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#ABDUL-SATTAR EDHI
Tags: Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistan

The man with the real values of humanity, the man who can really called a human,the man who is not just a human physically but also had a spirit of humanism is known with the name EDHI Sb. The richest poor man.

The descendant of Abdul-Sattar edhi was belonged to community of small farmers where tribes fights to live on river bank. Three centuries ago a religious leader turned them into Muslims and named them MOMINS which was latter turned to MEMONS. The leader advised them to adopt trading and business. His family moved from Hala(Sindh)to Kathiawar in Gujarat.

His mother was the third wife of his father who left his three children to her sisters. His father had to moved to another city for the sake of business. he returned after every 10 years and brought some things for children but her mother was not willing to keep these and always donate things.

His mother was very kind and generous.Through his mother he inherit the sense of donation. She always helps the other people and she never tried to save the money for herself. This was the base of Abdul-Sattar Edhi. Today the mothers are trying to make her children doctors or engineers,businessman,pilot but the one basic thing that they are missing is to make their children a real HUMAN. it is said that “mother’s lap is the first school for her children”. Her mother taught him humanity and make him a human.Abdul-sattar edhi was illiterate but whole world respect him. He doesn’t have a well known family but whole world knew him with good words.

Edhi Sb. was not interested in studies but he recognize his Passion and do not let his life to be wasted. He doesn’t believe in a high level degree but in hard work. By reading his biography i like his quote that “Success was the synonyms with Effort by which rule I believed I could win”. The biggest takeaway from the life of Abdul-Sattar Edhi is the Effort. Either you are studying or doing a business or any job, it is only your effort that will take you to the higher rank. Abdul-Sattar Edhi did effort for the humanity and his progress shown his effort.

When Abdul-Sattar Edhi started his job at fabric shop her salary was just 5 RS. He started his foundation from an ambulance. Now his ambulance system is Pakistan’s largest ambulance system. Edhi Foundation includes many Hospital services,child care services, old homes. Did he get these all in inheritance? NO, it was his effort, his kind heart that make him remarkable in world.

In all his life, he only fight one time when some boys were teasing a mentally disturb old man. He said to boys “If you have no good to give him,give him nothing, but do not use God’s favors to you against him who has received none”.

His simplicity, his behavior, his responsibilities, his talks are examples for others. He always become a support for those who doesn’t have any support.He is a role model for others.
ABDUL SATTAR EDHI - “AN ANGEL IN HUMAN BODY”
By: Zohaib Iqbal
Tags: Pakistan

ABDUL SATTAR EDHI - “AN ANGEL IN HUMAN BODY”

“I will hospitals, make factory to train and employ the poor, and build a village for the handicappped.”

Abdul Sattar Edhi ,a self believer, changed the lives of millions of people through his hard work and dedication. The act of helping other was instilled in him by his mother which he carried on for the rest of his life and fulfilled his dream of building a hospital. He sat out this dream at the very young age of thirteen ( 13) and burn the midnight oil to fulfil his dream. Hence its true when people say that “dreams do come true” but through persistence and hard work.

Edhi- A Messiah

Edhi showed the people the secret way of leading the life i.e Simplicity. He was brought up in a very simple family yet his relative/cast members were very much spendthrift . He never tried to emulate others and led a simple life saving money for his dream. He was an investor in himself. Whatever money he gets, he used to invest it in the shares of the profit making company so that his wealth can be doubled which he can use for the betterment of his people.

One act of Edhi which inspire me was that he used to roam the whole city to find any helpless person and help him in whatever ways: food, thirst, shelter, security etc. For me, this was a very inspiring and a thought provoking act. In todays world who do such things for others.Is’nt the same responsibility apply to us when we have all resoures ? Can’t we take out time for others? Arent we answerable to God after life hereafter.These questions comes to my mind for which i have no answer but to say the least that Edhi life is an inspiration for other and we should get inspiration and let inspire other through our acts. God has been kind to us by giving all the resources we need but the fact that we are answerable to him about the usage of those resources will keep us in worry whether we acted upon His will and teachings.

In conclusion, i would like to say that helping others is the best deeds.The life of our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) revolves around helping destitute people.I am hopeful that i will follow this act of Edhi in my life and will lookd forward to help others.
Abdul Sattar Edhi: Maseeha of Masses!
By: Husnain Khalid
Tags: Pakistan

Abdul Sattar Edhi is an inspiration for the entire world. A man with two paisa’s became the co-founder of the world’s largest emergency medical assistance service with 1800 ambulances, 28 rescue boats and 2 airplanes. In Karachi alone this foundation runs fully equipped 8 hospitals. It has over 300 centers across the country. What was the motive behind this? What was the principles he used in his entire life to be a Messiah for the nation.

