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admin 26 November 2009 Human Resources, Leadership, Self Development 70 views No Comment Email This Post

In this life, we need to think not only of ourselves, but of others.  What we do does affect other people, just as other people’s attitudes, behaviours and actions affect us.  What is wonderful these days is that the individual is encouraged to strive for improvement, not just financially, but intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually.

We have obligations to ourselves to strive to be rounded, successful and happy.  This obligation, I believe, is to ensure that we make the most of our opportunities and situations so that we can give back to those close to us, those who have supported us and also to our communities.    Our communities, families, professions, towns and countries are all organs that are the consequence of the individuals and organizations that participate in their development.

Our own self development is part of the development of our environment, our culture, and our children’s futures.  Therefore, if we see our future, and our vision of what we want to achieve, we need to examine not only the value of those goals and their effects on others, but we also need to consider others in our development path, and our actions in the short and medium term.  So if making money is your long term goal, there is nothing wrong with that at all.

Money can do wonderful things.  However, how we make money, and how we use it, and how we perceive ourselves, regardless of the amount of money we have – all these things are important.    If, in the process of making money, you don’t take any care of the consequences of your actions on other people, you can’t expect to be treated well by others on their way up the wealth ladder.

And as we all know, its best to be civil and respectful to those we meet on the way up – just in case we meet them on the way down!  What it all comes down to is that money is not everything.   If striving to achieve great wealth is the most important thing, it can appear at times to be more important than our families, our neighbours, our friends and our colleagues. But that is not true, it can never be more important than them, many at times money don’t stay with you forever! That may surprise you! there are some situations you get to in life that money will be useless and will not be able to help you. But your investment in the life of people is what will bail you out at the crucial time.

Wealth doesn’t bring respect – but how you achieve it and what you do with it does. You can never see an honourable thief. Many at times we are concern about the product (money and wealth) with taking into consideration the process of getting the product. This is an error I have seen. Both the product and process are very important the Self respect and respect for others is the mainstay of being happy and contented, and is going to be influential in determining our progress and success in life. Never pull down anybody on your way up! You will definitely meet them on your way down.

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