It amazes me how few people seem to truly understand the importance of proper scheduling.  I’m not just talking about your own personal schedule and calendar, but the overall effect improper scheduling can have on others.  Say for example, you are scheduling a very important meeting, or training session for peers in your company or business.  If the time commitment is great enough, say a full day or more, then you should send out the invitation and subsequent notifications no less than three weeks in advance.  You may be wondering where I cam up with the three weeks.  As a business manager, employees submit their vacation time and appointment schedule to me a minimum of two weeks in advance, special circumstances aside.  I also tend to have my calendar pretty solid up to eight business days out.  Three weeks allows me to look far enough ahead so as to inform my crew and customers that I will not be available on that day or days.  Look, some people purchase airline tickets months in advance and expect to see the airplane fueled up and ready to go on the day and time they chose.  Sure you can walk into an airport and purchase a ticket a few hours before your flight, but it will cost you.  A very similar cost can be expected should you schedule a training or meeting last minute.  It will likely be ill attended for starters and those that do make it will likely be preoccupied with their own business as they didn’t have time to fully prepare for your meeting.  Lastly, it is nothing more than professional courtesy which seems to be drifting away, one new electronic devise by one new electronic device.  Happy Wednesday.  #stuckintraffic #booksigning #myaumakua #aloha