We all have heard that fortune favours brave but I
want to emphasize here that it also favours to those who are well prepared for
action. Any plan will not be converted into a real goal unless you are well
prepared for its execution. Don’t waste your precious time waiting for some
opportunity to come to you instead you prepare yourself so meticulously that
you can create opportunity. I will share one story with you. There were two
woodcutter Mr. Dora & Mr. Jhon. They were good friends with equal
capability. They were assigned job of making path through the jungle. Both of
them started cutting woods in the jungle. Mr. Dora was able to cut the jungle 3
times more in same time what Mr. Jhon was able to cut. Seeing the great
progress of his friend one day Mr. Jhon asked Mr. Dora “We both are working for
same time, we both are dedicated towards our work and we both are also working
hard. How come you are 3 times more productive that I am”. Mr. dora said” Look
my friend, everything is common between you and me but the only difference is
that after cutting woods for 2 hours I take time out and prepare myself for the
next round. I take time out and sharpen my axe”. Now, I am asking one question
to you how many times you take out time from your routine work and do some
value addition in yourself. Studies show that whatever learning happens in a
professional life is during the first 4- 5 years. Therefore, my friends if you
want to be in the top 5%, you will have to take some time out from your
profession and prepare yourself to enable fortune favours you. You do it for
few months and see the result yourself.
The other day while
interacting with one of the young officers of a corporate world an interesting
incident happened. It is not uncommon that I meet many people in the job who
show a keen interest in entrepreneurship. They want to become an entrepreneur but
for the one or the other reason, they don’t venture into business. So, this young fellow
told me that he had many good ideas for business. Then I could remember that I met
some of the brightest men or women who were doing very well in their job and
they wanted to start their own ventures. Most of them told me that they had
many good ideas. Probably, this is the problem. People having many ideas landed
in not working in any of the idea. As Napolean Hill writes in his book think and grow rich that ‘one sound idea
is all one needs to achieve success.’ I always emphasis getting
success is simple. This I could learn and realize after I underwent many
failures in life, though these failures helped to become successful. What one needs is…
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