4. Your Challenge as fellows
Is to make the transition from
philanthropy to community building
One requires money
The other requires dedication, skill, time
and energy
Won’t happen unless you see
value for yourself in it
5. Critical Need
Forget ‘sacrifice’
Think ‘investment’
Sacrifice always ends
Investment continues because you see
value in it
Your return is to know that you will receive
the rewards for this long after you have gone
11. A world of contrasts
That speaks to us in the
language of signs – readable
only by those who can see.
“There's none so blind as those who will not listen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
12.
13. Today’s benefits
Global access to information
Choice of what to see or listen to
Choice of careers and lifestyles
Lowering of entry barriers
Access to capital
Freedom to choose is confusing and frightening
14.
15. Today’s challenges
How to understand the information?
How to choose what to see or listen to?
How to choose career or lifestyle?
What to do with low entry barriers
How to access funds?
Without this assets become liabilities
16. This is what
we need.
Courage,
Enterprise,
Creativity,
Confidence
17. What we need today is…
Perspective to understand the present
Courage to take risk in the future
Ownership & responsibility for commons
Communication & work with diverse groups
Disagree without being disagreeable
Critical thinking & learning from mistakes
Critical to survival skills
25. Window of Opportunity
In the life of every man and woman comes a
time when they have a unique opportunity
to make an impact and influence others.
To succeed we need to anticipate, prepare
and act with courage when it opens
The window remains open only for a time
27. Choose Wisely
Living life is about making choices:
Choosing to be a “Victim”
Or choosing to be a “Master”
Both stances are subject to the same givens
of society, environment, organization etc.
But have very different implications in
terms of development and happiness
28. Distinguishing features
Victims
Complain about
what happened
Think of excuses
Blame others
Lose hope & give up
Masters
Say, “What can I do
about it?”
Think of solutions
Own responsibility
Have courage to try new
ways
Win, even if they fail
Possible only when we can transcend our fear
32. 1. Complacency
“Good enough, never is.”
The only use of history is to learn from it.
Gloating or lamenting about past glory is
the surest way of ensuring that it remains
in the past.
People who don’t learn from history are
condemned to repeat it
33.
34. 2. Not aiming high enough
“It is in the nature of extraordinary
goals to inspire extraordinary effort.”
“Satisfaction is directly proportional to
the degree of difficulty in reaching the
goal.”
Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king
35. Self-congratulation
Is like self-strangulation and as lethal
But unlike it – you feel nice while you die
Ask tough questions
Face harsh reality
Take steps to change
If it happened in the past you had nothing to do with it
36. 3. Excuses and blaming
Stop blaming others for your situation
Analyze what went wrong and create a plan
to avoid it in the future.
Being objective, even hard, on yourself is the
best way to avoid repeating mistakes.
Making excuses indicates that you
still haven’t learnt your lesson
40. The Crucial Question
How much do I truly need success?
As much as I need food?
Or as much as I need air?
40
41. Set your Goal
Imagine that you are listening to your own farewell
speech being delivered by someone who has worked
with you, for many years and knows you very well.
What would you like to hear?
41
42. Tools
1. Ta’alluq Ma’Allah: Tahajjud and Dua
2. Structuring time: Discipline
3. Manners: Ability to deal with people
4. Self – Assessment
Disciplined implementation
43. Remember
1. You can only give what you have so if you want
to give, check what you have
2. You can justify anything to yourself – but that
doesn’t make it right
3. Fundamental laws don’t change for anyone
44. Gravity is a fundamental law. So is
success – the difference between
free fall and free flight is in the
landing.
44
46. Inner influences the Outer
1. Relationships are based on words.
2. Words are indicators of mental models and
attitudes.
3. When words are changed the attitudes
behind them change as well.
4. And new rewards become visible
46
Who I Am influences what I Do,
which determines what I Get
48. How much time do you have remaining?
Effective Time
Actual Time – Maintenance Time
= Available Time
Available time used in achieving you Life Goal
= Effective Time (E T)
49. 4 – Keys for Effective Time
1. Investment – Impact Analysis
2. 3 x 3 Rule
3. Delegate: Urgent – Important Analysis
4. Learn to say the magic word: “No.”
Productivity is directly proportional to E T
50. IMPACT
20% of what you do, produces 80% of the results
INVESTMENT
Investment – impact Analysis
Eliminate Hard work
Do if you
have to
Leverage
Investment
Impact
51. 3 x 3 Rule
1. List 3 activities you need to do in order of
priority
2. Then start on the 1st and continue until you
finish it. If you are interrupted, go back to it
and complete it. Then go on to the next.
3. If any are left over, re-write the list the next
day in the same way.
52. IMPACT
20% of what you do, produces 80% of the results
INVESTMENT
Urgent – Important Analysis
Urgent
Important
Urgent
Not
Important
Urgent and
Important
Not Urgent
Not Important
Important
Not Urgent
53. The magic word – No!!
Develop Assertiveness:
“Self expression through which one stands
up for one’s rights without violating the
rights of others.”
54. How to say, ‘No!’
1. Smile and say, ‘Yes but not now.’
2. Get out of Face Book and all chats
3. Your Inbox is not your To-Do list: Create filters
4. You don’t have to respond to chat messages
5. Never interrupt others: Take an appointment
6. Make punctuality an obsession: Time is a number
7. Never forward emails
55. Why Manners?
1. Because we can’t succeed alone
2. Because people work for their reasons, not yours
3. Because we will be remembered not by what we
did but by how we made people feel
4. Because a smile opens more doors than anything
else
55
Because our manners are our signature, our brand
56. Life is math – I x U = R
1. Think of any interaction as an equation
It has two sides which produce the outcome
What happens on either side affects the outcome
2. We control only one side, but….
We can choose whatever outcome we want
56
Development is a product of thought, not time
57. I x U = R
2 x 2 = 4
My action x Your reaction = Result
Reaction can only be controlled by
controlling the action
57
The result is the outcome of our actions
59. The Price of Success
Success, like everything else, has a price.
We often don’t succeed simply because we
are not willing to pay that price.
It is therefore essential that we are clear
about what the price of success in our lives is
and if we are willing to pay it.
So ask, ‘WiiFM?’
60. What’s the price of MY
success?
In terms of the challenges that I face today, what do
I need to do if I want to be a ‘Master’ and not a
‘Victim’?
What is the investment that I need to make in order
to succeed?
Return is proportionate to investment
61. Goal Setting
Being
I want to be a doctor
I want to be a pilot
I want to be a teacher
Doing
I want to help sick people
I want to take people
safely from place to place
I want to …..
To be you have to do
To do you don’t have to be
Unless you do you will never be
