How to Fake Confidence

I watched a video lately from YouKu and found out there are 4 small key areas to boost (fake) our confidence from a seduction guru.

Source: www.life-with-confidence.com

How? Basically you don't have to be loaded, smart and charming, just be self-confidence with the following keys:

(1) Always having a relax and steady appearance.
Your appearance will always look relax and steady, including stand and sit posture. You also responding your opponent's question in steady and pausing mode. By acting so, you are basically not worrying anything at all time, you can handle everything under relax and steady situation. Hence, it enhances the appearance confidence.

(2) Take care of your physical appearance / image.
Yes, you don't have to be good looking. Yet you don't have to wear too over or too casual. Just be yourself and pay respect to yourself. It proves that you can take care of yourself in the first place.

(3) Don't boast or compliment yourself automatically. Some people are lack of confidence and they afraid others cannot notice them. A person who are confident do not worry about it. The best way is to be cocky and funny, somehow people feel good about it especially women.

(4) Be humorous
Humorous is not about telling jokes or funny story. It's about demonstrating your self-confidence level, where it proves that you have nothing to worry about and that's why you have time to be funny. Well, this is the hardest part but it can be learned. You can observe and learn the leaders, normally they have absolute humorous and always bring cheers and fun to be public whenever they are around.

That's the simple 4 key areas to pay attention to. Have a nice weekend, folks.

Malaysia Economy Is Getting Better or Worse?

As a Malaysian, we are happy to see our quarterly GDP has improved for the recent 2 quarters, 5.4% & 5.8% respectively.

By looking back the past 20 years GDP growth, actually Malaysia in average is able to obtain 5-7% GDP growth year-on-year. That is consider a stable and healthy growth under a developing country.

Source: https://tradingeconomics.com

However, a lot of residents complained or felt that the local economy is not getting any better. They feel in pain. Why is that so, since the GDP from low point of 4.0% to 5.8% within 1 year?

I believe the major pain is the MYR currency depreciation against major currencies like USD and SGD. USD to MYR has appreciated from RM3.10 in year 2013 to RM4.40 lately, and now retrace a little bit to RM4.20. A whopping jump of 35%! Whereas SGD to MYR has appreciated from RM2.50 in year 2013 to RM3.15 lately, and now retrace to RM3.12. A significant jump of 25% as well. That means whatever imported to the country with these appreciated currencies, will be having price hike of at least 25-35%.

The second pain point is Government Service Tax (GST), 6% GST imposed on all items from April 2015 is also a drastic burden to all citizens. Every 1 dollar you spent, you will have to pay additional 6 cents. That's indirectly make the inflation goes up 6% straight.

Source: http:says.com

There's another indirect impact which is the deterioration of the Government efficiency and business strategy. You can see most developing countries in ASEAN are trying to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) by improving internal infrastructure and procedure. But it seems like Malaysia is running backward. Well, I'm not sure about it but you can see the local well-known businessmen's negative comments and feedback in business magazines. We haven't talk about the Government investment scandal yet. ;(

With the combination of these 3 factors, how can the economy turns better in such a short time even with a good GDP statistics? Imagine if you used to make $1,000 and spent $700 and save $300. Now you will have to spend at least $800-$900 and only can save around $200-300. What can the citizens do? Tighten their belt in order to save more and sustain.

Remember, the salary is the one that won't be increased over such a short time, but inflation & the factors above.

I'm Back

Time flies, I've been escaping from writing this blog for 7 weeks.

Usually on Sunday late noon, I spent my time to write this weekly blog article. For the past few months, I went out coffee with friends or do some casual articles reading over the Internet, because I'm bothering by a big issue in my life. :(

Source: http://inthiaano.com

My purpose of writing this blog is to share, in terms of what I know, what I discover and what lessons I learned in my life. I hope the readers can benefit from those articles, as simple as that. So why I escaped and came back again?

Initially I thought of giving up, as there’s no response, no feedback and I’m quite demotivated to write it further. Until I saw a positive feedback comment last few days about my last blog article, which I missed the comment earlier. That’s the reason I’m back again. J

I'll update again next weekend. For now, let’s prepare to start a tough Monday again.