Purpose of Life

life pass fast
time is scarce

all these tests
they don't last

your soul's behest
to always redress

do your best
know you're blessed

-madame blossom-

Balancing Self Confidence and Humility

I attended a Middle Management course at work.

I work for a Japanese company whose founder's philosophy in life and business matches very well with my deen.   They include gratitude and humility.

There are a few interesting points I hear in the course that  I'd like to note. 

1. Do people respect you for your position or for who you really are?

To ponder.

2. When you have an objective, have you questioned WHY the objective is so important to you?

3. When speaking, use words that heal, not words that kill.

4. If you want to be a student, the world is your teacher.

5. Humility is an important trait.   The speaker says, it may be difficult or tricky to balance humility with self confidence - that is the confidence you have in your work.

In Islam, there is a way to manage that - it is when we all know that whatever skills or power or wealth we have, we only got it because God permits us to have it.  They are by God's will.  And God can take it away anytime.  If we remember that, insyaaAllaah, we can continue to be confident in our work, but at the same time, be humble, knowing that all is from God. 

Another part of humility is knowing that the more we know, the more we should realise that there are more than we don't know.  We are right, but we may be wrong; they are wrong, but they may be right,

And we know that we are put on this earth, to do good.  As such, if God has granted us the skills or the power or wealth, they are only to be used, to do more good. 

Aamiin.