Flesh your words up.

I often say big ambitious things and make commitments which I never fulfill. This scares me a lot, I’m scared of my words not matching with my action.

I try to achieve a balance between what I say and what I do. But I almost always fall short of what I promised or said I would deliver. This is probably because I don’t put enough logic and thinking when I say things. Or maybe my action just isn’t up to the mark.

Actually both of them are true. So how do I fix this ? Two ways:

1. Start saying less ambitious things.

OR

2. Make the action come upto the level of words.

The former would require me to think logically before I speak. But I like my illogical overambitious aiming-for-the-sky self. I’ll go with the other approach of trying to flesh my words up, which means doing work which does good justice to what I say.

This way I create high standards of performance against which I can compare my actual output. It is almost always much lesser than what I’d said but much bigger than what I’d have normally delivered.

This approach of fleshing our words up is something we all must learn. To live upto the promises we make and holding ourselves accountable to our own words.

Once you let your words be your boss. You transform into the ultimate version of yourself.

For eg. When I decided to write 1 blog a day, I didn’t know how I’ll do it. But I went out and made sort of announcement to everyone that I’ll write 1 blog a day. Till today I’m trying to keep up with those illogical overambitious words and we have come a far way.

Be overambitious in your what you say and then put everything in fleshing those words up.

-ChoubeySahab