If you believe, every decade there will be someone who was born to inspire a lot of people around, and even can affect millions of people nationally and globally. Indonesia also fortunate because it is blessed with Sukarno and Hatta who have fought and proclaimed the independence of Indonesia on August 17, 1945. Sukarno had become a magnet in Asia and Africa, so that inspired many nations in the region to independence from foreign occupation and colonialism.

Now, in the digital and smartphones era, someone who could bring winds of change are also needed. After Sukarno, Indonesia has Jokowi and Ahok who have the vision to build a better Indonesia. He came from Solo, a small town in Central Java. He started life as a businessman and export of furniture products to many countries. 

Ahok. Image: tigapilarnews.

He was interested in politics and became mayor of Solo in the two periods. Not finished his second term, Jokowi asked by Megawati Sukarno Putri, chairman of the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) to be nominated as Governor of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital.

Joko Widodo or Jokowi also choose Tjahaja Basuki Purnama aka Ahok as deputy governor. They won office as governor. They do a lot of changes in this metropolitan city. Towards 2014, Jokowi again requested by Megawati for become a candidate for president of Indonesia. Happen very tough competition with main rival General Prabowo from Gerindra. Eventough with a simple appearance, but with a very interesting campaign programs, Jokowi was elected as the new president of Indonesia in 2014.

 

Ahok and Presiden Jokowi. Image: news.okezone.com

Meanwhile Ahok, the deputy governor of Jokowi, was finally inaugurated as Governor of Jakarta to replace Jokowi also sworn in as president. Ahok inauguration has been plagued by political opponents, but the people of Jakarta to reject any hindrance from the elites of the opposition party. People Jakarta has enjoyed a lot of fundamental changes that have been made by Jokowi along with Ahok. 

Ahok is also a descendant of Chinese immigrants. Ahok family is businessman in the island, and is highly respected by the surrounding community, so Ahok elected as regent of East Belitung, and eventually became a member of the House of Representatives in Jakarta. Subsequent career was as a deputy governor of Jakarta, and replace Jokowi as governor until today.

Meanwhile Ahok, deputy governor of Jokowi, was finally inaugurated as Governor of Jakarta to replace Jokowi also sworn in as president. Ahok inauguration has been plagued by political opponents, but the people of Jakarta to reject any hindrance from the elites of the opposition party. People Jakarta has enjoyed a lot of fundamental changes that have been made by Jokowi along with Ahok. They believe that Ahok will be able to continue the vision and missions undertaken by Jokowi.

 

As Jokowi, Ahok also come from a small island in North Sumatra, Bangka Belitung. Basuki Purnama Tjahaja alias Ahok, is a political figure who is simple, outspoken, tough, and a little easily angered towards something goes wrong in the bureaucracy. He was also very firm to run the Jakarta government regulations. There are many problems and complexities in the previous decade can be resolved very firmly by Ahok.

Certainly Ahok lot of resistance from the bureaucracy, political opponents, activists and civil society organizations who do not like the policy of Ahok, especially for curb certain areas in Jakarta were occupied illegally by society, even by thugs and officials who decades became patron thugs or preman. As well as Jokowi, Ahok was very exasperated with the corrupt behavior of bureaucrats, and businessmen who pay bribes to civil servants in local government.

Ahok is very outspoken when commenting on irregularities in the administration. He firmly mutated officials or government employees who worked incompetence. If there is a proven accept bribes or corruption, then they fired faster than in the government in the previous five years.

When Ahok evict squatters in a specific location around Jakarta, Ahok indeed act decisively. Ahok is certain to be much resistance from activists, artists, and even lawyers, and sometimes there is interference from human rights organizations. However, Ahok always had appropriate solutions. Ahok will provide flats belonging to the Jakarta government to the people who have been relocated. People are given three free months for occupy the flat and pay rent is very affordable after three months. They were also given a bed, refrigerator and other supporting facilities.

There are many changes and order were successfully carried out by Ahok. Bureaucracy in Jakarta from the central to the mayor's office - districts and villages has now changed, and better serve the needs of the community more quickly than five years ago. Officials in Jakarta has not dared to take bribes or commit extortion.

