Be Careful, be very careful !!

THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR YOU TO FAIL !!! BE CAREFUL, BE VERY CAREFUL !!

Remember that moment of truth when you failed and the closest to you not consoled you but in your moment of sadness was smirking in one corner, over your back. Your friends would not tell you, your close ones are being too nice, your nicest friends are being too polite, get alarmed !! There is something fishy ! There is a conspiracy, they are waiting for you to fall ! Well things seem to go all right, all correct, as a dream remember its the beginning of the end. Like they say "Before the storm, an unusual calm ".
Bad things are bound to start in that way. It starts when you think things are going alright, when there never could have been a perfect time to do things. Its when we are in our comfort zone, when the truth strikes us. And like a bullet that pierces through everything in its way, similarly the truth, the ugly reality shatters all myths, and shatters the self belief as well.
Every organisation or for that matter every human being who failed in a huge way either had become complacent when the time was good or did not change fast enough when bad times were around. There are numerous examples of people and companies, who did not have the foresightness to see that danger always looms larger when there is a abnormal silence.
But people like Jack Welch or companies like GE who see that there are going to be challenges and efforts have to be taken in order to counter the problems that lies ahead, have always managed to win the race in the longer run (if not the immediate future !). There has to be effort and a determination in order to fight complacency which tends to accompany the good times.
How do we do it ? How can we fight complacency when what we have done is working fine ?
My ideas on this issue, is we have to continuously learn, we have to continuously evolve. Ok, I know this sounds cliched, repeated by numerous motivation authors. The challenge remains, How do we do it? It is easier said than done. I think, one way of doing it, is thinking that times are always tough and infact there are only tougher times ahead. What this does is tunes us mentally to never get panickied or be afraid of awful times. It moulds us to be used to bad times ! It makes us strong and malleable. At the same time we have to see that we are not tensed up about the entire issue, otherwise it could lead to negative effects. The idea is to be practical and work wisely for bad times ahead of bad times that is !!

SO IF NEXT TIME SOMETHING RIGHT GOES YOUR WAY, DUN PARTY IT AWAY, BE CAREFUL, BE VERY CAREFUL !!!