Be on the offense.

I don’t mean physical offensiveness or causing harm to anyone. All I mean is being proactive. Not just following orders but thinking what can be done better.

Most/all of us are trained to not think from the beginning, all we are taught is how to take orders. But you know why few are successful and most are not. It’s because most don’t know this secret that I’m just going to tell you.

The secret is that you have to make your own rules. Rules that will make you better, or the organization you work for better. This secret would sure sound easy to you.

But you know that’s the thing about words, they seem simple till the time you try putting them to action.

So how do we put this to action? How do we be on offense? How do we make our own rules?

To do this, you need to start thinking. And mind you thinking is not easy. It requires deliberate effort.

But thinking about what? Thinking about your actions, how can they be optimized. Then decide a course of action to make those optimizations.

When you start thinking about your actions and finding ways to make it better. That’s what I call being on offense. You don’t just take orders but think like a leader for what can be done better.

School doesn’t teach this and probably that’s why school is old school.

-ChoubeySahab