In one of his interview he replied:

“People know that I have adopted four Principles in living my life: Simple Living, Punctuality, Hard Work and Prudence.”

He was not a man of words but a man of actions. He embraced every person who was in need. During the reading of Abdul Sitar Edi’s biography I was very much impressed by his passion for upbringing of neglected people. One of his saying just captured my thoughts.

The experience of mine that relate to Edhi Saab was that one day I was sitting outside my home with my friends and a person came to us and ask for the help. I enquired him why he is begging then he told about his daughter that suffering with dengue and he hasn’t enough money for her treatment and he is outsider from a village.

I entered in my house and take some money and food and went to the hospital where his daughter was admitted. After that day I daily went to the hospital with food till his daughter become healthy.

When you help others ALLAH bless you with rewards in the world and on the Day of Judgment.

“I can begin small, but why should I think small” -Abdul Sattar Edi-
A Humanitarian
By: Ahsan Zafar
Tags: Pakistan

“My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world”. The man who changed the perception of the followers of every religion in the world, who taught the world the lesson of giving and sharing, who lived his whole life for others, who used to stay alongside the road to beg for the donations, who buried abandoned corpses, who rescued infants and orphans is Abdul Sattar Edhi. He changed the face of welfare in Pakistan by laying the foundation of ‘EDHI FOUNDATION’.

Edhi’s mother taught him the lesson of giving. She used to give him two paisas and advised to give one paisa to others in need and one for himself.

One year back I joined blood donor society UET, Lahore and here we help in arranging blood for patients in different hospitals throughout the Lahore city. I felt humiliation to say others for blood when I had never bled myself. I started by donating blood first from myself before saying anyone to bleed. This gave me the inner appeasement and now I regularly try to manage blood. We can not make a change when we do not start from ourselves. Take a step ahead and try to make little changes at every level by giving and sharing with others. The same lesson Edhi wants to teach as he said: “I want to teach the nation how to give”.

Edhi’s life is full of lessons of kindness. One can learn a lot from every aspect of his life but I want to be specific and mention here a number of lessons. Firstly, Never judge others by the color and creed while helping as he helped people from every region, every culture, and every religion. Secondly, Accolades don't matter as he never did it for awards&prizes and to be called a man of peace&humanitarianism. Thirdly, Do not wait for others to change the world as he took a start by a little act of kindness by giving one paisa to others. Fourthly, Just do it and don't be afraid as he did not feel humiliation while begging on the streets. To conclude, Humanity is above religion as he did for human beings and not for only Muslims.
Learn from Abdul Sattar Edhi
By: Ali Haider
Tags: Abdul Sattar Edhi, Learning, Pakistan, Humanity

Whenever someone says Edhi sb this line comes to my mind “ The richest poor man”. Who dedicated his life in serving humanity. He helped people irrespective of their religions, color and caste.

There is a lot to learn from edhi’s life but some points that I want highlight here are starting from his childhood , I would like to give credit to his mother that shaped his mind to think about the needy and poor people. She extracted greediness from him and cultivated a seed of humanity in his heart. As she used to gave him two paisas every morning for school advising him spend one paisa on yourself and one on somebody poor, always figure out who is really in need. This also made his observation strong. He always use to see people around him if there is someone who needs his help.

He had questioning mind as he always used to ask himself “For what purpose am I on Earth? To do what? So all of this questioning made him to think something big by the small beginnings toward humanity. As he found God is only in humanity.

His self satisfaction was in humanity.He followed his passion and by working hard on it became Humanitarian and example for the world to have love for others.
Just start project
By: Noor Ulkashaf
Tags: Pakistan

Im living by faith nothing is impossible. just believe in the power of start. In this universe lot of things exists but we can not think beyond what exists in the world. Allah has created this universe for pondering. Allah says in The Holy Quran. Man can never have nothing but what he strives. Take the challenges of life and explore your strengths and discover the world. Its not the easy journey but it is not the way that will lead you a blind alley.Just lose zone thing that is self doubt.

Ever since the beginning of history, the story of the hero has played an important part in society. Saint stories have consistently served a significant job in the improvement of youthful folks growing up. As the story of Abdul Sattar Edhi is infront of us how he start the one paisa scheme. Actually sharing is caring. He neve quit his mission even in the difficult paths of life. Freedom of Pakistan is a big story how Quaid e azam and their companions collaboratively putt their efforts to make iimpossible to possible. As Quaid’s said. My message to you all is of hope , courage, and confidence.

Stories of heroes shows that they never let their work down consistency on work make things possivble though that was difficult enough. Just start dreaming n let turn your wildest dream into tangibe reality.

