Simplicity Comes With Responsibility

At times, you might be thinking why we need to work so hard for a living…You might start thinking about having a simple life and starting to put down your entire burden, thinking that after all, it doesn’t really matter even if you simply do it or done in the not-so-right way – embracing the “who cares” attitude.

Here the problem lies. When a task is done with ‘simply’ attitude, it not only affects the quality of the result but also affects the whole process and other people. In other word, it bears down to the level of responsibility and accountability one has towards his/her life, family, career, society, etc.

Aiming to produce good/best result is not about striving for perfection, but it is about responsibility and self-respect towards the responsibility. Unfortunately, many people around us do not get the point here as they are unaware of the consequences that might occur due to their one ‘simply’ or ‘who cares’ action.

Imagine:

1. An accountant enters wrong figure or misses a decimal point into the accounting sheet, causing losses to those involved.
2. A physician prescribes wrong formulation, causing adverse effects on the patient.
3. An admin staff keys in wrong information on customer database, causing overbilling.
4. A journalist misinterprets the situation and information, causing defamation.
5. A food hawker puts the wrong ingredient into the delicacy, causing food poisoning.

If you are the ‘victim’ of the above situations, will you file a complaint to the governing/monitoring body? You definitely will, don’t you? And this applies to ourselves too when we are assigned to take up a responsibility. Embrace it with your heart.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. – Pat Riley

Excellence depends on ambition, the will to do well. Ambition motivates you to constantly challenge yourself. It’s the drive that helps you realize your dream. Have grand expectations – even immodestly high ones – and believe in them. Only when ambition prevails over inhibition is excellence truly possible. – J. Pincott in Excellence

However, do not look at ‘ambition’ as being overly ambitious without action or setting impractical aim – such as arriving at a location 200km away in half an hour by car - because in the end, the quality of the result is the one that really matters.

Ambition needs to be put into action. Without action, you will go nowhere from this point. And this brings us to another responsibility-related matter affecting the working world I’ve encountered:

There are 6 types of people:

1. One who speaks a lot and gets lots of things done
2. One who speaks less and gets lots of things done
3. One who speaks less and gets little things done
4. One who speaks a lot and gets little things done
5. One who speaks a lot and gets nothing done
6. One who speaks less and gets nothing done

*Love and Hope for better tomorrow*

~Si3wLiNg~

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