Time to move the needle  

It’s very important to see if we are engaged in action or gossip and in what proportions. If we are indulged in too much gossip, it’s time for some introspection.

Action, sustained action, over days, weeks, years takes us in the direction we want to go and moves the needle, bit by bit. With gossip we are spending time debating/discussing if someone else’s needle moved and by how much.

The below quote by Theodore Roosevelt says it better -

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

I have nothing to add. Time to move the needle.
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आपण कृती किंवा गप्पांमध्ये आणि कोणत्या प्रमाणात गुंतलेले आहोत हे पाहणे खूप महत्वाचे आहे. जर आपण खूप गप्पांमध्ये गुंतलो असाल तर काही आत्मनिरीक्षण करण्याची वेळ आली आहे.

कृती, सातत्यपूर्ण कृती, दिवस, आठवडे, वर्षे आपल्याला ज्या दिशेने जायचे आहे त्या दिशेने घेऊन जाते आणि सुई थोडी-थोडी पुढे सरकते. गप्पांमध्‍ये आपण इतर कोणाची सुई हलली का आणि किती यावर चर्चा करण्यात वेळ घालवतो.

सुई हलवण्याची वेळ आली आहे.