stop being late

“if you’re not 5 minutes early, you’re late”

Start leaving earlier to get to places.

If I have extra time, I waste it until I get to that state of emergency where I realize I HAVE to get going. I haven’t been later that 3 or 4 minutes to work in the last few weeks/months, That’s huge!!! But I SHOULD BE THERE 3/4 minutes BEFORE, not after.

How do I make the brain switch to actually LIKE to get there early? Reality is I don’t. I feel like if I get there early I’ll be wasting TIME waiting. Isn’t that ironic? Instead, I rather make people wait. How can I change this. Effort alone is not doing it. It’s gotta be in the mind.

This is so not me. I don’t like to prepare. I like to leave things for the last minute. I don’t like to wait, therefore I don’t prepare ahead of time because I don’t like to have any time left over.

I need to reprogram my mental clock. How in the world can one do this? Now THAT is the question.

So, if I can get into the habit of preparing ahead of time and then letting go, I know I can greatly improve my last minute… I can’t stand it anymore… so let’s do it feeling.

Right now I’m practicing with getting my clothes ready the night before, shoes and all. Now, I have to try to iron them as well because I do it in the morning but the beginning of my day is so unpleasant that I want to simplify it as much as possible. Of course, my evening – which should be for relaxing after giving my time and my life in exchange for money all day -will then have to be spent ironing my clothes (which I’m slow at).

I thought growing up would free me to do what I wanted but I’m a slave now more than ever.

How do people do this? And have kids, AND go to games and picnics and have parties, and visit each other AND HAVE A CLEAN HOUSE!! Maybe their house is not clean – I hope :)

Still working on this. At least it’s in my thoughts and that’s a good place to start taking action.