What’s a Life Goal – 3

Fajr Reminders - Mahmood Habib Masjid and Islamic Center

https://youtu.be/mfkMElvCURE Auto-generated transcript: So clear goals, metrics, structure and assessing your achievement at the end of the day. This is the absolute secret of success. So do that. Now two very important points. One is the of consistency. In life, the people who achieve the most are not the people who are the fastest, they are not the people who are the most intelligent, they are not the people who are the most talented, they are the people who are the most consistent. Because consistency is the base of trust. Consistency produces trust and trust is the base of leadership. If you want to be a leader, you want to be trusted because nobody will follow someone And how can you be trusted? By being consistent, by your word being your law, by developing a reputation. You do not develop a reputation by talking about it, you develop a reputation by showing it and by demonstrating it. By developing, you become trusted by developing a reputation of being somebody who always delivers on that promise. So if I say to you that I will do something and it doesn't happen, then it means that I'm dead and then you can make dua for me. Because if I told you that I would do something and if I was not able to do it, either not able to do it at all or not able to deliver in time, then I would get back to you. I will never leave you in a lurch. I will never be in a situation where you are sitting there wondering, I said this to him, is he doing it? Is he not doing it? What's going on? This will never happen if you give me a job. This is how I've lived all my life, Alhamdulillah. And this is the reason why I have found great satisfaction and great success and I have made wonderful friends because of this. Becoming trustworthy, becoming somebody that people can rely on. People follow those who they can rely on. So being able to rely on you is number one thing in the context of being a leader. So become reliable. How do you become reliable? By being consistent in your delivery. Consistency is the secret. The other thing connected with this is don't overdo it, but always under promise, over deliver. Everyone likes to be delighted. They like to have nice surprises, not nasty shocks. So what's a nice surprise and a nasty shock? Under promise, over delivery is a nice surprise. Over promise, under delivery or no delivery is a nasty shock. Nobody likes nasty shocks. You don't like it. Others don't like it either. So don't give people nasty shocks. Under promise, over deliver. There is this tendency because of hubris or because of just over-enthusiasm, over-confidence or whatever of promising people the earth and the moon combined. And obviously, you can't do it. And then when you don't do it and somebody calls you out on that, then you have this whole litany of excuses. Oh, but you see this happened, that happened and so on. And you should be reasonable. How can anyone do this? If somebody cannot do this, how come that person promised to do it? The person who promised to do it is responsible for doing it. So if you promise to do something, then it's your job to ensure that you do it. And that's the reason why be very careful what you promise. But once you promise, you are bound by your word. And if you promise and you're not bound by your word, then you are an untrustworthy character. Quite obviously, you are not somebody who is fit to lead. People will not trust you and they will not follow you. So becoming trustworthy and reliable is very, very critically important. And for that, consistency is the call. Final thing, because this is a very common thing that I am seeing and have been seeing in the last few years, and that is people's readiness to give up, the ease with which they give up. I mentioned this earlier as well, which is somebody in a college degree, which it takes maybe 40 or something in between, you get bored and you leave. And you say, I didn't like it. The point is that why do you believe that this decision to leave i...