I had many participants go through my training and coaching sessions on personal productivity, and I know others interested in the subject. Many want to connect with like-minded people.

So I am creating Productivity Mastermind Groups, and Group #1 is already running. Group #1's meetups are once every two months. This invitation is for Group #2 to be formed and have its first meetup. The ticket price here is for this first meetup for Group #2.

Folks who’ve been through my productivity trainings and coaching sessions, and others interested in productivity meet face-to-face, build connections, and get hot-seat advice from me and the other group members about hacking their productivity. Everyone will get their chance to talk about their productivity and get help from me and the group members. 

We start with a relaxed lunch at a nice restaurant at 12:00pm, then do a half-day-long (1:00pm – 5:00pm) mastermind session at neOOne Centre for Accelerated Learning in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur.

I will facilitate a group meetup of up to 8 members.

I will send you further details upon your ticket purchase.

Special offer: I am offering up to 1-hour free consultation on personal productivity, online over "Zoom," ahead of the meetup date of 21 July 2018, to the first 5 people who purchase tickets to this meetup.

Another special offer: I am offering a 30-minute free consultation to everyone interested in solving their issue on personal productivity. Sign up at: http://bit.ly/bookhasan

Book your ticket here: https://productivity-mastermind-group2.eventbrite.sg

Coach Hasan,
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If you’re interested to quickly find a solution to your personal productivity woes, I’ll give it to you in a free 30-minute video call. 😊

In this free-of-charge 30 minutes, I’ll be happy to provide my insights on personal productivity, help clarify any issue you may have, and build your solution and action plan. This way, you don’t have to go to trainings, read books, search the Internet and ask numerous people!

I offer this because I’m very experienced in productivity, coaching and training people on it. As well as that, I’ve been practicing my own system of productivity for more than 10 years. There’s high possibility you have your approach to personal productivity that needs tweaking to satisfy you. I can help you create your first actionable plan for free.

If you find the plan I create valuable, you might  want to become my client, i.e. be a Member of a Productivity Mastermind Group meeting up on 21 July 2018, ticket at RM290. (https://productivity-mastermind-group2.eventbrite.sg)

This is not me pushing you to buy the ticket! 😊 In fact, if you feel I’ve wasted your 30 minutes at the end of the video call, I’ll immediately transfer RM100 to your bank account! 😊

Please know that I can help selected people only. I can be of benefit to those who are open to sharing and learning, and committed to implement new ideas.

You can book the 30 minutes video call with me at this link: http://bit.ly/bookhasan

Hasannudin Saidin
Coach at Rubah

 

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I had many participants go through my training and coaching sessions on personal productivity, and I know others interested in the subject. Some want to connect to like-minded people. There are ways to create the connection and keep the connections, including in-person.

So I have created this Productivity Mastermind Meetup, on Saturday, 12 May 2018, 12:00pm to 5:00pm at a training centre I’ve selected in Taman Tun Dr. Ismail, Kuala Lumpur.

Folks who’ve been through my productivity trainings and coaching sessions, and also other productivity-interested people will meet face-to-face, build connections, and get hot-seat advice from me and the other group members about hacking their productivity. Everyone gets chances to talk about their productivity and get help from me and the group members.

We start with a relaxed lunch at a nice restaurant at 12:00 pm, then do a half-day-long (1:00pm – 5:00pm) mastermind session at the training centre.

I’d probably charge more in the future, but – as this would be a pilot offering – I’d price this one at RM200/member. (I’ll cover lunch and training centre rental.)

I will send you further details upon your ticket purchase.

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 I remember Dad.

I was probably 4-6 years old then. I’d be sitting sideways on the bar of the bicycle, between Dad on the bicycle seat pedaling away and the bicycle’s handle-bar that I clutched.

It was one of those large Raleigh bicycles that the padi farmers would employ to load their gunny-sacks of padi to transport to the rice mills. But Dad’s bicycle had no rear seat or anything to put gunny-sack or my butt on. We rode from our house to Bukit Merah town for my haircut every month. Bukit Merah town was and is a one-street “cowboy town”, we would say. The road was a small dirt road. The 5-mile journey was very bumpy, but I felt safe and comfortable on the bicycle bar with him. Never once did we fall.

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“…choosing all the things I want to procrastinate (including that nagging thing in my psyche) versus doing that one priority action, is made by instinct, gut feel…”

I was under the weather the other day. Just a cold. Should recover soon. I slept most of the afternoon off without touching any personal or work task, although I could have.

