It is better to practice a little than talk a lot

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‘Empty vessels make the loudest noise’. This expression was continuously used by my former H.O.D Mr Huckle who ramped the corridors of the Marketing Department in search for his next victim to ridicule. We always used to laugh off his remarks, not because he we were empty (hope not!) but because we wanted to seem cool, young and invisible.

The truth is I ended up storing this expression in my ever precious “Thought congested box’ stored somewhere in whatever grey matter left in my head... I often use it whenever someone says something that they cannot back up!

Think of all the great athletes around us the likes of Lionel Messi, Natalie Du Toit, Michael Jordan, and Usain Bolt. Sure enough, these are gifted individuals yet they did not get to be well-known athletes out of merit, they knew that with practice they would not only be able to ‘walk the walk’ but ‘talk the talk’ too.

Many of us are not afraid of succeeding, the only frightening aspect of success is the time spent on achieving our goals. We all have a ‘life plan’ that we set out for ourselves and if nothing happens at a certain planned time we view our efforts as failure. However, the truth is its better to practice a little than talk a lot about nothing.

For nothing is not who we are. But something is what we can make out of nothing.