The Importance of Timing

Today once again pointed out the importance of timing as I called to take care of a reservation and was told I was probably calling at just the right time as someone else called yesterday about the same venue but were waiting until today to make the reservation. Often the best of plans are useless due to the timing. A few years back I had a dinner planned with more than 100 reservations. An unplanned snow storm cut the crowd attending down to around 40. With this in mind, it is often a good thing to include timing into our planning when possible. When planning a major event it is good to discuss with all Masonic bodies of their plans for this day. Otherwise, you might end up with your members having to choose which event they will attend and usually this will negatively affect both events. When planning to make a procedural change the timing is also often critical. A few years back in Canada they were looking at changing the tax rates for all business on July 1st. The problem was the election deciding the rate change was on June 30th; definitely not enough time for business to react. While there will always be those things which cannot be accounted for when planning, when possible, timing should be an item which is not overlooked.