Is 100% Effort in Your Action Necessary?

In the formula "Vision + Action = Success", one of the critical aspects of the 'Action' component is that it should be implemented immediately. Procrastination will be a destructive force for you.

Another important principle is: you can only improve if you have done what you are required to do today. If you have given 100% effort today, it means you have completed your job or assignment. If you complete a task, you have achieved success in that task. If not, your task has been a failure.

Just imagine that you are asked to jump over a 1 metre drain. But you missed it by 1 centimetre. You fell into the drain. Because you jumped only 99% (1 metre = 100 centimetres).

Imagine that to achieve your goal or objective, you have to do 1,000 tasks along the way. For each task, you give 99% effort. Do you think you will achieve your goal?

In Quality Management, if you have 1,000 components in a product (say a car), and each component is 99% reliable, your product would have a very low reliability rate!

When you put in 100% effort in any activity, however insignificant it may appear to be, you have a success for that activity. A small success will give you confidence to achieve a bigger success. Your small success is training you to receive bigger success.

If you are required to do 20 activities in a day to achieve your vision, and you do each of them with 100% effort, you have 20 successes out of 20. A 100% success for the day. If you do this for 30 days, you would have a successful month. Do you think that you will have a better chance to successfully achieve your goal if you put in 100% effort, rather than 99% effort?

When you put in 99% effort, do you think you are doing well? Maybe yes, compared to the 95% of the people out there who give between 10% to 98%. But compared to your own personal goal (which requires your 100% effort), you are behind. So, if you want to achieve your goal or dream, 100% effort on your part is necessary. Nothing less!

However, do not overwork yourself. You do not need to do 110% effort, for example by doing tomorrow's task today. You need to focus on today's task; to do it at a 100% effort. You also need balance in your life.

If you give 100% effort to the action at hand, and you have your vision in mind as you take action, you will have "power" at your disposal. When your mind and your body are working in unison, do you think you have less, or more, power?

The moral of the story? When you have a vision, and you focus on it, and you give 100% effort to the actions that you are taking, wouldn't you achieve your goal faster?

If you fail to realise the importance of a 100% effort and commitment in anything that you do, you are only disrespecting yourself. Be the person that God meant you to be! Be the perfect creation that God created you! Be the 100% perfect (Zero Defect) person that you know you can be!

I wish you Success in your undertakings and Good Health to you and your family. Take care!