First I would like to express my apology for not updating my blog at least once a month. Though I have not written anything on my blog for more than two months (while being away from Hong Kong and busy with many different activities), I do have many new realizations about myself, life and the world that I would like to share with you. Life is in fact interesting.
Recently, I have attended a six days executive seminar at a cruise, regarding the subject on “Leadership and Purposes” with lots of inspiring ideas from the speakers. Success and prosperity can always be found from any company having positive purposes to be shared by the employees and customers under competent leadership. It’s also applied to the individual success whether one is motivated from his own purposes in life and knows how to make things go right towards the accomplishment of his purposes.
Have you ever asked yourself about the purposes of your life? You can also ask the same question to your friends, associates, colleagues, and family members to help you getting to know them better.
We may have different responses: “Well, I have never thought about it”, or “I really don’t know”, or “Just follow what other people are doing.”, or simply, “Buying a property”, “Security in life”, “Making a lot of money”, etc… You may find only a few people could clearly state their purposes in life right away. You can also watch their emotional responses towards their purposes. Are they excited about them? Are they bored about them? Do they feel grief as if they have almost lost their purposes? You can imagine the level of one’s motivation by examining his purposes in life; and his emotional response towards his purposes. Those who are more excited about their purposes have a higher chance of success. It will be interesting to find out the survey results with questions on the purposes and related emotional response of the majority of Hong Kong People; which can give us insights to determine the rate of our success and prosperity.
Now, let’s take a look of the purposes of the majority of companies in Hong Kong? Profitability and viability are always expected to make the company stay in the market. What does it really motivate any company to exist and continue to grow? However, mission statement with visions or purposes are not always published or clearly stated in any public company documents of Hong Kong companies. It may be a good research topic to find out how the corporate purposes of Hong Kong companies are related with their success.
For example, on the company brochure of Sun Hung Kai Property Company, a listed company in Hong Kong, said “ The Group believes in “Building Homes with Heart’ and has grown with Hong Kong over the decades offering ideal residences for people. The company is also committed to corporate social responsibility; taking an active role in charity and environmental protection. It will continue aspiring to new heights with its well-established brand and contributing to better living in Hong Kong by building quality homes.” We have witnessed the quality homes built by this company and it’s also a preferred property developer when considering buying any property in Hong Kong. So from what the company has produced, we can see that there is an alignment of its purposes and products.
70% of our time is related with work. If one’s purposes are in alignment with the purposes of the company one is working for, you can imagine that he’s motivated and happy in what he’s doing. Otherwise, one may feel unmotivated with unhappiness.
If you wish, you may review your own purposes of life, the purposes of your job and your company to see whether they’re in agreement in some regards, that can help to uplift your morale to build a better future of yourself, your company and the community at large.
So let’s build a better future of Hong Kong together!
