systematically implement your actions towards realizing your best true self.
Influence Stakeholder Management
Category: Working With Others
“No man is an island.” All projects require inputs from surrounding sources. Most of the time we are dependent on others for support, investment and resources. Stakeholder analysis is a process that we adopt to better understand the stakeholders and help ourselves to meet our short-term and strategic goals.
Manage Conflict and Group Thinking
Category: Working With Others
Groupthink refers to a process of group dynamics where when people experience illusions of righteousness and invincibility. This typically applies when you are involved in cohesive groups and feel overridden to consider alter stereotypical behaviour. In some of these cases conflicts may arise due to the behaviours experienced in group thinking.
Network to Connect
Category: Working With Others
Networking builds up your social capital. This is accomplished by expanding your industry contacts when you attend networking events and conferences both locally and internationally. In a networking moment, it is most effective to adopt a toward state and apply effective mental models that allow both parties to remain in an engaged mode.
Have Your Team's Best Year Yet
Category: Working With Others
The coming 12 months for a team, whether or not is the calendar year, is a significant period to achieve your team goals. The team has the collective inner wisdom to make them happen. The team can be aligned and spirited to enter the coming 12 months, and based on that be able to systematically implement the team’s actions towards realizing the team’s true potential.
Email me at hasan@rubah.my or call/message me at +60122003251 for a conversation.
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Home Coach Hasan Learning Experiences
In collaboration with Enible, I am happy to share my knowledge on a host of topics, either to public audiences or at in-house organization events. Each talk is up to 90 minutes.
The topics listed here are readily available and customizable. Contact me by emailing to hasan@rubah.my or messaging me at my mobile phone +60122003251 for your requests, including to explore with me topics that are not listed.
The topics listed here are in categories of:
I am adding more categories and topics.
(Photos below are courtesy of unsplash.com)
Why Goals Don’t Work
Category: Developing Self
In the first place, why bother focusing on goals, KPI’s and the “destination”? Things are so unexpected and beyond our control, anyway! Shouldn’t we just focus on the journey, and not be so hung up on the destination?
In the second place, goals don’t work! At the start of the year we have resolutions. Along the way our effort towards these goals weaken or get side tracked. We achieve some goals, many more we don’t. The journey is complex!
Well, it has to do with our attitude. After that, the actions and effort are tied to habits.
Attitude + Action = Results (goals achieved or otherwise)
Level Up Through Self-Leadership
Category: Developing Self
The overarching mission of self-leadership is to become a better person. That “better person” is subjective to your individual vision for yourself. It is a process through which you control your own behaviour, influence and lead yourself through the use of specific sets of behavioural and cognitive strategies. Self-leadership is to set, act on, and reach for your dreams. It is to become who you want to become in a healthy way.
Think Further
Category: Developing Self
How effective and efficient is your cognitive process? Are you aware of your unconscious biases? How do you self-regulate your thought process? Understanding the process of thinking, being metacognitive and applying cognitive standards will help you think effectively, think clearly and think further in your daily work.
Optimize Time
Category: Developing Self
Time and energy management is a crucial component to daily productivity. Allocating and prioritizing time ensures that you manage and deliver to your goals and objectives. In this program, you will discover simple methodologies that will allow you to maximize productivity by gauging and leveraging your energy levels.
Growth With Feedback
Category: Developing Self
In communications, feedback (and feedforward) is an important component for growth. In the “four levels of learning,” feedback is a means to create awareness of a blind spot. Once this blind spot is conscious, one develops actions and becomes competent through discovery.
Have Your Best Year Yet
Category: Developing Self
The coming 12 months, whether or not is the calendar year, is a significant period to achieve your professional and personal goals. You do have the inner wisdom to make them happen. You can be spirited to enter the coming 12 months, and based on that, be able to systematically implement your actions towards realizing your best true self.
Influence Stakeholder Management
Category: Working With Others
“No man is an island.” All projects require inputs from surrounding sources. Most of the time we are dependent on others for support, investment and resources. Stakeholder analysis is a process that we adopt to better understand the stakeholders and help ourselves to meet our short-term and strategic goals.
Manage Conflict and Group Thinking
Category: Working With Others
Groupthink refers to a process of group dynamics where when people experience illusions of righteousness and invincibility. This typically applies when you are involved in cohesive groups and feel overridden to consider alter stereotypical behaviour. In some of these cases conflicts may arise due to the behaviours experienced in group thinking.
Network to Connect
Category: Working With Others
Networking builds up your social capital. This is accomplished by expanding your industry contacts when you attend networking events and conferences both locally and internationally. In a networking moment, it is most effective to adopt a toward state and apply effective mental models that allow both parties to remain in an engaged mode.
Have Your Team’s Best Year Yet
Category: Working With Others
The coming 12 months for a team, whether or not is the calendar year, is a significant period to achieve your team goals. The team has the collective inner wisdom to make them happen. The team can be aligned and spirited to enter the coming 12 months, and based on that be able to systematically implement the team’s actions towards realizing the team’s true potential.
FACILITATORS:
Hasannudin Saidin: linkedin.com/in/hasansaidin
Raymond Thomas: linkedin.com/in/raymondthomas
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When I wrote Part 1 (Delete Facebook — Breaking Up Is So Very Hard To Do) on April 01, 2018, I had just deleted (deleted permanently) my Facebook account after one month of having deactivated it and not opening it at all. With that permanent deletion, I continued being completely off Facebook for 2 more months. I was “cured.” After that, I went back to sign up a new Facebook account and used a new approach: I unfollowed all Facebook friends save a few.
Now that it has been 7 months after, I just finished reading Cal Newport's book, Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology. I read the e-book version from Kobo; the newly released book has a different sub-title so it’s called Digital Minimalism: Choosing A Focused Life In A Noisy World, but I’m sure the contents are the same. The reason I read the book was to see what else I could do to improve my optimal use of social media, and boy, did I find more explanations and ideas! I’ve already implemented several of Cal’s suggestions.
I am proceeding with Cal’s suggestion of being off social media and apps that are not of value to me, for 30 days.
So I have deactivated my Facebook account again yesterday. I also deleted my Instagram account, again. I have removed the following apps from my iPhone and iPad: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Pinterest. This round it’s not “so very hard to do” anymore as I had gone through the pains last year! It’s easy because I only followed a few Facebook friends; as for Instagram which I deleted last year and then signed up again, I have hardly opened it in the last few months, let alone post photos; Twitter I probably looked at once in 2 weeks anyway; Pinterest I don't think I opened in the last one year.
Other apps like Opportunity and Meetup, I really found no value in them, so they’re good riddance (deleted the apps) from my mobile devices; now I just need to delete the accounts.
I do regularly open Linkedln. For now I'll look at LinkedIn in the browser of my iPad once a week, on Friday. LinkedIn is the only exception I’m taking in observing this 30-day “fasting,” or as Cal calls it, digital declutter. Someone said that Cal Newport is the Marie Kondo of the digital space. Let’s see what unfolds for me in these 30 days.
One of Cal’s recommendations is to do physical “creation” activities in place of low-value social media scrolling. Okay, I’m off to tend to my garden now!
Related readings:
My “Part 1” post: Detete Facebook — Breaking Up Is So Very Hard To Do…
Eric Barker’s article on Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism book: How To Stop Wasting Time On The Internet
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