Early bird

'Early bird always get good food' - this cliché always used by Marketing gurus to attract savvy customers in pushing their products and services.

Early bird catches the fresh and first worm. Opportunities always goes to an early raiser or morning person. They stand a bigger window of opportunity and chance to be at the front runner in life. Having said that, this is not to offend those night owls people. Night person also stands the fair chance to be successful in their works and life.

It is a matter of timing for us to strike the right chance and opportunity to be successful in everything. At times, it is about our ability to dictate and position ourselves at the right time and place. However, most of us must be agree that it is better to be early rather than late because many good opportunities always ready for those who come early.

Rush hour

Traveling during rush hour in the morning and after work can be very frustrating if one don't know what to do. What can you do everyday if you are commuting within Kuala Lumpur bustling central business district? I'm referring to commuting by light-rail transit(Putra LRT), STAR, Monorail, KTM Komuter, and ERL. This is the time where people are rushing to reach their office and afterward back home after office hours.

Imagine if you are spending half an hour commuting to office and half an hour back home with total average of an hour daily. Multiply that with average number of working days, say 20 in a month, how many hours one could spend productively per year instead of just commuting but doing nothing.

1 hour x 5 working days x 4 weeks x 12 months = 240 hours
This translates into 10 days in a year.

Now, assume one starts working at age 25(Malaysian's average age of entry into work force after college) and retires at age 55, meaning working for 30 years. In total equivalent to 300 days(10 days x 30 years) might be just wasted if not use productively.

Ideal things to do to spend commuting time productively:

1. Reading a book in hand is a very good idea if one taking public transport to-and-fro to office and home while inside a capsule of this public metro networks.
2. Planning your schedules for the day - prioritize according to order of priority.
3. Listening to motivational tapes.
4. Relaxing by listening to soothing musics or songs.

Note:

• Productivity.
• Time management - one only had 24 hours daily. Time waits for no man.
• The word capsule is used because LRT normally highly compact with commuters during rush hour.