David Sudjiman

I believe there are always at least two sides of point of views for everything that is happening in our lives. One that can make us moving forward and the other one that makes us not going anywhere. The way we see things, even though what we see are the same, will have a different impact in our lives. What we are seeing will be interpreted differently according to our point of view, thus, our point of view is determined on how we are seeing ourselves.

Few days ago I watched a TV program about 9/11 incident. On this particular program, engineers gathered and investigated the cause of the building collapsed. Obviously, people saw this as catastrophic disaster and blame could be pointed directly to the terrorist and plane that crashed the building. The day I watched the program, I suddenly realized how lucky are those engineers to have an opportunity to investigate this type of disaster which I believe, according to my knowledge, there has been no building collapsed due to terrorist attack involving a plane with a lot of fuel loaded. Many of structural engineers will probably try to avoid being put to investigate this problem due to the magnitude of the issue. Yet, from my point of view, I saw the opportunity being part of the great team. I bet they weren’t looking for newbie with several years of experience.

I had a small project where the customer was not really sure what they needed and the job handed to me with not enough information to go forward. To add this up, there was a problem with previous similar project so that I didn’t know what was happening before. On the first day, I spent my time discussing a pre-sales job. Sitting down with customer, defining the expected outcome, and gathered more information. At the end of the day, job got done.

If I see myself on the current point of view, I surely have things to complain. Why should I done this while the first stage wasn’t properly executed. However, on the contrary, I was actually quite excited and fascinated to get the job done, whatever it takes. I see myself 5 years from now that I would be able to do whole package from pre-sales job, design, implement, testing, and creating documentation. That is the place I want to go. So, this is a no-surprise for me as the way I see this issue really depends on what I want to be in the future.

Another story to add up. I spent two hours driving to work. One hour in the morning and another one hour on the afternoon. Yesterday, on the way back home, I was caught on traffic for two hours. I was really excited to know this happening so that I can have my time to listen CCIE audio. It was a quick and intensive 2-hour and I finished my Switching audio.

We cannot change for anything that is happening to our lives, but we can choose what is going to happen to ourselves, how we react. We have the option. What we choose today defines what we will be in the future.

It is not what happens to you. It is what happens in you.