- You Can Do It!:Believe And Achieve! -
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You Can Do It: Believe And Achieve!
Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain
Presenting four scenarios:1.Nothing to lose and nothing to gain2.Everything to lose and everything to gain3.Everything to lose and nothing to gain4.Nothing to lose and everything to gainIf you are given a chance to pick one, which will it be? By merely looking at the fourscenarios, you would obviously pick the fourth. But let's take a closer look, a look insideall four scenarios by means of illustrations.The first two scenarios are actually the same. This can be likened to a town where theliving conditions of the people residing in it did not deteriorate over time; but neither didthey progress. People may be moving about but somehow, life has not changed orimproved. They are actually losing something that is not visible but real. And that thingis time. Time is being wasted. This kind of scenario or situation does not attractattention; there is nothing spectacular or exciting. What was there five or ten years agostill remains the same. It makes one observing this town feel sleepy because it lookslike a sleepy town with people moving about like zombies.Let's look at the third scenario, everything to lose and nothing to gain. Now, this looksmore exciting, only it feels like falling into a pit. At least, there's activity; but it’sdepressing activity. This can be likened to a financially poor person who suddenly gets awindfall of cash through inheritance or through the lottery. There are countless storiesabout ordinary workers or employees who win the lottery and get super rich. A fewyears later, however, they are back where they started, financially speaking. Some of these people even wind up worse than they used to be, accumulating debts rather thanwealth. Either they were blinded by the huge amounts of cash they came into or theysimply couldn’t manage their money well.The fourth scenario looks interesting and inviting. There was once a person who wasworking as an ordinary employee. He set aside a portion of his salary as savings. He wassaving, not for a rainy day but to use it for a business he intended to put up. In themeantime, he gathered not only savings, but also enough experience related to hisplanned business. Somewhere along the way, an obstacle occurred. He needed to sendadditional money to his family in the province to spend for a sick relative. He dug into
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You must serve as an example in implementing energy efficiency. I think if corporate America is serious about energy conservation; it must start with people at the top and roll down from there to the rest of the executives and employees. In order to accomplish such an important mission as energy conservation every executive and employee has to believe that what he is doing is the right thing. They must practice the same attitude at home and implement energy conservation at home. This attitude will carry on to the workplace. First thing that must be done is, each employee should be asked what has he/she done in their own lives to conserve energy, and than if the answer is positive advance the initiative from there, if not an education process must be implemented to drive the process home once this process has been achieved, it will be easier to get everyone to participate in energy conservation. The motive and behavior has to come from within each individual person – it must become part of a routine practice – it must become a way of life – reducing waste in any form. In today’s rising cost of energy – conservation must become a national theme. Jay Draiman, Energy Analyst