Time! I don’t have time! I don’t have enough time! Hurry up! Time is of the essence! Stop wasting time! You can’t reclaim your time! This project is taking too much time!!!

I cannot do a good job, it will take too much time…

Ever heard/said these words?

I have. Over and over and over and over from others and in my own mind. What is the big RUSH? We need time. Time was made for us. It will not run out. We are not living against a timer set to go off if we don’t ‘finish in time’.

Good work takes time. It takes time to think, to plan, to do a task and to do it well.

Living against the time machine causes us to cut corners, do inferior work, use inferior tools, make inferior product, treat people less importantly, treat ourselves less valuably and on and on and on…

Practically every job listing states…’fast paced environment’! Why even say that? How about, ‘quality workmanship required here’?

To do your work well, to come up with good ideas, to think of ways for improvement, it is going to take time! We have got to stop feeling guilty for taking time and using it in a good way. We all work at different paces; however the emphasis needs to be on good, quality workmanship. It’s not wrong to do something, not like it and do it again…better! That is not wasting time!

Another saying…’a job worth doing is worth doing well’. and it takes time to do it well.

Don’t regret the time it takes for your good work. Concentrate on the work and your effort. Time will take care of itself!

• What time restraints are you putting needlessly on  yourself?
• What tasks do you need to slow down to thoroughly complete?
• What condemning thoughts need to be dismissed in relation to your time?

I am asking myself these same questions.

Let’s labor ahead together to do good work, taking all the time needed and feel good about the product we are producing.