Be early

i prolly wont not until i go back to school .. but i wanna! bah!

wow its a slow journey but I seem to have a lot more time on my hand when i get things done before hand and do things early … willingly!

and yet i popped into bed at 11 and got out at 7 am! :) yay! i am happy!

—early bird

yay!

After three failures, got to work 20 minutes earlier than “staring time” .. the feeling of total serenity washed over me

.....being early give me a chance to chat & visit without needing to always RUSH off. Its been 3 weeks and I’m doing well. Is this long enough to consider it a habit? Maybe, maybe not. I’m going to carefully mark this one as done with the promise to be back if I start to slide.

at a playdate at a new friends’ house. I got there and the woman wasn’t home and there were 2 workmen at her house also waiting for her. We left to do some errands and then went back later and she was home. I KNOW that I’ve kept people waiting before, so I can definitely understand this woman’s situation. But it made me happy to know that I’ve definitely made a change for the better.

Its THursday and I’ve had another good week as an EARLY BIRD. WIth the exception of early band, that my daughter was a couple of minutes late for, we’ve been early or on time all week. :)

Its Saturday! And I made it through the week as an EARLY BIRD! Just dropped both my boys off at soccer (the teenager for the varsity bus and my 6-year-old @ U6). And YES! they were both a few minutes early; relaxed and ready to go!!

And now I’m off to my weekend away. But I HAD to leave this comment that I DID IT! before I left. Oh yeah!!

.....early or on time across the boards makes me very, very happy. Loving the turned leaf. Lets see if I can make it through the whole week on this turned leaf!!

....my timeliness goal started as “be on time.” And then once I had been doing really well with that, I pushed the envelope a little to try & “be early.” I’ve since had a major setback with the new fall schedule. Mornings are good. But the afternoon schedule gets hairy just about every day & I’m running ragged with overlapping kids’ activities & school commitments. Time to make this a priority and fix this. My new leaf starts tomorrow.