Dua tahun lalu, saya mengambil kelas “Effective Business Communication”. Kelasnya required buat kelulusan, makanya saya ambil. Ternyata kelas ini bisa jadi salah satu kelas yang paling saya suka selama kuliah. Jauh dari judulnya yang terdengar formal, di kelas itu kita belajar bagaimana berinteraksi dengan orang lain.
Buku text yang dipakai pun sangat bagus, buku-nya Dale Carnegie: “How to win friends and influence people“. Jadi dari buku itu ada banyak prinsipnya. Yang lebih menarik lagi, setiap minggu saya harus mengapplikasikan prinsip itu satu per satu, dan menulis jurnal.
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It is not wrong for you to depend on your “Elijah” for as long as God gives him to you. But remember that the time will come when he must leave and will no longer be your guide and your leader, because God does not intend for him to stay. Even the thought of that causes you to say, “I cannot continue without my ’Elijah.’ ” Yet God says you must continue.
Alone at Your “Jordan” ( Kings 2:14 ). The Jordan River represents the type of separation where you have no fellowship with anyone else, and where no one else can take your responsibility from you. You now have to put to the test what you learned when you were with your “Elijah.” You have been to the Jordan over and over again with Elijah, but now you are facing it alone. There is no use in saying that you cannot go— the experience is here, and you must go. If you truly want to know whether or not God is the God your faith believes Him to be, then go through your “Jordan” alone.
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Life can be very hard. “…no matter how hard we try to bring order and peace into our lives, there are moments when everything seems to be falling apart and times when we not only feel we are drowning but are sure someone or something is holding us under” (Paul J. Wadell, Becoming Friends, 112-113). Already we are seeing increasing incidences of depression, suicide and domestic violence as the global economy continues to tank. A closer look at the stats however, suggests that it is not the blows of life that finally get us. It’s having to face them alone.
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Pada waktu musim kampanye bulan Mei kemarin, setiap capres diberi kesempatan untuk berdiskusi dengan anggota Ikadin. Yang paling menarik menurut saya, pada waktu Jusuf Kalla berdiskusi. Seorang Ibu bertanya seputar komitment Jusuf Kalla untuk produk dalam negeri dan masalah branding (merk). Jusuf Kalla kemudian menjawab, “Sekarang pakai sepatu apa?” Kemudian dia mencopot sepatunya yg bermerk “JK Collection” asli dari Cibaduyut. Dia tanya lagi, “Ibu tasnya buatan Indonesia atau bukan?”. Si Ibu pun sontak malu karena tasnya buatan luar negeri yang berharga jutaan rupiah.
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