Skills Repeat

In a Minute! Where do the children learn these words? Where do adults learn this concept? What happened to having the natural human instinct which says just do it now? the impulse to really do something immediately because we know it is the right thing to do? I look at my children and with the eldest, if it is a duty as she now understands, the word is in a minute…unless something will be given to her as an incentive! The little one doesn’t have in a minute… she has the natural impulsiveness to do it now!

We had just finished in the park for the morning and whilst I was putting our balls, skates and scooter in the car boot, she started picking a bouquet of dandelions! Weeds, yes, but she adores them. She didn’t notice that it wasn’t the time to do it as we were leaving the park, she did it because she saw an opportunity to gather together something she loves! How often do we see this thought process in a workplace? How often do employees think I will get to that task later as the mindset doesn’t allow us to just do it now with so many reviews, stakeholder engagement, networking, buy-in and risk assessments that we need to do when it could be something as simple as do it now and it will be 80% right!

I have noticed that now I have all of the time in the world to spend with the children, clean the house, do the shopping etc. being a stay- at home mum has meant I look at an obscure job like arranging wardrobes, deep cleaning the kitchen cupboards and I have started to say… Maybe Tuesday, Maybe Wednesday… This is exactly the in a minute culture that causes business delays and businesses to lose opportunity. The time is now! Let’s do this!