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By profession im pharmacist, there might be many challenges in this field. Im setting my goals for long run . Need is that plung in the world of challenges. Whether you’re a business professional, athlete, entrepreneur, artist, or anyone else, implement the wisdom of Nothing Is Impossible you’ll be able to transcend the boundaries of what today’s world thinks is possible.
Co-creating our Atlassian Design System values and principles
By: Jennie
Tags: Atlassian Design System, Design Principles, Design Systems, Values, Principles

The Atlassian Design System is powered by a team of over 30 designers, engineers, and content designers. As we scale, it becomes harder and harder to coordinate the growing team to work towards the same vision.

Currently, it’s really hard to answer questions or concerns in a cohesive and consistent manner. We often ask and get asked these questions:

Why are we working on this?

What are the design system’s priorities?

How do we push back?

Where is dark mode?

Why aren’t you doing dark mode?

Will you do dark mode?

…and the list goes on. Unfortunately, we don’t always have the answers.

To help this situation, we’ve been crafting our values and principles to align around a clear set of shared beliefs and goals. Some benefits:

Creates a clear identity

They help us embody what it means to be Atlassian Design System.

They help us embody what it means to be Atlassian Design System. Establishes a shared language

They help us speak the same language to communicate with each other better.

They help us speak the same language to communicate with each other better. Creates an aligned point of view

They guide us through the creation and continuous implementation of the system.

They guide us through the creation and continuous implementation of the system. Supports onboarding and engagement

They help us onboard, get buy-in, and encourages engagement.

As we mentioned when we launched our new home for Atlassian Design System, we are shifting our perspective of how we view the design system. Identifying our values and principles was a critical and foundational step in our evolution and maturation.

We’re excited to bring you on the journey ✨ of how we developed our new values and principles as one Atlassian Design System Team.
Chapter one in the never-ending story that is, finding what I’m 'meant' to do for a living
By: Rebecca Caution
Tags: Vision Board, Flexible Work, Working Parents, Values, Career Change

Four months ago - the day after my 36th birthday - I went back to my office job after a year of maternity leave with baby number two. In anticipation of heading back to a job I definitely didn’t love, I had arranged to attend a workshop on that very same week, called "Design the Future you". It was a three hour workshop with a small group of women, run by two really warm and inspiring business-owning mums who I had been following on Instagram for a while. We did some value work and vision boarding amongst other things and the whole thing was massively useful.

I had known since before I was even pregnant with my first child that I wanted to work in a flexible way that would allow me to do drop off and pick up and attend sports day and all that jazz, that family comes first - but what attending this event meant was that I really focused, got stuff down on paper and came away feeling massively empowered and motivated that there was to be NO MORE TALK of wanting to do something else, be my own boss, have the flexibility to drop the kids off myself, do exercise and laundry in the middle of the day, yadda yadda yadda... No more excuses, no more procrastination, this was the time, my time to take ACTION and make. it. happen.

Disclaimer: There will be more procrastination and there will definitely be more talk. I love to talk.
A Practical Guide to Bringing Core Values to Life in Your Business.
By: Mike Scott
Tags: Business, Values, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Founders

Lessons from being in the entrepreneurial trenches for over 20 years.

A Practical Guide to Bringing Core Values to Life in Your Business.

Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash

It took me a good ten years of being in business to begin to see and appreciate the place and importance of core values. Fast forward to today and values are at the core of most of the success that I have been fortunate enough to experience. Values are how we as a group of people agree to show up with and for each other and they deserve a lot of time and effort.

Getting our values right at Nona and making them things that we live by has not only increased staff retention and productivity for us but they also lie at the heart of the thing that is most valuable about us — our culture.

As with most useful things in business, the concept is quite simple but the execution and detail are where the success or failure happens. It’s with that in mind that I wanted to share with you some of the things that have worked for us at Nona in terms of setting strong and meaningful core values and how we brought them to life so that they are part of the everyday language across the business.

To set some context, here are our core values:
Introduction: The Gray Area
By: Prachi Yadav
Tags: Entertainment, Social Issues, Perspective, Introduction, Values

Prachi Yadav

If you’re currently sitting down, you probably consider yourself stationary. You and I both know, though, that we’re on Earth, and Earth is rotating while orbiting the sun. One of the main points in Einstein’s theory of relativity is that the frame of reference in which an observer lies has a tremendous impact on how they observe space and time. Our reference frame convinces us that we’re stationary when really we’re moving, and so is everything else in the universe. Since all objects are moving, there is no absolute reference frame from which to base movement upon.

We as separate observers are each entitled to our perception of space and time, but similar to Einstein’s theory of relativity, everything is subjective. We have several influences that shape our perceptions: parents, friends, religion, experiences, and education, just to name a few. All of our perceptions are valid as observers moving through space and time — as long as we acknowledge our reference frames. With so many observers, 7.9 billion to be exact, there are bound to be variations in perceptions: grey areas. And while I am not scholarly enough to explore the grey areas of the space-time continuum, I would like to begin to explore the grey areas in everyday life.

