Yes you read that right. Get it done. What I mean by this is start making progress and stop waiting for someone else to do your job. There is no “someone else”.
Remember Blendz? A company inside school that is build and lead the IA Senior students? Well, I know there has been very small talk about our company this past months, but truth be told, there has been no progress whatsoever. Of course, the blame is all on us because we haven’t dedicated the time we promised over the summer. Now, a couple of weeks away from the first day of school, we’ve made no progress and only a small amount of us seem to worry about it. If this would be a real business, most of us would already be fired.
Remember Blendz? A company inside school that is build and lead the IA Senior students? Well, I know there has been very small talk about our company this past months, but truth be told, there has been no progress whatsoever. Of course, the blame is all on us because we haven’t dedicated the time we promised over the summer. Now, a couple of weeks away from the first day of school, we’ve made no progress and only a small amount of us seem to worry about it. If this would be a real business, most of us would already be fired.
Here is the problem, many of us, including myself, were expecting that someone else to set up the dates which we were going to meet, the sales, the set up for sales, the due dates for things like the trailer contacts and funding. We have been terrible with our business. Just because it’s summer vacation it doesn’t mean it’s vacation from BlendZ, we’ve invested real money in this real business, and if we don’t work hard on it we won’t reach our vision or be able to support our social responsibility. We all get spoon feed until a certain age, but there comes a time when you learn to take control over your eating, and you can spoon feed yourself. Our situation is no different, in school we are pushed by our teachers and parents to complete our work, but in a business you are your own feeder because you direct your learning, your work, and how much effort you want to give. In a business, no one spoon feeds you, but yourself. The best way to end this habit of letting others feed you is to hold your own reins, guide your way, and take responsibility for your wrong turns.
In our case, we were lucky to have some of our partners, at Blendz, take initiative and stand up to get things happen. They organized meetings on specific dates and made sure everyone would assist. Because of this, I feel ashamed of myself. I feel this inner disappointment because I know I could have contributed on a larger scale, and I didn’t. I remember saying that I would work hard during the summer, and try to give as much as I could of myself to the business. I am being honest, I failed terribly at that, so I’ve promised myself to change. I will take on leadership by learning more about my role and making a list of possible information we could collect in surveys to improve our customer service, and even research cool ways to collect data from customers. I let things fly past me and I did not pay attention. I let my friends do parts of my work. I let my company down.
The time has come, and I need to be honest with myself and take fault for my wrong turns. If I know I’ve failed at something, I tell myself that next time I will do better, and that I will not make the same mistake. And this is exactly what I happening now. I won’t let my company down because I know they need me, as much as I need them. And this company won’t walk by itself, it needs a hard working team to make it work.
The time has come, and I need to be honest with myself and take fault for my wrong turns. If I know I’ve failed at something, I tell myself that next time I will do better, and that I will not make the same mistake. And this is exactly what I happening now. I won’t let my company down because I know they need me, as much as I need them. And this company won’t walk by itself, it needs a hard working team to make it work.
Now that I have come to admit my mistake, I want to say sorry to all my teammates at Blendz. I did wrong, terribly wrong. But I understand my mistake and I will not let it happen again. With that said, tomorrow will be a successful, and I will push myself to be committed--as it’s one of my new year resolutions--and I will stick to my word.
And as always, thanks for reading.
And as always, thanks for reading.