Thursday, October 15, 2009

Time to set right the direction of life

I found myself to be a confused soul for a long time. What next and why? Whenever I asked this question to me I got totally puzzled and lost direction several times. I checked it with many other friends and 99% of them are confused about the answer.

Whenever we dont have answer for this question, we either end up in being satisfied by our current jobs or move the next job without any big difference (may be just for few more bucks). Ultimately when we look back our contribution to the growth of society or knowledge, we dont add anything more than two or three educated persons on this earth (children). Is it really a contribution, yeah of course that is debatable :)

I m working for samsung electronics for around 2 years now. Working in its head quarters, with a good pay and a descent accommodation in a peaceful country. I thank god for this and rather dont need to think about what next, if i continue with this job.

As I was seriously thinking about a move to academics after working for sometime in Hi-Tech industry, I asked myself why do I move somewhere and how it is going to help for my ultimate goals in life. Now comes the question what is ultimate goal in life? There could be 100s of answers and every answer look very important and correct.

I asked this question to my family members and they answer it in their own way
mom says "I want live life a muslim and avoid mistakes as much as possible"
younger siblings say, want to travel accross the world you me, want own an Audi or want to be a teacher..etc.
Few years back I answer this question as " I want to be a millionaire", and now as I grown and good business strategies in mind I answer it as "Want to contribute and influence an area of knowledge and want to make huge money".

As I see myself good at strategy and think that i can give a positive contribution to the area of business strategy and also make good money. Does an opportunity of being faculty at a good university with a good pay will help me to reach my goals in life or I need to make optimum choice of waiting to an admission to a good business school.

After giving a thought to this situation I planned few immediate events in life and pray Allah SWT to help me with this.

2010: Marriage , & GMAT
I pray that my lovely wife can understand me and help me to pursue my goals in life, take care of my family and support me for a greater cause.
2011: Get ready for Studies again and make Blog a professional success.
2013: Studies and research, an autobiography, hope my wife support me for this.
2015: Several research papers and books in the area of Business strategy.
2016: Move to middle east for a long time and continue research and start management consultancy
2020: Start a media company for generating a great inspirational content for the generations.

I make this plan with more sense of contribution but also make good money for family and living, Inshallah.

May Allah help me with all these and make is really easy for me.