The Execution…..
by Sunil Bali, 15-01-12
What matters this year – just as in any other year – is not what you think, plan or say. What matters most is what you do.
It’s like a promise. A promise is meaningless unless it’s delivered.
Until you execute your brilliant idea, it’s just that, a brilliant idea.
Last Monday the winner of the 1:40pm horse race at Taunton was a 200-1 outsider, named Lights on Broadway. After the race, the horse’s trainer Jo Hughes said they had a plan which horse and jockey executed perfectly.
Ten days ago, after Newcastle unexpectedly beat Man. Utd 3-0, the Newcastle manager Alan Pardew said, "We had a plan and once each player crossed the white line, he executed the plan."
At the end of each year – and this year will be no exception – it’s always the same,
- some people will have made things happen and got the results they wanted
- some people will have watched things happen and
- some people will ask, "What the hell happened?"
Which camp will you be in?
The choice is yours. It always has been.
It’s amazing what just a little extra focus and effort can achieve: the extra degree….. (2:59 min video)
Quotes
Many fine things can be done in a day if you don’t always make that day tomorrow – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success – Swami Sivananda
Nothing will work unless you do – Maya Angelou
Action is the foundational key to all success – Pablo Picasso
Humour
Thanks to Rob Scott for these gems from Tommy Cooper:
- I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley.
She said ‘Tenpin?’ I said, ‘No, permanent.’ - I met this bloke with a didgeridoo and he was playing Dancing
Queen on it. I thought, ‘That’s Aboriginal.’ - This lorry full of tortoises collided with a van full of terrapins.
It was a turtle disaster. - I went in to a pet shop. I said, ‘Can I buy a goldfish?’ The guy said,
‘Do you want an aquarium?’ I said, ‘I don’t care what star sign it is.’ - I bought some Armageddon cheese today, and it said on the packet. ‘Best Before End’
- I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said ‘Analogue.’
I said ‘No, just a watch.’ - I went into a shop and I said, ‘Can someone sell me a kettle.’ The bloke said ‘Kenwood’ I said, ‘Where is he then?’
- My mate is in love with two schoolbags.
He’s bisatchel. - I went to the doctor. I said to him ‘I’m frightened of lapels.’
He said, ‘You’ve got cholera.’
To your success in 2012,
Sunil
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