ABCD [Above and Beyond the Call of Duty]

ABCD [Above and Beyond the Call of Duty]

So sorry for the confusion.  This piece is not intended for the Pre-School toddlers as this ABCD is a discourse for ABOVE and BEYOND the CALL of DUTY.  And this is not about the military environment but more about us, how do we go about in our deliverables, whether at home, in school, at work or even in your own business.

Instead, it's all about doing things ABOVE and BEYOND.  In school, do you just prepare for the lectures taught ?  At work, do you just perform a task based on your roles and responsibilities ?  In business, did you just deliver the ordered foods on the table nary anything else, not even a 'bon appetit' ?  And that brings us to a sensitive touchpoint, when we tend to do things JUST ENOUGH and NOT ABOVE and BEYOND ?  Do we realize that by doing and delivering things JUST ENOUGH translates to LOST OPPORTUNITIES which we could have grabbed and leveraged on ?  Too bad, many of us would miss that point by just doing things JUST ENOUGH.

Back in our relationships. are all the breakups and divorces still news fodder? Me thinks it's not anymore.  breakups and divorces seem as trivial as the air we breath but hey, all researches about divorces have confirmed that the #1 culprit is conflict that doesn't get resolved because either party does NOT GO ABOVE and BEYOND but instead, they remain nested in their cocoon.

At work, surely at some point in time, you worked ABOVE and BEYOND but here's the BUT.  Either your boss told you so OR you had no option but to do things that way OR force majeure came into play such that things were beyond your control ?  I just hope I'm wrong with these speculations BUT in real life, this is the harsh truth though.

Why can't be that "OA", that "OVER ACHIEVER" ?  What do we lose by being "OA" ?  Probably you would have exerted some extra joules in terms of the energy spent for that undertaking.  Anything you lost for being "OA" ?  Probably that Xtra push and pressure on yourself to deliver things ABOVE and BEYOND but otherwise, effectively you don't materially lose anything else.  Truth is, by doing things ABOVE and BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY, you are paving the road leading to newer opportunities for you to uncork down the road⏳⏳⏳