Tag: take5

Yes I do, don’t you?

Do you need time? I think you do, we all do. If we want to be here a bit longer

Do you need time?

Silly question.

I need time to get out of bed in the morning, due to the amount of obstruction caused by clicking bones and straining joints, yep I’m about to enter into a new decade where I get free medications, and eye tests, so I can only expect things to be uncomfortably rolling downhill from here on in.

But all joking aside it’s good to have time. I’d love to live forever as I do enjoy life but that’s never going to happen is it?

We all have time but to be honest it’s borrowed time isn’t it? As we just do not know what awaits us just around the corner.

At the risk of sounding morose, I’ll up the tempo a tad.

It’s always good to take your time and not be rushed into things, important decisions especially, such as big purchases, investments etc. Take time, think it over. You get the picture.

At work we have a superb safety protocol called “Take 5”. In the past we’ve had too many people, especially the young and inexperienced, who want to impress, rush straight out onto live train tracks only to find they are now face to face with a 2000 ton behemoth freight train bearing down on them at great speed, believe me it’s not a great position be in. New underwear please!

By just getting a bearing on where you are, knowing your position of safety, being aware of the people you need to be in contact with, and establishing a safe method of working, means you live to work another day.

The above paragraph applies pretty much to how life should approached, don’t you think?

I knock my company just like all my other fellow employees do, in fact it’s a well known thing that worldwide we all knock our employers from time to time. But the fact I have worked with them for half my adult life says that things can’t be all that bad.

And when it comes to answering the question “So do you need time?” They’ve got it exactly right, they’ve changed the way we think.

Stay safe, have a lovely day.

Thoughts 13/5/24

What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?

Take 5 – Wait

Again, after discussion with the wife she has pointed out to me that this is an improvement I have self imposed over the years. I have to agree with her that I still use this to this day and I call it Take 5.

My default answer to most questions in the past would be a stern “No” and then I’d go away think about it and then come back to the questioner and discuss it further. I always liked to be creating work for myself going back over things that could have easily been sorted at the point of initial discussion.

However I changed that, and with this Take 5 attitude I can use it almost everywhere. Ask me a question I’ll think about it and get back to you. At work, going out into the unknown onto rail tracks and other dangerous environments I’ll Take 5, am I in the right place? Do I have my safety pack in place? Things such as that. Even out and about with the family I’m also using the Take 5 mantra. There is no need to rush into the unknown or oblivion.

I know most people probably do this anyway, however I didn’t and have made that small change and made significant changes in both my work and home life.

I always remember an old boss years ago telling me, “Put your head into gear before putting your mouth into motion.”

He was right

Have a good day all.