You decide if you are fast enough!
Time is more valuable than money, you can get more
money,
but you cannot get more time
- Jim Rohn
We have our own internal standards to judge our
performance and until we decide, we will not speed up.
I recall an old story which I read somewhere. There
was a tortoise at the backyard of an old dilapidated house. It took three weeks
to move from the garden to reach the rear room. It continued to move and in two
more weeks reached the kitchen. From there it took another ten days to reach
the hall. From there it reached the frontage of the house in two weeks time. It
continued to move and in another ten days, it stepped out of the house and
reached the portico. At that time, the old house collapsed. The shocked
tortoise said `thank God, I moved out of the house quickly! What would have
happened if I had not acted this fast!
The future belongs to those, who are conscious and
sensitive to time and deadline. If you have been working in organisations, you
would have noticed that the time to manufacture a product is drastically
slashed down; the response time to redress customer grievance has come down;
the travel time is coming down.
Over this weekend you may like to explore yourself
and ask the question: `Am I fast enough? How is my speed compared to my competitors?
Can I be faster without sacrificing the quality of my work life?'
(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')
NC Sridharan
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