Talk is cheap

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The road to hell is paved with good strategies- Anonymous
 
Of an immutable truth, talk is very cheap. Infact, it is free. Just about anybody can get busy with their bucal cavities. A wise man once said to me Son "Knowledge doesn't profit much. It is understanding that profits a life". He said to me "Beware of the generation that basks in the euphoria of speech and vanity of elocution. Talk is cheap, he asserted.
 
There is a tendency to lose sight of what really matters and in no time at all, one will become a noise maker. In our world today, it is a stale fact that most of us are experts in identifying what is wrong. We are quick to deploy our microscopic and judgmental weaponry. We excel at rebuffing others while upstaging their faults and weaknesses. For the most part, we lurk in the deep hallows of shear hypocrisy. We are like pots calling kettles black. The irony of life.
 
This is deliberately going to be a very short piece that I have decided to talk to myself and those who care to listen to rise above the vanity of speech. You can say I am still lurking in the shadows of sobriety. This is not an epiphany. It is plain reflection. According to Tom Peters in the search of excellence, he stated that bias for action remains a sterling attribute of great companies. Jim Collins has reiterated this over and over in his literatures also. Infact, execution remains the greatest challenge for companies. The road to hell they say is paved with good strategies. It is implementation that besets many. It is not the dearth of insight that plagues most corporations. It is the failure or inability to move to action.
 
According to Scott Belsky, the founder of Behance (www.99u.com) and the author of Making Ideas Happen, he drew insight from the golden gem of perspiration. It was Thomas Edison that stated that genius is often 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. It goes without saying that it is the application of insight that accounts for most brilliant outcomes in life.
 
I’d like to wrap up this piece by ministering to myself and maybe you could take a cue also. I like the words of Mr. Jude Abaga (MI) who said " My motto is Do more. Talk less....

Ladies and Gentlemen! Talk is cheap. Do the right thing.


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