Initiative
I wanted to share with you something that I discovered while I
was watching an excellent video online. I learned about the
concept of initiative and taking action and how simple it can be
to catapult yourself past immobility. Having said this, keep in
mind that initiative is as essential to success as a hub is
essential to a wheel. And initiative is precisely taking action
when we know it ought to be done but no one is asking for it to
be done. Most of the time, when we elect to put aside some
action that needs to be taken, we are anticipating that our
effort may not give us exactly what we desire from it. Whether
our desire is instant gratification or simply a journey of
smooth sailing we often anticipate one or both of these things
will evade us and we are caught up in immobility due to fear.
When we accept that our efforts will at some point deliver to us
that which we are working toward, we can more easily surpass any
fear that stumps us. Taking action that results in acheivment
truly does require us to gradually overcome the bumps and tough
spots along the way, but by continually putting forth effort in
this manner, we can achieve numerous things that are very much
worth the work. I'd like to share with you a powerful example of
how initiative can propel a person into high achievement. Two
men who initially came to know one another while in high school,
were each doing their own thing in their adult lives, but they
did manage to keep in contact. One day the two men decided that
since they recognized a need in the computer industry they would
take it upon themselves to write a simplified version of the
programming language called BASIC. For two months they worked on
the rewriting of BASIC, and then contacted contacted the
computer engineer who designed the computer that used the
language. The simplified version worked, and the engineer was so
impressed with the work that the two men were given a contract
with the production company. Soon they were adapting other
programming languages for the computer and by that summer they
formed a company they called Microsoft. Without initiative, a
person will remain caught up in a life of less than average
quality. With initiative, comes great reward.
Thank you for taking initiative in reading this post. Joe
Clinton.
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