365 Exciting Ways to Live: Excitement # 109. You decide if you are fast enough!

 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

www.thetimefoundation.com

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365 Exciting Ways to Live: Excitement # 101 Money Loves Speed

  Money Loves Speed!

`E=mc² Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared'.

- Albert Einstein quotes

Isn't it true that in real life situation, we convert our time into some product or service of some commercial value? A singer sings, an actor acts, a writer writes. They use their time to produce something of value to others.

So, there is a link between time and an output. But the secret of producing wealth is to enhance the value of every unit of time. The more you produce in less time, the more money you get. This is a fact of life.  People have the same amount of time in a day as they had millions of years ago. A day had only twenty four hours then and now. A minute had only sixty seconds then and now. But, what has changed is the people's attitude to time. They have become restless and want everything immediately.

Just think: why does an air ticket cost more than a train ticket? Why does an express train ticket cost more than an ordinary train ticket? Why does a speed post cost more than an ordinary post? Isn't it because they are faster?

Think: are you fast enough? Are you conscious if someone is faster than you? 

(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live)

NC Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com
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