Ahok is understood that to be the governor with a background in the Chinese and Christian in Muslim majority such as Jakarta is not easy. However, Ahok never walk alone. Apparently, the majority of people in Jakarta loved Ahok because he is honest, assertive and anti-corruption, although there are certain political elite intend to drive Ahok that serve as a corruption suspect.

 

Jakarta MRT. Image: bogor.net

Ahok considered to have been an inspiration for government that is transparent, accountable and maximizing digital technology for run the government, so it can detect early Ahok for find any irregularities in the bureaucracy.

Ahok also dare to resign from Gerindra, and run for a second term in 2017. He ran as an independent candidate. Nonetheless, there are two smaller parties that support Ahok, namely Nasdem Party and Hanura. Ahok has accumulated more than 800 thousand citizens of Jakarta ID card, as a condition for an independent candidate. Volunteers such as “Teman Ahok”, are sure to be collected one million ID cards in the near future, and it exceeds the terms and conditions of the Election Commission (KPU).

                                                       Megawati, Jokowi and Ahok. Image: intelijen.co.id

As someone who has successfully run the government in Jakarta, is very strange that the PDI-P did not participate to support Ahok the Jakarta governor election in 2017. With a unique Ahok, Jakarta will have a leader who can bring Jakarta for the better as a modern and prosperous city, not because the MRT, LRT or wider sidewalks, nor because managed to reduce the impact of flooding and traffic congestion, but as a true inspiration and a real example that has been shown by Ahok.

If Megawati Sukarno Putri as chairman of the PDI-P has a great soul as a maker of kings, Megawati will certainly be able to convince the elite in the party her support Ahok as Governor of Jakarta at elections in 2017, the PDI-P will be a big advantage, where the party will win election to the Parliament, could even win the presidency in 2019.

Do Megawati will release these opportunities. Perhaps the chairman of the PDI P will support Ahok officially in the last minute before the official nomination. We can only wait patiently. How about you? Are you also wonder and exasperated with Megawati style? 

However, Ahok is very confident, that as an independent candidate is also a way for elected governor for a second term in 2017. 

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Jokowi, a new inspiration from Indonesia

There are many people who are skeptical, so they live is flat and often drift away. There is also the rather because they have a dream, even more than one. Of the many people who have had that dream, only a few are making a clear goal. If you are part of them, then in addition to a powerful dream, then you have to make goals as clearly as possible, and will be easier when you realize you can also visualize your dreams.

The trick is very simple, and can be given an example which is also very simple. Suppose you have a dream to buy a digital SLR camera that you will use for a vacation to Bali, or because you want to be a professional photographer, then it means that you can do is pick up a brochure from the camera of your dreams.

A dream house in Bali. Image: balivillareservation.com

 Attach photos of the flyers on the wall of your room, you can even download images from the camera and use as profile picture on your smartphone. Similarly, if you want to have a dream house, such as a beautiful villa in Bali, so you can do the same thing. 

Several photos of the things you dream of, then you stick it in a dream book, it is a real example to create a visualization.

Why visualization is very important to realize a dream or a noble aspiration. Humans are very influenced by what they hear and what they think, so that they can be, even affecting what they would say, and the actions they will do.

At this moment, I wanted to share how to visualize the strength of which has been spoken and written by celebrities, famous people from various professions. 

Their saying has inspired many others, and quoted in a variety of events. Perhaps you will get inspiration and to motivate you to change, so that it can realize your dreams.

Wayne Rooney. Image: play.google.com

Prior to that, perhaps you've heard this unknown quotes, "Wishes are for fantasies; fantasies are for dreaming; dreams are for living! Do you agree?

“Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.” - Bo Bennett

“Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.” Wayne Rooney, the Captain of Manchester United, the famous soccer club in English Premier League.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right? Douglas Coupland

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. David Seabury

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”  Albert Einstein

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.  Oscar Wilde

"Before every shot, I go to the movies" Jack Nicklaus – Golf Master.

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day. Claude M. Bristol

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. Les Brown

“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.” – Cherie Carter-Scott

“Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality activates the creative power of realization.” – A. L. Linall, Jr.

Shelley Long, a Hollywood actress. Image: newprophecy.net

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere. Albert Einstein

“Did you know that, if you visualise, you can actually hug on the phone?” Shelley Long

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born. Nadia Ali

Actually, there are so many beautiful words, and quotes remarkable and can be used as an inspiration. In essence, we can not do great things if only to say it just like that. You need to write it, even drawing in a dream book.

