If you have always complained that life isn’t fair for you and you don’t have this or that, or start giving yourself whatsoever kind of crap excuse just because you are not able to achieved certain things in life, just take a look at my new found hero – Nick Vujicic. The moment I have finished watching this video, it struck me deep inside how we take things for granted in life. We have everything that Nick Vujicic can only dream of, but yet his achievement in life at this moment (26 yrs old) is beyond remarkable.

Quotes from Nick Vujicic’s speech

- Perspective

- Vision (beyond comprehension)

- Choice

- Give yourself credit

- The day you believe you have reach your fullest potential, is the day you haven’t because you still have today

- Do not putt of the things that you can’t do today

- Stop procrastinating

- It’s time for everything

- Circumstances do not have to change, for you to become victorious

- Do not compare suffering

Below is the list of affected factories by this round of economic recession which will be the worse after the “Great Depression” 1930s. A lot of the factories have choosen to layoffs their staffs or force their employees to take unpaid leave, and worse of all, you may even get layoffs. Malaysia, Penang will be hard hit by it, because the Penang economic is strongly correlated with the business of those MNC (multi national corporation) which is mostly located in Bayan Baru, Sebarang Jaya, Prai area.

To make the matter worse, if you were to ask any of those Penangites about the job prospect in Northern Malaysia, most probably they can only think of working in Intel, Agilent, Motorola, DELL etc (which is US based), other than that there are mostly some SME (small medium enterprise) kind of company which u can work for. But you can forget about being paid lucratively, good company benefits or welfares system. Plainly speaking, it’s just not worth your time in working at those small companies.

Lists of affected factories in Penang, Malaysia and their action plans to counter the current economic recession:

1. AMD  Penang announced this morning VSS lay off 500 employees.
2. Avago have retrenched 86 employees, planned to off load another 50 employees in Q1/09.
3. Flextronics 4 days week for Month Nov and Dec.
4. Spansion force to take leave (15 days in this quarter)
5. YaHorng shut down for a week, from 08~16/Nov due to no fresh orders.
6. Jabil planned shut down from Dec 24 to Jan 4, 6 days no pay leave.
7. Agilent planned shut down from Dec 24 to Jan 4, 6 days no pay leave.
8. Globetronics planned shut down from Dec 24 to Jan 4,  6 days no pay leave.
9. Asahi also cut 1 day…become 4 days
10. Amlex (Susan factory) 2 days/week
11. Kobe 4 days week
12. CS Opto shutdown for 1 month
13. San Disk announced layoff 450 – 500 employees.
14. AMD Penang announced this morning VSS lay off 500 employees.
15. Motorola announced layoff 3000 employees.
16. Spansion (5 days in this quarter)
17. Sony shutdown 25 Dec till 6th Jan 09
18. Panasonic plan for buy Sanyo.
19. ASE Penang alternate 1 ~ 2 days shutdown every week.
20. ST-NXP Wireless cuts 500 jobs World-Wide, including subcontractors, from the current total of more than 7500 people.
21. The job cuts were confirmed during this weekend. Flextronics has announced that the company will cut around 100 jobs at the Limerick plant, said RTE. The reason for the cut backs is due to the global economic downturn.
22. Flextronics employs around 300 staff at the Limerick facility, which provides warehousing and logistics services to a number of companies in the region.
23. Dell lays off 700 in Ireland
24. The Dell facility in Raheen, Limerick is to lay off 700 temporary workers. Additional to that,
25. Flextronics in Limerick is also rumoured to lay off 100 staff.
26. Mary Coughlan, Irish Minister for Enterprise , Trade and Employment, met with members of Dell’s senior management to discuss the future of 3000 employees at the manufacturing facility in Limerick .
27. STMicro to lay off at Phoenix facility Switzerland based chip maker STMicroelectronics is to lay off staff at its Phoenix , Arizona facility Local newsreports state that the chip maker will lay off 100 staff. The facility – which currently employs around 850 staff – will expercience an ongoing lay off process. azcentral cites spokesman Mike Michael Markowitz in saying that “about 100 of the plant’s 850 workers were let go this week and that the process would continue”.
    Last year, the company announced closure plans for 3 American chip facilities and that chip manufacturing would be transferred to low-cost locations. Staff and management hoped for a buyer to keep the plant open. Dell workers asked to take unpaid vacation
28. Media reports state that CEO Michael Dell – of computer giant Dell – has asked employees to consider taking a maximum of 5 days unpaid holidays. As reported earlier, Dell is currently running a restructuring programme to counteract the economic and financial downturn.
    This include 8,900 job cuts, voluntary severance packages and a global hiring freeze. “We are asking employees on a voluntary basis to consider taking off (up to) five days … as unpaid time off as a flexible way to reduce costs for the company,” the CEO was cited in a Reuters report in saying.
29. Tele-Fonika Kable to cut 900. Polish based cable and wire producer Tele-Fonika Kable plans to lay of 900 employees or 19% of its workforce. The lay offs will affect all production units across the group. The company has seven plants, of which five are located in Poland , said PB. Tele-Fonika Kable also plans to sell parts of its business, however it will not close down any plants. The company wishes to optimize production process and reduce costs.

The Time Famine

Bad time management = stress

This is life advice

The overall goal is fun

- Being successful doesn’t make you manage your time well.
- Managing your time well makes your successful.

Goals, Priorities and Planning
Why am i doing this ? What is the goal ? Why will i succeed ? What happens if i chose not to do it ? Doing things right vs doing the right things

100 things to do in my life

If you can dream it, you can do it – Walt Disney

Planning -
- Failing to plan is planning to fail
- Plan each day, each week, each semester
- You can always change your plan, but only once you have one!

To do lists -
- Break things down into small steps
- Like a child cleaning his/her room
- Do the ugliest thing first

Procrastination is the thief of time

Specific thing to do, specific date / time , specific penalty or reward for them