Consistent And Sustainable Effort
Have you ever started something with great enthusiasm and then later found that it was over the very next day? Many times I have found something working awesome for a moment but something happens and I loose focus, interest and I move on to next thing. I have made schedules, calendars, timetables, and agendas hundreds of times and found that sticking them to it is very difficult and requires a diligent effort. Almost always it never works for me.
We put tremendous amount of effort in taking an initiative but sometimes those initiatives go nowhere. Have you tried doing sit ups, where you stand up and sit down, and do them like for 20 times? When you do it the very first day, you start with great enthusiasm. You do something like 10 to 15 and feel pumped up. Awesome. The problem starts when you wake up next day and realize that you have problem even lifting up your leg. It pains like hell. And this is only if you haven't done them since like very very long time. Now next two days it pains so much that you just avoid doing it. And in the midst of that you loose interest and focus. I think this happens to most people and they just give up on that sit ups. And they are never able to go back to it.
But the key in building great thighs is you do sit ups even the next day when it is paining heavily. And as days pass you will develop great strength and you will be ninja in sit ups. I think where most people screw up when they undertake any new initiative is over doing it. Over doing something is a sure way of bringing that initiative to a halt. You cannot force something on yourself overnight and then expect that it will last that way forever.
Reputation cannot be build over night by tweeting out 10 messages at time and then never do it for next few months. It is built drop by drop. To align your business around culture and its vision required a consistent and sustainable effort. You cannot expect to have a stage 5 culture by conducting one giant meeting in a stadium with your people and be done with it. Not gonna happen.
We put tremendous amount of effort in taking an initiative but sometimes those initiatives go nowhere. Have you tried doing sit ups, where you stand up and sit down, and do them like for 20 times? When you do it the very first day, you start with great enthusiasm. You do something like 10 to 15 and feel pumped up. Awesome. The problem starts when you wake up next day and realize that you have problem even lifting up your leg. It pains like hell. And this is only if you haven't done them since like very very long time. Now next two days it pains so much that you just avoid doing it. And in the midst of that you loose interest and focus. I think this happens to most people and they just give up on that sit ups. And they are never able to go back to it.
But the key in building great thighs is you do sit ups even the next day when it is paining heavily. And as days pass you will develop great strength and you will be ninja in sit ups. I think where most people screw up when they undertake any new initiative is over doing it. Over doing something is a sure way of bringing that initiative to a halt. You cannot force something on yourself overnight and then expect that it will last that way forever.
Reputation cannot be build over night by tweeting out 10 messages at time and then never do it for next few months. It is built drop by drop. To align your business around culture and its vision required a consistent and sustainable effort. You cannot expect to have a stage 5 culture by conducting one giant meeting in a stadium with your people and be done with it. Not gonna happen.