If you put some photos of what you dream of, for example, you dream about a dream house, then you will always have a great driving force to make you move, work harder, but you always think about your next steps, and act intelligently.

Although the era of colonialism has passed, and now we live in a digital era, the struggle for independence has not stopped. Struggle for freedom in Ukraine, Thailand, the Middle East, Tibet and anywhere, either in small or large groups will not end. Democracy and freedom of thought, speech and religious harmony is still a big struggle in various countries. It seems that the conquest of freedom and human rights is still continuing, and many people suffer.

A president or a corporation can reduce the course of democracy and the weak economic struggle in a country. Greed and power hungry to press freedom is still happening everywhere. If you and your friends are still in the struggle for freedom, keep fighting.

Sukarno quotes, the fighter and founding father of Indonesia. Image: tulisankudewe.blogspot.com

Do not give up. You can find inspiration in your hearts and recalls the freedom fighters such as Sukarno, founder of the Republic of Indonesia, which struggled to free Indonesia from Dutch colonial rule and Japanese atrocities, finally Indonesia's independence on August 17, 1945. Sukarno will be remembered by many nations in Asia and Africa, as Sukarno has inspired them, so that the countries in the region won independence. You can take inspiration from Nelson Mandela, the fighters of South Africa.

“A thousand of old man are just able to dream, but a young man is able to change the world!” Sukarno, the founding father of Indonesia. Source/Notes: from a book of his own work when he was imprisoned by Dutch-East Indies Government, Indonesia Menggugat! (Indonesians Accuse!)

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds! Bob Marley 

The basis of a democratic state is liberty. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics

“Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream it as high as the skies! Because if you're fell, you're going to fall among of the stars!!” Sukarno, Source/Notes: Sukarno's most famous quote, he said it the first time in front of BPUPKI congress, April 29, 1945

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” Jim Morrison

 

Nelson Mandela, the fighter. Image: somalilandpress.com

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela

“When the nation has been able to maintain his country with
own blood, the flesh itself, when the nation is
has been ripe for independence. If our nation, Indonesia, although
with spiked bamboos, brothers, all ready dead
defend our motherland Indonesia, when the nation
is ready, ripe for independence. “Source: Sukarno, in his speech on BPUPKI meeting, June 1, 1945 

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.  Gao XingJian, Nocturnal Wander

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard 

Man is condemned to be free. Jean-Paul Sartre. Existentialism Is Humanism

Sukarno, the inspirator. Image: topics.time.com

“This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group with customs and traditions, but the property of all of us from Sabang to Merauke!”  Sukarno, Speech in Surabaya, September 24, 1955

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes, Address at Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, June 17, 1925

Please share the inspirational words of the above, to your friends and your family, and for family’s countrymen and compatriots. We wish you success and can inspire anyone, especially those who are economically and politically oppressed, and tormented by the threat of a bunch of sectarian fanatics and hypocrites. The whole human race is pacifist and independence will surely support you.

Since human beings have a desire to an object or something else, then there must be an intermediary that enables the exchange. Before there was money in different shapes and materials as we do now, the man to barter to get something to meet the wants, needs and dreams, even ambition. 

 Money control and regulate the human race and the world. Image: vanderbilt.edu

When we think and talk about money, then there are many opinions and reviews even engraved in many beautiful words spoken or various quotes or written by leaders, writers, celebrities and regular people. Do you also have an opinion about money? 

Here I want to share a variety of quotes and saying about money that might give you inspiration, motivation even to enrich your life. 

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy. Unknown quotes.

 It is strange, people chase and hoard money, and even cheat the world to become rich only to finally leave it all behind. In the 21st century, the world is the body and the money is the blood. You spend your time to make a dime. It takes money to make money. You lose your health to make your wealth, but at the end it is funny because you leave back all your money. Money does not buy happiness but, it sure pays off stress. (coolnsmart.com/money_quotes).

 Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela 

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde

 “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”  Dorothy Parker 

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.” J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. Frank Hubbard 

A good name is better than riches.Your good reputation is worth more than money. English sayings and proverbs

 It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. Margaret Thatcher 

Realize that you'll go broke trying to fix everyone else's financial problems. Sonya Parker. 

