An eye on the vision

What is this vision all about?Companies have emblazoned it right across their offices ,its drilled over and over into students at B-Schools and blah blah blah
So here's my take on what vision is all about(maybe you can give it a different name)

You are at the shores of a river.

You have to get to the opposite bank.

The flowing river is swift with a strong current.

Now the success lies in getting to the opposite bank without being swept away by the strong currents.

Would'nt this be a simple task to do if you just have to hold a rope overhead(of course you have to cling on to it tightly) and follow the rope slowly but steadily.

This rope is what VISION is.

Difficult to cling onto it is'nt it?

A wonderful quote

Action without vision is a waste of time,
Vision without action is mere daydreaming.

C'mon it cant happen to me......

....the 'it happens only to others' kind of an attitude towards accidents is pretty natural and I had the same kind of an attitude myself before I was rudely pushed into reality and found myself involved in one.I remember the date too 9th Sept 2002.Well not serious enough to be marked in red but serious enough to have made me understand a few hard facts of life.A cool monday morning at around 6.30am and there I found myself just barely inches away from the wheels of one our beloved MTC buses on the Kodambakkam overbridge.

I am not going into the details of it but I missed death by a whisker but my six month new bike had taken the brunt of it for the rear wheel of the bus had run over it and my heart bled watching pieces of my new bike being recovered from underneath the bus.

I've passed through that way a million times after that in my same dear bike and the same thoughts pass through my mind every other time.

1.I could have died in that accident and caused irrecoverable grief to my parents but I did'nt so why not make them happy and joyous as much as possible.

2.I would'nt have enjoyed life myself so why not stop brooding over all the petty things in life and make masti.

3.Had I had some serious injuries from the accident,would'nt have been able to lift weights(my passion) so why not make working out in the gym a more serious affair(not that I was'nt serious then).

The parallel between weight training and the professional life!!!!

Seven years of working out in the gym has taught me one thing clearly.Life is all about perseverance.Here goes the parallel beetween weight training and your success at the job you have taken up:

1.Both require a lot of time and effort before you start noticing results and people start noticing you.

2.The more intense the dedication ,the faster will be the results.

3.Once you have reached a certain level,trying to maintain that would be a tougher job than to have actually come up to that level.

4.After reaching a stage wherein you feel you are firmly entrenched,people around you start copying you and you become a sort of benchmark .

Is'nt this true?

'If I am not for myself who is for me,If I am only for myself what am I for'