Changing for Better Referees' Performance

"For things to change, I must first change". More often, after each match or game, comments will be shared by the assessors, "friends", peers or even your juniors and the most important 'muhasabah' (self-assessment) is yourself. A referee should always remember that "if the wind did not blow, the grasses will not sway". If there was no error in your decisions, the players, officials, assessor and even the crowd will not swear. The ability to accept and absorb comments and criticism is one factor that not many referees possessed. Only excellent referees possess or are born with it. The realising that "alhamdulullah, when I did a good game, I was lucky but could I have done it better?" If my game wasn't good enough, how could I improve on it? are questions that one should ponder upon after each match. Being egoistic, snobbish and arrogant will not see the potentiality of changes for the better in a person.
As a FIFA official, one's performance should be a step at least (if not more) ahead of other referees. If the others are performing the same or better than the FIFA referees or assistant referees, then they should take over at that level. Perhaps the system of promotion or demotion should take into consideration the overall performance of all referees and assistant referees, arranging them in their level of merit and the better be chosen for registration in the following year list without taking into consideration whether they are the existing FIFA match officials or not. This perhaps would be a 'wake-up call' to some who thinks that they are the better ones but performing below par of the rest. "Leading by example", "Modelling the role" and "do your best to be the best" are a few guides that should be taken into consideraton all the time.
Look into onself and ask what are the strength that one possessed and the weaknessess that are the threats. Find ways and means to use one's strength to overcome the weaknessess. If all referees strive to be the best in any level of game or at any time of the game, the Maldivian match officials will be among the renown officials in SAFF, AFC and even in the World level to come.