"When the time is right
Don't hold back.
Doesn't matter who you are,
Doesn't matter where you've been,
Doesn't matter where you start,
Only matters where you end.
- From the song 'When The Time Is Right' by Griffin House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjBKu7SrPoY

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time."
- Arnold H. Glasow

"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."
- Benoit Mandelbrot

"Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'"
- Johnny Carson

"The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it."
- Ray Kroc

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You must be ready to act when the timing is right.

From the song 'Time Of My Life' by David Cook:

I know this is the time,
This is the time to be
More than a name
Or a face in the crowd,
I know this is the time,
This is the time of my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1h7Ebemjlw

Love sometimes happens at the wrong time.....

“It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.”
― Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?

In this example, he wasn't sure of the timing, but decided to make a proposal. The company loved it. I cannot say with certainty, but his proposal may have caused the company to become interested in what he was proposing.......

"Despite my fears, I composed an email to Gerry Murphy (the CEO)…. “Hi, this is me, I’ve achieved this, I believe that Russia would be a great opportunity, oh, by the way, I speak Russian. Is the country part of your future international strategy?” No more complicated than that, just some cheeky grad trying his luck. I wrote the email, went for a coffee, changed a few words, went for a walk outside..... came back.
...
A day later I received a reply. “Actually Paul, we were considering Russia as an option, how about you come up to London tomorrow to meet Ian Cheshire?” Ian was then the International Director, later to become CEO himself. The meeting went well and I immediately became part of the team compiling a board proposal."
- Paul Drury, "Find Your “20 Seconds Of Insane Courage",
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140925130451-12088091-find-your-20-seconds-of-insane-courage?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_2

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Some believe that the right person could cause others to be interested in something (sweep others off their feet) even though the timing may not be right. Do you agree?

From the song 'Timimg is Everything' by Garrett Hedlund:

When the stars line up
And you catch a break,
People think you're lucky
But you know its grace.

It can happen so fast
Or a little bit late,
Timing is everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJopLsgMR7c

"Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing."
- Stacey Charter

"Like a flower, we blossom when the conditions are right."
― Rita Said

"If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right."
- Francesco Guicciardini

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind."
― David G. Allen

"Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way."
― Fulton J. Sheen

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Sometimes it is clear that it is the wrong time to do something. People may not be interested, the stars may not align etc. Be patient.

Waiting/searching for the right time.....

Song 'The Right Time' by Tom Novy & Veralovesmusic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUzRd1WICYU

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
– Chinese Proverb

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
- Arthur Ashe

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
– Napoleon Hill

"You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions."
- Gary Ryan Blair

"If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have."
- Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

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A big question is: when is the right time? You may never know for sure.

Never early, never late, always on time....

Song 'Always On Time' by Ja Rule ft. Ashanti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tcDXJfAFVw

"Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for."
- Steven Van Zandt

"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor."
- Hesiod

"Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history."
- Idries Shah, Reflections

"The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing."
- Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

“Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.”
― Scott Adams

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Sometimes a risky venture or decision does not work out because of timing. Timing is everything.

Theme for the week 1/24 - 1/30: Timing, which follows last week's topic Risk.