In this blog, I plan to dissect the grey areas of some personal experiences, social issues, and entertainment, and hence widen my perceptions. Our universe is not black and white, and neither are our morals and values.
Quantifying the Value of Indulgences
By: Elvan Aydemir
Tags: Psychology, Habits, Values, Decision Making, Social Media

Sometimes, indulgences are ways to blow off steam, other times they are detrimental. A simple “utilitarian” principle might help us separate one from the other.

We all have indulgences and self-indulgences. In moderation, these indulgences help us feel better or push through some moments that may otherwise be overwhelming (looking at you chocolate cake). But at some point, if they turn into patterns we fall back to, they have a habit of becoming harmful, even turning into addictions.

Being human, we are never going to be completely efficient and calculated. To be honest, I think we absolutely mustn’t. Interesting and wonderful things happen when people make happy mistakes that open up whole new ways of doing things. That isn’t to say we should be completely chaotic either.

There is a fine balance between planning and experiencing.

When it comes to indulgences, I would like to keep the ones that improve my general well-being and remove (or reduce) the indulgences that are detrimental. Obviously, what is good and what is not is different for everyone. Personally, I wanted to pseudo-quantify the utility I got from all my indulgences.

Now is probably a good time to define what I mean by indulgence. I consider everything that I either enjoy or spend time on, that is not intended to contribute to my development as a human being (or is fundamentally a part of life) to be an indulgence. For instance, ice cream is an indulgence, a book is a necessity.

I can group my indulgences in 3 big buckets: Food & Drinks, Shopping and Social Media. As I was trying to reduce my indulgences, I came up with a simple rule:
Conditionally Checking Existence of a Value in Perl
By: Pawl Anders
Tags: Checking, Existence, Perl, Values

There are many half-baked methods used for properly testing whether or not a variable is defined. Following are a few examples of some good and not-so-good methods with explanations.

if (exists $opts{‘primary’} || exists $opts{‘secondary’}) {

$some_value = $opts{‘primary’} || $opts{‘secondary’};

}

The above logic is clean and easy to follow at first glance, although it may not be the most efficient way of executing the appropriate decision-making block and more on Bitsdujour.

Considering the above is equivalent to the following block, you may notice a somewhat redundant conditional checking that ensues:

if (exists $opts{‘primary’} || exists $opts{‘secondary’}) {

if ( exists $opts{‘primary’} ) {

$some_value = $opts{‘primary’};

} else {

$some_value = $opts{‘secondary’};

}

}

Another added benefit is that if your value is “0″ or empty, it may actually not get assigned if you use the simple one-line conditional assignment:

$some_value = $opt{’primary’} || $opt{’secondary’};

The “primary option” would be skipped if it is equal to “0″…which is in-fact a completely valid value, and demonstrates the “falsey-ness” and “truthy-ness” of specific values…more on that later or on Classifieds.

Thanks to “Ani-_” in #perl for setting me straight on conditional checking.

So, to some it all up in one bullet-proof conditional block for assignment we write the following, which will also turn out to run faster because there is only one conditional check:

if ( exists $opt{‘primary’} ) {

$some_value = $opt{‘primary’};

elsif ( exists $opt{‘secondary’} ) {

$some_value = $opt{‘secondary’};

} else {

return false;

}
Are YOU living by your values?
By: Kim Martin
Tags: Career Advice, Successful, Success Story, Values, Work Life Balance

What are your values? What do you value in a career, in a community, in another person? What has value to you? Values… it is a multifaceted word that we hear and read constantly, but a lot of us don’t understand what it truly means. Simply put, values are the things that you believe are important in the way you live your life. They are the beliefs that guide your attitudes and motivate your actions. Values reflect your sense of right and wrong and help you become the person you want to be. They allow you to create the future you want. The decisions you make every day are a reflection of your values.

One of the first exercises I do with my executive coaching clients is to help them identify their values. Here’s a list of values that I use. Creating a list of values provides you with an anchor to keep your focus on your mission and a standard to hold to when making big (and small!) decisions.

I encourage you to do the exercise as well, as follows:

First, rank each value based on what you desire in your life.

Then, rank them again based on where you actually are in your life right now. The closer your life aligns with your values, both personally and professionally, the more content you are. Now, take a look at your list. If you’re not in alignment, where are the gaps, and what can you do to reconnect with your values?

For example, a conversation with your boss can often lead to your responsibilities being more aligned with your values, such as more collaboration, more creative projects, or gaining new knowledge. The same is true for your personal life, except the conversation is with yourself. Let’s assume that one of your core values is service, and at this time, you don’t feel you are honoring that value. Ask yourself, how can you make your commitment to service happen? What organizations are important to you? Where can you carve out space on your schedule to make the time commitment required?

