Remember my last post JFDI, of course you do (if you don’t its OK). This time I decided to miss the “F”, one for the indecency of the word and second because I can do so :)
If someone has been bugging you suggesting that you can do a lot more than you think you can, don’t take it as a silly morale boosting attempt from a friend. It is that, but definitely not just that…O yes! its is true. If you really want to do something and you sincerely put in efforts towards that end, it will happen. You might not get it completely right the first time, but then you have to perfect by practice. This is were the doers differ from the dreamers. The doers don’t stop when they seem to have lost the plot, but instead keep doing it till they get it right.
Many of us don’t realize what we are capable of until we are put in a situation that demands the job of us. I remember myself attending a very popular motivational speaker’s lecture. He was suggesting the ideas that I have tried to say here, and that many people tell us everyday. These speakers cite a lot of examples of people who have done what they never seemed was possible, but then this brings up a very logical question about their percentage. Unfortunate but its a fact, for every 1 success story there must be a thousand stories of failures that we never heard about.
At first these words do seem a lot of air and politically correct speech, but there is more to it than that, it is true. We were given a simple exercise and some 5 minutes to finish it. We were asked to write a short story, with the only clause that the pen wouldn’t stop before the story was done or the time for the assignment was over. It must sound as silly to you now as it did to us at that time, yes that is what first impressions do. I can tell you that no one in the audience was novelist and most hadn’t written must in the recent years of their lives except maybe business reports. The best part is that many people came up with amazingly good content and some with not so great stuff, in that short span of time. The biggest challenge is starting, giving it a go, trying it, doing it, getting out of that state of inertia of rest.
This was proved to me yet again couple of days back. I was talking to a friend about the lecture I had attended, and he decided to see if he himself could write a story if he tried. He did, not like in the exercise ,non stop and fast, but gave himself three days. He gave himself enough thought and time to put something in place and he is done. It isn’t the best piece I have read and it definitely isn’t the best piece he can write, but he did it. It isn’t about how good you can do it the first time, but believing that you can do it and then actually doing it. How many times must have the Edisons, Newtons and Picassos failed before they got it right. If you see Picasso’s earliest paintings…with out any disrespect, they don’t even deserve a second look, but look at what he got himself into as he kept going.
Ever thought about it; many of us are right handed but does that mean we can’t write with our left hand, the answer is yes we can, only if we really want to and for some if they really have to do it. You can do a lot of things, depending on how much you want it and how sincere you are in your quest.
Now there might be some of you who wouldn’t like this post, or maybe be critical of the flow of ideas, the presentation and many other things which you can think of. However my point is that I am trying to better myself…I am trying!!
