‘You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don’t,
someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you
when you meet.’
Ed Macaulaey
One of the characteristics of successful people is that whatever they
undertake, they do it well. For some people it is almost an obsession
to do it so well that no one can do better than what they have done.
This mindset gives them the necessary drive to better their performance
by constantly reviewing what they have done. In this context I want to
quote Martina Navratilova, the famous tennis player:
“The better I get, the more I realise how much better I can get.” One
of the leading surgeons I know used to say that every time he enters the
operation theatre, he will go with the mindset that perhaps it is the last
time he goes to operate and every time he comes out of the operation
theatre, he will come out thinking in what way he could have done the
operation even better.
Wanting to do every thing well is more than a quality or skill. It is an
attitude. The alternative to this is half-hearted effort. The problem is that
it is time consuming and a waste of time.
Are you giving your 100 percent?
(From my book 'The Gift of Time')
NC Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com
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