Sometimes when our career or personal situations are not aligned with our values, it is not possible to right the ship. For example, you desire to advance in your career, and perhaps you value advancement, yet your company is not promoting staff, or your boss is unwilling to put you forth for a promotion. Recognize that working without an opportunity for professional mobility puts you in conflict with your values. When this happens — you owe it to yourself to make a change. Sticking with this example, I would encourage you to map out your career options and look for a new opportunity where promotions are an option.

Values are your backbone when framing your best life. We all want to live well, and living in support of our values is how we make that happen.

If you enjoy reading my KimMartinTheCoach blogs, follow me on LinkedIn, Medium, Instagram, or subscribe to my newsletter on my website at kimmartinthecoach.com!
One way to instantly make your week more meaningful
By: Michelle Woo
Tags: Intentions, Feelings, Meaning, Calendar, Values

✨ Tip: Build your schedule around your “core desired feelings.”

If someone asked you what you have going on this week, you’d probably rattle off all the things you have to do. But what about all the ways you want to feel? On Medium, Kristin Wong makes a case for building your plans around your “core desired feelings,” or CDFs, a concept created by author Danielle LaPorte. The practice ensures that you’re not just checking off a list of tasks, but also feeling fulfilled. One of Wong’s CDFs is “awe”: “I’ve made a big list of activities that conjure that feeling: observe the moon through my telescope, go on a hike, take a road trip to the sequoias,” she writes. Each week, she goes through her list of activities related to her CDFs and puts a few of them on her schedule.

Give it a try. If your CDF is “connection,” you might schedule an evening walk with a neighbor. If your CDF is “energy,” perhaps you can plan a couple HIIT sessions before work. If your CDF is “space,” you might set aside an hour or two to take a long walk or stare aimlessly out the window. When you’re intentional with your time, what you’ll ultimately feel is better.

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How to type your weird objects with TypeScript.
By: Moatez Bejaoui
Tags: Typescript, Record Type, Objects, Values, Keys

In this topic I will be showing you some tricks that you can use to type some weird objects using only utility types so what are the utility types?

TypeScript provides several utility types to facilitate common type transformations. These utilities are available globally.

Issue1:

Let’s say that we have an object that looks like an array and we want to type it!

If you are familiar with TypeScript it’s obvious that we can type this object like the following!

This is correct but what if we don’t know the length of our object! so if we add to our object a 4th index we will need to update our type as well :(.

So how exactly we can fix this issue because our weird object always has different indexes! we will be using the first utility type Record which I will be explaining of course!

Record<Keys,Type>

Constructs an object type whose property keys are Keys and whose property values are Type . This utility can be used to map the properties of a type to another type.

This is how Record type was created using generic types.

K will be extending a string or a number or a symbol! but we will be using [P in K] which means [P in number for example] and our second argument T will be your value type.

so that's exactly what we need!

And that's it! our Type now will always accept objects that have keys as number and values as a string

Issue 2 :

Let’s try to type something more complex now! I will be taking this issue from StackOverflow as an example!

So what we can see here is that the first key of our object can only be one of those 3 what I mean is with_boolean_prop or object_prop or muliple_options

a second argument is also an object of string as a key and value as a boolean or an object with key options and a value with an array of strings.

so we know exactly what to do now!

We will start with typing the first key of our object with can be “with_boolean_prop” or “with_object_prop” or “with_muliple_options’

next, we will type options which is an array of strings.

And the rest of the type will be done with Record of course!

So what we did here is the first object key is of firstKeyType that we created, next is also an object of string boolean or string option type that we also created! and that's it our type is now correct!

Conclusion :

What we learned here is that u can solve any weird object typing using Record only!

Q&A

If something doesn’t work as expected or needs more details, just drop a comment below :) Happy coding!
Engineering Principles at the Allen Institute for AI
By: Colin Arenz
Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Values, Engineering Culture

Simplify

Simple solutions are more pleasant to use and easier to understand. They’re cheaper to build and maintain. Extending the UNIX philosophy, even the most complex behavior can be achieved by combining simple, well-defined tools. Complexity is sometimes necessary, but should always be a last resort.

Iterate

Progress is rarely linear and the most direct path isn’t always the best. Small, iterative steps help us defray risk, learn faster, and deliver more consistent value. Break large projects into small steps with clear goals. Parallelize when you can. Create opportunities for feedback.

Collaborate

Diverse perspectives are critical to creative work. Be curious, gather opinions, and listen before speaking. Recognize others and share credit where it’s due. Don’t look for blame when mistakes are made, but learn from them and own solutions as a team.

