Timing is everything

The importance of the right timing for every action is something that one keeps hearing over and over again. This is especially true of ideas. Ideas can be ahead of their times and fail on that account. Or you could fail because someone else took the first-mover advantage and you ended up having to unsuccessfully play catch up.

It is not merely in ideas or in new ventures that timing is important. That which we dismiss as routine is as timing dependent as anything else. In fact, the very word 'routine' means a set of actions that need to be done at set timings. Failing to do them in a timely manner can have equally serious consequences. Just because they are not as glamorous as new ventures, and the failures are not spectacular crash-and-burns, does not mean that they are any less important.

Paruvatthodu otta ozhugal thiruvinai theeraamai aarkkum kayiru - Tirukkural

Doing all efforts in timely fashion is the rope that binds success to you - Loose Translation

You know, in general, it is easier by far to keep track of the big-ticket happenings - in life, business, wherever. It is the nitty-gritty, the things that one needs to do every day, day after day, that is trouble. It is especially true in organizations. I mean, you have hired guys who are all agog to make a name for themselves, make an impression on their bosses. Do they really think that doing this...routine...is where they are going to be hailed as heroes? Routine, by definition, means that doing a good job is taken for granted; and only mistakes come to the attention of the brass. So, the guys who DO get handed the routine are the less...ambitious.

And, yet, routine mishandled can scuttle an organization. If you do not handle your cash-flows properly - recoveries from customers, payments to suppliers, inventory management yada yada - you can go down real damn fast. Established companies do not have an issue normally cos they have put in place systems for all of that. Unless they are badly mismanaged. Start-ups, though...it's just not glamorous enough for the high-fliers to bother about, you see. And, yet, this pesky Tiru...

And THAT also applies at home - managing EMIs, credit card payments, yada yada...you can truly mess up your finances if you fail to pay attention to the routine.

And, thus, if you wish to not just earn but keep your wealth...ALL efforts need to be timely!