The document outlines a 12-lecture series called "Al-Wafaa Lecture series" aimed at helping people become better versions of themselves. The lectures would cover topics like planning for the future, developing communication skills, ethics, career orientation, and overcoming weaknesses. It emphasizes finding your strengths and vision, making priorities, and spending time on important rather than urgent tasks. The overall message is that people can change themselves for the better by focusing on their goals and talents.

1. Be a better you!
Al-Wafaa Lecture series
Muhamad Shabarek, 16/01/2010

2. The 12 lectures
• Be a better you
• Plan your future
• Tomorrow is a better day
• Public speaking + debating + communication skills
• Etiquette and ethics
• Active citizenship
• Activity: meet your role models
• Educate yourself
• Manage your resources
• Career orientation
• Overcome your weaknesses
• You've created a new you: Market it!
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3. Why be Better??
Life is all about change, so there
are two options, to change to the
better or to change to the worse.
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4. Better know yourself
• In 2 mins draw yourself using any
shape or color you feel they
represent you.
• In another 3 mins write next to the
shape:
– your name
– who you are
– best achievement in your life
• Show what you did to everyone
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5. YOU ARE UNIQUE
AND THIS IS YOUR ASSET
No one else in the WORLD is like YOU
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WHAT MAKES A PERSON 100% SUCCESSFUL
12+21+3+11=47%
L+U+C+K
SUCCESS
A B C D E …Z
1 32 4 5 …26

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SUCCESS
L+O+V+E
12+15+22+5=54%
M+O+N+E+Y
13+15+14+5+25=72%

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SUCCESS
† From Achieving Effective Meetings – Not Easy But Possible, Bradford D. Smart in a survey of 635 executives.
L+E+A+D+E+R+S+H+I+P
12+5+1+4+5+18+19+8+9+16 = 97%
H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

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SUCCESS
A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100 %
CHANGE your ATTITUDE
Create your own PATH to SUCCESS

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LIFE is SHORT
What is my Fire WITHIN ?
LIVE YOUR DREAMS
How will I be REMEMBERED ?
What makes life worth LIVING ?
What do I DREAM of ?
Leave a LEGACY

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What is YOUR VISION?
1 Year
5 Years
10 Years
What will you be remembered for?
Personal – Professional

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Define your vision
VISION
Goals

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Your VISION- The POWER of Leverage
Your VISION
Talents
Money
Contact & Relationships
Emotions
Your Beliefs

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SWOT yourself
VISION
Goals

15. Life is (should be) all about
• Setting priorities
• Doing the right thing at the right time
• Being at the right place (at the right time)
• Succeeding in achieving your mission
• Keeping the balance between
professional and personal life
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16. Today’s list (3 mins)
• Make a list concluding all your
activities since you woke up this
morning (include everything)
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17. Urgent vs important
• Everything we do in life can be divided in two
categories:
– Urgent
• Requires immediate attention
• Urgent matters are usually visual
• Are often pleasant, easy and fun to do
– Important
• Has to do with results
• Contribute to you mission values and high priority goals
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18. Today’s list (Cont.)
• Look at the list you created earlier
• Divide all the activities in urgent and
important matters
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19. Four quadrants of Life
• Basically we spend our time in four
ways:
– Doing what is important and Urgent
– Doing what is important but not Urgent
– Doing what is not important but Urgent
– Doing what is not important and not
Urgent
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20. Life balance
Not Urgent
+
Important
Urgent
+
Important
Not Urgent
+
Not Important
Urgent
+
not Important
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Not Urgent
+
Important
Urgent
+
Important

22. Hints and tricks to be better
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23. • Life is made up of chances and
opportunities, what comes never returns
but other ones will come for sure
• Forget the past because time won’t forget
you
• The outside is what we see first
• Nobody sees your weaknesses but
yourself
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24. • Be transparent and honest. The truth
always hurts less.
• Believe in what do you no matter what the
others think of it
• Do not under- or over- estimate anything
• Create your network
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