In today's environment and the burgeoning need to make money and earn millions, that phrase may longer be valid. Notwithstanding that, I would still like to emphasize that sometimes there could be a great need to wait for tomorrow to do something!
Let's ponder about this for a moment or two. Speeding through things and always being in the mode of trying to get things done is good because you are efficient but whilst being efficient enables you to get things done, you may not be so effective. Okay, I admit I might be over-exaggerating on the bit of being ineffective as more often than not you would be effective along with being efficient if you have exercised due care in whatever you are doing.
My point is should we some times take breaks in between and allocate tasks one day at a time instead of insisting of getting everything now, today, right this moment? You may not know it but today's world that constantly revolves on delivering results within short periods of time has made us into machines that simply demand things on go. In fact it may have even deferred from, "I need it now" to "I need it yesterday" to "I need it months ago!". Has the world become so focused on profit making that all that matters is that we just get things done now so that decisions can made now so that every single cent of profit can be made? Is that all that matters today?
I guess we sometimes forget that if we do take a step back and scan things through one more round before getting something done, we could be better off. For example, sometimes one more reading of the email before you click send points you to a couple of grammatical or typo errors, waiting one more day to buy something off the shelf leads you to realise there is another shop down the road offering the same product at a higher discount or sometimes by some divine fluke you decided to pump petrol the next day and find out the petrol station you wanted to go to got robbed around the time you wanted to pop by to fill up petrol.
Although sometimes certain things do happen beyond your control either by chance or some higher authority above, getting things done and having it now simply may not be ideal. Waiting another day or two really couldn't hurt anyone. At the end of the day, we are not machines that manufacture things at a specific speed, specific quantity and at specific time and we can't discount the fact that even machines fail - imagine us? Humans are prone to fatigue and wrong judgement calls, and yet we are pushed to perform like machines.
So, my grandfather may not have been wrong in delaying matters..... there really is always tomorrow......
I guess we sometimes forget that if we do take a step back and scan things through one more round before getting something done, we could be better off. For example, sometimes one more reading of the email before you click send points you to a couple of grammatical or typo errors, waiting one more day to buy something off the shelf leads you to realise there is another shop down the road offering the same product at a higher discount or sometimes by some divine fluke you decided to pump petrol the next day and find out the petrol station you wanted to go to got robbed around the time you wanted to pop by to fill up petrol.
Although sometimes certain things do happen beyond your control either by chance or some higher authority above, getting things done and having it now simply may not be ideal. Waiting another day or two really couldn't hurt anyone. At the end of the day, we are not machines that manufacture things at a specific speed, specific quantity and at specific time and we can't discount the fact that even machines fail - imagine us? Humans are prone to fatigue and wrong judgement calls, and yet we are pushed to perform like machines.
So, my grandfather may not have been wrong in delaying matters..... there really is always tomorrow......
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