Awareness

At Oxford University, a survey was made of the graduating senior. The study has revealed that only 5% of the students has definite, predetermined, written down goals. About 2 decade later they did another survey of those seniors who had graduated and it was discovered that the 5% who had committed their goals to paper had accomplished more than the 95% who had not written them down. Are goal necessary? I say definitely yes! Can you imagine Li Ka Shing being interviewed and a reporter asking him: “ Mr. Li, how did you get to be the Chairman of Cheung Kong?” Do you really believe he would say: “Well….I just showed up for work….and they started promoting me….And there I am today, the chairman of Cheung Kong.” You know it’s not the things happened. Are you going to work tomorrow, because that’s what you did yesterday? If that’s the reason, you won’t be as good tomorrow as you were yesterday, because you are two days older and no closer to the goal you do not have. You must have those goals!

Stop 100 young men aged 20 on any street in Malaysia, follow them until they are 65 years old, and you’ll discover that only 2% have succeeded financially. It’s almost as if they’d set out in life to fail! Five years ago, I am still a student and I must admit that I was lucky. My father brought me to a seminar; the speaker explained to me how to set goal and share with me the knowledge of the facts of life. He mentions, “I achieved all this because I had written down my goals and followed them up with action”. Today five years later, I have review all my goal, but most of it haven’t achieve, I am still striving toward.

If you really want to make more money, you must set those goals. The rules is you go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you’ll always be able to see further. At the same time continue accumulating more knowledge in the particular field you are interesting in. Remain curious and keep asking “show me how.” It’s the only way to become more knowledgeable. Keep this up and you’ll be rewarded sooner than you think.

But let there be no misunderstanding. I’m going to tell you a fact about rewarded. Can you imagine yourself going to the bank and telling the manager: “Please pay me the interest now, and I promise to make the deposit in the near future.

Do you know the secretary who say to her boss “Give me a salary raise and I’ll start coming to work on time…”

Have you heard of a farmer saying to his land “Give me a crop this year and I promise to plant the seeds next spring….”

And the student telling his teacher “Teacher, give me a pass this year and I promise to study next year…”

Or the individual who say to his laptop “Give me some power now, and I’ll charge later…”

No, it doesn’t work that way and you know it very well, you must always put something in before you can get something out. But if you invest some effort and do your homework, I’m sure that you will be rewarded, because you have earned it. According to scientists, about 80 billion humans have existed on the face of this earth. As strange as it may sound, there has never been another you. Since the beginning of time, there has never been another person with your mind, your heart, your eyes, your voice, your hands, your hair, your mouth. None that live today and none that will live tomorrow can walk and talk, move and think exactly the way you do. You have been given eyes to see and the mind to think, but they will be wasted unless you put them to good use. We have unlimited potential, but sometime we’re running out of time.