A very important date

[kitchen_kink]

Dear readers,

Please, please, please kindly share your anecdotes, tips, medical interventions or other techniques that have helped you in your quests to be ON TIME.

You see, I am chronically late. Late to work by 5 or 10 minutes, daily. I blame it on some inherent flaw in public tranportation, which, while indeed slow and unpredictable, would be fine if I left ten minutes earlier. Late to classes that I take and that I teach. Late to dates that I really want to keep!

Being berated doesn't help. Setting my clock fast doesn't help. And getting in trouble at my jobs doesn't help.

Help!

Comments

[darxus.livejournal.com]

It sounds like your problems are a bit different from mine. I've had problems getting to work on time... as long as I've been employed. But I'm talking half an hour to an hour, habitually, not 5-10 minutes. My problem is getting out of bed in the morning. I lack motivation. I recently moved my alarm clock to my kitchen (basically the other side of the room closest to my bedroom). All is better. I was 10 minutes early to work today - something that used to never happen is somewhat normal now. And the process took some tweaking - I know exactly when I need to leave my apartment to reliably get to work on time, and I know exactly when I need to get up to reliably get out the door by the necessary time. If the time you set your alarm clock for doesn't work one morning, for whatever reason (public transportation isn't perfectly consistent, and you need to account for that), set your alarm clock that much earlier the next day.