Grow

Cutting-edge research needs creative engineering. Challenge yourself. Break new ground and create a path others can follow. Support your colleagues and create spaces where they can do the same. Find opportunities to share knowledge and perspective.

Deliver

Software is never perfect and rarely done. We live in a world of change, trade-offs, and compromises. Don’t let the great be the enemy of the good; delivering some value is better than delivering nothing! Take the initiative to get things done. At the same time, take pride in your craft and leave everything better than you found it.
What is [YOUR] Value?
By: Akinwale Ekundayo
Tags: People, Value, Time, Money, Relationships

Certainly, no one is bereft of value; it is either it is unknown or it is known and underutilized. If there are resources (time, money and people [relationships]) and they are not spent on increasing or improving worth and essence [skills], value would inevitably be lost.

It is a beautiful thing to buy pleasure and enjoy life; however, your ultimate value is built from the investments you make to improve yourself.

So, what is YOUR value?

Where is your value?

Certainly, you never have all the resources you require at once - time, money and people [relationships]; they come in trickles and bits. So, investment on yourself, to build or increase your value must follow the same pattern. You will have to get more as you go.

Give a moment of thought to what you do with your time, money and relationships, do they add to you or take away from you?

Let me know what you are doing to increase your value and perhaps, what you need to stop doing to retain or increase your value and the value you offer.

Have a great day ahead.

#life #strategy #seasons #resources #evaluation #value #money #time #people #relationships

#career #vocation #success #inspiration #mindset #personaldevelopment
Incentives vs Willpower: Thoughts on a podcast
By: Lillian Mell
Tags: Value Creation, Willpower, Incentives, Values, Podcast

Recently I listened to an episode of Forward Tilt by Praxis, a podcast where Praxis founder Isaac Morehouse shares insights and lessons on life, leadership, and creating value. Episode 28, “Don’t trust willpower, shape incentives” evaluated the cost of willpower and the benefits of aligned incentives. Basically, humans thrive in environments where the temptation to jeopardize core values is limited. Rather than get rewarded for compromising your values, create an incentive structure where your values are rewarded. This allows you to streamline your life without spending energy qestioning your morals. For a super basic example, right now, I’m creating the incentive structure of being gluten-free. To achieve this, I’m getting rid of all the gluten products in my house so there is no temptation (incentive) to give in to. I’m making it easy to be successful. As Isaac states, the concept can be applied everywhere in life. Moral of the story: create an environment where the incentives to maintain your values far outweigh the consequences of compromising them.
The awkward collision : Young generation and past old customs
By: Vishal Sony
Tags: Indian, Short Story, Culture, Thoughts, Values

If a person from the 70s was given a chance to travel just 5 decades in the future he would never believe his eyes. The last few decades changed so rapidly that the person who actually lived throughout this time probably has missed a lot. Listening to this anyone would say it’s true, so how could we expect that our elders would cope up with it, moreover how can our elder expect that outliving this much change we can still keep in mind all of the old customs and traditions and follow them. I don’t mean that we should forget all the traditions, technically I don’t mean to say anything, I am just stating facts.

I’m an Indian guy with an average Indian living status. When guests arrive or are suppose to take leave, we have this traditional custom we follow of exchanging gifts and sweets just to make them realize their importance or that we care about them or how appreciative we are of them visiting us. Moreover, the gesture of handing out some cash to the younger ones of both the host and the guest is a mere tradition that is supposed to be followed by us Indians. In these modern days and rapid developments in a cashless world, people don’t keep cash at home and this seeks into our mind only when we can’t find cash at home to continue this tradition as now it’s all about online transactions. The movement of awkwardness that seeps in just to follow a mere formality.

This doesn’t happen just in this particular situation, there are numerous traditional formalities a person has to follow and there is no way these traditions can cope up with modernization. So the least we can do is not make it awkward when such a collision of modernization and old customs occurs.
Things About Leadership Value
By: Suci Marina
Tags: Leadership, Legacy, Life, Values

“Someone could have a leadership position but not the quality of leadership.”

Someone said this several days ago and it hit me. I know, no one is perfect, I couldn’t agree more about it. However, the way business run these days has been changing, and with the development of technology, business is not only about profit but it has a larger meaning than it. The impact on society and the environment must be considered. We might find several insights about what is leadership, how to lead, and why we need to lead? After listening to several podcasts, reading some articles, joining several webinars, here are things about leadership values that I guess people nowadays must know and implement in their life.

There is a lot of definition about leadership. Some say leadership is about managing people how to achieve organization’s goals. I consider leadership itself is one ability to manage yourself first before trying to manage others. In term of managing yourself, we often hear about self-improvement, self-discipline, self-reflection, these are several forms of leadership. Everyday we make a decision to defeat ourselves in order to achieve our personal goals.

