“A useless habit is punctuality,” as Zhvanetsky said. Indeed, today it is rare to find people who are careful with their own and other people’s time. Nevertheless, time is the most valuable resource, irreplaceable, so punctual people are valued at all times. How to follow the basic rule of time management and train yourself not to be late?
Get into the Army Habit
In the army regulations there is such a thing as a “corporal gap” - a reserve time (usually 5-10 minutes) before the start of an event, taking into account which a person comes to a meeting. For example, you were informed that the business brunch would start at 12:00, and in order not to be late, you arrived a little earlier than the agreed time, at 11:45. If you make this technique a habit, then earning a reputation as a punctual person will not be difficult. However, you should not reach the point of fanaticism in this matter and arrive to the meeting an hour and a half in advance.
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Do daily planning
It’s not easy to keep everything in your head, especially those that are time-bound. Visualize important and not so important things by writing them down in your diary. This will help you structure your entire to-do list for the day, prioritize them—spend more time on one thing today, and put off another for the next day. This way you will understand what real time management is, you will get more done and, as a result, you will be able to avoid being late anywhere. You will have a tangible sense of time.
Analyze your performance
Today, most smartphones and other mobile gadgets offer the option of analyzing “screen time” for a week. It shows very nicely and schematically how much time you spent in which applications: how much was spent on entertainment, on social networks, what was your efficiency compared to last week, and how long you generally did not let go of your mobile device. An extremely interesting statistic that will help you think about what activities have distracted you from important tasks and made you unpunctuality with others and with your own task list. By the way, there you can also set limits for programs to which you want to give yourself limited access if you think that they take up too much of your precious time.
Remember that by being a punctual person, you free up time for yourself, which you can spend on leisure time with loved ones and things that interest you. Almost everyone knows the saying: “Precision is the courtesy of kings.” However, few people know that the full statement of King Louis XIV sounds like this: “Accuracy is the courtesy of kings and the duty of all good people.”
FIND THE REASON
There may be several reasons for being late.
FIRST
A person simply has no sense of time. I knew one lady who could arrange an appointment in, say, twenty minutes, and then go wash her hair. It is clear that the subsequent drying and styling of her hair lasted for a whole hour, and the person with whom she was supposed to meet was impatient, glancing at his watch.
SECOND
The desire to attract attention at any cost (as in the case of my friend).
THIRD
A person is late because he doesn’t like the work he is doing or the people around him, so he figures out how to stay late. Moreover, it turns out that he subconsciously strives to be fired!
FOURTH
A person has difficulty waking up in the morning, either because of chronic lack of sleep, or because he is a “morning person” and goes to bed late. Therefore, getting up early in the morning is an unimaginably difficult task for him.
In this case, psychologists advise planning your morning minute by minute. For example, you must be at work at 9 o’clock. Light gymnastics and shower - 15 minutes, to get dressed and do makeup - the same amount. In order to make oatmeal, coffee and have breakfast in a relaxed atmosphere, and even leaf through an interesting magazine, it will take 20 minutes. And 40 minutes to get to work. In total, all preparations will take about an hour. So you should wake up at 7:20. And, aware of your inability to sense the passage of time, look at the dial more often when getting ready for work.
READY TO GO IN ADVANCE
If you sit down to drink coffee in your pajamas or bathrobe (after a shower), and at the same time start checking and answering emails, or delving into an interesting article, you may wake up five minutes before leaving. According to experts, before having breakfast, get dressed, do your makeup, and pack your bag. And if you get carried away with something while having breakfast, you will agree that it will take much less time to turn off the computer than to get ready.
DON'T STAY UP LATE
You will stop being late if you get up on time. The inability to lift your head from the pillow in the morning is directly related to sitting in front of the TV or computer until midnight. To get enough sleep, you need to go to bed before 12. The advice is, of course, unoriginal, but proven. In addition, it is known that too strong emotions do not contribute to falling asleep quickly, and if you watched boxing or a horror movie at night, it is unlikely that you will be able to fall asleep without problems after that. It is best, of course, to read for half an hour - reading, as you know, puts you to sleep no worse than valerian tincture.
