There are times when we take so much effort and precaution in doing something perfectly right. We prepare, plan and try to ensure that even in worst case scenarios our plan will work out. And finally during execution it fails – it’s not that the execution was sloppy but it’s just that something went wrong. It might be securing an admission to a college, maybe a proposal that went wrong or maybe even something as simple as planning a journey. When you look at all the effort that went into the task you wonder, “What did I do wrong to deserve this?”
And more often than not others will not know your effort. They would only see the result and the result was that you failed – when something turns out unfavorable who cares what method you tried, who cares whether you painstakingly planned or just tried to get the result through short cuts. They say that the means used to achieve a result is just as important as the result itself but you do wonder if that is true!
Take the case of Sachin Tendulkar – I have been reading about him quite a lot and there have been many instances where he does the bulk of the scoring but unfortunately for him, he ends up on the losing side. And people immediately start pointing fingers at him saying, “He isn’t capable of finishing the match. He should have won it for the team”. Oh come on, the guy has scored more than 50% of the totals runs; do you expect him to score all the runs?
So for those of you who have gone through the pain of having painstakingly planned, failed and then criticized…take heart – you aren’t alone.
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