::Dream Small; Think Big::

I was wondering about this topic I'm going to blog here these few days, thinking hard, wondering, could not find an answer. Or I should say, there's no particular answer for this question as every individual in this world is different. And now I'm thinking, how should I ask this question to you all...

Maybe I think I should start off with,"What is your target to be achieved in your life?"

Recently, a senior sales manager of mine has resigned and serving her one month notice now. She is a dedicated self-motivated, very positive person. When you look at her, you'll know that she's a strong person, knows what she wanted and knows how to go for it. Everyone discussed about her resignation, while I, listened. And yes, everyone agrees that she is a person who always sets her own target, wanted to achieve and always moving forward.

Then I started this topic with a new sales manager of mine (she's same age as me, and yes, she's a sales manager already). I said:" Everyone does has somewhere they wanted to be at..." "Of course, people should always moves forward. We should always have a target. Set ourselves a target, then the time you wanted to achieve it. Just like me, when I started off as a coordinator, I told myself I wanted to get a raise & be promoted within two years, then I got promoted within two years. Then again, I told myself I wanted to get a raise & be promoted within two years, again I've been promoted within two years. And now I'm a sales manager..."

I just nod throughout the whole conversation, agree or not, that's the action I'm doing, but thinking hard. Wondering what is my target and what do I wanna do with my position. Yes, of course who does not want a promotion and get a raise? I do wanted too... Just that, it is not my target. I'm even feeling too comfortable with the position I'm in now and the way I am now. I am totally demotivated for some reasons and this is totally not what I wanna achieve in my life.

Suddenly, I feel that I am going against the path to my target, to what I wanted to achieve... Dear friends, are you taking the path you always wanted to continue, or are you leaving your target far behind? Or have you changed your target because you've took a different path? I agree with what my sales manager said, partially... As I do not think that people who remained in the same position he or she's in, are people who do not have a target in life, I do not agree they did not acheive what they wanted to and totally object the perception of people who stays stagnant in thier career are people who does not achieve anything in their lives...

I would say, different people have different kind of dreams, targets, things they wanted to acheive. Career, is something, but ain't everything in your life, and sometimes, I think people over-'addicted' to their job, while sometimes, it is not about job, its about money, status. And these people around me where so called well-motivated to achieve higher in their career($$$) are normally those who do not have any other interest in life... Other than work, means work, work, work... I do not know whether they enjoy food, enjoy life, but I noticed that, other than work, they do not have things they wanted to do, interested in... And when you talk about something other than work, they would either think that "nah...I don't have time..." else "you are wasting your time/$$$ and it's useless, you should focus more on your career...""you are young, you should have the dedication to work, you have what it got to work hard and go further in your career..."

What is the purpose of life when you don't even enjoy your life? Life is not all about work, it is about what you are doing in your daily life that makes you happy... Life is what you want to achieve in life not only about your career... Life is about being simple and not complicated... And yet, the simplest thing is the most difficult thing to achieve...

People works hard, until they get fed-up and pissed off at work most of the time instead of enjoying what they are doing. People wants to go further in career, strives hard in career, but they forgot about the time they should spend for their partners, friends, family and even for themselves. People started to be complicated until they do not even remember the simplest thing in life, just like when we were young and doing our add-maths, we always know how to solve the complicated ones and we made mistakes on the simples ones, we do not even know how to solve the easy ones... cause we've complicated it, we doubted the simple-ness, we are the person making our lives complicated, and miserable...

The simplest thing is the most difficult thing to be done, to be achieved... Haven't you noticed that being simple ain't easy anymore in our lives? Some people missed out the simplest happiness through a complete, perfect family, with babies, children as they wanted to strive further in their career. And when time passes by, there is no turning back. Getting babies getting own kids ain't easy anymore... How much can your career helps you on that? How much can your career helps to bring back the time you've lost? For your beloved partner, for your beloved friends, for your beloved family?

How successful are you when you can't even manage the simplest thing in life well? What have you achieved in life that makes yourself happy and never regret that you've sacrificed because of it? How much more can you bare to lose when you still have the chance to secure it now?

I would not say that people who does not move forward in career, are people who never tried to take a step before. You would not know how far they are in front of you. Dream small, you can achieve more sometimes... Think big, you might lose something important in the end... I'm not sure whether i'm dreaming small or thinking big, cause I'm trying to challenge the most difficult thing to achieved in life, to be simple...

A song that will makes you feel motivated...