Being too comfortable

There are a lot of reasons we settle, and sometimes they're good reasons, at least temporarily. Many of us need to remind ourselves that perfection is an unachievable goal. For instance, its perfectly acceptable to settle for less-than-perfect when venturing into a new business or offering a new product or service. If we wait until everything is just right, we may never get our ideas off the ground.

The problem comes when we forget that this settling was temporary, and that we had something big planned for the future. We get stuck in our settlement, and cant find our way out.

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Settling is a necessity of life. Just as you cannot afford to purchase a BMW straight-away, you might consider a Toyota while you wait till your finances become better. Just as you cannot reach for the sky immediately, you have to take a step at a time. That's when the most difficult time comes. Personal contentment and inertia keep us where we are, mediocrity happens and complacency occurs to us who have accomplished nothing.

Long have quotes talk about daydreaming, and most have warned us against building sand-castles in the air. It is not about daydreaming that is dangerous, it is more of inaction that is fatal. Can sandcastles be build in air? Haven't skyscrapers already accomplished that? Rather than go around thinking about why not, think about how you can do it. Negative thinking poisons your mind and keeps your abilities limited.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.”

-Pat Riley

One fruit that occurs through inaction is complacency. Complacency is the belief that you're there when in reality you're nowhere close. When the object in discussion is of heavy weight, excuses would be made to lessen the pain on oneself that the fault was actually with the person in question.

Rather than let complacency poison our mind and keep us satisfied, we be more open to new ideas and keep a look out on what's changing in the world. "There is nothing in the world more constant as change" a wise man once said. How true is it. How many new inventions have been in place that were not here 20 years ago? Take the camera handphone. Had NOKIA kept itself secluded and unable to change, would its famous non-camera non-colour phones match up or would it more likely lose its market share to the innovator Samsung?

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
-Joel A. Barker

One of my blog's friends commented that the man who died, is the man who thought he could.. and that is not wrong. In fact, it reminded me about something. Pure action will not bring you anywhere. An example that can easily be seen will be observed in the workplace. There are a few people who always look busy, walk around alot, always unable to stop to chat and forever thought as hardworking. But at the end of the day, their stack of papers on their desk will forever remain the same, forever filled.

There was a farmer who had a donkey that was the most lazy you have ever seen! No amount of beating would lure it to do it's work. The poor farmer finally asked a sage and he was told to attach a carrot in sight but out of reach of the donkey so it would keep going and he did just that. The trick worked and the donkey kept going on and on. It never gave up, and it soon worked itself to it's death, but it never got its carrot.

There is a difference between activity and directed action. Purely doing something will not bring you where you want. You got to know what you want and work towards it. That's no wonder why the man who died would be the man who thought he could, for he never gave his destination some thought.