Thursday, June 28, 2007

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Do you arrive on time for appointments, meetings, training or other functions? Is being on time a habit with you? Being on time can boost the respect people have for you, and your future success. It is one of the criteria to determine a person had the self-responsibility to being a trainer or mentor in future.

We all know of people who are regularly late. What do you think of them? Disorganized? Uncaring? Self-important? Self absorbed? Unable to perform? The thoughts aren’t positive, that’s for sure!
What do you think the team will think if their leader had a habit of perennial lateness always. I’m not talking about the occasional late arrival—unforeseen situations happen to all of us. I’m talking about people whose lateness is a habit.

We can’t get into why these people are always late. There are thousands of reasons. It’s mystery in life. What we do know is that it is an easy fix. And if you want to be successful in your business, you’ll make a big change—fast.

Perennial lateness inhibits success. It’s annoying. It slows progress. And yes, it is disrespectful. Disrespectful to the mentor, disrespectful to the team, most important disrespectful to oneself. My mentor once told me in 2004: “Being late is one of the most selfish things a person do, it show that this person is not worth for you to focus on, NEXT better player!” Many top leader share that opinion too.

We have a leader meeting fortnightly. We set it at 7am. Huh, why 7am? Because we want to know who is worth focus and grooming them to be a millionaire. “Millionaire never late, late person will never be a millionaire”

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's good advice. I would do well to follow it more often.