Okay.. Just let me be the bad guy for a moment alright.. Bare with me, and I hope you guys will learn smth out of it.. I'm gonna build on the issue on LATENESS.. Something I felt that is a problem in the cell grp. Just think thru for a moment, you guys might just agree. One question I would like to post to you guys.. Why can't we always start the cell grp meeting on time or to meet at the expected time?
You guys gotta know that Time is a common yet very precious commodity for humans. Every sec that past can never be reversed and or to pay back. Every sec you wasted, meaning one sec of life had been wasted. Perhaps you guys had never thought about it in this way, but I really hope after this post you guys will have a renewed mindset. I think the problem why people are always late is because they failed to have a good sense of time management. Time management is a big issue in commercial world which is the marketplace! Many things, business, deals build or break because of it. Just being late, will cost you your very job in future! Okay, just wanna bring it into Cg term. Let me be very frank. If you guys are always late, how can we have a cg that starts on time? or to meet at the expected time and go book good seats for cg(ps: you cannot always count on the few members that are faithfully helping to book the seats, and give yourself an excuse to be late!)?
Okay, I'm gonna go into the issue called the accountability for being late. So what have lateness got to be relate to accountability? Okay let me say that by having this in your life will help you make the life of the helpers and the CGL easier and saving their phone bills, speaking of being a blessing to the leaders. Why? If we can all initiate to inform the leaders of where we are or what time are we gonna reach, we can start the meeting earlier while waiting for you to come (it's fair as you are late right?). One thing i noted from every CGM is that we are always waiting for members to reach before we can start the CGM. And this waits are always very long, sometime more than an hour? I think that it's quite unfair to those who make a effort to reach on time or even early. I'm not against those who had things on before hand that will cause them to be late, I'm more concerned for those who are constantly late for no particular reasons.
Alright, so what does it mean to be accountable when being late. So here's a case study: So it happen that you are late because you ended sch late, what should you do? Dun wait for Cheryl or yinghua or the helpers to call or sms you to check where are you. You sms them FIRST telling them where are you and the reason why you are going to be late and then what time will you reach! This build accountability. At least they know what's happening and able to continue to plan what to do next. It ease their life, trust me i know it does. And the last thing we wanna see is that a certain member who is late, being happily late, refused to tell the leaders, and Dun pick up call, dun reply sms. And then happily appear at the meeting after one hour of lateness, not knowing he/she wasted 1 hour of the members time. (opps, is this situation very familar? haha) Okay here's a tip on what to do when you are struck in a situation when you feel that you gonna be late, no matter will you really be late or not, just sms YH, JJ or cheryl.
Let me start talking about Time Management. Ok, this is very tough topic to handle as it defers from one to another. For this, i will share about how I manage my time, and how I can always be early not not late.. Okay, I'm a very time conscious guy, which i think everyone such be. As time is too precious to be wasted, and it's worst wasting the time of another person. This is what i do every time when i got to go meet up with someone or to go to a meeting be it cgm or service. Let's say the Cg meeting is at 5pm. And I will start planning, for me i need at least 1 hour(over-estimated) to wash up and dress up. And I will estimate how long to go to the place (this include walking time, bus buffer time, and the trip. Normally what ppl does is that they only think about the duration of the trip and forget the rest, ending up being late). I normally OVER-ESTIMATES the time i need to go to the place.. So I will have grace if i reach before my estimated time, as it's always better being early than late!
Okay another thing is that, I learnt it from Pastor Ming as he shared his experience with Dr. John Avanzini. He went to fetch Dr. John at his hotel, thinking that he reached on time and he saw Dr. John already waiting for him at the lobby. When Dr. John saw him, he said to Pst Ming, "you are late!". Pst Ming was shocked, Dr. John then told him this that I stick to these 4 years, he said, "being on time means late already! 5 mins earlier is just being on time! 15 mins earlier is being early!" Even for Pst Kong, he make it a point to be at least 10-15 mins earlier, when he have a appointment with someone. I hope you guys will apply this principle into your life too, and you will see yourself always on time and not be late.
I hope this entry will be blessing to you, and hope you guys had learnt something. Sorry for the long entry though, and i tried my best to shorten it le.. My control of my language is still not there yet bah... haha.. thanks for reading thru.. =)
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