Flip the coin again!

Flip the Coin

Once a leader noticed the inability of his subordinate to take a decision which would turn his life. Leader knows the potential of the boy. Like any other person this guy is afraid of failure. A failure which can make his life adverse. Leader simply told him, ‘ If you cannot make a decision just flip the coin.’ Immediate question was ‘What if I go wrong?’. Leader suggested with a smile of confidence, ‘Flip the coin again!’.

This short story carries a big message which can be a good lesson for many of us. Indeed this can change ones life. Most of us fail to make a decision. We don’t want to move ahead from the point of making a decision. We are afraid of the adversities about to face. All the day we wanted to play a safe game. But, it is time to realize! It is important that you take a decision rather counting odds and making no decision for years. Things may go wrong. We may be into adversity. Sometimes  we may be fired. Still there is a possibility of adjustment which will let us rebound. An elderly person suggested, ‘ Focus more on what you can get done than on what can go wrong.‘

This business story resembles Robert Frosts famous poem ‘The Road Not Taken’. Frost, in the poem spends till the dusk at the point of decision making. Finally, realizes that he has to go ahead. He takes up the less trodden path and exhibits the quality of a leader who thinks different.

Recollecting the last stanza of the poem :

Robert Frost

‘I shall be telling this with a sigh

Some where ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.’

Looking into the first stanza of the poem:

‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth’

Second and third lines of this stanza gives a clear cut idea of what I am on. I can not take both the roads and it is equally important that I should be one traveler.

At the age of twenty life is flexible. We have the potential. We can adjust even if it goes wrong. Then, why are you afraid of deciding a road for you?