Unite to Impact

My tribe of trainers loves to use videos to underline the message. One such popular video was created in 2007 as part of the Lead India Campaign launched by the Times of India Group. It can be easily viewed on the internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFs5vWxW-vc

The early morning traffic is blocked by a fallen tree. On either side, people await a solution to the problem. Some people seem resigned to their fate. Some curse the Government for not removing them from their misery. To make matters worse, the rain starts pouring and adding to the gloom

But a young child drops his school bag and ventures to push aside the big tree with his little hands. Put to shame, the onlookers, one by one start joining him. Little children, college students and practically everyone joins in. Together they are able to shift the obstacle.

What seems a huge hurdle is easily overcome when many hands come together. While the child’s innocent initiative triggers the coming together of enthusiastic support, it is also pertinent to note that the rest, who join in, keep up the persistence. The eventual success is because they unite to impact.

Henry Ford said so well that ‘Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success’. It is good to come together and keep together, but to be better at create the right impact we must work together with focussed intention. We must ‘unite to impact’ by team forming, team bonding and team performing.

A famous Buddha quote identifies two mistakes while walking the road… one is not starting and the second is not going all the way. So many good initiatives are reduced to nought because people give up before the initiative is actualised. We must choose to be better at sustaining a continuous commitment to the initiative we take on or the one we join in.

Let’s ‘unite to impact’ with focussed intention...

to BE BETTER at overcoming the obstruction!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

Goa, India.