This weekend I was talking to my mentor and discussing about my plans, I had committed to my manager for a deadline and am left with a very few days, I’m not sure if I will meet my deadline. While she shared with me a few strategies on what can be done to meet the schedule, how do we motivate people who roll up to us to execute the plans and so on… as usual ended the conversation with another beautiful story which I am blogging now to share benefits with you all that I derived from this story.
She told there are three insects that inspires her every time in a touch situation, especially when we may have to start things all over from scratch… She liked the bees because if a bear breaks their nest and steals their honey, they keep on building their honeycombs, making more honey. And she liked the ants because if the same bear destroys their nest, they also immediately start building their nest anew, working together for a common goal. And the spiders she liked because if their webs are destroyed, they start repairing the damage right away - or building a whole new, better one.
She said the lesson she had learned from these little insects was that the world may surprise us sometimes by destroying even our most carefully built plans, but if we choose to be ready to start all over again no matter what, eventually we shall achieve great results. We shall just have to start again, one step at a time.
Remember… just because you did not finish does not mean you will not finish at all.
