Dare to Dream Big by Merry Riana - part 3

Chapter 8: Dare to Dream Big.

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

A quote from the book "Think and Grow Rich" written by Napoleon Hill. From the book he learned that everything starts from an idea. Everything starts from the mind and when the idea is there, the idea can be realized in the world physically. She always get goosebumbs, because she is a real example of that quote and she thanks God for that.

Chapter 9: The Rules of 10.000 hours.

“There is no elevato to success. You have to take the stairs!”

She tells some traits that a person must have in oerder for them to achieve their success.  There are Hardworking, Discipline, and Teachable.

In his new book, Malcolm Gladwell said that "The best way to achieve international standards is to spend 10,000 hours honoring your skills.". What is really interesting about this 10,000-hour rule is that it applies virtually everywhere.

In this chapter, she tells some anology and examples and those show how important the rules of 10,000 hours is. Also, she tells about her 10,000 hours, starting with starting sales in the field until she broke the industry record and she has proven that the 10,000-hour rule really applies.

Chapter 10: Follow Your Heart.

In this chapter, she tells about her experience listening to people's stories, whether in seminars or from her website. In addition, she tells an interesting story for you reader. From the story she tells, conclusions can be drawn, do not feel disturbed by other people's words if our goals are clear.

Just dont care what people said, so happy to know what you want to do and do it.

Chapter 11: You Deserve to Be Successful.

“One of the reasons stopping people  from becoming successful is that they are afraid to be successful”. Another possible reason stopping from achieving their success is the “I don’t deserve it” mentality.

“Who am I to be successful, happy, and beautiful?”

In this chapter she write her favorite poems. Everytime she read it, it never fails to give her positive energy and inspiration. Don't be afraid to be successful and don't think that you are not authorized to accept it. Because believe that everyone has the right to get the best.

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Dare to Dream Big by Merry Riana - part 2

Chapter 5: From -$40.000 to $1.000.000

In this chapter merry explained that at first she had a loan debt of $ 40,000 which had to be paid in full until he graduated later. In the third year, she worked as an employee at an American-based company. But she only worked for a few weeks, she felt she would not be able to succeed by just being an employee. Why? The reason is in the million dollar dream book.

Chapter 6: The Missing 3Cs

In this chapter she is looking for a way out to be financially free at a young age. That is by way of doing business. According to her, there are several things needed when starting a business, namely 3Cs. 3Cs here consist of Capital, Contacts and Capabilities. With determination to succeed at a young age she tried to gather the 3Cs, such as by playing stocks. Failing to play stocks makes her want to try something else, the sales process. From there besides being able to increase capital, she can also made contacts to people.

“The drive to succeed early compelled me to try out a lot of different things.”

Chapter 7: I’m Free to Live My Life

A long short story, after graduating from college there are still debts that must be paid by her. There are many challenges she faces from friends, teachers, parents, who think that she can’t do that. It is impossible to go straight to the business world after graduating. And her parents thought so too. They want Merry to work with a fixed salary or according to the field that she studied in college. With her seduction, she asked for the blessing of parents to do business, because according to her the blessing of the parents was very important. And they bless it (conditional).

Chapter 8: A million dollar stepping stone

Rejection is an initial hurdle that she get. But she feels fortunate to have people who support her. In addition to the support of the closest person, energy and time and willingness to work are her greatest assets. Therefore, Merry won various awards in the industry that she lived, even can break a record. From starting TOP ROOKIE CONSULTANT and even getting the STARCLUB PRESIDENT title. Because of the award, the news is in The Straits Times, a major newspaper in Singapore. How grateful and happy she is like a queen.

“But through it all, i never seriously considered giving up.”

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One Choice Can Transform You

“One Choice

One Choice, decided your friends.

One Choice, defines your beliefs.

One Choice, determines your loyalties – Forever.

ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU”

The first novel from the Divergent series is the first novel for Veronica Roth, the author. Veronica wrote this novel when she was in the final grade of college and succeeded in publishing "Divergent" at a relatively young age of 22 years. In an interview, Veronica revealed that she had written from the age of 12 years and this habit made her able to divide the time between writing novels and studying.

Title: Divergent

Author: Veronica Roth

Pages: 217 pages

Genres: Science Fiction, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Young adult fiction.

This novel is set in the future in Chicago, telling stories about humans separated based on their characteristics into 5 different factions. There is Abgenation that adheres to selfishness, Erudite who adheres to knowledge, Candor who adheres to honesty, Amity who embraces peace, and Dauntless who embraces courage. All five live in harmony and each faction has a specific role in community life.

Beatrice Prior and her family are Abnegation, whose culture requires them to act as selfishly as possible, for example by always yielding to others, wearing gray clothes so as not to attract attention and always ready to help and serve others. These unselfish attitudes make Abnegation appointed by another faction to hold government - the theory is that government must be held by people who always work based on public interests and not to fulfill personal ambitions.

This story began when Beatrice Prior, who was 16 years old, had to take part in a faction selection ceremony that must be passed when the person's age has reached 16 years. In the selection test conducted the day before the ceremony, Beatrice's test results show that she not only has one characteristic that stands out, but has three: Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who are suitable in more than one faction are called Divergents. The existence of a Divergent is very rare and Beatrice is warned not to share the results of her tests with anyone because being a Divergent is very dangerous.

At the Choosing Ceremony, Beatrice decided to leave her family and join Dauntless, while her older brother, Caleb, decided to become Erudite, Abnegation's main enemy. Arriving at Dauntless, Beatrice changed her name to Tris. She had to pass a terrible initiation period with 19 other people to become the top 10 so that she could be accepted as a member of Dauntless. She gets a mysterious instructor, a man named Four.

Almost all of this book tells of the initiation process that Tris and her friends went through. From learning to fight with bare hands, throwing knives, through fear simulation, which is a simulation that tests members' resilience to their biggest fears. Meanwhile, the world outside Dauntless began to stir when the Erudite faction harassed the Abnegation faction and devised a very evil thing. This is what began to affect the conditions in Dauntless and Tris's view of herself and her world.

As a science fiction novel, Divergent has been able to present a distinctive feel of sci-fi with research and various high-tech serums. Characteristics of the characters in this novel are quite realistic. By using the perspective of the first person, this novel is also able to express the emotions of the main character (Tris) well. In addition, the Divergent also carries the theme of seeking self-esteem that is suitable for today's teenagers.


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