Many of us give little attention to ‘’ minutes ‘’ we have in a day.
A minute is a vital instrument for success, the way you spend your time will eventually determine what you have by the end the year. Minutes are more like pennies, the more pennies you put together the more dollars you accumulate.
In a day we have 24hrs and 1440 minutes, but only one single minute can change your life forever. Okay let’s get an example. If you have unprotected sex with an HIV/AIDS infected person with in one minute you will be a victim too. So this minute will have defined all the other hours you’re going to spend on earth.
According to my experience, every achievement I have acquired in the past 25 years is based on respecting a minute.
So how can a minute become very important towards your success? The answer is very simple, ‘’decision’’. To make a decision takes a minute, to act on that decision takes a minute too , hence making one minute very important towards success.
Ask you’re self, why some people earn 50 lacs per year while others earn 5 lacs per year. It’s because these people spend their minutes differently. And what’s amazing the one who earns 5 lacs a year works a lot more than the one who earns 50 lacs a year.
In my profession all these small things play a very vital role. My latest project is an online classifieds and yellow pages. Now we all know the importance of these two things for any business. Placing an advertisement in any of the two takes not more than 5 minutes. Am meeting atleast 5% of the advertisers myself so that i will know what people expect more from such services.
Lemme give you an example of how few people waste others time. We fixed an appointment with one of the doctors who showed interest in placing the advertisement in our yellow pages. This particular doctor gave me the appointment for 17:30 hrs PRECISE…. but he came to his own clinic at 1800 hrs… now… i know doctors are pretty busy people. To finish a five minutes discussion he took over 150 minutes (not because we were discussing but he was busy in handling his patients, mind you they were not serious cases, they could have waited). By now I had wasted my precious 180 minutes. We had to schedule the meeting for the next day as he didn’t had the photographs for the advertisement. DAMN.. Why the hell then u wasted my time?
Respecting his profession I excused him for that… see am so generous As per appointment I reached his clinic at 0930 hrs sharp but he didnt showed up till 10 am. Finally after giving him a call and being adviced to sit in his clinic for few more minutes i waited for an hour but he didn’t turn up… NOW… I called him once again and he said that he was so busy but he took out time to leave from his another clinic to meet me but for another case he had to return back, in the meanwhile he lost business from one patient. Instead of accepting his own fault he blamed me for his business loss. I would have shown him the loss that I made in 180+90=270 minutes, if he was sensible or responsible enough.
I meet atlest 5 new people everyday but most of them work to earn for themselves, but I invest the same amount of time on my services which give earning potential to thousands of our subscribers. So, who’s time is more costly, Mine Or Theirs?
This topic is not actually about my or your time. It’s about OUR time. The way we manage our time will make the whole difference.
It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations).
What is this principle? 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
What does this mean?
We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us.
We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic.
We have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%. How? ……….By your reaction.
You cannot control a red light. but you can control your reaction. Don’t let people fool you; YOU can control how you react.
Let’s use an example.
You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have no control over what just happened.
What happens next will be determined by how you react.
You curse.
You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus.
Your spouse must leave immediately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30 mph speed limit.
After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home.
When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter.
Here is what could have and should have happened.
Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, “Its ok honey, you just need to be more careful next time”. Grabbing a towel you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you are having.
Notice the difference?
Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different. Why?
Because of how you REACTED.
You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens. The other 90% was determined by your reaction.
Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 principle. If someone says something negative about you, don’t be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You don’t have to let the negative comment affect you!
React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc.
Many of us give little attention to ‘’ minutes ‘’ we have in a day.
As per appointment I reached his clinic at 0930 hrs sharp but he didnt showed up till 10 am. Finally after giving him a call and being adviced to sit in his clinic for few more minutes i waited for an hour but he didn’t turn up… NOW… I called him once again and he said that he was so busy but he took out time to leave from his another clinic to meet me but for another case he had to return back, in the meanwhile he lost business from one patient. Instead of accepting his own fault he blamed me for his business loss. I would have shown him the loss that I made in 180+90=270 minutes, if he was sensible or responsible enough.
