While a person can be coaxed into being on time using heavy penalties, a more powerful incentive is the positive aspects of being on (or before) time.

Example: Rushing into a meeting which already started and where everyone else is looking at you, would feel embarrassing, especially if...

Many chronically late people fall in one or more of these four personalities:

• The Perfectionist: The person who is late because everything has to be done perfectly and has to be flawless in every aspect.
• The Crisis Maker: One who seeks the a...

• Certain specific places in the daily schedule have to be targeted, once they are identified as pain points (getting up late, for example). Once can set multiple alarms/reminders during the day to ‘wake up’ from the current task and rush towards the upcoming appointment.
• It helps to...

Being habitually and chronically late for work or any other appointment is a kind of insanity, according to Tim Urban, who classifies such people (comprising 15 to 20 percent of the population as per a 2006 survey) as Chronically Late Insane People (CLIP).

The reason for t...