Comfort or Character?

Often people will not pursue an opportunity or make a change because it is more comfortable to keep things as they are and not buck the system or accept the test of their true character in the face of uncertainty.  They hold on to a situation when they need to move on or move on from a situation when challenged.

Being an "Average Joe" who has had to fight, scrape and bleed for everything that I've ever had in the past twenty years, I dare say that if you are reading this you have trouble coming your way. Not everyone looks for trouble but trouble always seems to be looking for you. 

What are you going to do when trouble finds you?  As for me, I will confront it head on since avoiding it will only prolong the situation and make it worse.  I know that I will stumble and I may fall.  But I will not give up. 

That is my advice to you:  Don't let the comfort of what you have always known to be what is known as the status quo keep you for allowing your character to accept and eventually pass the test of a troubling situation.

It is better to have tried and failed than to go through life not knowing what it would have been if you would have tried. 

http://daniel-j-stone.blogspot.com (C) 2009-11

In the spirt of "Kaizen"

Kaizen, the Japanese phrase meaning, "continuous improvement" is the cornerstone of Japanese companies that have gone on to become global powers such as Toyota.  Progress must be spun anyway you can in order to acheive kaizen.  For example, when a food service provider at a small college goes from charging its students full price for the meal plan but serve next to nothing to the students for over the two-week Winter Break to serving box meals over a four-day holiday and overcharging the students with product that the students find undesirable to providing box meals and charging what the aggreement calls for despite the box meals not meeting expectations forcing students away from campus housing, believe it or not, kaizen is taking place.  Why?  The school was charging students for meals and not providing any meals in return to charging students for meals which were provided. 

But, in the spirit of kaizen, more work must be done since the goal is to have 100% occupancy with on campus housing which is more likely to happen when students are having their expectations met.   

http://daniel-j-stone.blogspot.com (C) 2009-11