Sunday, January 2, 2005

Happy New Year...

Greetings to you this Monday morning…
I started sending out my Monday emails; over 4 years back…and till recently I was very happy with my consistency and commitment towards my Monday emails. Over the last 3 weeks though, travel and work pressure has taken its toll and resulted in me not connecting with you all on the previous 3 Mondays.
I am extremely grateful to all those of you who actually called me / emailed to find out if things were OK at my end……
To me your calls and messages meant a lot. Firstly they confirmed that you do read my emailsJ. Secondly, the Monday emails do mean something to you as you missed them in your mail boxes and most important, you took out time to call / email me to find out if I was OK. Thank you indeed.
This experience has reinforced in my mind the well known principle that consistency is vital. To make a positive and long standing difference, one has to consistently keep doing things that will create the difference.
Remember Narendra Hirwani? A specky leg spinner who came out of the blue with a dream spell to capture 16 wickets in one test match. Now, that’s brilliant. But what next? - We hardly saw him on the international arena after that. And now pitch the same player against a Kapil Dev or a Anil Kumble and the difference is stark.

While once in a while brilliance is good, consistency has a sense of solidarity. Without consistent performance we won’t make a significant difference. Consistency is the key to achieving long lasting positive effects of any good work.
As we begin the New Year I wish you the very best in everything positive that you do and I hope you sustain your positive new year resolutions with consistency.

We all have read the statement - “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step”. That step needs to be taken again and again and again.. with relentless consistency to cover a thousand miles……

Have a great year and a peaceful 2005 !!

With best wishes,
Sudhanshu Pandit.

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