When I procrastinate, I procrastinate, even when I’m normally not sick. Procrastination is simply at any moment being unconcerned about not yet dealing with any of the hundreds of tasks ahead of me.

At any moment, I choose and I do something (which may include do nothing), because I decide that doing that something at that moment is the right thing to do. The priority. The one priority.

Priority originally was a singular word only. With priorities in the plural, it becomes confusing — me, I can’t be doing more than one thing at a time. So I’ll stick to one moment, one priority.

How do I choose, then, or as they say, “prioritize” (that one priority)? It’s complex, but in the end, choosing all the things I want to procrastinate (including that nagging thing in my psyche) versus doing that one priority action, is made by instinct, gut feel, aided by comfortable (that’s a feeling) knowledge of all the things ahead of me.

I could draw an Eisenhower matrix (that four quadrant thingy) of important versus urgent. That’s a two-dimensional mental exercise. Draw multiple matrices? Have an artificial intelligence app that takes in or senses all my input and existing parameters (including “mood”) at any moment and spurt out what I should be doing? I’d rather have a human advisor, and I may still reject the advice, anyway.

Aided by comfortable (that’s a feeling) knowledge of all the things ahead of me

That’s gut (feeling) flipping through mental thinking (knowledge). Prior thinking.

I like to be lazy, lazy at making decisions of choosing what to procrastinate. Prior thinking means bite-sized thinking I had done on all the demands coming my way that I store somewhere: a passive list (categorized, but still passive). “Store somewhere” is another laziness, I don’t have to wring my brain to remember.

Then the list becomes my mental aid. I’m comfortable because I’m guilt-free and calm, because the list is exhaustive as it can be. Then flipping through it means there is some unexplainable algorithm in me (trust my instincts) that I can procrastinate ALL the many things I want to procrastinate in the list, except for just the one priority. I happily deal with the priority until the next moment of choosing. 😁

The Romans said, “festina lente,” Latin for “make haste slowly.” Lao Tzu had an expression, too, “wu-wei” which means “passive achievement.”

 

Illustration by Shaikh Omar Anuar: @soasketch on Instagram

 

 

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After four weeks off Facebook, life is better.

I’ve been a Facebook user for over ten years. Two years before that I had joined LinkedIn. Always have been an early adopter of such trends. In the early 2000s I was an ardent blogger, then Facebook slowly pulled me away from blogging.

Yes, I joined Twitter early, too, although I have not been actively tweeting. When Instagram came, I jumped in and became quite active posting photos especially in the last two years. And there’s WhatsApp and WhatsApp Groups. The ten years of Facebooking and lesser years of Instagramming and WhatsApping had been enjoyable, mostly. “Mostly,” because in the last one year I became uneasy with these three media.

#deletefacebook? Delete mindless scrolling, actually. I deactivated my Facebook and Instagram accounts four weekends ago (oh, it was before the Cambridge Analytica fiasco blew up), and at the same time exited almost all social WhatsApp groups. I remain in family and work related WhatsApp Groups.

Facebook, Instagram and the social WhatsApp groups had me scrolling many, many, many times a day. Yes, there were mostly “nice” updates and photos from people. I’d be posting to Facebook and Instagram once a week or two, and the likes were… pleasant. On the numerous social WhatsApp groups I hardly posted anything — I just “fast-scrolled” them. I thought keeping in touch with people on these three platforms were cool and expected of me.

But these were mostly noise, I began to feel. I had allowed the numerous daily scrolling to distract me from what I should focus on. It often derailed my momentum of my daily and weekly intentions.

Last year in my attempt to wean off Facebook, I deleted the Facebook app on my phone and iPad, wanting to reduce Facebooking by opening it on on laptop only. Shucks, m.facebook.com was still openable on the phone browser. Blocking it on the phone browsers didn’t help because often enough I’d unblock them again!

Was this addiction? The pleasure-inducing dopamine buzz like what Robert Lustig says in his book, The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brain?

Four weekends ago, when a Facebook friend commented humorously that I must have been really bored to post what I posted that day, it hit me. My posts had been self-indulgent.

Even the crafty photos (well, I thought so) I posted on Instagram, well, I probably created illusions of reality.

Susan Sontag would say, “In deciding how a picture should look, in preferring one exposure to another, photographers are always imposing standards on their subjects. Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are. Those occasions when the taking of photographs is relatively undiscriminating, promiscuous, or self-effacing do not lessen the didacticism of the whole enterprise. This very passivity — and ubiquity — of the photographic record is photography's "message," its aggression.”

