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Cultivating Punctuality
Being late is a chronic habit and shifting towards punctuality can take weeks or even months, as the person has to break down a pattern (of being late) and build a new one.
One has to train their mind to the new normal of being on time by thinking and planning ahead, proactively.
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Running Late: Breaking The Habit
The amount of energy it takes to rush into things and trying to reach frantically on time, and then to repent afterwards, can be harnessed and channelled into working towards being punctual.
Being accountable towards one’s tardiness, when the consequences like the loss of a job, or a majo...
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Running Late: Penalty And Rewards
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...
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Being Chronically Late: The Four Personalities
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...
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Fixing The Schedule For Chronically Late People
- 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...
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Chronically Late People
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...
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This is the ability to perform a behavior without thinking about each step, which allows the pattern to become automatic and habitual.
Because when you begin practicing a new habit it requires a lot of conscious effort to remember to do it. But after a while, your new habit becomes a...
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- Chronic aggression: They are extremely obsessed with something and try to control it as best as they can.
- Strategies of passive aggressors: Showing subtle superiority (e.g. being purposely late), craving sympathy (e.g. always being the victim), makin...
Be Punctual~~
When your why is strong enough, you will find a way to make it work. By relying on this principle, you can overcome your habit of being late. The only way to stop the habit of lateness and turn it into one of punctuality is to have a strong reason behind the transformation. Therefore, begin by id...
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