Lack of Action Is Killing Me

No, I am not talking today about narratives that go on and on without any movement (although this is a frequent problem). Today, it is simply about the action of people in general. I am totally sick of people that do nothing but complain about things not going right and then sitting around and doing nothing about it. You know who I am talking about.

Think about it. How many times do we see organizations with significant problems and all the organizations can do is "form a committee and fix a problem." Now please don't get me wrong. I am all in favor of getting people involved with solving problems. Committees do work. However, if there is something that needs to be done and time is important, we have to get off our butt and get going. I have been and am part of organizations with people like this. Needless to say, in those past organizations, the group simply fell apart and was lost in the dust. The groups I am part of today and I am sure there will be groups in the future will do just the same thing unless they take action.

I think I mentioned this before, but hey, it was a great comment. The man who created USA Today said that he never worried about anything. When something went wrong, he would either fix the problem, or move on. Apparently, we are now living in a society that does nothing about a problem just to be able to complain later about how we were "victims" in all of this.

Don't worry, we can bring this back to writing as well. The writers that are successful out there are the people that just keep moving with their writing. A rejection gives them more motivation to do better. A comment on a rejection gets them asking questions to learn that skill better.

So people. I am a person of action. I don't want to simply talk about it, I want to fix it. If you are someone that simply wants to contemplate your navel and the problem, move out of the way so those of us that want to keep moving can do so.

Scott


Sorry about that, but it was time for a Rant.