be punctual

I am getting pretty good at this. If I don’t get there early it’s because I looked at the clock and chose to do something else instead of leave, not because I wasn’t ready on time.

And I can mark off this goal when I’ve done it straight for the first two weeks AND I feel confident that I’m strongly in the habit of it.

Classes start Monday. I WILL be on time. I will get ready fifty minutes before I have to go. I’ll have eaten breakfast already; all I have to do is get dressed and groom and pick up everything I need for that day, which I’ve set out the day before, (including my clothes). I’ll leave at least thirty minutes before class starts and in doing so I’ll be fifteen minutes early. I’ll have a book to read. It will feel so good being early instead of late! I bet I won’t be nearly as anxious and I’ll actually get the work done! Hooray for me!

I’m going to be at least fifteen minutes early for everything for ten days before I mark this goal as completed. Let’s start now, I’ll put out everything I need for the morning. Then I’ll write a little quick schedule- on the ‘stickies’ program, for the morning, including the time I have breakfast, what I’m having, when to get dressed and when to leave the house.

I need to be at least ten minutes early for everything important for, lets say, ten days.

I’ve been reading “Never Be Late Again: Seven Cures for the Punctually Challenged” by Diana DeLonzor. I’m starting to implement the strategies and it’s going okay so far. I found the book and easy read. One tip is to try to be fifteen minutes early for everything; prepare yourself for the wait. Bring a book, write a letter, draw, do your knitting, and enjoy the fifteen relaxing minutes that you might not have found time for otherwise.

http://www.amazon.com/Never-Late-Again-Punctually-Challenged/dp/0971649995

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