Place your reliance upon Allah and fulfill the 1000th principle
If you want to succeed at work, or want to succeed in your studies.
Place your reliance upon Allah and apply the 1000th principle
If you want to move out from the confines of misery to happiness and laziness to proactivity and a meaningless life to a life of meaning, value and achievement.
Place your reliance upon Allah and apply the 1000th principle
What is the 1000th principle?
There was an academic in the field of leadership studies, his name was M.R. Kopmeyer, and he authored four books on the topic of success and in each one of those books he has within it 250 principles of success.
That he’s compiled throughout his life as an expert, through coaching experience, through study, and through personal experience.
A thousand principles for success divided over four books.
He was then asked a question during an interview, “which one of these principles in your estimation is the most important?”
And he gave a very crystal clear answer…
He said, “All of the nine-hundred and ninety nine principles that I have included are absolutely useless if this one principle is not present in your life.”
It’s the principle that says “Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether your feel like it or not.”
Now, I want to share with you five principles to those who want to lead an empowered life.
Definition of empowered life – a life of proactivity, a life of vision setting, a life of meeting Allah and you’re confident to say I carried out my function as a Muslim human being in the life of Dunya.
If you feel like your life is characterized by laziness, or too much sleep, or too much socializing, or moving from one room to the other looking for something to do, or looking for something on social media to consume and you’re not really achieving what you feel like you should be achieving. Here are 5 principles that I promise you will change your life to the better.
Principles
1. Put an end to all excuses… no more justification. No more blaming your circumstance, no more blaming the streets, no more blaming social media, no more blaming your family.
Excuses are walls that weak people hide behind. It is a temporary painkiller that they take in order to mask an internal pain to convince other, and worse still to convince themselves, why they aren’t doing anything with their lives.
An excuse is shifting the blame of an internal problem onto an external circumstance.
Realize this is a slippery slope. If you find yourself always explaining away why you couldn’t do something, shouldn’t do something, wouldn’t do something, hadn’t done something then realize you are on a slippery slope of failure.
2. Your future will look like the decisions you’re making today.
What you do today, will be an illustration of who you are tomorrow.
If you’re interested in the person you’re going to be in the future looks like, I want to tell you there is no magic needed. No horoscopes, no palm reading, and no reading into the stars or a crystal ball. All you simply need to do is look into the decisions you are making today because that is what will predict the person you shall be tomorrow.
An intelligent person realizes that every unit of sacrifice, and pain and planning and going out of your comfort zone will translate into a proportional unit of happiness, and well-being and contentment and bliss in the future.
It’s a proportional exchange. And similarly the opposite is true.
Every unit of laziness, every unit of procrastination, excuses or time that is wasted will translate into a proportional unit of regret, sadness and pain.
What you do today is an accurate depiction of who you are tomorrow.
So create a vision!
3. Aim high, because the lower levels are congested with people.
Thomas Edison
The one who invented the incandescent light bulb and the first motion camera, the greatest inventor of his era.
Narrates an amazing story..
When he was still a child, he comes home one evening after school and he hands his mother over a small letter, folded in an envelope. They told him don’t open it, your mother will read it out to you.
And so Alva, mother of Thomas Edison, opens the letter and says to him, after reading the content herself and weeping.
Thomas “Mom, what does it say?” She said, the letter says
“Your son is a genius and this school doesn’t have the facility nor the talents needed to educate a boy of this caliber. So please take him out of the school and educate him yourself.”
So she took the responsibility upon herself and she gave him homeschooling and he became Thomas Edison. The genius of his century.
Then many years pass by and his mother passes away.
And on one particular day when he was rummaging through old family belongings, he opened up a desk and he found a small paper that is folded at the back of the drawer and he took it out and opened it
It said..
“Your son is mentally ill. He has no future. Take him out of the school, he is not welcome here.”
So when he read this, he understood what happened and he wept for several hours
And when he managed to gather his thoughts he pulled his diary and he wrote
“Thomas Alva Edison, was a mentally ill child but by the efforts of a hero mother became the genius of his century.”
Aim high! Because the lower levels are congested with people.
Survey says, the majority of people have not set for themselves any goals in their lives. Are you part of this statistic?
They say 80% of a population have not set for themselves any goals, its just 20% who have goals.
And of those 20% of people who have clearly identifiable goals that they are working towards, from that 20%, only 30% achieve their goals.
The issue is not that we aim high and miss. The issue is that we aim low and we hit that target. The issue is that most of us aim at nothing in life and we hit that with amazing accuracy, we receive nothing in the end!
What is your target?
Aim high because the lower levels are congested.
Thus the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) says
“إن الله تعالى يحب معالى الأمور واشرافها و يكره سفسافها”
Allah loves the high matters, the lofty matters, and Allah hates the lowly, petty matters.
Aim high because the lower levels are congested. Emerge from the deck and go to the upper deck with the people of high aspirations
When you set yourself a goal make sure it has 2 ingredients
Scholars say this is what will bring optimum performance in the life of a person and this is the Ingredient of a giant. 2 qualities are
- #1 clearly identifiable goals
- #2 make it ambitious – they call it a stretch goal. Something that will stretch you.
The empowered life is a success life.
Make the effort to plant the seeds today, to reap the reward of eating the fruit of your labor tomorrow.
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