Time & Tide

It is not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.
A bee is praised but a mosquito is swatted. -Mary O'Connor'
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Hmm.. have you ever felt that everyone around you sometimes seems to have lots of free time on their hands? And while you, yourself, (or maybe it's only Cat) seems to be struggling to cope with your life demands, busy trying to finish work and always on the rush to buy grocery on the way home before the shop closes? In fact, you are doing all this and at the same trying not to go nuts!

Well, when you start asking a question, there will always be other questions following it. For example:

a) Some people always managed to go everywhere (be it to school, work or meeting friends) looking so cool and compose and with a perfectly made up face. While you are always on the run, barely has time to look in the mirror and always arriving somewhere a few seconds late and out of breath?

b) How come some mothers have time to cook breakfast for her children, send them to school despite the fact that they are working? While you, yourself, barely has time for breakfast, grabbing a sandwich or a bun from a 7-Eleven and eating it on the run?

c) Why do some students can hand in their assignments a few days before they are due? While you yourself are struggling till late night trying to finish the same assignments and just managed to hand it over on the required submission date?

d) How do some people managed to read a book a week while others just managed to read one book a year?

e) How do some people managed to handle many businesses at the same time? While others are struggling just to manage a household?

f) How does some of our work colleagues always able to handle multiply tasks and meet deadlines? These so called 'deadlines' should really be really be changed to 'livelines' , don't you think so? (smile) As the 'deadlines? seems to be moving to a new date when the work cannot be finished.

So, again, why are we always so busy when some of the people around us seems to have all the time in the world on their hands? (Hmm..are they really busy? or just pretending to be busy? evil grin :D)

Cat's teacher told cat that the solution is simple and it's a no brainer. Prioritize things and make the time for them. It is about having a goal or a clear end picture. Firstly, find the clear end picture to set as your goal. Then, start planning and follow the plan while looking at the end picture from time to time. Don't spend too much time guessing, assuming..spending too much time in uncertainty. You'll get stuck in one place while others are passing you by.

Food for thoughts :) Ahh.. too much thinking, cat. Maybe cat should have been a philosopher instead of a hotelier :) (grinning). To 'bee' or not to 'bee'. buzzz..