The blessing of role models

Readers,

When was the last time you stopped to consider who your role models are?

In life, we have the choice to ponder, reflect and choose who we want our role models to be or we will be attracted to what is sold to us as good role models in the media.

To determine who the best role models will be for us in our lives, we must first naturally determine what our goal in life is.

If we want to become rich financially for example, we should seek out role models who are rich.

If we want to become physically fit, then we should seek out role models who are the fittest.

What about if we want to become honest, truthful, humble, honorable, wise and brave? In my life, I have found no role model greater than the holy Prophet Muhammad  (peace be upon him and his family).

The question we must ask ourselves as often as possible is:

How am I modelling my own behavior on the person I claim to be my role model?

You see if we are impressed by someone, but don't try to model our lives on their lives, then we can't really claim that they are our role models. Rather we are simply fans or a more polite word is probably admirers.

I summarise by saying that as a human race, we are blessed with the ability to achieve success through imitating the actions of  people we have seen produce the results we desire so let's try and utilise this blessing more consciously for greater results.