TIME:
Taking Into Moments Everything
What does TIME mean to
you?
Whenever the word TIME is mentioned, so many things and meanings come to mind
but incidentally time would not permit me to have it all listed.
a.
Race
against time;
b.
The
time is always right to do what is right (Martin
Luther King, Jr.);
c.
There
is time for everything (Thomas Edison);
d.
The
greatest resource is your time;
e.
Time
waits for no one;
f.
Time
is money;
g.
A
stitch in time saves nine;
h.
Time
flies, it is up to you to be the navigator (Robert
Orben);
i.
We
must use time as a tool, not as a couch (John F.
Kennedy);
j.
Your greatest resource is your time
(Brian Tracy); are just a handful of the phrasal and idiomatic expressions
denoting its wide-range usage.
From these above, what matters most at every point in one’s life is how
well every moment is cherished which could be determined by how well one spends
one’s time. The essence of TIME cannot be overemphasized, as it isn’t unique to
anyone. Every 24 hours is the same added day given to all living humans to
plan, complete a given task, expectations and self-target or ambition.
But what then is the difference? On this note I would say it is how time
is spent by one which could be measured by ones level of fulfillment in the success
or attainment of a pre-planned activity irrespective of what such activity is,
including having a nap as well as one’s attention to details the TIME allotted
to various ongoing tasks.
Interestingly no individual has the rare privilege of having more time to
oneself and vice versa.
Moreover, no matter how good an individual is at completing a task and
delivering to what is expected of one, the timeliness of such would sum up ones
efficiency and perhaps indispensability for as long as such time-consciousness
and expected output standard is maintained at the highest level.
But these all said, the million dollar question is what could drive the
materialization of timeliness in production in all spheres? Respecting time,
seeing time as one’s life for without time there is no life. In such, like a
colleague of mine once said, “life + time = Lifetime”. The mathematics of
Lifetime exudes the inseparability of TIME from humans.
Making TIME a factor of production: Economics, one of my best subjects in secondary school, stressed the
essence of production and the need for the production factors to be closely
considered in meeting the goods and services produced. The essence of these factors
of production; Land, Labour, Capital and Entrepreneurship with their respective
rewards being Rent, Wages/Salaries, Interest and Profit cannot be
overemphasized.
But in as much as these cannot and should never be taking for granted, I
opine that there is a missing factor that has long been underemphasized and
interestingly taken for granted. Time!
Time being a factor of production would further provide attention given
to production and ensure that hitches in meeting production timelines are
brought to the barest minimum. These production handicaps include the African
time syndrome (a regular excuse for pardon in the delay of producing or providing
goods and services); avoidable handicaps by government like bad roads and
transport networks, as well as the recurrent delay in the discharge of services
in government parastatals and agencies; Minimal labour with maximum output
expected to mention the very least.
On bad roads, if the time spent in traffic is closely thought of, then
one can imagine how productive one would have been if such wasted time is put
to good use. The Poem ‘Lagos Traffic Jam’ summarises what a horrific
traffic experience feels like.
If a given goods and services produced and rendered respectively aren’t
timely delivered, such could be a big blow in keeping customers, satisfying
customers and create a big vacuum in getting new customers due to the delivery
trust gap created.
With time closely considered and given a serious level of attention,
production would be maximally attained across board and delivery trust would be
strengthened.
Think productivity, think TIME and then Efficiency (the projected reward
for time as a factor of production) would always be attained.
