7th March 2011
"The best way to get something done is to begin."
Unknown
Before I wrote my book `The Gift of Time', I interviewed more than five hundred people who have achieved something remarkable in their life. One common denominator I found in most of them is their ability to take immediate actions and their promptness. The first of the seven habits of highly effective people which Stephen Covey lists in his most popular book is the habit of acting immediately which he calls as `proactive'. Stick the following quotation of Og Mandino on your work table and read it three times a day and notice what happens to your life style:
`I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.
With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again.
I will walk where failures fear to walk.
I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have.
Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy.
Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now.
Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever.
This is the time. This is the place. I am the person'.
N C Sridharan
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