In term of professionalism, leadership is one ability to do your duty with full responsibility. I also believe leadership is also about adding value into someone’s life, doing the extra miles, and being a problem solver instead of pointing out someone’s mistake. Leadership is also giving a space for mistake. Last year, when I was given an opportunity to lead a project, I won’t hesitate to accept any ideas and if someone made a mistake, i won’t blame the person. I think people who never make mistakes or perfectionists would never really learn. Failure is important to bring us to another level of life and to strengthen our leadership character.

In a nutshell, one should not have a leader position to have leadership value. Each of us, whatever our position, could give an impact on others, no matter how small it is. Leadership value is about being a problem solver, transferring good value to other people, and even make them have a better life. If someday you get an opportunity to lead, as long as you stick with leadership values, you will make an impactful legacy to leave behind.
Hi Vishen, thank you for a great article!
By: Sylvia Salow
Tags: Self Improvement, Potential, Transformation, Self, Values

Hi Vishen, thank you for a great article!

I share two core values with you — unity and transformation. Because why else are we here than to evolve? What else is true than the fact that we’re all united? The unity isn’t just a concept, I believe, it’s something that we’re remembering because it once used to exist on Earth.

The consciousness flows through all of us and energy doesn’t know any boundaries; it’s just the fearful mind that believes in separation so it can feel safer.

My next two values are an expansion of consciousness and going beyond. It’s time to go beyond the familiar. It’s time to go beyond the old beliefs and limiting versions of self. It’s time to create something that has not yet existed.

To answer your second question, after my own transformation that happened while I lived in China, I decided to devote my life to help other people to step into their potential and transform themselves beyond what they thought was possible.

Since then, I became a public speaker (also had a TEDx talk in KL — one of my favorite cities), life coach, and an author. And as long as I can speak and write, I’ll continue walking this path because I believe in our potential.
Marketing: what is it?
By: Lovelynne Chong
Tags: Advertising, Value, Marketing

Everyone needs marketing. Most businesses do. They know they do. Yet, the irony is: they don’t know what it is. Marketing: the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising. Wait. Research? What’s that?

There’s a whole bunch of everything else. But research?! Well… herein lies the problem. Marketers are mostly creative advertisers. Shouting and selling “solutions”. Ads that work… what does it mean? Work?

Measuring success through the funnel. Big words. Engagement. Awareness. Conversions. Analytics. Where is the research?

There are so many points of data. So many theories on what should be the right way. So much research done on how it can be improved. Yet, it is a function that would soon be replaced by AI. Sadly, the problems persist. Companies: small and large still struggle with solving marketing problems.

Empirically, marketing consists of maths and science. Yes. You heard me. Maths and science. It requires actual maths formulae. It is about social science. Human behavior. Alas, the layers of fluff blinds and dilutes the true value of marketing therefore resulting in marketing waste. Budget waste. Finally, resulting in the undervaluing of marketers.

12 years on working on marketing problems for businesses, I’ve learned:

Research: mainly what the client and/or business thinks is right and is happening

Funnel: exists only when “budget” allows for it

Conversions: it’s all about the money

Budget: the dream be a cheap reality that magically hypnotizes the target audience

Fundamentally, the statistics only work when both agency and client want it to work. Marketing should be defined as: invest when you want sustainability, not fluff.

Marketers: they are far more valuable despite AI enhancements. Marketers: they work magic that deserves the right recognition — value.
Core Values of an Apex Officer
By: Chase Dittmer
Tags: Law Enforcement, Police, Govtech, Values, Government

The core values of an Apex Officer are intended to guide and inspire us in all we say and do. Ensuring that our values become part of our day-to-day work life is our mandate, and they help to ensure that our personal and professional behavior can be a model for all to follow.

Apex Officer Values

Service to our communities

Commitment to leadership

Respect for people

Reverence for the law

Quality through continuous improvement

Personal responsibility

SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITIES

An Apex Officer is dedicated to enhancing public safety and reducing the fear and the incidence of crime. Our motto “To serve those protecting our communities” is not just a slogan — it is our way of life.

COMMITMENT TO LEADERSHIP

We believe that every Apex Officer should be a leader in law enforcement and public safety. We also believe that each individual needs to be a leader in his or her area of responsibility. We must each work to ensure that our co-workers, our professional colleagues, and our communities have the highest respect for law enforcement and peace officers.

RESPECT FOR PEOPLE

The life of an Apex Officer should be challenging and rewarding. Our people are our most important resource. We can best serve the many and varied needs of our communities by empowering our fellow officers to fulfill their responsibilities with knowledge, authority, and appropriate discretion. We believe in treating all people with respect and dignity. We show concern and empathy for the victims of crime and treat violators of the law with fairness and dignity.

