Success
1.All of us dreamt
of success. All of us work hard to succeed. All of us do not want success to be
temporary. All of us do not want success to be enjoyed mid-way only. All of us
want to maintain success forever. All of us want to succeed in every single
thing that we do.
2.Now we are
successful. We felt exhilarated when we actually succeeded. We are successful
in our studies, career, life and politics. Chasing after success is not easy.
Its not easy to succeed. Managing success is actually more difficult than
putting in the effort to achieve success. Most of us failed in managing our
success.
Reality in Life
1.Most successful people are not able to maintain their success.
Most students were able to obtain 9As for their SPM examination but were not
able to continue their studies even up to the first degree level. They failed
half way in their studies. We read news of an eighteen year old student who
graduated with first class honours but a failure in life and ended up as an
upper class prostitute.
2.Tiger Woods was
the world’s no 1 golf player until 2010. He shocked his fans all over the world
by falling to no 7 world ranking. That was a year after the car accident that
uncovered his infidelity towards his wife in November 2009. As a result of the
incident,Tiger failed to win any of the major championships entered since 2008.
3.Rory Mcllroy is now
the world’s golf no 1 player.In 2012 he won the top money list titles for both
PGA tours and European tours. Even though he is only 21 years old, Roy Mcllroy
does have the physical, mental and
emotional strengths to manage the stiff
competition. He is capable of controlling
the pressure and emotions during each tough game. He possesses an amazing intellectual
strength and self confidence to face the challenging golf courses and
spectators.
4.The first
generation was successful in business. The second generation was successful in
expanding the business empire. The third generation however, is slowly
destroying all the success created by the previous two generations before him.
The grandfather from a poor background was able to built a successful business
empire. His son who inherited his wealth was successful in expanding the
business. The grandson who inherited all the wealth from his father is slowly
destroying the business empire handed down by his grandfather.
5.Many politicians
and leaders struggle to succeed. YAB Tun Abdullah, our former PM was able to
secure the highest position in government or in his political party. However,
upon securing the highest position in government as Prime Minister, he failed
to maintain his career success. YB Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the Opposition leader, at one
time was at the height of his career and his popularity was on the rise but he
failed mid-way.
6.Many PTD or Government
Heads of Department struggled to do any possible thing to lobby for promotion
and be successful. There are those who were able to hold JUSA or higher
positions. However, upon successfully occupying this position, they failed to
maintain their career success. The media is always reporting news of these
higher position officers caught committing adultery with their former secretaries or girl
friends. There were many higher level officers including former Minister
charged by SPRM for graft cases or living beyond their means.
7.All of the above
scenarios actually existed and happened. Why does this happened? Why does a
brilliant student failed in her life? Why does a world famous golf player
failed in the golf tournament he participated. Why does the above corporate leader
failed to maintain his expanding business empire? Why do the political leaders
failed to maintain their positions eventhough they were at the top of their careers? Why do the above
Heads of Department failed to develop further their careers? Why do these people
failed to manage the success achieved?.
Tips
1.Maintaining
success requires inherent skills. Having
working skills enabled us to achieve success. The skills in managing success is
not the same skills required in order to succeed. Many people failed to
succeed. It is the norm. Many people who are successful failed to manage their
success. This is something interesting for us to find out the reason.
2.We always
assumed that somebody who is successful will continuously be successful. It
does not happened that way. A lot depended on their skills and capabalities to
manage their success. A successful person can fail and their failure is a
disappointment not only to themselves or their families but to those people who
read their story in medias the world over.
3.Love,
women, money, wealth, greed, selfish, ict illiterate, poor mental resilience,
poor pressure resilience and impatience are among the things related to failure
either on its own or a combination of them. These were some of the reasons
noted why a person failed to manage their success. Suffice to open up our minds
and lessons learned in managing success.
Thus, we therefore need to avoid, distance ourselves, shut our eyes so as not
to be involved with infidelity, power crazy, questionable source of money and
greed in all aspects of our lives.
4.
All of these factors related to unhealthy desires and wants in actual fact are
refrained by Allah SWT for us to be involved with. In the event we still want
to be involved, be involved in a manner allowed and ordained by Allah SWT. For
example, if we love a woman so much, marry them the syariah way. If we love money
and wealth so much, accumulate them in a legal manner. If we love power, secure
it in a clean way. InsyaAllah when our acts are checked, done in an honest and
proper way, we should be able to manage and sustain our success for a long time.
5.There
are many examples of people who were able to manage their success. Again we
cannot ignore our son of the soil, YABhg Tun Dr Mahathir as the role model in
this aspect. Tun not only manages and maneuvered his success but he was also
able to manage the many crisis he was confronted with in a jubilant manner. His
most prominent career well known to the public was as a politician and Prime Minister.
How come Tun was able to face and overcome all the crisis and yet still be successful. The
answer is love. As we knew it, Tun truly loves his wife, his family, his career,
the nation and its people.
6.
Women- Tun was able to put a barrier on any forms of ill intentions relating to women and sex eventhough there
were some trials and tribulations. Wealth- Tun gave his full attention and
focused on his role and career as a
politician, no reports of taking grafts on him. Of cause his sons on their own
are in business and can be categorized as super rich. Throne- Tun was at the top
of the power throne but he was skillful in managing this throne. At the ground
level, rakyat were not able to smell any kind of wrongdoings or arrogance.
7.
His mental strength is strong and superb. He has strong convictions. Tun was
able to face all kinds of pressure either from within or externally and from
various segments of the communities but Tun was smart, rationale and logical in
confronting all of these issues. Tun was a very patient man throughout his more than 39 years political
career. Tun is actually successful and excellent in managing his success. He is
actually a successful and an exemplary
mega manager and statesman. Tun, I believe is a person who always think
big dream high and has a strong heart.
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