Salam there,
I took some time to write today’s newsletter. It’s not an easy subject, dia agak berat, and I doubt myself untuk tulis this topic.
So earlier this year, I listed down topic untuk Minimalism:
(#42) Physical Clutter
(#43) Digital Clutter
(#44) Mental Clutter
(#45) Heart Clutter
(#46) Life Priorities
(#47) Purpose - today’s topic
(#48) Authority
(#49) Detachment
As you can see, I’m wrapping up this newsletter dengan 8 tajuk ni. Private newsletter ni dah nak sampai penghujung. Today is #47, #50 kita habis. So, bear with me..
Alright, haritu I ada dengar 1 lecture ni.
Ustaz tu kata lebih kurang gini, “Kita akan ‘pergi’, bila purpose kita selesai.”
Then Ustaz ni bagi contoh Imam Nawawi. Imam Nawawi, ‘purpose’ dia adalah 40 hadith. Daripada beribu-ribu collection hadith Nabi, Imam Nawawi kena pilih.
Contoh, pilih 10,000 terbaik. Then kecilkan lagi skop. 5,000 terbaik misalnya.
Then, 1,000 terbaik. Then 500 terbaik. Then 100 terbaik.
Then 40 terbaik.
Huish, bukan mudah kerja ni.
Macam lagu Akademi Fantasi, “Bukan mudah…”
And then, lepas kerja tu selesai, Imam Nawawi meninggal. Still at early young. 40 something.
And then Ustaz ni bagi 1 lagi contoh. Imam Hassan Al Banna. Lebih kurang jugak 40+, gone. Purpose dia selesai dah. Sebelum dia pergi, dia dah bagi kat team dia, apa strategi-strategi yang perlu dibuat.
At the end, Ustaz ni pesan, kena cepat-cepatkan, apa yang kita patut buat, takut tak sempat…
I once saw someone wrote on Social Media: “Ada orang bahagia hidup berkeluarga. Bangun, mandi, makan, tidur, ulang setiap hari. Manfaat pada masyarakat hampir tiada.”
Back to cerita Ustaz tadi, dia pesan juga, kahwin, dapat anak; itu semua umpama R&R. Itu bukan tujuan hidup.
Sama macam kita drive nak balik kampung. Kita singgah R&R, untuk rest, topup our energy sebelum teruskan perjalanan.
So sekarang ni, life kita di ‘revolve’ around, belajar pandai-pandai, masuk universiti, dapat kerja bagus, kahwin, beli kereta, beli rumah… and then what?
And along the way, kita banyak terpengaruh will all the shiny things, pakai iPhone nampak kerlas sikit. Kalau pakai Apple Watch, make sure update IG story bila jogging, “Alahai harini 1KM je sempat.”
Tak salah pun pakai benda-benda macam ni, but you pakai untuk kepuasan dan keselesaan you, atau sebab Keeping Up With The Joneses?
What is life for?
Have you ever thought about it?
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There’s a guy nama dia Chris Guillebeau. Dia pernah tulis buku The Art of Non-Conformity. Non-conform ni maksudnya, you tak follow apa kebiasaan orang buat.
So Chris ni dah travel to every country around the world.
So masa dia nak promote buku dia dekat Google (ada video Google Talk), seorang employee Google ni tanya,
“I nak life macam you, I nak travel. Tapi I stuck dengan kerja, and ada mortgage. Camne nak buat?”
I was expecting Chris jawab, ok step 1 buat gini, step 2 buat buat gini, step 3 buat gini.
Tapi tak tau apa Chris jawab?
Jeng jeng jeng…
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“You have to figure it out.”
Speechless jap dengar jawapan dia.
Teringat Quran selalu sebut:
“Afala ta’qilun”
“Afala ta’qilun”
“Afala ta’qilun”
Why don’t you think
Why don’t you think
Why don’t you think
There are certain things you want to do with your life, tapi you takut, “Nanti apa orang kata?”
I’m giving you the same answer: “You have to figure it out.”
God gives you the nuts, be He does not crack them.
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Ok, in order for you to complete your purpose, you akan lalui macam-macam. Contoh, kalau orang bercakap tentang macam mana nak sembuh dari kanser, orang tu kena lalui kanser dulu.
So that you can ‘feel’. You tahu apa perasaan orang kena cancer, sebab you dah lalui benda tu.
Guru-guru bisnes, diorang dah lalui jatuh bangun dalam bisnes, sepak terajang semua dalam dunia bisnes, sebelum dia boleh sampaikan ilmu dia.
Alright another example, my favorite one, Yusuf.
I dengar dari lecture Nouman Ali Khan, Nabi Yusuf help hundreds of thousands of people dari starvation. Tapi nak sampai tahap dia help beratus-ratus ribu orang tu, apa dia lalui?
Adik-beradik dia benci dia
Dia kena tinggal dalam telaga
Dia kena jual
Dia jadi maid
Dia tak dapat jumpa ayah kesayangan dia. The one yang dia boleh come and tell his dream (refer previous newsletter)
Bila dah besar, wife Tuan dia pulak cari pasal
Kena masuk penjara
Bertahun-tahun punya struggle.
And ayah dia dah cakap lepas dia ceritakan mimpi dia:
[12:6] This is about how your Lord will choose you, teach you to interpret dreams, and perfect His blessing on you…
Disebabkan Yusuf boleh interpret dreams, dia boleh selamatkan people from starvation.
So, dia punya kesusahan yang dia alami bertahun-tahun itu adalah ‘sedekah jariah’ untuk orang lain, so that dia boleh bantu orang.
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You might struggle now, I don’t know.
Tapi you kena yakin, you punya struggle adalah for you to complete your purpose. And you need to find what is your purpose.
You tak dapat jumpa jawapan kat Netflix, jawapan dia juga takde pada scrolling status orang lain kat social media, you kena scroll dalam diri.
And…
Here comes the best part.
You kena faham life ni ada stages dia.
Maybe 10 years of your career life sebelum ni, you dalam ‘1 area’. And at some point, you decide, to move on to another area. That’s okay.
There’s a guy, nama di Justin Welsh.
Dekat Twitter, dia paling famous bercakap tentang ‘Solopreneur’ : One-person business.
And sebelum ni, dia bekerja dalam dunia korporat. Sampai satu masa, dia pass out, ambulan datang, and dia decide no more corporate life.
Sekarang dia excel dalam ‘Solopreneurship’, dah made millions, and he said, next dia nak try another things.
So, you decide.
Find yourself, and be that.
Alright, love you guys.
- Faaz
ps: Hey there, I’m forcing myself to write and publish this newsletter on Friday morning, sebelum start kerja. Even though I feel like taknak tulis sebab topik ni berat, but I still force myself to do it.
So, whatever it is you want to do, I hope you can force yourself to do it too.
Lawan tetap lawan! Yeah man!
pps: Sorry if there were any spelling mistakes, or grammar mistakes. It’s late and I don’t feel like reading through this, over and over again.
Whenever you’re ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:
Majalah Minimalis: Download Majalah Minimalis secara percuma + get free mini course on Declutter Your Life.
30-Day Declutter Journey: An online self-paced course to help you to stop scrolling mindlessly and start focusing on your purpose.
(Selagi kita tak decide apa yang kita nak capai sekarang, selagi tu kita akan tetap scroll phone…)
