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 this journalist dumping her then boyfriend.  

A ponderous, tortoise-like slouch of a boyfriend if the article is to be believed.

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 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

Now, I’m not here to dispense pearls of insight on relationships.  That's not my bag.

But I am here to give you options.

One option is Time Conqueror, the time management challenge I’m promoting this week.

My experience?  The people who are late once (like the boyfriend in this little ditty) are the people who are late morning, noon and night.

And, for that matter, the people who procrastinate once are the people who procrastinate again and again.  And those who are overwhelmed and exhausted on any given day tend to be those who are perpetually overwhelmed and exhausted.

You could be mistaken for thinking that attributes like these are simply who we are.  That they're baked into us like chocolate chips are baked into chocolate cookies.  

But I don't see it that way.

To me it looks like tardiness, procrastination, overwhelm and exhaustion are simply habits.

And habits can be broken.

On Day 5 of Time Conqueror I delve into why these happenings are so habitual, and I show you how to break out of whatever patterns you might be caught in. 

More info here:

https://timeconqueror.followingfulfilment.com

Checkout closes at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm UK time on Friday 24^th November.  That's just over six hours from now.

Candlelit dinners wait for no man or woman.

 - Tom

p.s. Anyone who joins Time Conqueror before the deadline will receive a valuable audio bonus I recorded recently all about over-thinking.

I'm calling this bonus the Busymind Buster.

But beware:

The production values for this bonus are…how shall I say this?.....

Almost non-existent.

I recorded the audio by the canal.  The wind is howling in the background and there’s even one point where you can hear a boat tootling past.

As you might gather, the audio is completely pared back and off-the-cuff.

So don’t expect any bells & whistles.  If you’re the sort of person who’d rather own a turd coated in glitter than a diamond wrapped in a crumpled copy of last week’s Daily Mirror, this isn’t the bonus for you.

For everyone else:

What you can expect is a short little audio (it clocks in at just under 19 mins) where I spill the beans on a few things that have really helped me (and might help you) when it comes to overthinking less.

Plus I give a couple of extremely practical tips which anyone can use right here, right now to get out of their head and into the world.

One last time:

The only way to get a copy of the Busymind Buster bonus is by joining Time Conqueror before the deadline at 2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm UK time on Friday 24^th November.  That's just over six hours from now.

Here’s the link:

https://timeconqueror.followingfulfilment.com

If you've already joined a previous version of Time Conqueror, this bonus is available to you too.  Just reply to this email with the word “gimme!” and I’ll send it right over. 

And if you’d like to re-join Time Conqueror as an alumni for a second time (or, for the keen beans, a third time) just reply to this email with “sign me up!” and I’ll add you to the challenge.

The same deadline (2pm PT / 5pm ET / 10pm UK time on Friday 24^th November) applies for both.