ACTION,ACT!

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