DRIFT

How many of us are often asked to DRIFT? I mean, DO It Right The First Time! And this is so much so heard all the time in every other meeting at work, re-iterated and re-emphasized! The idea behind DRIFT is that management wants all of the processes that make up the Just in time philosophy to be done correctly and efficiently so that there are no delays in the production process. Now, as I mulled over this, something infinitely worse hit me. How can one be right the first time? How does one know that he is right? Nothing can be right the first time. If it is then it is assumed and asserted to be! If somebody says that something is right and it can be that means he has done it before. If someone has done it before how can it be the first time when I do it? In that case things become simpler when he guides me to do it right when I do it for the first time. Am I making any sense at all?

Hence, one can do it right some time when he has perfected the art to do so. And as we know, practice makes it! Rather, “guided” practice does it. But at the end of it no one is perfect and nothing is perfect. So where are we headed? What are we striving to achieve? One is bound to make mistakes consciously or otherwise. And we all learn from it which leads to the betterment of something that we are currently doing. It’s just that one must not stop trying to do the right thing. And one has to stop considering it a problem! There is no problem so big and so complicated that there is no solution. Even a no solution could be a solution in itself. You just never know until you have tried. Triumph against the overwhelming odds. Just bounce back and achieve what has to be, without worrying about doing it right the “first time”! That is all there is to it. Take time to realize that “PROGRESS” is better than perfection and keep moving. One step above. Each time. Every time. You just have to discipline yourself to work on achieving it. What do you think? Does drifting against DRIFT make any sense at all?