On one of my recent trips down the internet rabbit hole of doom, I stumbled on an article by an American journalist.
The article told the befuddling story of the journalist dumping her then boyfriend (a ponderous, tortoise-like slouch of a
boyfriend if the article is to be believed).
And the final straw was when he cruised up late to a dinner date.
In her article she explained the reasons for giving
him the ol’ heave-ho:
1. He was jeopardizing my punctual reputation
2. It proved that he didn’t respect me
3. He
was completely oblivious to his thoughtlessness
4. It showed a lack of respect
5. If he can’t keep this promise, what other promises will he break?
6. I get that no one is perfect,
but chronically late is not cute
7. He was late but had a coffee in his hand
8. Fashionably late is not a thing, so let’s remove that phrase from our vocabulary
9. Opposites attract,
but the chronically early and chronically late are not a match
What can I tell you?
In the words of Baz Luhrmann: maybe
you agree with this, maybe you don’t.
Either way, I’m not here to dispense pearls of insight on relationships.
But I am
here to give you options. Like how to be more punctual, if that’s something you’d like.
And one option is my Time Conqueror Challenge. I’m promoting the challenge this week.
My experience? The people who are late once are the people who are late morning, noon and night.
And, for that matter, the people who are overwhelmed and exhausted on any given day tend to be the people who are
perpetually overwhelmed and exhausted.
On Day 5 of Time Conqueror I delve into why habitual happenings like these aren’t situation-specific or work-specific but instead are people-specific.
And I show you how to break out of whatever cycle you might be caught in. Including overwhelm, procrastination or tardiness.
Interested?
I’m only making Time Conqueror available to people who are
signed up to my emails.
So if you’d like to join, here’s the link.