Aiyoh.. one minute, they say, CARRY YOUR MYKAD or else fine minimum of RM3,000 up to RM20,000 or 3 Years behind bars, the next minute they say LOSE YOUR MYKAD, you may be fined 10 times more penalty.
Anybody has any idea to advise me how to reduce the risk of losing my MyKAD if I have to carry it all the times?
My mentor’s latest entry in his blog, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, comes in so timely. Most of us, the white-collar workers spend a lot of time away from our family to make ends meet, to pursue the material world. I myself have missed the milestones of my 2 heroes as I worked so hard to climb the corporate ladder.
As a working mum, I have to juggle between my full time stressful job and my beloved family. This dilemma has been faced by most working mums, that is to be a good wife and mother at the same time can have their own income. Having the best of both worlds is all working mums’ dream.
How about the daddys? Most of the fathers I know hardly spend time with their children. Of course there are the exceptional few. Just take a look around when you next have your breakfast in a kopitiam or mamak stall in a Sunday morning. It is a typical scenario to see the parents engross in reading newspaper while the children would be playing with some electronic games or toys. There are hardly any conversation and communication.
Yesterday evening, I brought my 2 Js to their favorite playground. We haven’t been there for the past few weeks. They were so excited to meet their friends in the neighborhood and as usual, most of the children are accompanied by their kakak. Big J was so pleased to meet his classmate, R with her little sister, both accompanied by their child minder.
As I was wondering, where could their parents be on a Saturday evening, I saw R’s mother parking her car and walked towards us with hubby in the car. She looked so tired and calmly told me that she came back from work at 7.30 am yesterday. Yes, you hear right. 7.30 MORNING, working through the Friday night.
I used to spend long hours in the office. My mind set changed ever since two sad incidents that happened at my own work place. A Top Management executive director collapsed in a meeting due to heart attack and one Factory GM was found collapsed in the gents due to blood clot in the brain. Both gentlemen never survived. And the company can easily replace them with someone else but who can replace them in their family?
No matters how hard we work, we are only one. Each one of us has only 24 hours. Empowerment, empower your staff, your team members to run the show. Train and develop them to be leaders and they should do the same thing to their team members.
“All the certificates of recognition we receive in life will fade. The monuments we build will crumble. The trophies will corrode. But what we do for others will make a lasting impact on our world. True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation, teaching them the value and the method of developing the next group of leaders’” John C. Maxwell
Let’s reset our life. Make time with our family, love our children, otherwise we will live to regret.
