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But the wait<\/em><\/span> continues. So does its partners in rhyme viz anxiety, worry, tension. And what is the return on investment in this case. The IRR<\/em><\/span>( the Internal Rate of Return<\/em><\/span> as it is called) reads negative. It achieves nothing of any value. Unlike if you were to focus, take action, explore, learn.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is said many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there! Whatever happens, do not let waiting become procrastination. The full proverb goes something like this- \u201cgood things come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.<\/em><\/span>\u201d The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations dates it to the early 16th century, some three hundred years before Lincoln’s birth.<\/p>\n Waiting is akin to wasting time. And time is a scarce resource. It is therefore both shameful and painful. Worry and waiting are never the substitute for activity. Imagine if we reduce our waiting and worrying time , the skills we could learn, the work we could ship out, how our mindsets and attitudes can get recalibrated for the much better<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stop. Impasse. Status quo. As is where is. Inaction. Static. None of these words convey anything even remotely called movement, progress , action or resolution. But the wait continues. So does its partners in rhyme viz anxiety, worry, tension. And what is the return on investment in this case. The IRR( the Internal … Continue reading “The Weight of the Wait !”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DONUT-called-Distraction.jpg\")
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