Pressure can be the result of procrastination or the moment. Successfully dealing with the pressure of an important moment will help you grow. It will elevate you to a new plateau and strengthen your self-confidence.
Pressure that results from procrastination, however, perpetuates your disrespect for time and keeps you in a rut.
This type of pressure is an excuse for your inability to focus on the task at hand. People try to use “the last minute” as a tool for focusing because they have yet to develop the willpower to focus on their own.
Think about that.
5. It’s Up to God.
I grew up in the church. I love me some Jesus. But I hate these kinds of excuses:
“If God wanted me to be on time, I would have been.”
“It’s out of my hands now.”
And what about this one? “Sorry I’m late y’all…but the Devil is a liar.” (A woman really did say that at a meeting I recently attended!)
That’s just more garbage.
Have you ever heard of a little thing called free will? You should use it to make sure you do whatever you have to do to be on time and to stop wasting time.
The Million Dollar Question: What should you do if you or someone you know is consistently disrespecting Time?
Unfortunately, I don’t have any self-development voodoo that you can sprinkle on someone to make him treat time in a respectful manner. It requires something that people seem to be short on these days—self-discipline.
The only way to develop self-discipline is with resolve and consistency. If you are consistently resolved to respect Time eventually your self-discipline in the area of time mastery will improve.
One of my mentors gave me some guidelines that are very useful:
To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, and to be late is unacceptable. Disrespecting Time is guaranteed to cost you opportunities and relationships.
My philosophy about time is simple:
If you disrespect me, I MIGHT forgive you. If you disrespect my family or my time, we’re done. End of story.
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