ACTION, ACT!
It is not enough for you to sit
down and think about your future ,dream of success or even plan for it and then
do nothing .It will be like planning a journey, map ready ,luggage ,fuel in the
car and then park it ,sit in the car and have some more day –dreams. Goals just
do not achieve themselves and plans have to be acted upon instead of them gathering
dust on shelves. Besides, most good and proper plans have a life-span which
expires if they are not acted upon .Some become costlier if actioned later and
for others the plans are overtaken by events and lose their relevance.
Excellent, perfect planning which
passes most tests should be timeously acted upon. Vacillation ,procrastination
,fear and lethargy should not stand in the way of you performing what you have
planned to do.Action is what makes the difference between what was there before
and what is there now.History records the actions of geniuses who came up with
shocking inventions some of them ahead of their time.It also records the
actions of mobs who decided at the spur of the moment that they had had enough
of the status -quo,went into the streets with placards, shouting and
challenging monarchies for equality and human rights.Their wishes were finally
granted and their actions resulted in social,political and economic
transformations of their societies.Academics came later and called these revolutions
,but the folks who did these things had clear priorities-to act on their
grievances and they did.
Action changes things.Like the
revolutionaries,sometimes it is more important to leave elaborate planning and
evaluation to somebody else and go ahead and act. They can have the privilege
of calling themselves strategists and historians ,but they will all agree that
without action and events they would all be out of their jobs.The best managers
in busness always evaluate their performance on results and not on how many
meetings they have held in a week.I have watched ,with sympathy, the unfolding
of season by season fortunes of club-managers in the very competitive English
Premium League soccer.Some managers are hired because of their long and impressive
CVs but if they lose a few games they
are disposed of so quickly they have no time to say goodbye to their own
teams.They may have had good plans ,but if they could not execute them or act
on them ,their fate is sealed!
So,do not sit on your plans ,ACT!
By EDWARD NGUNDU
edwardngundu@yahoo.com
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