Mirza Yawar Baig – Lessons for life #09 Contribution

			Bismillah R Rahman r Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala Shanna Philip
Diego mousseline. Muhammad Rasul, Allah is Allah Allah Allah He went on he was able to send them
this demon because he didn't consider for my
		

			other sisters.
		

			Listen benign, focus on contribution, not on consumption,
		

			focus on contribution not on consumption today, this is a great sickness that we have that whole
focus our goals and our aims
		

			defined by consumption, consumption standards, I want to have this kind of car I want to have this
house this kind of house all consumption language, not contribution.
		

			This is a baby big sickness,
		

			focus on contribution, not nonconsumption. Sometimes,
		

			if you want to see how powerful you are, you want to see how influential you are. Look for the
number of people who benefited because
		

			influence comes with the territory. And that means that your influence is directly proportional to
the number of people that you benefit. You cannot be more influential than your influences as much
as many people as you benefit more people who benefit the more influential you become.
		

			And that you will know if you measure. So there's a loop of this back to the earlier point I made
about discipline and structure, the importance of recording the importance of documentation. So how
do I know how much I contributed by looking at the documentation, if I do not document I cannot
measure measurement is absolutely critical to success. Because what you don't measure, you don't
know what you don't know, you cannot control what you cannot control, you cannot improve.
		

			It's as simple as that. You want to improve a process, you must know what the process is. Exactly.
		

			And if you know what the process is, then you can improve the process. Otherwise, it's just a wish,
oh, I wish I wish I can make this better meaning what when you don't even know how it is now, how
can I make it better. So very important to measure to have metrics have metrics for everything,
measure yourself, I have been voluntarily unemployed and employable from 1994 onwards.
		

			That's when I started my business as an entrepreneur as a business consultant as a leadership
consultant and trainer 1994 in Bangalore.
		

			So,
		

			from 1994 There is nobody who writes an annual performance appraisal for me, but I do for myself.
		

			And every so many years, I also have I get a an agency from outside it's a
		

			company that is
		

			run by a friend of mine
		

			who does 360 degree appraisal. So,
		

			I asked him to set it up for me and
		

			what they do in a 360 in GE This is a standard process for all
		

			leadership positions.
		

			So, what they do for 360 is a an external agency sends out send out a questionnaire about you two
360 meaningful to all those people who are
		

			who influenced you or who you influence or touch you in any way.
		

			So, it will be your obviously your in organization in organizational setup, it will be your
superiors, but it will also be your subordinates it will be your peers, your colleagues in your
department, your colleagues or people at your level, in other in other departments. It will be
		

			for example
		

			consultants that you deal with, it will be suppliers, it will be
		

			you know people will do the company does business with it will be all people of different kinds, who
interact with you and who you interact with. All of those people are part of your 360 it will also
be they will ask you if you want that.
		

			It will also be random people from your community. From the place you live your society might even
be your family. All of those people are
		

			part
		

			part of your community and these people
		

			they are surveyed, the consultant sends out a survey to them
		

			concerning you. And then when the results come, they collate them. And they remove the names of the
people wrote the comments, but they give you the comments and they give you a overall assessment of
how you are doing in the view of all those people that you impact. That is a very important thing to
do.
		

			As far as you're concerned with the
		

			in,
		

			in measuring your own
		

			capability and ability, and see if you're progressing or not progressing. This is something that I
pay for and I get it done.
		

			Remember, from 1994 onwards, Nobody tells me what to do. Nobody can tell what rupees I'm self
employed.
		

			Nobody
		

			can write my appraisal, I can go through life as I want. I nobody gives me promotions, I can
probably a promotion means printing a different business card. As simple as that, you know, I call
myself whatever I like, which shows the uselessness, uselessness of the work, you know what
listeners have job titles. For example, if a promotion comes without a distinctive change of
responsibility,
		

			then it has no meaning. Today, we have organizational structures we look at, they're like a bad
joke. All kinds of job title, which are completely meaningless.
		

			Much people feel happy about it, the or they feel depressed about it. Anyway,
		

			that's an aside but to stay with the point, measure,
		

			measure to the last degree and then look at that measurement seriously. And don't try to justify it
is very important. If the if the measurement looks negative, it is negative, do something about it
change your ways, don't change the measurement.
		

			Don't lower the bar. They're the worst case scenario and commit we just did all about
		

			focus on contribution not and consumption and you will find that your influence will grow.
		

			And as in as an individual you will grow.
		

			In my family business consulting practice, sometimes.
		

			Some young fellows have trouble with their with the business founders, the father grandfathers, and
once one of them came to me and said,
		

			Can you tell me I want to I want to go away. I said okay.
		

			Bye bye. He said, No, I want my father to give me my share. So can you tell my father, give me my
share? Sure. I'll tell you.
		

			What is your share? He said 50%.
		

			I say 50% of what he said of the business.
		

			I said how did you go? How did you get there? How did you arrive at 50%?
		

			He has no answer. Right? No answer. I told him your share of the business is equal to your
contribution and the business.
		

			Is business started before you were even born.
		

			Your father struggled. He sweated tears of he said a sweat and tears of blood
		

			and he built his business.
		

			Your bond you are in kindergarten you are in school, even in college. And finally you come
		

			and now your principal contribution seems to be to put over it on your hair and you know
		

			paco rabanne, aftershave and wear some nice clothes and drives a nice car and common pocket
forgetting that your father paid for every single of those things.
		

			From your hair dye for your hair, hair, Brylcreem to the to the gas in your car into the car.
		

			And you want 50% of the business.
		

			Right? Completely insane in complete insanity. So I said to him, Look, instead of that I tell you
what.
		

			I will ask your father to give you seed capital, you start a business, grow the business
		

			and make your father a shareholder in that business and grow the business so big that that business
because bigger than just business. See, see if you can do that.
		

			That's something we're talking about. So I'm again giving business examples but it this applies
across the world in any
		

			any any discipline that you do, which is focus on contribution.
		

			See how can I benefit people,
		

			the rest will follow. The rest will follow money is the natural outcome of excellent work.
		

			If you work for money, that's the worst reason to work, don't work for money,
		

			work for the love of the work, work for contribution work for doing work to do something which is
which is worthwhile, money will follow.
		

			Focus on contribution
		

			and and you will become the most successful the most influential person in the world. And obviously
that means that you will have enough to live a very good and happy and comfortable life
		

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