In the morning on Saturday, I was relaxing in my bed as usual, and a sort of laziness was present, and my son did not wish me to be seen as a lazy person. My son forced me to give him company for going to the gym when he said, “Don’t think, just stand up and make a move, be like a machine.”

“You know father, contemplating will take up your time”, my son said to me.

I was made to move and he took me with him to the gym. We had a great time filled with energy. I realized that exercise improves a person’s health and fitness, but it also makes him mentally stronger and healthier.

It’s an Arabic saying that says, “The fit mind is in the fit body”, so if you work out one hour a day, it gives you ten hours of refreshment. Furthermore, I have noticed that the more you exercise, the more you will love and appreciate yourself.

Those four words be like a machine enticed me to write about it and think about it because machines have become a necessity of life and we must become like machines, in our thinking and in our working.

In addition to these four words, I was reminded of two books. The first was the book from Korn Ferry titled the leadership machine. After reading several chapters of the book, I was able to realize that understanding leadership and talent development demands an understanding of the leadership machine. In other words, I could say that leaders are machines, mentally and physically. Elon Musk is one of those leaders of this century, wouldn’t you agree?

The second book, authored by Rolf Dobelli, the book encourages readers to think clearly about their growth and development either personally or professionally.

One of the Indian movies Mazdoor, meaning labourers, with the late Dilip Kumar and Raj Babbar, reminded me of these four words and taught me how the dead machines could be moved into production. In the movie, Dilip Kumar played a motivational leader while Raj Babbar played an engineer, and both worked like machines and became financially independent.

In the economic race, where only the language of money can be understood, one has to think fast like a machine and move fast like a machine to succeed.
You will only have a few seconds between standing up and moving, so you should act like a machine during that time.