Posted on 03/08/2017 9:37:08 AM PST by blam
For some people, "early bird gets the worm" is a life motto. To them, "fashionably" late is not a thing.
These people are "on-timers," and they have unique habits that make them who they are.
Seeing as showing up late is disrespectful, and can negatively affect your career as well as your relationships, it may be time to take a page out of their book.
Here are 10 habits that make punctual people tick.
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
“Sometimes I don’t wake up until the alarm goes off.”
Something that was helpful: for about a year I used a sleep-monitor phone app; it would observe my sleep behavior and wake me at an optimal time within X minutes _before_ my set wake-up time. Result was waking much more refreshed, feeling like a short lift out of sleep instead of that “dragged from the depths” feeling we hate & fight.
Numerous such apps are available for phones & watches. Bonus was it would remind you to plug in the phone before bed, so the phone was always charged.
I fit most of those and am almost always on time. My wife’s built sort of the opposite, so she makes me crazy sometimes if we’re going somewhere together, but it’s usually just social stuff, so it generally works out. But I actually really enjoy mapping everything out so that I’m always walking through the door right on time. My ability to estimate how long something will take is usually correct down to the minute.
A cure for the vendor—find the most “weight challenged” and loud and obnoxious woman in your office and ask her to sit next to him and chat while he waits. :-)
15 minutes early or you’re late. Still operate that way.
haha - that’s good. Turn it around
Having been married twice to Thai ladies, and once to a Pinay, I can sure relate.
The Thai wives referred to their chronic lateness as being on "Thai Time." A term I heard daily when I lived there.
The Pinay suffered from the same lateness gene, but called it "Philippine time."
An appointment in either country really meant, 'maybe today, or tomorrow.'
I've heard the Japanese are Western like in their timeliness. How about the Chinese?
The place where I worked, important topics would randomly be discussed at the end of another meeting so that the ones initiating the discussion could be prepared, and all others would be caught off guard.
Irony of ironies. FR timed out on my answers. Computers gotta be impatient.
I run a bunch of meetings at one job, and choir rehearsals at my church job. I always start on time. I do not like to penalize folks who are on time by making them wait for folks who are tardy.
Time is money ... if for business. And it’s courtesy, if not.
Usually.
If I’m just on time,I’m late.
I’ve been VERY prompt my entire life.
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Yes, definitely. Though some of those first mice are getting smarter or something nowadays....
I love your post!
I have to disagree with this article.
I am always on time.
However, I also procrastinate, forget everyone’s birthday, and I am completely unorganized.
“In my profession if you were on time it meant that you don’t have enough to do and that you were about to be assigned more!”
Back when I was a smartass in college I would always walk in about a minute or two late. Most of the time I actually was late, but often I would loiter out in the hall before going in. (The prof thought he was “all that” and had dissed the major I was in.)
One time a friend saw me waiting to go in late.
“What are you doing?”
“I don’t want him to think that I don’t have more important things to do.”
Now for meetings I bring mindless paperwork or something to work on when I’m early. Traffic is unpredictable. For a couple of dinner meetings every month it is a short commute, but a pain at rush hour. I’ll leave over two hours early so I have a 20 minute drive instead of over an hour. Bring my taxes, files, etc. and work on that for a couple of hours. And maybe a nap!
Spend 20 years in the Army - you’ll be early to everything, except maybe your own funeral. And I’m not too sure about that!!
All of you prompt early bird on timers are crazy.
Just like me.
(You young kids just wait until you’re waking up for no reason 2 hours before sunrise on your days off)
Both you and Yo-Yo forgot to finish the quote, “Early is on time, on time is late, and late is fired.”
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