Hello this time I will interviewed a woman famous
motivator. Who does not familiar with the figure of women this one?
This is one of the motivations that inspired me and
the others.
Yes, she is Merry Riana. A motivator no. 1 in
Indonesia and Asia. Not only as motivator, Merry Riana also a writer and
entrepreneur, of the most phenomenal and for inspiring is "Million Dollar
Dream" from the a lot of achievement he grab, many struggle of have to in
took to truth has come to you.
Me :
Hello, good afternoon .Thank you for
spend
their spare time. How are you Ci Merry?
Merry Riana :
Hello, I am fine. Thankyou
Me :
Where are the date of birth Cici?
Merry Rian :
I was born in Jakarta, May 29 1980
Me :
Who name your parents? And all their
work?
Merry Riana :
My father named Ir. Suanto
Sosrosaputro and
his mother named Lynda Sanian
Me :
Do you Indonesian citizens?
Merry Riana :
I was born and raised in Jakarta in a
family
simple of chinese descent.
Me :
Where Cici Mer start education?
Merry Riana : I started education in elementary school Don
Bosco Pulomas, then I entered junior
high and high schools Santa Ursula that is catholic school specifically
women in
Central Jakarta. After graduation from high school, I wish to continue
college on
Trisakti. Ideals to lecture in the Department of Electrical Engineering
from Trisakti
University were dashed because of the incident in Jakarta 1998. Merry
journey begins
in Singapore during riots in Jakarta in 1998. He then chose the college
in Singapore to
avoid things that are not desirable. In Singapore I continue a lecture
at Nanyang
Technological University.
Me : Why must is out of the country? And why Singapore
selected?
Merry Riana :
My father decided to send their children to
study abroad. And Singapore when it is
an option that makes the most sense because it is relatively close, safe
environment
and
a good education system.
Me :
At
college there you take what majors?
Merry Riana :
I took of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering (EEE)
Me :
Why you took that majors?
Merry Riana : Is of the most makes sense to me that time.
I they want to be an engineer. Their goals
was probably the eager to help the father
in running a business. Without adequate
preparation for
study abroad, Merry had failed the English test at the Nanyang
Technological University.
Me :
Is it true you borrow funding from the
government funding Singapore?
Merry Riana : Right. Without
adequate preparation of stock funds anyway, I borrow funds from
the Government of
Singapore. I borrowed money from the Bank of Singapore
Government
scholarships of $ 40,000 and must be repaid after he graduated
from college and
work. The funding has been minimal, because after he
calculated only get
$ 10 for a week. For frugality, I around this by just eating
instant noodles
in the morning, lunch with 2 pieces of bread without butter, join
seminars and
gatherings in the evening after a free meal, even for just drink I
took from the water
faucet or tap water on campus. It was gradually almost every
day in his first year in college. Life is very
alarming is encouraged to seek
outside income.
From start distributing pamphlets / flyers on the street, a flower
shop keepers, and a waitress in
the hotel Banquet.
Me :
And what about pay money you and loan
from the government Singapore? Do you
work?
Merry Riana : Yes, starting from share pamphlets /
brochures in the way, be the keeper of florists,
and to service
banquet at the hotel.
Me :
So how come until you get the money 1
million dollars?
Merry Riana : I tried business MLM, tried to play stock,
all of which ended in failure. I also tried to
practices by plunging into multi level of
marketing although finally loss 200 dollars. I
even were losing 10.000 dollars when
twisted the money in business stock. At that
moment I fell and I lost all my
investments. But, I went back to stand up and hard to
become entrepreneur. They graduate from
college, with Alva Tjenderasa that is my
friend when I first college and now it has
been my husband, we started of doing
business with. I started by sector of sales
in the field of financial services. When I
started a career as a financial adviser, I have to
grapple with some the challenges
and barrier. As a visitor stranger in there, experience
and relations was very limited.
I have decided to work 14 hours a day, standing near MRT
stations and a bus stop
to offer insurance, in
fact I worked until midnight and just got home at 2 early morning,
not to
mention income that is not certainly made I was
forced to back saving up to
regulate their daily needs. Until finally I got succeed as
financial consultant who sells
products finance and
banking as insurance, credit card,
deposits, savings, etc.
In the first six months my
career in the prudential managed to settle
his debt 40
thousand dollars Singapore. Exactly one my first year managed to get
income of 200
thousand dollars Singapore or
about 1,5 billion rupiah. And then I had
been given
award new top adviser gastronomic
prize many people of their profession the
financial adviser in 2003. In 2004, I be
promoted as manager, and then i started
her
own business after appointed as manager to hire have employees own
and later
erected MRO (Merry Riana
Organization) a financial services company, other than
I also established MRO consultancy who working in the area of training, motivation
and printing book based in Singapore.
Me :
Who
figures the most support Merry Riana until now?
Merry Riana : Since the beginning, my husband, Alva, have
stand together in building business and
travel to this
success.
Me :
Is
the success of is supported factors luck? A lot of I saw factors luck also
affected.
What do you think?
Merry Riana : Luck
or fortune is when there is a chance that comes in and we have prepared
themselves for it.
Me :
Do you think the success? Do you
currently have get there?
Merry Riana : I think, success of someone not measured
from how lot of money, how expensive the car or how fancy his house, but from how big positive impact that we can create in
the life of people in around us.
And this is a collection of motivation some of
Merry Riana
