Do you have time?

Lack of time is the biggest excuse for anything we are not willing to do. Powerful thought. Recently, one of the team members failed to take an important update from the project manager resulting in a communication gap.

"Why din't you take the feedback as a part of our routine practice?", he was asked. "I was busy with some other work and had no time to take a feedback from the project manager", came the response.

How many times do we skip our meals because we had a lot of work? How many times did we fail to be with family when we were needed because of work? How many times did we sacrifice things that matter the most to us for work?

The "no-time" excuse may work for time consuming tasks but for simpe and mundane tasks like taking feedbacks and communication with the peers "no-time" excuse is surely not acceptable.

Sure, there are crises and difficult situations when one has to forget everything and complete the work. But these situations are usually not routine. They are exceptions and have to be managed in a different way. They are temporary.

If one is really willing and motivated to do something time is generally not an problem. We always have ample time to do things we really "want" to do.