"Build me a mountain with roads" – they said
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Well, surely, thats an impossible task. We might as well give up now and quietly slip away before they get disappointed?
We cant build a mountain in one go – we couldnt even fathom how to do it, nor would we ever find enough time to do it properly.
We could, however, start throwing a pebble into a pile whenever we find one, all the while doing whatever else we were supposed to do.
So we keep doing what we’re doing, but off and on it "occurs to us" to look in different places to find pebbles. When we find one, we throw it in the pile and move on.
The pile is growing – and maybe its disorganized, but we dont pay any heed to it. Its just a pile of pebbles, I’m not bothered with it, I will choose to not care about it. I’ll just do my other stuff, and keep throwing pebbles in.
My friends get curious and involved too – even though they’re also busy in their work, turns out there’s plenty of pebbles around where they’re sitting too. So they agree to help by throwing it in the pile whenever they find one.
I dont even notice, but now everyone in my group is throwing a pebble whenever they find it. I dont notice because I’m not spending any extra energy – I’m just doing my work, and throwing in an occaisional pebble… I dont even look at the pile.
A few months pass, all my other work is done. When I’m handing in my work to "them" they also ask me "where’s my mountain?!". Oh I forgot about that, so I turn to where my pile was.
Except that its not a pile anymore – its actually become quite a mountain in itself – sure it doesnt look like much, but building roads on top might actually be easier now compared to starting from scratch if I had had to.
We’re very often faced with tasks that seem like mountains – they seem so overbearing, useless, hard for a single person to do that we might as well give up or do a poor quality job of it.
But very often, the best way to start building a mountain is one pebble at a time right from the start of the work. That way, we wont even notice – we’re just throwing in a pebble off and an. The mountain appears itself.
11:12 pm
Uh, whoops. That was meant to be for our employees posted at our internal blogs at CDF. Thats what you get for using the same blog writer for all your blogs.
And yes – “technically” you couldnt build a mountain with pebbles.. but guys this is meant to be motivational… so give us a stretch of your imagination will ya?
11:13 pm
And … if you’re realllly curious – this post has some hints about what CDF Snip was designed to do.
Speculate away if you want!
9:11 am
Very inspirational indeed! Please do share the response of the team here too
9:25 am
Aptly said. Think big but take small steps :~)
I read somewhere: One step at a time, one day at a time, one moment at a time, and before you know it those small steps will add up in a big way.
Gives you ample decision-taking time to redefine the path and even objectives.
BTW, loved the idea of reading such kind of posts here too … post often – cross-post
10:05 am
Nice Post…:)
10:32 am
Salman – the types of things they’re able to achieve is response enough… a frequent conversation we have is “so what if its impossible… lets just do it anyway?”
1:27 pm
ahh… Osama posted it intentionally here just to market CDF. Anyways the post is good one.
*peace*
5:28 pm
Corona …..
shhhh … we cant tell everyone about this deviously brilliant marketing ploy… next thing you know everyone would be writing motivational blog posts with subtle hints abouts their products. Vagueness is more effective anyway as you know.
Glad you liked it.