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Fix’n To Get Ready

By Will Turner

Many years ago, about 18 to be exact, I learned a very valuable lesson from my boss at the time. As I look back with some experience and maturity under my belt, I realize that this particular boss was not the best for distilling lessons.

Her style was gruff and her leadership skills were a little rough around the edges. In fact, the joke in the office was that she was a pit bull in a dress. But, that being said, the lesson I learned from her is one that I still highly value almost two decades later.

She was a hard-driver so she had a real bias for action, and she expected that of her subordinates as well. To her, it was more important to do something than spend lots of time talking about it or getting ready to do something.

In fact, she would instantly cringe and then unleash her wrath on any employee who came to a staff meeting with excuses, particularly ones that delayed the completion of a project’s action items. If you really wanted to see the veins pulse in her neck, you could throw out the proverbial, “I’m fix’n to get ready to…” or some suitable alternative.

She knew that it was a sign of procrastination for which she had no patience. So what are you procrastinating on? What are you fix’n to do but keep putting off? More importantly, what are you going to do about it?

If it’s something that’s important or needs to get done, stop fix’n and start doing. Today would be good.

© Dancing Elephants Achievement Group 2006