My dear
leaders of the future:
Ten recipes
for success
1. Turn hardship into blessing
and failure into success
Remember George Westinghouse, whose teachers described
him as a stupid, lazy student. Later, his name went down in history as one of
the most creative men in human history. He refused to believe the negative
opinions that had been said about him and received more than 400 patents
throughout his lifetime. It was also interesting that he died while sitting on
his last invention, which was a wheelchair that had an engine.
A hardship might turn into a blessing if you
think in the right way and decide that the only way to survive is to excel.
2. As long
as your heart beats, do not stop working. Quitting work is harmful.
Do not ever stop working because work gives your
life meaning. It will be empty without work.
We need to establish a culture of making extra
effort in the Arab world. Those
who advance well in their careers are the ones working harder. If you look for
the distinguished ones in a company or in a class, you will find that they are
the ones who are exerting more effort and still regard what they do as a
minimum. Excellence is to outdo yourself and remember that a person who toils
during the day, has a good night sleep.
If you work more than
the value of your wages, in the future you will find that your wages will be
greater than the value of your work.
The French proverb
says, “The world belongs to those who wake up early.”
3. Optimism
brings luck. Be optimistic and you will be lucky.
You cannot achieve
success without climbing the ladder of success. Frustration is a sure way to
failure.
You will not be able to take any step forward when you
are trapped in frustration and not trusting your abilities. No country will be
able to prosper and achieve advancement if some of its people keep on sowing
the seeds of frustration, look for negativities, discuss failures, and ignore
positive achievements.
Only optimists
achieve success.
Who believes in the future, makes the future.
4. Happiness is a decision: if
you decide to be happy, you will be happy.
Happy people are more
productive and make those working with them happy. Such people are happy to
work with others and are problem solvers.
To be happy or not is
a personal decision. You achieve happiness for yourself; no one can achieve it
for you without you wanting it. It is your duty towards yourself to make
yourself happy.
Smiling is the way to
solve many problems and silence is the way to avoid many problems.
5. Always be
a student: never stop learning.
Learning is a
continuous process as long as your heart is beating, regardless of your age or level
of education.
The world is changing
around us every day, with a daily increase in information. Whoever wants to
remain intellectually active must nourish his or her mind, the same they
nourish their body. Knowledge is the food of the mind, just as food is important
to the body.
The progress that
humanity has witnessed through the ages would not have been possible without
education, information and communication.
If you want to liberate yourself, you have to learn. If
you want to achieve victory, you have to learn. If you want to achieve
prosperity, you also have to learn.
6. The word
retired means to die while sitting idle. Never retire!
A person feels alive when he or she engages with life.
Retirement takes him or her out of life.
I reiterate that the word retired means to die while
sitting idle, therefore, never stop working as long as you are alive.
Continuing to
work generates good luck and reveals hidden opportunities.
7. Forgive
your enemies, but never forget their names.
Having a lot of enemies, competitors, opponents, and
people envying you while pursuing your success is a healthy thing. In fact, their
presence in our lives is one of the factors of success. We need to regard those
who stalk us and wish us to fail as an aid to our
success and a motive for our achievements. As they say, if there is no one that
hates you, then you should know that you are not successful.
If you waste your
time responding to everyone who criticizes you, you will not find the time to
fulfill your objectives.
The Chinese say, forgive
your enemies, but never forget their names. Having them in our memory and their
staking of us will make us more careful, in order to avoid mistakes and
encourage us to succeed to prevent them from gloating.
8. Look for uniqueness and leadership.
Do not follow the crowd.
If you see a
successful thing, do not copy it, but study it to create an even better
success. There is no pride in competing with what already exists or aiming to
be just like it. The real pride is in developing something more successful and
better than the existing one.
Be an effective, innovative member in your team by acquiring
skills and abilities that distinguish you as an more innovative person than the
rest. There are no limits to innovation.
You can develop anything you see, do, or use. Technology
only moves forward.
Big things
start small.
Everything that the mind can conceive is achievable.
9. At school, we learn lessons
and take tests
At work, we face tests, but in school, university, or
in any form of self-learning, we study and sit for the exam to achieve success.
In real life, you face success and failure and learn from them. When we study,
we learn lessons and take tests, while at work we face tests and learn lessons
from it.
How do you
achieve success? In two words, right decisions.
How do you make right decisions? In one word, experience.
How do you gain experience? In two words, incorrect decisions.
10. First and foremost. Love.
Love is the most powerful weapon in the world. It
spreads more than any other feeling and benefits the lover, who feels
comfortable, while those who spread hatred are the first to suffer from its
complications.
If you want
to be lovable, be a lover.
Remember. It is better to be loved than to be
important.