TWO ALARMS ARE BETTER THAN ONE
Sometimes, having woken up from the alarm, we turn it off and immediately fall back to sleep. It’s good if the alarm clock has a snooze function, but if it doesn’t, you’ll oversleep and be late. So it’s better to set another alarm clock in the evening, but place it away from the bed. When it rings, you have to get up to turn it off.
PREPARATION IN THE EVENING
Remember, since childhood we were taught to pack our briefcase before going to bed. Not everyone benefits from science, but it is never too late to try to become an exemplary boy or girl. So, think about what you would like to wear in the morning, iron the chosen item, select accessories, wash and polish your shoes. Then pack your bag: check if your keys, documents, wallet, and cosmetic bag are there. After this, prepare the food that you will take to work: cut sandwiches, pour soup into a container and leave it in the refrigerator until the morning. Decide what you will have for breakfast, and if it’s oatmeal, then steam it now.
DON'T DO YOUR HOUSEHOLD FAVORIES
If your husband suddenly finds his shirt wrinkled and asks you to iron it, gently but firmly refuse. It's high time you learned how to iron your own things! Let him start right now. In the meantime, you can calmly finish your business and leave the house on time.
CALCULATE YOUR TRAVEL TIME CORRECTLY
If you get to work by car or public transport, you usually think: I drive for about forty minutes, meaning pure driving. But let’s say you still need to get to the metro or parking lot, and this also takes time. If you don't take it into account, you won't invest in your forty minutes and will be late again.
COME UP WITH FUN
If you have a dentist appointment or a business meeting, it's hard to force yourself to show up half an hour early. What will I do, you think. Take an interesting magazine with you or sit in a nearby cafe. Or maybe in the area you need there is a beautiful park that you haven’t been to for a long time, or a bookstore, or something else interesting, where you can usefully spend time and not be late.
ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO BE STRONGER
In my own experience, my friend was late for a meeting with me for years until I was lenient about it. As soon as I sharply expressed my displeasure, and then did not communicate with her at all for some time, she immediately got rid of her vice.
So ask your friends to be stricter with you: not to wait for you for half an hour and not to accept your explanations.
FEEL LIKE A MONSTER
Yes, it is unpleasant, but very sobering. Remember how many times you were late for a variety of meetings, from friendly to business, how many people you kept waiting. Yes, you behaved simply outrageous! And the more shame you experience, the better. This will help you heal.
THE MAIN THING IS MOTIVATION
Understanding that constant lateness jeopardizes your career, steals lucrative contracts and clients from under your nose, prevents you from making money, and has a bad impact on relationships with friends - already gives you the strength and opportunity to overcome your shortcoming. A highly motivated person is capable of incredible efforts on himself. If he knows that it is simply dangerous to test the boss’s patience any longer, he will appear in the office first and submit reports before everyone else.
One type of motivation is reward. If you haven't been late once in a day or a week, treat yourself to something: a chocolate bar or a glass of excellent wine. And if, more than expected, you are late again, come up with a punishment. For example, unscheduled cleaning or cooking some complex dish.
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6.7. Habit of being late
Every person has friends who chronically like to be late. Or maybe you yourself belong to this category of people? If this is so, then you hardly realize how constant lateness ruins your life.
The most basic way to overcome constant tardiness is to change your motivation. People always have a million reasons to be late. If you don’t feel like going to work, you will procrastinate and take a long time to get ready. Another reason is a subconscious desire to arouse the sympathy of others if you explain your lateness by being busy.
Try to subordinate your tardiness to an external signal. Identify a few events that you really want to be late for and announce that you are going to be a little late. You will see that you will no longer want to be late, because the usual meaning of your being late has already been lost.
As soon as you can consciously achieve timeliness, be sure to reward yourself.
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As for me, this happens extremely rarely in my life. I decided to conduct informal research to use the data in my article. I wanted to observe how many times in one week did I or someone else at work get things done on time, including meetings and deadlines? According to my data, about 10 percent of things were done on time. In fact, this is a tiny number.
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Either way, there are ways to manage time and stay on schedule. To get rid of the habit of being late, you need to learn two things:
- change the way you think about what being late means to you;
- Implement simple techniques to learn how to stay on time.
Let's look at how punctual people behave.
