Be on time

Went to bed at a resonable hour. My girlfriend stayed round last night. She was giving a friend a lift to the airport before she went to work. She had to be up at 5.45 to head off (feel bad for her as she does this a lot).

Hot night too so niether of us slept that well.

My alarm went off at 7. I kept driting off to sleep again thinking “I won’t go back to sleep, I’ll just snooze and get up in a few minutes”. Snooze on an alarm doesn’t help either, you just keep pressing it as the time doesn’t really register. You keep doing it until you’ve not left enough time….

I think the only way is just to condition yourself to get up, when the alarm goes off and just sit for a bit, while the sleep wears off. Will give this a go for the rest of the week.

OK. Have slipped back into old ways. It’s not been too bad (5-10 minutes late for work) until today.

I was back at my house last night and not staying with my girlfried. Now, the weird thing is I’m much closer to work as I live in the same town. The journey from hers is around 1hr 20minute minimum.

So, how does this happen. Well, when I’m on my own, I stay later at work (mainly because of procrastination during the day and wanting to catch up). I then get back late, don’t eat properly and want some time to unwind so I stay up late, fall asleep on the couch because of over-tiredness and wake up in the early hours with a bad neck ache and crawl up to bed, fall asleep before setting an alarm and then finally wake up at about 8:50 or worse, ring in with pathetic excuse and commence the cycle again….... It’s exhausting just writing it.

I think the root of my problems is that I procrastinate on absolutely everything and just don’t take good care of myself.

With my girlfriend, I tend to go to bed with her at a sensible hour which helps immensely. I also tend to cook for her and in doing so, eat better and take care of myself. I also leave work more on time to get to hers (again to spend more time with her).

She’s not ready for me to move in, but that’s beside the point. I have to learn better self-respect to take care of myself. There should be no reason I can’t apply the same struture to my life at home.

I think I have some underlying irrational beliefs that I’ve got from growing up which may need to be addressed at some point, but for now…. lets see if I can get into work on time for the rest of the week.

I’m going to try and aim to be everywhere 10 minutes before I actually want to be there. This might help a bit as my calculations for how long things take me are always wrong. I always think I can fit more in than I can.

I’m also going to try and condition myself to “just leave already”. I tend to worry that I haven’t done enough of the things I should have done before leaving and so leave late. That needs to stop. Whatever it is, just has to be put off. A matter or prioritising what is urgent/imminent over what is important but non-urgent.

We shall see. One day I’ll get there… and hopefully stop pissing off everyone in my life.

I was doing so well – for a hot second. Problem was I started congratulating myself before I’d make this whole “on-time” thing an official habit. I am late to work every single day and I justify it a million ways. The point is being late is in direct violation of living the life of excellence Christ has called me to. Now to just be on time…

I was early at work. :) It was nice to have peace and quiet when I got to work, rather than have to hit the ground running. I felt prepared for what was thrown my way throughout the day.

I plan to keep this up and make a habit out of this. Now that I think I have discovered: I must take my shower first thing, rather than sit around and eat breakfast first.

The relaxing breakfast needs to wait for the weekends apparently.

After attending several “time managing” seminars and reading some books about it, I realized I wasn’t going anywhere and that at the end of the day I still got many things unfinished due to my lack of organization and interest on my goal.

After observing how relaxed my little brother lives (he’s 17 and going to high school,he wakes up and hour and a half before leaving to school) I decided that I needed that calmness and “tranquility (tranquilidad?)” in my life, in order to be able to do things right and to have free time to enjoy life’s little pleasures.

One day, I tried it… I woke up really early and even got a big breakfast with newspaper reading and all…It felt right, so I kept doing it.

I also observed the important, rich people in my surrounding and realized that they were very punctual all the time, and just that made the rest of the people respect them.

I also got a wristwatch and even though sometimes I’m a bit late to my commitments, the problem’s reduced by half already.

I’m trying to calculate the time it takes me to do some things, and trying to predict what will happen or could happen, and that’s helped a lot, cause I act based on that and not only on my “what’s next?” plan – which basically responded to my urgent and immediate needs…

Let’s see how I do in the next months, talk to you later guys!

On time for a doctor’s appointment, work, and the polls. :) I just had to remind myself to figure out in advance about how long it will take me to get somewhere, and not while I’m already tying my shoe laces.

I was so late for an appointment recently that I had to run across Potsdamer Platz to catch a bus, and fell down hard. Knee is still black and blue and green after two weeks, favorite pair of pants ruined, handbag suffered too, laptop happily survived. And all for nothing – the bus drove off while I had to assure a passerby of my wellbeing. Have to reopen this after four months. Maybe it helps to be more aware of it, like last time.

Well being on time didn’t work out very well for the last couple of weeks but I will have to be on time for teh exams so I am marking this as accomplised. I am quite good at being on time when I am going out with my friends and such.

I’m quite on time for my therapist’s appointments. An accomplishment?

on time fail.