Implement the change that you want to see

Yes, we must listen, read, see, visualize, learn, understand and also appreciate the things the way they ought to be, but we must also remember that for any change to happen, you must take a very important next step and that is "to act" towards the change that you want to see in the world around you.

Very often, we spend a lot of time in all the aspects of reading, listening, visualizing, understanding but just halt at the step of "acting". While all of these is important, failure to act turns out to be the single biggest reasons why your ideas and thoughts do not take the shape of reality.

I was talking to my friends over a morning tea session and as usual, they were talking about how things around them are not going so well, that the quality of human thoughts have gone down to an unacceptable and unimaginable level. Everything around the globe is going bad and it is a pitiable state to be in. Some went to the extent of saying that something is wrong in the air and water which has changed and depreciated the very thought process of human beings.

Post all those negative thoughts, everyone appreciated some of the recent positive articles they have read, known about some of the inspiring people that have tried to change the world around them. Everyone agreed to the fact that a positive change requires a positive thought process. Everyone was unison in the view that we all need to change the way we all "think" before we can realize a positive change. As usual, they were about to wind up the conversation on a happy note. And this happens with so many conversations and ideas. This time, i had different intentions. I was not going to allow them to drift away so easily. I thought that this was an appropriate time to intervene and let them know that we are all missing out on one very critical step. While positive thoughts are definitely important, there is one more critical step that gets missed out every time we want to bring in a change.

Yes, things around us are not as good as they can be. Yes, the quality of human thoughts is not at the same level it used to be a few years back. Yes, we need to do something to do about it. But we all have an inherent belief that "someone" would come and do "something" about the situation and after some time, things should change for the better "automatically". Ah !! What a great thought. The missing piece between the thought and the reality is the "effort" that is needed to be put in. Trust me, nothing of this "automatic" sort is ever going to happen. One of us will have to come out of our comfort zone. It is one of us who must start with the step of implementation and then after consistent efforts only can we hope for some more like minded people to join us and then hope for a bigger change to happen.

A leader becomes a leader because that person had the guts to take the first step towards implementation of what he or she thought was appropriate. A study reveals that 90% of the innovative and brilliant ideas never move into implementation phase because no one has enough courage to get them started with the first step towards implementation phase. We can keep discussing the greatest of the ideas but all that is not beneficial to anyone if we cannot take it to implementation phase.

Having ideas is one step, taking the initiative and moving into the implementation phase of that idea is a different ball game altogether.

I am sure you have an idea in your mind. You keep getting great ideas during your shower or during your sleep. Jot them down, shortlist and select some of the greatest ones that you have. Have the guts, go and take the next step, even if it mains trying and failing.

No one has ever succeeded without giving it a try.

Thomas Edison once said : “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

Joel Osteen mentioned in his bestseller book : “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me."

Cheers

Manoj Arora