Wish i could write better but i would like to quote Seth here..
here is the trackback.
Enjoy guys, make up your simple choice today! you may have 1 choice . a difficult choice
but a simple choice.. make up your mind !
“Here’s a question that you should clip out and tape to your bathroom
mirror. It might save you some angst 15 years from now. The question is, What did
you do back when interest rates were at their lowest in 50 years, crime was close to
zero, great employees were looking for good jobs, computers made product development
and marketing easier than ever, and there was almost no competition for good news
about great ideas?
Many people will have to answer that question by saying, “I spent my time
waiting, whining, worrying, and wishing.” Because that’s what seems to
be going around these days. Fortunately, though, not everyone will have to confess
to having made such a bad choice.
While your company has been waiting for the economy to rebound, Reebok has launched
Travel Trainers, a very cool-looking lightweight sneaker for travelers. They are
selling out in Japan — from vending machines in airports!
While Detroit’s car companies have been whining about gas prices and bad
publicity for SUVs (SUVs are among their most profitable products), Honda has been
busy building cars that look like SUVs but get twice the gas mileage. The Honda
Pilot was so popular, it had a waiting list.
While Africa’s economic plight gets a fair amount of worry, a little startup
called Kickstart is actually doing something about it. The new income that its
products generate accounts for 0.5% of the entire GDP of Kenya. How? It manufactures
a $75 device that looks a lot like a StairMaster. But it’s not for exercise.
Instead, Kickstart sells the machine to subsistence farmers, who use its
stair-stepping feature to irrigate their land. People who buy it can move from
subsistence farming to selling the additional produce that their land yields —
and triple their annual income in the first year of using the product.
While you’ve been wishing for the inspiration to start something great,
thousands of entrepreneurs have used the prevailing sense of uncertainty to start
truly remarkable companies. Lucrative Web businesses, successful tool catalogs,
fast-growing PR firms — all have started on a shoestring, and all have been
profitable ahead of schedule. The Web is dead, right? Well, try telling that to
Meetup.com, a new Web site that helps organize meetings anywhere and on any topic.
It has 200,000 registered users — and counting.
Maybe you already have a clipping on your mirror that asks you what you did during
the 1990s. What’s your biggest regret about that decade? Do you wish that you
had started, joined, invested in, or built something? Are you left wishing that
you’d at least had the courage to try? In hindsight, the 1990s were the good
old days. Yet so many people missed out. Why? Because it’s always possible to
find a reason to stay put, to skip an opportunity, or to decline an offer. And yet,
in retrospect, it’s hard to remember why we said no and easy to wish that we
had said yes.
The thing is, we still live in a world that’s filled with opportunity. In fact,
we have more than an opportunity — we have an obligation. An obligation to
spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To
push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and
inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.
Are these crazy times? You bet they are. But so were the days when we were doing
duck-and-cover air-raid drills in school, or going through the scares of Three Mile
Island and Love Canal. There will always be crazy times.
So stop thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the
crazy times demand. There has never been a worse time for business as usual.
Business as usual is sure to fail, sure to disappoint, sure to numb our dreams.
That’s why there has never been a better time for the new. Your competitors
are too afraid to spend money on new productivity tools. Your bankers have no idea
where they can safely invest. Your potential employees are desperately looking for
something exciting, something they feel passionate about, something they can
genuinely engage in and engage with.
You get to make a choice. You can remake that choice every day, in fact.
It’s never too late to choose optimism, to choose action, to choose
excellence. The best thing is that it only takes a moment — just one
second — to decide.
Before you finish this paragraph, you have the power to change everything
that’s to come. And you can do that by asking yourself (and your colleagues)
the one question that every organization and every individual needs to ask today:
Why not be great?”
”