REVERENCE FOR THE LAW

We have been given the honor and privilege of enforcing the law. We must always exercise integrity in the use of the power and authority that have been given to us by the people. Our personal and professional behavior should be a model for all to follow. We will obey and support the letter and spirit of the law.

QUALITY THROUGH CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

We will strive to achieve the highest level of quality in all aspects of our work. We can never be satisfied with the “status quo.” We must aim for continuous improvement in serving the people in our communities. We value innovation and support creativity.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

Each of us has a personal responsibility for the success of our community. We respect, care about, trust and support each other. We respect and encourage individual responsibility while recognizing we have a right and obligation to participate in leading our community.

Our interpretation of personal responsibility is:
What is Perfect?
By: Rebecca Gebhardt Brizi
Tags: Busines, Value, Value Proposition, Life Lessons

Can you define perfection? Can you describe it?

Now ask your client what Perfect is. Does your client define perfection in the same way? If you both drew a picture of “Perfect”, would the two pictures look exactly the same?

(Hint: they would not.)

Perfection is a subjective value.

My suggestion to you today is that you focus not on being perfect, but rather on being valuable.

Perfection is the elimination of flaws; value is the creation of worth.

It is true that “valuable” is also subjective, but you can define what is valuable to the person at the other end of the action.

If you are serving a client, then valuable means what is of value to the client. You can draw a picture of the value that your client will recognize.

If you are working on your own business, then valuable means what is of value to your business, as in what will help your business move towards its goals.

When you focus on value you are focusing on a specific outcome for a specific audience. This can be written on paper, this can be described and agreed upon, this can be recognized by all parties involved. And thus it will be easier to determine when it has been achieved.
Values to Integrate and Achieve What You Want.
By: Huzaifa Dilawar
Tags: Storytelling, Lessons, Life Lessons, Values, Wisdom

After contemplating and asking some basic question, I realized that life is never perfect and it will never be. We should always keep space for uncertainty and surprises.

Going through emotional, mental, physical as well as financial struggle in my very early age of life gave me an first hand experience and carved me in certain way which helped me to see through various perspective. I would like to share some of my values which will help in taking command of your life.

Expectation :

I believe no one should expect anything from any one for any thing. When you expect or other expect from you, you already set a high hope for yourself. Instead having no expectation from others but doing things for your self gives us unimaginable satisfaction and positive thought process.

2. Biases :

Learn to understand our mind biases which is a biggest hindrance to the growth of individual. For example I had bias of thinking about things but i was not aware how to stop and where to stop before it reaches end where you feel lost and without any outcome. So by asking question to myself before I even start thinking, what will be the outcome or conclusion. Understanding our own biases is very critical part of thinking. Explore your biases.

3. Self Evaluation :

This is the most important thing one should do on everyday basis by keeping dedicated time and structure our failure and learning. It helps to thinking forward and understand ourselves better.

To be continued.
Fyre Festival, Values, and Shakespeare: There’s the Rub
By: Rebecca Taylor
Tags: Vuca, Company Values, Company Culture, Startup, Values

Like a lot of people, I watched the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix this weekend. There’s a lot in there to unpack, but the thing that really resonated with me is how most of the people who worked for Fyre Media really believed in what they were doing, and who they were doing it for. They believed in the mission and vision of the company, and worked hard towards that. When they started to realize something wasn’t right, fear kept them from making the changes they needed to change a toxic situation. And I get it — the right thing is rarely the easy thing. But the thing is, the hard decisions are the ones we need to make to be the best version of ourselves, and for our companies to be successful.

Naturally, because I was an English major, I turned to Shakespeare — after all, who pairs better with Ja Rule? In Hamlet, Polonius delivers his soliloquy of fatherly advice to Laertes, including the famous, “This above all: To thine own self be true.” Polonius is telling his son that he’s going to encounter a lot of different people and situations throughout his life, and the most important thing to remember through all of that is to be true to yourself.

This advice is something I constantly come back to, because it’s something that resonates on many levels. The most relevant connection now is to companies themselves and what they value. Whether you’re a startup, family owned business, or a huge public company, you’re going to be faced with challenges and you’re going to have to get yourself and your team through them. I’ve talked about my thoughts on VUCA, and from my experience, the things that a company can do to be true to itself is to rely on their values to drive them through all of the ups and downs. When you’re a values based organization, your entire company should be empowered to make decisions using those values as the gut-check (ours can be found here). If your values continue to provide the path for your employees to do their part to achieve the vision of the company, your company will be successful. If your company uses the values to keep the company true to itself, you will go far.

We here at GoCoach live and breathe our values every day. When the going gets tough, we know how to make decisions that put us on the right course and lead to a positive outcome. We will always be true to ourselves, and we will never compromise on that — once we do, we will no longer be who we are. A place for people to be safe, a place to be empowered, and a place to be human.