17th June 2011
"The time is always right to do what is right."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's wiser to invest time in doing instead of in undoing...
Time is a precious resource and we should be intelligent in investing it prudently. The most precious resource, time, should produce high value result. Since time is also a scarce resource, we should ensure that it is not wasted. We should ensure all the available time is used as productive time.
One way to ensure this is use time to produce results and not for undoing what has been done wrongly. I'm sure you would have gone to tailors to alter your dress and noticed that they are reluctant to do repair works but most willing to stitch a new dress. Similarly architects are happy to build a new house and reluctant to alter an existing house.
This principle applies in managing our life also.
We should invest time in building healthy rapport and relationship instead of repairing damaged relationship. If we are careful and intelligent, we can avoid quarrels and fight. Like broken glassware, once broken it is impossible to mend relationship. Moreover, we will end up going through lot of tension which will produce negative emotions which will slow down our pace of work besides eating into our time.
Similarly, we should spend time in developing good habits instead of getting into a bad habit and spending time to get away from bad habits. It is also wiser to spend little time everyday to keep fit rather than falling sick and spending lot of time to get back to good health.
Over this weekend, can you reflect how much time you wasted in trying to undo something rather than producing happy outcomes?
N C Sridharan
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