15 life hacks for those who are constantly late

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

To cultivate punctuality, check your watch often, find motivation, and reflect on your surroundings.

1. Start more hours

Relying only on the watch in your smartphone is unreliable. The problem with being late is a misunderstanding of the time, so it is better to update information about it more often.

Hang the clock on the wall in every room, put it on your hand. Good for punctuality devices that emit signals at a certain time. For example, to get to work by nine, you have to leave at the beginning of the ninth. The clock striking eight will make it clear that it's time to put on your shoes.

2. Move the watch forward a few minutes

For those who are chronically late, this is useless advice. You will know that the clock is lagging behind, so this will not affect the final result. Especially if you usually stay 40 minutes rather than 5.

But for responsible people who do not like to be late even by 5 minutes, a life hack can work.

He moved the clock on the phone 10-15 minutes ahead. That is, the real time is 13:00, my watch is 13:15. Usually these 15 minutes are not enough because of a small traffic jam or "oh, hello, friend, how are you?" I have been using it for ten years already.

True, as a result, I began to arrive 15 minutes earlier, but it is convenient to spend this time on the accumulated letters and chats in instant messengers.

3. Record how long routine activities take

People who are late tend to misjudge their time. It seems that in 5 minutes you have time to take a shower, brush your teeth, and comb. In fact, you only spend 10 minutes in the shower. As a result, time slips away, and the situation gets out of control.

You need to understand exactly how long routine tasks take. This will help you calculate how early you need to start getting ready.

4. Leave time for force majeure

Life is not perfect. Traffic lights are red, stockings and laces are torn at the last moment, keys are lost, and even a reliable subway train gets into the tunnel. Fill in force majeure situations during packing and travel.

5. Plan to arrive early

Accuracy is the courtesy of kings, but we are not in Britain. Trying to arrive minute by minute is not necessary. Plan to get there not by hour X, but 15 minutes before. So the chances of not being late are higher.

6. Don't get distracted

Anything that is not included in the usual collection plan, leave for later. This is especially true of social media feeds. There is definitely nothing going on there that cannot be missed. And they eat up a lot of time.

7. Find motivation

Better, of course, to think about positive reinforcement. But look for not too expensive options. It is pleasant to buy something expensive for each arrival on time, but it is very expensive, since the habit of not being late should be kept for the rest of your life.

However, negative motivation also works, especially if it is imposed from the outside.

Alice Has ceased to be late to save money.

We were fined a huge amount on one of the jobs and cultivated a sense of shame that we let the team down. And it definitely made me more punctual.

8. Adjust your daily routine

A well-formed daily routine has two advantages at once:

1. You stick to a regimen, get enough sleep, and get up on time.
2. Doing things at the same time every day will give you a better sense of its progress.

9. Get ready in advance

A simple school rule that also helps in adulthood: pack your portfolio in the evening. This is especially true when choosing an outfit. Sometimes an argument is made against this: "Suddenly I will not be in the mood to wear what was chosen in advance." But in the morning you will surely be glad that lies ironed and cooked, regardless of your mood.

10. Save kindness for later

The time when you are going somewhere is not suitable for fulfilling the requests of household members, if, of course, they can take care of themselves. One more time to walk the dog, which has stomach problems, is definitely necessary. But adult family members are able to sew on their own buttons and pour coffee.

11. Put yourself in the shoes of the waiting one

Usually, a late person is more focused on himself: what they think of him, what inconvenience the delay will bring him, and so on. Trying to look at the situation from the other side has a therapeutic effect. Why should a person actually wait for you? Systematic delays can cross everything out, and this will be a fair outcome.

Albina Zakirova I realized that no one is obliged to wait.

I became an irritable bore who makes high demands on others and expresses her rejection and disagreement with a person who was late and made me wait for no objective reason. But in the opposite direction, it also works: no one is obliged to wait for me and waste their time aimlessly. Once I realized this, everything changed.

12. Don't Shift Responsibility

You have a million excuses for being late. Traffic jams, a torn shoe, an untimely call, a disconnected alarm clock are to blame - anyone and anything, just not you. Stop making excuses. The main reason for being late is looking at you from the mirror every day. Late - find the courage to admit guilt and take responsibility for what happened.

Maria Solovyova has matured and become punctual.

I used to be late all the time. Now I understand that I liked it. There is some kind of adulthood in this. When you are running somewhere, in a hurry, shouting on the phone: "Damn, I'm sorry, I'm late, I can't," you look so business-like.

How everything changed, I don't remember exactly. But at a certain moment, a sense of responsibility came. I seem to have matured, I understand about myself: I am responsible for my time, respect the time of another person, I can pull myself together, calculate the schedule and come on time. There is nothing difficult in this: you just understand that a person is waiting for you, he is also a businesslike and adult, you have the rules of the game, you respect each other. Now I am sure that in 80% of cases, being late is selfishness.

13. Plan your day appropriately

Too busy schedule with a bunch of movements will inevitably lead to delays if you have not acquired a helicopter. Be realistic when planning tasks and try to group them so that they are concentrated in the same area as much as possible.

Study the route to which you plan to move, take into account all the nuances. If there is a traffic jam at a particular intersection every day, it is very unlikely that today you will pass it in seconds.

14. Change the environment

If everyone around you is late, then you don't seem to have to come on time: you still have to wait. In the opposite direction, it also works: if punctuality is not an empty phrase for others, you will have to adjust.

Marina Kovshova Moved to Finland and stopped being late.

In Finland, all the rules are strict. I moved to study, and the academic environment obliged. If you are more than 15 minutes late for the exam, you will simply not be allowed in and you will have to take it next time. If you miss a bus or train, he will leave and the driver will not wait, even seeing you running and waving at him. The deadlines are strict too.

Earlier in Russia I was always late. Not much, but constantly, and did not bathe. When I started living in Finland, I immediately became very punctual. But I realized that it is very inconvenient when you come to Russia. All friends are late for appointments, doctors are late for appointments, you never know how long a bus trip will take due to traffic jams.

15. Don't start with yourself

Maybe you just don't want to show up on time. In this case, you need to change not yourself, but the situation. Hang out with friends whose dates will inspire you. Find a job with a less tight schedule. Understand where you are most often at the wrong time, and start making changes from these points.

Ivanna Orlova Realized the pointlessness of punctuality for some meetings.

I stopped working in places where they were showing off because of delays, and using transport, because of the wretched work of which nothing could be calculated. I sat down to work at home, and I'm fine.

Outside work, it makes sense not to be late. If you don't come on time, the train will leave, the plane will leave, the next patient will come to the doctor, the film will start without you. It's worth trying for this. But I don’t remember a single universal tragedy that would have happened when the news / journalist / writer was not in the office at nine! This senselessness infuriated me most of all.

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