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Sejak aku menceburkan diri dalam bidang perniagaan ni, ramai orang tanya aku macamana nak berniaga? Aku bukan expert, masih terlalu baru pun kalau nak ajar-ajar orang macam-macam.

Cuma aku boleh berkongsi pengalaman sendiri selama setahun lebih berniaga selama sepenuh masa ni.

NIAT

Apa pun yang nak kita buat, benda tu tak akan terjadi secara automatik. Semua kita kena mulakan. Macammana nak mula? Mulakan dengan niat nak berubah, niat nak berniaga. Berniaga ni sebenarnya ultimate goal dia bukan nak cari duit. Duit itu complementary kepada action berniaga kita tadi. Do the right thing, the money will follow. Ambil tindakan pertama dulu: Pasang niat kemudian kita ke tindakan ke 2 iaitu mencari ILMU.

ILMU 

Ini yang paling penting sekali kita kena ada. Tak semestinya sampai kena ada PhD baru nak mula berniaga. Nak dapat ILMU ni banyak cara. Ada yang kena masuk kelas, ada yang kita kena buat pastu baru kita dapat. Ada yang sampai kita jatuh melepek baru kita faham. 

Ambil la inisiatif sikit, baca buku-buku bisnes. Tak kisah la dari barat ka dari timur ka dari Malaysia ka, janji baca. Ini macam kira peringkat teori la sebelum kita buat praktikal. Kalau rasa bajet tak ada nak beli buku banyak-banyak. Cari kat internet. Macam-macam jenis artikel, tips, how to, incpirational stories yang kita boleh jadikan panduan. Aku selalu cari artikel-artikel yang menarik untuk baca especially bila stuck somewhere. Kalau kat FB, boleh follow page macam Entrepreneur, Puan Ainon Mohd dan ramai lagi. Usaha la cari tokoh-tokoh usahawan dekat FB ni dan follow diaorang. Kata nak jadi USAHAwan kan? rajin la sikit.

Kalau ada bajet boleh masuk kelas berniaga. Pilih coach yang betul. Macamana nak tau betul ke tak? Make sure yang dok ajar kita tu dia pun business person. Business person yang berjaya ada business yang meletops. Kalau bisnes dia pun suam-suam kuku macamana dia nak ajar kita. Lagi satu kalau nak cari coach business carilah yang ikhlas, bukan sekadar mengajar sebab nak buat duit. Kita jangan obses dengan sesiapa pun. Pakai mata hati dan nilai siapa yang boleh kita ikut. Kalau obses, nanti buta mata hati ikut membuta tuli. Faham?

TINDAKAN

Dalam banyak-banyak ini yang paling penting. TINDAKAN. Kalau niat dah ada pastu dah pergi belajar sana sini tapi balik semua peram saja memang tak akan jadi apa. Bukannya kita terus balik bukak kedai pastu order barang satu kontena dari China. Bukan ya tuan puan. 

Start something, take baby step pun tak apa. Kalau kita belum ada produk, mula la dengan jual barang orang. Ini dipanggil calculative risk. At least kita mula dengan modal kecil, kalau lebih bagus tanpa modal langsung. Tapi tolong lah jangan mula bisnes tanpa modal yang menipu orang. Kutip duit orang sana sini, pastu lesap. NOTHING WORTH IT COMES EASY! Kalau buat bisnes ni senang, harini mula esok kaya...semua orang akan buat. Mesti ada sweat, tears and blood yang akan kena sacrifice. Lepas dah pandai jual barang orang, baru la kita jual barang sendiri. Slow and steady. Rome wasnt built in a day.

Remember...the journey to top memang akan sangat menyakitkan. tapi sakit ni indah bila kita dah sampai kat atas. I'm not at the top yet....masih on the way. So mari lah kita sama-sama berusaha sekuat hati kita. Nothing will change until we change ourselves. 

Aku doakan kita sama-sama diberikan kekuatan, ketajaman minda dan iman yang kuat untuk sampai ke puncak, Amin!

Sanggup redah pasar berlengas busuk sebab nak cari barang?


  Cukup tebal tak muka nak berniaga?

Assalamulaikum!

Lama tak sembang kan? 

Bajet ada yang rindu la tu..haha

Well..since kali terakhir update blog ni until today, dah terlampau banyak benda yang jadi, 

Anak pun dah 2 and dah nak dekat 2 tahun umur dia. Dahsyat sangat ko ni pompuan oi!hahaha

Just nak update kat sini, dah setahun lebih berhenti kerja dan buat bisnes sendiri. Masa memula test water, aku jual Shaklee. Masa tu nak sebab nak beranak anak no 2. Baru mula2 belajar nak berniaga...

Not bad, jual online ja pun. Produk bagus, aku masih makan sampai sekarang.

Tapi rasa mcm tak sampai kepuasan tu. Mesti nak kena cipta dan jual barang sendiri jugak. Hebat sangat ni sampai nak cipta. hahahahha! hadoi.

