Top 10 Key Principles for Career and Financial Success – Senator Richard “Dick” Gordon’s life is one of the Philippines successful stories. He has face down natural and man-made disasters, political adversaries, kidnap-for-ransom groups and economic crises but overcame them. He now enjoyed a fruitful and accomplished life through following time-tested principles to become successful. He wanted to share his key principles for career and financial success to that ordinary Filipinos can also improve their life.
Top 10 Key Principles for Career and Financial Success
1. Be ambitious. Umaasa tayo lagi sa tulong. Kahit anong hirap mo, you have to be ambitious. Being ambitious is not negative.
2. Have the right work ethic. Bawal ang tamad. Lalong bawal ang tanga.Manage by objective. Instead of a quick fix or instant gratification, practice delayed gratification. We should go for meritocracy. Hindi palakasan. Palakasan pa rin dito.
3. Learn a skill. Poverty is an absence of choice. That’s why you have to continue learning. You have to learn a skill. Richard Gordon never tell people “good luck.” He always tell them “good skill.” Be creative. Nasa Diyos ang awa, nasa tao ang gawa. God gave you skills. God will not help you if you don’t help yourself.
4. Work, save, invest, and prosper. You have to work. Address your needs but always save. Get into a business. Get life insurance or a personal accident insurance kung `yun lang ang kaya mo. We need a provident fund especially for our OFWs. We have 11 million Filipinos abroad. You put them and our people here in a provident fund, we can prosper ourselves. Combine GSIS and SSS funds and come up with a provident fund, just like what Singapore did. People have to learn to save something.
5. Help. Find extra time to help. Volunteer with the Red Cross. Kapag alam mong ginawa mo, bibiyaan ka. Helping others is a reward in itself.
6. Lead by example. The Philippines would improve if it elects a leader who can inspire, able to communicate by word and deed, provides a vision, extracts values, and displays integrity. Demand from your leaders. Ask for their qualifications. Look for their record.
7. Be independent. Richard Gordon had to fight big guys but he couldn’t tell his dad. His father encouraged his to learn judo to protect his self. You have to learn to survive. You have to learn to stand your ground. Richard Gordon stood up those guys who tried to bully him.
8. Learn from your mistakes. Richard Gordon learn from his mistakes. And he learn from other people’s mistakes. There’s only one thing Richard Gordon can never learn: to be overly materialistic. He don’t pay the media to cover him. He don’t pay for his press releases. If his being straightforward is a mistake, that’s a mistake he’ll keep on repeating.
9. Be assertive. We’re like makahiyas. We shouldn’t be. We shouldn’t be an adapting culture. We’re resilient but we don’t assert ourselves. We’re a happy people. That’s good psychology. We laugh at ourselves. We’re an accommodating culture. We shouldn’t be. We should live by the national anthem, by our oath.
10. Make fear your friend. During the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, Richard Gordon told his self that we’re not going to allow ourselves to die here. So he prayed, “If you’re going to take me, take me. Please though, don’t make me look bad as I lead.” You must make fear your friend.
Source: MONEYSENSE MAGAZINE (Sen. Richard Gordon’s 10 Principles for Success By: Lynda C. Corpuz)