If you could accomplish anything in the world, what would it be? Would you eradicate poverty and malnutrition? Rid the world of cancer or AIDS? Make the world a greener, cleaner, and more ‘natural’ place? What would you do?
What if we brought that initial question to bear on our Rocky Ridge-Royal Oak community? If you could accomplish anything in our community, what would it be?
In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins explains that – while it’s good to have a great goal – you should not expect to achieve your mission or vision over night. Rather, he describes how the process of achieving your desired results resembles relentlessly pushing a giant, heavy flywheel in one direction. At first, it might seem like you’re hardly making any progress at all. Soon, pushing it gets the flywheel to turn once. With consistent effort, it goes two turns, then five, then ten, building increasing momentum until – bang! – the wheel hits the breakthrough point, and the momentum kicks in its favour. In short, if you really want to accomplish something big, you need to commit to it and invest yourself in it over the long haul.
If you want to ‘push a flywheel’ that will benefit your neighbours and our community in general, please call or e-mail Mike at 239-5210 or mjkuhn@telus.net .
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