i understand the essence & the importance of time the most, having being told that i ONLY had 3 years to live. well.. that was 19 years ago. yes... i had cancer. to be specific i had Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia but now i am okay. Although it had been 19 years since my diagnosis, half of my teenage life was to come to term with it and after going through 'hell'.. it kinda shape up my thinking... that luxury is not measured by money or any tangible items but instead by how much 'time' i have to do things that i want.
Now, 19 years later, i am still in the same predicament. i just simply do not seemed to have enough time to do everything that i want to do. we only have 24 hours in a day.. or 31 days in a months (or worse 28 days in a month in February). that is a fact and nothing can change that, even if we want to extend an extra hour in a day, we simply cannot.
If we lost a thousand ringgit today, we can always work harder tomorrow or save more in the future to recover the lost thousand ringgit. But if we lost an hour today... it is simply gone forever...!!!!!
With 24 hours aday, i had to have enough sleep and wake up as early as 6am to run daily as part of my get healthy 2008 new year resolution (yaa we all have resolution), write and complete my book that i targeted to launch next year, manage my 40 odd fasfik branches, make sure that my proton sales dealer achieve my target sales and most importantly, spend quality time with my love ones. Time is so scarce with so much to do.
It is base on 'time' that my Fasfik concept was developed... or at least one of it. Before i established my Fasfik workshop. I always relate my experience when i sent my previous BMW to the BMW workshop in Glenmarie after making a 9am appointment a week in advance, to be told that the car will be ready in the afternoon and when i came back in the afternoon, i was told that the car was not ready and to come back again later. Similarly with Mercedes. every appointment that was made a week advance will require a whole day without specific time of completion. That is why, i specified all timing for Fasfik principal products and services which is prominently display on a 42" plasma TV located at the entrance of every Fasfik outlets ala flight departure schedule at the airport. the plasma tv display the time the job is expected to began (incase there is a long waiting/que) and the time the job is expected to complete.
It is also because of 'time' that i never took up golf... i only have 24 hours in a day and i have other priorities... the most urgent priority now, is to ensure the success of Fasfik and to complete my book.... my book will provide an insight of the mind of a terminal cancer patient.. for those who wants to understand the predicament of their family members or relatives or friends who are suffering from a terminal cancer or undergoing major operation such as the Bone Marrow transplant that i underwent in 1990. i plan to launch the book next year, the 20th anniversary since i was diagnosed. Proceeds from the book will be channel to a cancer research such as MAKNA or Majlis Kanser Nasional.
But the most important factor about 'time' is how we spend it. If we win a RM1million lottery today, i am sure we all know where to shop and what we can do with the RM1m but here we are... gifted with 24 hours a day but do we really know how to spend our scarce 24 hours aday.
if we spend our time productively at work, we will be well rewarded (in bonus, promotion or incentives), if we spend our time attentively with family, even an hour or less, they will feel much appreciated. if we spend an extra few minutes listening to our customers/family/friends predicament, they will feel better. If we spend a few moment to pray, our prayers will be heard. If we spend a fix quality time daily to exercise, we will be healthier
The truth is, whatever problem anybody is facing.. is all related to time.
Everybody... Well 90% of people anyway, wastes precious time. I think the issues are bad time management or as some call it, bad relationship with time.
ReplyDeleteMost who experience this, know that they have this problem, but don't know how to go about fixing it.
That's most probably because they don't have anyone to model after... since they're probably surrounded by others who have bad relationships with time. "monkey see, monkey do"
... Are we all doomed?
you are right but bad time management means there is some appreciation of time management except that it was not the most effective way.
ReplyDeleteMost people did not realize the importance of 'time'.. with the thinking that there is always tomorrow. the realization that time is so scarce that there is only 24 hours in a day... and if there is no tomorrow.. i dont think anybody would want to even sleep.
sadly, many dont appreciate time as much as they appreciate money. if they are robbed of 1,000 today, they will cry and probably cursed the robber for life but if there lose 1 hour today.. they just dont care...
true that... I'm now running on a theory if we make full use of every hour that we have, then there will be lots of money coming our way... as a by-product of our hard work....
ReplyDeleteI'm still puting that theory to test... Cant say for sure it that theory is true or not, since I'm still broke
what say you?
It's great you are able to trace your personal growth so clearly. It's great you were a young man full of dreams and ideals who understood his possibilities and what can be done. It's not cynism, it's just understanding. You can't help people sitting down with them and living the same life, you just change style and abdicate your origin. It can be good if you have lost yourself and don't know where you belong, then you can find another dimension but I think it only works for some people. The others, most of the people, are the children of their own place and time and their contribution can be important in the way different points of view are important in developing strategies and improvements. Indeed reality is how you perceive it, maybe there is no such thing as reality. If you understand this, and you understood it and you have a powerful key to success and happiness, you can feel as a part of the universe and at peace with it. Your life are very energetic and full of colours.....
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Silverfoxen,
ReplyDeleteis your theory doing well..?
if it doesnt, dont give up. It may take time but trust me, if you enjoy what you do and you enjoy and you spend your time wisely, the money will will be there... but you have to have the passion.
Jasminelady,
ReplyDeletethank you. i did not check comments posted. abit new to blogging. but you are right, you cant help people by sitting with them and living the same life. In fact you cant change people if they dont want to. what is important, is for anybody to have a turning point. to realise what they are and and perceive reality differently. this was the paradigm shift that i experienced when i was diagnose to have leukaemia.