"Underpromise & overdeliver"

Yesterday, I almost missed my flight because Airpeace decided to be "early".

This decision to be early made sense, only if I was there earlier. Because departure time was 7 PM, it only made sense that boarding [according to my ticket] was going to stop at 6:40 PM. So imagine my surprise when I got to the ticket counter to see it empty.

Lol. Dem dey scold me join sef say I come late for 7 PM flight. It's 6:49 PM [at the time of writing this letter] and I am in the air. Do you see the irony?

I became the latecomer.

Why this story?

It's about promises. I am the worst at keeping my promises, and it is mostly because I don't know how to be prompt—not well enough at least. But this experience is going to have me rethink that habit.

When you make a promise, it is important to note that the recipient of said promise is looking forward to the fulfilment of said promise and any other thing is extra they didn't ask for.

When you underpromise and overdeliver, your goal, first, is to deliver the promise. Anything extra is exactly what it is "extra".

And you can't cross the threshold if you didn't reach it in the first place. It can't be overdeliver if you didn't fulfil the least tenet of delivery in the first place.

People cherish people who deliver on their promises, far above those who supposedly overdeliver.

Morning.

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