Monday, December 17, 2012

Think Big Dream High,E35- Those Who Are Not Able To Manage Success




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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