The Best Time to Plant a Tree
According to a Chinese Proverb, “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best is now.” How often have you found yourself wishing you had started something much earlier than you did; that you had given yourself more time to do a better job or to get a better result? “With an earlier start and more time”, you reflect with regret, “I would have had so many more options and wouldn’t be scrambling so much as my deadline approaches.” And yet, this is not the first time you’ve found yourself in a last-minute rush to get something done…you’ve been here before. Haven’t you?
So, wouldn’t this be a good time to ask, “When is the best time to establish year-end goals and begin to meet them?” In the last quarter, or the first? When there is only a month or two left, or eleven?