The Importance Of Being On Time Revisited
Apr 12th, 2011 by alyoung
It has been awhile since I updated the blog with new information. I’ve posted on Facebook more than I have blogged which is sad because I enjoy blogging more than Facebook. However, blogging does take much more effort and time than posting random things on Facebook. And we all have “friends” like those who post random things all day and night.
Sure there are a lot of crappy blogs that are similar to Facebook posts, but not if you take a little pride in what you blog. I enjoy blogging because it helps me write better and you can put more thought into what you post. Blogging endures over time while Facebook posts are quickly forgotten as it should because there is no substance, just someone posting a status to hear their own voice or informing the world what they just ate for lunch.
Even though I have not posted on my blog for quite some time, I still get a fairly good number of visitors each day. Most people are readers hoping to find something new and end up disappointed or I am found thru Google. My most popular post where I get hundreds of readers thru Google each week is a post I wrote in October of 2007 on The Importance of Being On Time. If you google “importance of being on time”, my post ranks #1.
Rather than come up with new ideas to write about, I will revisit this popular post where I rant about people who are always late and how inconsiderate that is etc… and how we can do a better job of being on time. If you have not read it before check it out. It may convince you to be more punctual and offer you tips to help you improve your on time ratio.
The subject is still timely. At our young family meeting at church, we had an ongoing problem of the meeting never starting on time. It makes it difficult for the planners to have an efficient meeting with stragglers coming in late for nearly an hour. The usual excuses were given about kids and how hard it is to get them there on time, blah blah blah. However as I said in my original post, those are just excuses and it is not the child’s fault but rather the parents for not properly planning and stressing to the family the importance of being on time. To help combat the problem in our group, a fine system was instituted where if you were late you had to pay a small fine of $1-2. It was a light hearted way to stress the need to be on time. Its too early to see if it helps the situation, but as adults we should not need such prodding to simply be on time.
Since I wrote that post nearly 4 years ago, my family situation changed with the addition of a new baby in December 2010. I admit it has been more of a challenge to be on time although it is of no fault of the new baby. Babies are actually easy to be on time with, you just take them with you, they have no choice. Although our family has been on time for the most part, when we are running late it is due to me not planning properly. Either I stayed up too late and tried to sneak some more sleep in or I allowed my other older kids to dilly dally around without regards to getting ready to go. By doing so I condoned placing a lesser priority to getting there on time.
I reread my original post and am determined to make being on time a priority once again. If you are having problems with timeliness, I invite you to read my most popular post of all time for ideas and inspiration
