Motivation for the day: If 99% Were Good Enough...

If 99.9% Were Good Enough, then... 

 

• Two million documents will be lost by the IRS this year.

·         22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next 60 minutes

• 1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute.
• 12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day.
• 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly this year.
• 2,488,200 books will be shipped in the next 12 months with the wrong cover.
• 5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flatter than a bad tire.
• Two plane landings daily at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe.
• 3,065 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of the three sections.
• 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.
• 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly this year.
• 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect card holder information on their magnetic strips.
• $9,690 will be spent today, tomorrow, next Thursday, and every day in the future on defective, often unsafe sporting equipment.
• 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written in the next 12 months.
• 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped this year.
• $761,900 will be spent in the next 12 months on tapes and CDs that won't play.
• 107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day today.
• 315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language will turn out to be misspelled.

You can’t go at 99.9% and expect to get the best results – go hard and then go home! It's almost Friday... how will you finish your week: 99% or 100%?