So next business yang aku buat ialah jual Laksa Johor. Masa mula-mula memang rasa tak tau nak mula mcmmana. So banyak kelas bisnes yang aku join. Belajar selok belok bisnes dan masih banyakkkk lagi nak kena belajar. Business Laksa Johor aku boleh dikatakan maju. Alhadulillah. Sales untuk tahun pertama lebih dari RM10k. Bukan nak menunjuk, cuma nak bgtau walau makanan tradisonal tapi potensi tetap ada. Orang order, aku hantar. Memang penat. Semua buat sendiri. 

Ada la few incidents ups and down business yang kadang buat aku rasa nak terjun dalam sungai....,mandi! hahaha...  

Walau aku sayang sangat business Laksa Johor ni, tapi aku dah tak daya nak teruskan sebab buat sorang, dengan tempat masak yang limited. Above all sebab anak-anak. Salah satu sebab aku nak buat bisnes ialah supaya aku ada lebih banyak masa dengan anak-anak. Bila aku berniaga makan ni perlu komitmen masa dan tenaga yang sgt tinggi. Anak aku yang no 2 plak masih menyusu badan. 

So buat masa sekarang, bisnes ni aku akan put on hold. Nanti bila anak-anak dah besar sikit aku akan buat balik. 

So sekarang goyang kaki, makan maruku saja kah?

oh tidak!

Aku dah mula start business yang lain. 

Penjagaan kulit secara semulajadi. Apa tu?

Aku sekarang dah mula menjual Skrub Badan berasaskan bahan-bahan semulajadi.

Macamana boleh bermula bisnes ni?

Aku ni ada kulit yang sensitif. So tak boleh pakai sebarangan jenis skincare. Aku ada eczema lagi tu. Kalau panas gatal, kalau sejuk gatal sebab kering. Kalau pakai sabun wangi aku gatal. Sabun yang aku tak gatal harga dia satu botol RM80. Demam!

So back to cerita skrub ni, sekarang ni musim berdebu jadi kulit aku kena macam kurap ke, panau ke apa pun aku tak tau la. So memang gatal. Aku sapu macam-macam tapi tak jadi apa. Aku cuba pakai skrub ni, Alhamdulillah... 2 kali pakai aku dah tak gatal and kulit pun lembut ja. 

So why not turn it into business? 

So sekarang masih dalam proses product development. Insyaallah soon akan release produk ni semua.

Kalau korang nak tengok produk range ni boleh tengok di FB Arona.

Ok sampai sini. Nanti aku akan update lagi.

Take care all!

Love

Nora

MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

We often speak of “Mommy’s mommy,” and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry, but the truth is I carry a “faulty” gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases my risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.

Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65 percent risk of getting it, on average.

Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

On April 27, I finished the three months of medical procedures that the mastectomies involved. During that time I have been able to keep this private and to carry on with my work.

But I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

My own process began on Feb. 2 with a procedure known as a “nipple delay,” which rules out disease in the breast ducts behind the nipple and draws extra blood flow to the area. This causes some pain and a lot of bruising, but it increases the chance of saving the nipple.

Two weeks later I had the major surgery, where the breast tissue is removed and temporary fillers are put in place. The operation can take eight hours. You wake up with drain tubes and expanders in your breasts. It does feel like a scene out of a science-fiction film. But days after surgery you can be back to a normal life.

Nine weeks later, the final surgery is completed with the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant. There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and the results can be beautiful.

I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that’s it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was. And they know that I love them and will do anything to be with them as long as I can. On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive. So to anyone who has a wife or girlfriend going through this, know that you are a very important part of the transition. Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Center, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries. We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has.

For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices.

I acknowledge that there are many wonderful holistic doctors working on alternatives to surgery. My own regimen will be posted in due course on the Web site of the Pink Lotus Breast Center. I hope that this will be helpful to other women.

Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live. The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Wow! Dah lama gila tak update blog ni. Mood menulis dh lama tak ada. Idea ada cuma malas nk mengolah...

Ok straight to the point...sebenarnya nak cerita pasal losyen halia dari dunia herbs ni. Sejak2 pregnant 2nd time ni mmg sakit blakang tak terbendunh walaupun baru 3 bulan. Punca sakit lebih ni pasal ada slipped disc. Sakit dia bukan lenguh2 tp veru irritating pain. Buat
apa pun tak kena. Tegak ja duduk kat kerusi. Nak makan pain killer tak boleh so alternatifnya sapu la losyen ni nak kasik lega sikit walau tak boleh nak cure.

Losyen ni best sebab tak berminyak dan bau dia super sedap. So tak ada la berbau minyak angin ja kan...hehehe.

Selalu bawak kemana saja sebab bau dia yg best tu boleh la sapu bila masa pun. Harganya dalam RM22 -RM24. Tengok beli kat kedai mana la...

Rasa macam nak pakai ni saja masa confinement nanti sebab losyen ni boleh jugak keluarjan angin dan pecahkan lemak.

Tu saja la nak cerita...sila lah mencuba ya!