So, cold turkey I went, off Facebook and Instagram. While at it, I exited those social WhatsApp Groups.

Three friends immediately asked why I left a WhatsApp group. “Fasting,” I replied. It was only five days later (hey, nobody missed me!) that a friend told me he could not tag me in his wefie on Facebook, so I said I’m experimenting to be off these three media. Detox, he asked? Yeah, sort of, I answered.

After four weeks I found that my FOMO (fear of missing out) was unfounded. No major news about friends and family were missed. Work matters absolutely did not get affected. I could live without seeing people acknowledging me in posts or likes.

Family news, if important enough, someone would tell me. General news I still could keep up with on my news apps. I like myself already, so I don’t need the little screen of the phone to excite me.

I found more peace! Scrolling on the phone screen would have felt aimless, or would have been irritating if I spot something I don’t like — none of that now! In place of the scrolling, I began to read or re-read my e-books, or articles of interest.

Am I now un-sociable? Perhaps, on those media, yeah! Can people know me? Of course, they can contact me directly or still check my online presence on my Twitter and LinkedIn accounts (somehow I have never been aimlessly scrolling on these two, I don’t know why) as well as my professional website rubah.my or personal blog hasansaidin.com.

I’m going back to blogging, gradually. No more multiple social WhatsApp groups. Today I deleted my Instagram account. My public photos are on my blog. Today I deleted my personal Facebook account. The Facebook Pages I have that are related to my work, I can maintain them from another nickname account (no Facebook friends there). 👍🏻

 

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"Excuses" fool self ("alasan" menipu diri), according to Samsul. He tells his story of realizing that things said by people (and by him) to him(self) are just excuses, so now he says to himself, POUNCE (TERJAH)!

More information on Samsul is available by emailing me at: hasan@rubah.my

 

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Are you awake?
Yes.
Hakim dah meninggal.
‎إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
(We surely belong to Allah and to Him we shall return)

Hakim brought fish. All the way from Terengganu to Kuala Lumpur for the big reunion event a year ago. He would cut the fish and grill them for the reunion feast. He would do anything for others.

Hakim gave and gave. When I met him the first time at Red Card Cafe in Bangi for an earlier reunion gathering, he gave away Terengganu fish to ex-schoolmates till he emptied the iced polystyrene crate in the boot of his seasoned Mercedes Benz.

Are you awake?
Yes.
Hakim dah meninggal.
‎إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
(We surely belong to Allah and to Him we shall return)

Hakim usually wore Indonesian batik, not batik from Terengganu where he was born, in Dungun. Aah… his loving wife, Rose hails from Medan, Indonesia. Their only child, son Arshad​ would take annual leave from work in Kuala Lumpur to take care of his Papa for the surgery in Terengganu.

He had colon cancer, stage 4 by the time it was detected in mid-2017. It affected his liver and he went through palliative care in his life-remaining days.

Are you awake?
Yes.
Hakim dah meninggal.
‎إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
(We surely belong to Allah and to Him we shall return)

In Dungun, droves of friends would make the journey to visit Hakim. He would offer to arrange “homestay” accommodation to ease our stay there. He wanted to take friends to Dungun’s favourite eating places, despite being on painkillers.

When Marsila​ and I looked him up at his family home there, he would entertain us with cutting coconut from his front yard to let us savour the juice.

Are you awake?
Yes.
Hakim dah meninggal.
‎إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
(We surely belong to Allah and to Him we shall return)

He rapidly lost strength and moved to Selayang Hospital in Kuala Lumpur. In his life-remaining days he lived with his elder sister in Sungai Buloh, where palliative assistance from an organization like Hospice (Hospis in Malaysia) would be available that Terengganu lacked.

At Selayang Hospital, Hakim was excited about an alternative medicine he found that was beginning to show positive changes as predicted by the provider. He was a battler. He would always be cheerful, before and during the sickness. He was happy receiving more droves of visitors at Selayang Hospital and the sister's home.

Are you awake?
Yes.
Hakim dah meninggal.
‎إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
(We surely belong to Allah and to Him we shall return)

Hakim left us at 1:00 AM on Sunday, 21 January 2018 and was brought back to lay to rest in Dungun.

Hakim was Marsila’s schoolmate. I did not have to know him long and I did not have know him well. He left me his impression. His generosity. His fish. His smirks and laughs. We miss him.

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