The human being's most important gift is his life. Unfortunately, it is given him only once to live. With that one opportunity comes the only opportunity he will ever have to dream, pursue his dreams and reap the rewards of his endeavours. No one has eternity to achieve his goals. From birth, life becomes an undeclared race against time.The wise human being must therefore come to terms with his mortality. Coming to terms with one's mortality means that one ought to live each day as if it were the last, and if you live each day as if it is your last day one day, whose date you know not, it will be true. One of the greatest impediments to your achieving your goals that you will ever face is spelt INTERRUPTION.
Interruption is so important that it merits your serious attention and consideration. It may be the difference between you living a fulfilled life and dying with dreams unfulfilled. It may also be the difference between you being a very productive and achievement oriented individual, and being a social loafer who never gets anything of note done. A study done in America estimated that yearly the USA economy loses as much as 538 billion dollars to interruptions at work. Yes, you read right; 538 billion dollars. That is many times the GDPs of most developing countries for whom a GDP of a mere 50 billion dollars remains a pipe dream. Furthermore, the same study reported that on average working people receive one interruption every eight minutes, and between six and eight interruptions per hour. In an eight hour working day this rate of interruptions adds up to approximately 60 interruptions. Minor interruptions can take up to five minutes while major interruptions can consume as much as 15 minutes and sometimes even more. An employee who suffers 50 interruptions per day, with each interruption lasting eight minutes will lose 400 minutes of productive time. And that is a good six hours out of eight working hours. Interruptions, therefore, have huge consequences and implications to both the individual and the society.
