21st April 2011
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
~John B. Gough
On any day action is better than no action. There are two options we have. One is to be proactive and go after opportunities. The other is to respond when an opportunities knocks at our doors. Successful people have a common denominator: they are proactive. They don't wait for things to happen. They make things to happen.
In the history of mankind, there are people who did original work and the their idea worked. They became role models for others to emulate. Henry Ford made the first automobile; Thomas Alva Edison made the first electric bulb; Graham Bell invented the telephone; Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse; Tim Berners – Lee implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and internet.
Think about the pioneering work of Bill Gates in the area of software and that of Steve Jobs who made the computer dream a reality for a common man. Can you think of a world without computer and the Microsoft software? In the recent time the mobile telephone, more popularly known as the `cell phone', has revolutionised the way we communicate.
Or think about Sabeer Bhatia who came out with the breakthrough idea of Hotmail.
An the list is endless. All these people got an idea and developed the same by working unceasingly until they succeeded. They did not wait for an opportunity to knock at their doors. All of them were proactive.
What about you?
N C Sridharan
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