Late!!! Again!!

Heard over the radio today ... people have been attending talks about the topic. One generalisation reported on radio that I agree totally. One will never be late if you are genuinely interested in keeping the appointment. You are late simply because you are just not bothered. Period .... Be it for an appointment with friends, going for lessons, attending schools, reporting for work, going for dates etc. And most often, blame will be pushed to transport uncertainties, someone holding you back for some matters ... there's always a million and one excuses to justify your lateness (and we know that it can't be true if it happens on more than 2-3 occasions).

Just about last week, as reported in the Straits Times, professional trainers have been earning lots of money while training company staffs in various aspects of professionalism. Rate ranging between few hundreds to $1.5k per hour .... yes! PER HOUR. Apparently, these trainers are in high demand as companies regard these fees as small change when it comes to increase the productivities of their employees. Let's see ... if I work for 30 hours months, I can buy a new car every 3-6 months, or a new bungalow every 1-2 years. Not Bad!!

Amusingly, all these power talks that we have been attending one time or another. Somehow, it had been mentioned before throughout our learning years ... be it in school or from our parents.

Sometimes, I will relay my "Didn't I tell you so ..." logics to my charges who had attended such "power talk" workshops.

Having such negative feelings towards the above, it does not mean that these "talks" do not have values in themselves. They do serve as a good refresher for people as they are journeying through their hectic lives and forgetting the basics that they had experienced in the long past. So, it is good to attend some once in long while, that's when I have to behave against my skepticism.

I had seen school students who were delinquents in school but once they are attending private schools that can mean anything starting from $400 per month, they appear to be more focussed in their learning. Hear it too often from ex-students, school teachers are good and cost next to nothing (for singaporeans at least) but the students come to realise that fact only when they step into the real world. Strange human mentality!