Estimate time

So... how good are you at estimating Time?

I was challenged last Sunday by a question at church. It was a very small piece of the sermon/presentation. But, the question is still lingering in my head... (with prime importance!)

Given a new assignment/project - 'How good are we at estimating timelines?'

Peter Drucker said: If you don't measure, you can't manage. I want to add: If you don't estimate, you can't measure.

- Pause -

let's put the pieces together:

If I don't estimate (time), I can't measure (time);
If I don't measure (time), I can't manage (time).

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I agree and believe with what I heard, estimating time could be one of the most important skills we will ever learn!

say Now!!

For a period of my life...especially while growing up at Muscat, I'd complain of being stuck at home on weekends not being able to do anything. I also remember some point in my life where I decided that I am not going to let this happen to my own lil family (whenever that happens =) )

Last weekend my socially gifted extroverted friend came up with this idea of visiting a mall - like just to hang out. My immediate response was in the negative... but ended up giving in eventually.
We got to this mall with no specific objective and landed up at the kids games section =) What happened in the next 2 hours has escaped my memory. All I know is that I laughed enough to cough. =)

On my way back, I asked myself...
'Would I normally make such a choice of going to a noisy mall on a weekend?'
The definite answer is 'No'.

And I realized it took the 'No' to be a "Now" to make me have a weekend I'll remember for awhile.

Say NoW!  =)