Money or wealth gives a sense of security and happy sentiment, but not a long lasting contentment, blissfulness and inner peace. Dr T.P.Chia

 Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. Ayn Rand 

Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson

 “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.” Will Rogers 

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. John Wesley 

“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.” Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind 

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.” Tennessee Williams 

Money attracts the females you want. Struggle attracts the woman you need. Rashida Rowe 

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus 

Actually many beautiful words about money can affect our lives now and in the future. Money is not everything, but everything can be problematic without money. 

Do you also think the same?

Not just people who need inspiration to motivate an action and the action, even a leader and a person who had been sitting at the top of any need encouragement. We should not hesitate to ask for advice or support of someone or others. Support in the form of prayer, hope, words of wisdom that inspire us, that we do not lose direction. To be successful, we will meet many obstacles, and even insults. Are we going to give up? Do not give up.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle Onassis

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done; I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” - Roy Goodman

Sunrise on the top of Gunung Agung, Bali. Image: bergita.org

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”  Veronica Roth

“Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”  C. Joy Bell C.

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” Steve Jobs

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther  

“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” Jack Canfield

See you at the top. Image: baliwiditours.com

Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible'! Audrey Hepburn 

“Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” – Unknown

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ― Sigmund Freud.

“Believe you can and you're halfway there” - Theodore Roosevelt

  

We will never know when our dreams will come true, depending on what and for what our goals and our dreams. Please do not stop before you move to venture to the summit of the dream, and your goodwill. See you at the top.

Young Entrepreneur. Image: primeyouth.blogspot.com

 Very rarely children have dreams as an entrepreneur. They prefer to express the dream as engineers, medical doctors, pilots, or attorney. Then, who affects a person when deciding as an entrepreneur? Is it because the hard life? Maybe because they get inspiration from successful people in the business world. What makes them interested in becoming an entrepreneur? Want to be rich and can buy what money can buy? Of course not only that reason. There are good intentions of any act of a businessman.There must be some motivation that drives them to succeed, despite the failures also occurred during the journey they reach the top.

How about yourself? Would like to remain seated in a chair as an employee? Do you have a desire to become an entrepreneur?

Are you inspired by famous quotes from successful leaders, author, inventor, movie stars,  businessmen? These men have reached levels of success that are beyond comprehension. When they speak, the world goes silent and people takes notes.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. –W. Clement Stone.

I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. - Alan Bond

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great – Mark Twain

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.” Donald Trump

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton

  

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates.

The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing – Carrie Wilkerson

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs.

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wont so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t – A student in Warren G. Tracy’s class

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, products and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with other two. Lee Iacoca.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. Warren Buffet.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overall and looks like work. Thomas Edison

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company – Booker T. Washington

“Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.”  Ted Turner.

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it. Ray Kroc.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Aristotle Onassis.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. Sam Walton.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two peopoe, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. Lee Iacocca.

 Are you inspired after reading the quotes from businessmen and other famous people? Some of you may decide to start a new business or want to be successful in other fields as you dream so far. Whatever your dream, the spirit necessary for success, patient, persistent and never give up. If you fail, get up. With the power of a dream, you will be motivated to achieve success.

  

Bukit Jambul, Bali (Image: Balipurnama.com)

Confidence is needed to achieve success and dreams, even to do simple things. Without confidence you find hard to express your love to someone you love. Some say, that: “Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.”  


A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.  Lao Tzu 


All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.  Mark Twain 
Put your future in good hands - your own.  Unknown
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.  Jesse Jackson


A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.  ~David Brinkley
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”  Peter T. Mcintyre
“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”  Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)


“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable.  Wendy Wasserstein


Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. Theodore Roosevelt
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.  ~Peter T. Mcintyre


“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
 Rosalynn Carter


 “Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”  Gwladys Douglas Bader


Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.  Peter T Mcintyre
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.  ~Norman Vincent Peale


“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” Unknown
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.  ~Paul Tillich


There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' Andre Gide


Confidence is preparation.  Everything else is beyond your control.  Richard Kline
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Arnold Palmer


Confidence is needed to do something, but it should be regulated so as not to overdo it. Success is a journey and it takes confidence to achieve it. Build your confidence with practice and learn from others' successes.