I am reading the Seven Habits of Highy Effective People by Stephen Covey. I am reading it again. It talks about positive things. At one point he says ; To paraphrase Peter Drucker, effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.
What is the problem with us in Pakistan. We waste a lot of time and we do not take account of our productivity. This has led to our down fall. Our major pass time is basically just wasting time. We are always in a crisis mode and as a nation we move from one crisis to other. There is no thinking on a preventive level.
Open mindedness is totally absent and our education system and the values at home and in the social circle make us slaves of closed mind set. This close mind set has been evoked and enhanced by the vested interest of the political feudal elite and the religious mafia. Adding to this misery are the civil and non civil state actors.
As muslims we should have been the most open minded people. When we were close to the core teachings of Islam we were the inventors and the discoverers. We were the ones that questioned the old established beliefs and brought down the age old orders of apartheid and tyranny.
We have to be open minded to opportunities.
We have to start dreaming. In a sense that unless we have the dreams we will not endeavour and there will be no change at the personal or national level.
In the book there was mention of aresearch; One of the main things his research showed was that almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They Begin with the End in Mind.
In the end I want to close by noting a quote by Goethe, again that I read in the same book; Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least --
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