DOING THE WRONG THING AND EXPECTING THE RIGHT RESULTS

Stephen rushed home one evening and turned on his TV set but all efforts proved futile. He was getting impatient because he has managed to convince his co-workers to watch his favourite football team thrash out their arch-enemy in the final league match. 

The cheerful smiles on his face rolled away and vanished in a jiffy causing him much frustration and anxiety. He was wondering what could be wrong with his TV set. Stephen could not contain the embarrassing moment as all eyes popped out of their sockets and fixed on him. 

"I don't really know what the hell is happening in my house!" he exclaimed. "This has not happened to me before. These machines are always working but I can't simply figure out the problem". 

 

In his frustration, he called his wife from the kitchen and wanted to accuse her for messing up the set up in his room. 

"Stephen!", his wife, Lovelyn, called with an infectious smile as she walked towards them after watching her confused husband for a while. "I did not mess up the set up. Everything is always in order in our home", she said as she still smiled. 

The smiles on the face of his wife crippled Stephen's thoughts. He could not simply understand why his wife should be smiling happily in the mists of his frustration and embarrassment before his co-workers. She came closer, threw her hands on his shoulders and said, "You were using the wrong TV remote control". 

Lovelyn picked the right TV Remote Control and turned on the TV set. Stephen heaved a deep sigh of relieve as his friends continuously teased him. 

                                         7 QUICK LESSONS

1. You cannot live your life with another manual and control system and expecting results. 

2. You are unique like each brand of TV set; identify your unique manual for your life. 

3. You cannot expect much success in the year 2014 with the same old principles, manuals and control systems that hardly worked in the year 2013. 

4. Hard work with the wrong vision and manual with not always lead to targeted results but frustration. 

5. Don't just start something because you are familiar with it; you can easily miss it (the wrong TV remote control). 
6. You cannot do the wrong thing and be expecting the right results. 
7. If you don't like outcome of your actions, then pause and check the inputs. Garbage in, Garbage out!