+ Simple reason why you should embark on self-development drives: Because "people buy people" - people "buy you" when you can enigmatise your calibre to them. 

+ To leap vibrantly forward, you need to understand your experiences backward. 

+ The best way to build profound self-confidence during your career journey is......Face up to challenges that cross your path by going through the trials. 

+ Three key pillars to kick-start your personal development - Like yourself; Like your work; Like dealing with people. 

+ What you ultimately turn out to be depends on your life philosophy. Do you have one now?

+ Say not "I've done no wrong," but ask "How much more do I need to do right?"

+ We prefer to focus on correcting the wrong, but not sufficiently spend time to pursue ahead what is right.

+ Focus on developing your work prowess by: * See more. * Listen more. * Gather more (information/materials for your file). *Less unnecessary talk. * Mind less (matters not within your job scopes).

+ Mere listening without perceiving will not grasp the correct viewpoint. Mere hearing without listening will not understand the real situation. Only by concerted perceiving and listening can one acquire a holistic approach for executing sound decisions cum actions. 

+ Dynamic performers do not necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything they have. They do the best they can, with what they have, from where they are. 

+ The easiest way to harness elements for developing your acumen is to surround yourself with people more experienced and wiser than you. 

+ In aspiring to be an astute manager, you must first understand fully your management role, and the roles of your team members, plus an overview comprehension of the roles of relevant peers who have work relationship with you. 

+ The efficacious process toward self-development entails one's ability to learn, unlearn and re-learn whilst undergoing changed roles. 

+ Network with peers who are the "experts" in work functions related (not necessary the same) to yours. Hold fellowship meet-ups over coffee to mutually "pick the brain" of one another for unlearn and re-learn. 

+ Confuscious said: "Real knowledge is to know one's own ignorance."

+ Think holistically and with prudence before you blurt out from your mouth, otherwise you will be like slapping your own checks for expressing the wrong message. 

Now, here is a real story (tweaked by me to cast a similar allegory) relating to the last reflective quote.........

An Asian nation had been immersed in brouhaha between rival political parties on public accusations of its premier siphoning out government funds for his own end. However, this political leader was able draw strong support from his sycophants. During one parliament session, a crony member of parliament (MP) used an allegory to express the outstanding leadership of the premier in nation building. The MP outlined the story as follows: A father (symbolising the ruling party in the government) gave three sons $1000 each and asked them to buy items that could fill up his storeroom (symbolising the small nation). The first son bought loose hay, yet it could not fill up the room fully. The second son bought loose cotton but also could not fill up the room. The third son, being deemed the smartest, bought a large candle for $10, then lit it up, and the light filled the room completely. The MP likened the premier as the third son who was able to serve the nation with the light of prosperity by frugal spending. Immediately, an MP of the opposing political party stood up and questioned: "Where is the remaining $990 - where has the balance gone to?  Disappeared in thin air?" The crony could not answer. Ultimately, the premier was deposed in the next general election whilst the crony MP was not re-elected. MORAL OF THE STORY - THINK HOLISTICALLY AND PRUDENTLY BEFORE YOU SPEAK, OTHERWISE YOU SLAP YOUR OWN CHEEKS.

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