Swift and Decisive - Armour.



That's what you hear in army. That's my vocation. But nah, this blogpost is not dedicated to my life in army. I don't believe that there is anything worth spending brain cells on in army. And by that, I meant true blue army stuff. Its more of the Swift and Decisive I want to talk about, WITHOUT the Armour part of it.



Hmms. After some thought, I realised that I still need to talk about army afterall. But well, as a comparison. Swift and decisive - that seems like something very logical that we always try to achieve. I mean, who doesn't want to do things quickly so that they can get to rest? Both words have a connotation to speed, but swift seems to be a bit more brainless than decisive.



Swift - moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity. In working sense, it just means to work in a very speedly manner.



Decisive - having the power or quality of deciding; putting an end to controversy; crucial or most important, and characterized by or displaying no or little hesitation. That means to be able to decide something in a very quick manner.



I feel that people in this world are swift, but yet not decisive. Many of us wants to do things quickly. When we are working, very often we realise that we are piled up with a lot of work. Many times, its very different things that require our attention. And when we want to clear it fast, as we fear that it would pile, we often get very skizophrenic and very disorganised when we are doing it. We will become, hence, very indecisive. That isn't the way to go about doing work.



People blame that on stress. What gives stress? Is it that large amount of work? Not really. You could always take it in stride. It is more the speed that we force ourselves to complete the work at, and the short time frame that our bosses or even ourselves enforce on us. That gives us stress. Thats why we are not able to complete the work properly! Why must you stress youself out then, you may ask. But thats thep roblem with our society - hectic lifestyle. Being swift is part of our life. But I would say that's not enough. You need to evolve to be decisive.



Decisiveness is on another dimension plane from being swift, intersecting only for the speed that they connotate for. Being decisive means that you are able to make a correct decision at split second. Ok, maybe that's too exggerated, but yeah, the general idea of being fast. Fast is not the curx, correct and proper is. Many people when they lead, they always say that you need to do this do that bla bla bla... in the times of emergency you need to react fast enough.... But very foten. you realise that they are the ones who feel lost at the moment urgency.

Be Decisive. Join the Army <---- That's crap. It isn't really decisive. But yes, you must be decisive.

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