Here is this week’s Monday Morning Message from Wm. H. Danforth, founder of Ralston Purina: What is the Monday Morning Message?
Any fool can step on the gas, but it takes a real driver to steer his car and apply the brakes without accidents.
You have determined on your destination. You are steering your life to a definite goal. To cover the distance from where you are to where you are going is your job. There’s more to success than just “stepping on the gas.”
Why not, during this week, go over your plans and make dead sure that your steering wheel is all right; that your brakes are adjusted—both foot and emergency. Make sure there are no non-producers or flat tires in your department. Adjust everybody to the “Double Tonnage” program. Then step on the gas.
Each month advance your spark and speed.
The excitement of a new idea can cause us to jump in and get started before we really know where we want to end up or how we will get there.
Enthusiasm is great and will help you to reach your goal, but take the time to plan and make sure you are headed in the right direction and using your efforts wisely.
This is great advice Cathy. If we stop and think about it for a moment every one of us has made decisions or taken actions that came back to haunt us because we didn’t take the time to think things through and make the proper preparations before jumping in with both feet. As they say, you live and learn.
I think this is so true. In starting up my own website, I jumped with cold feet hoping for the best. I soon started a blog and I am trying to make wiser decisions on where I want to go with my blog. My enthusiasm ran away with me. It is not the best way to go. None the less, I am glad I am having this experience. I don’t recommend it for everyone. Now I am doing the leg work. Hind site is 20/20.
Carolyn, even if you are not sure exactly what you are doing, as long as you are generally heading in the right direction any action is better than no action.