If there's one thing I loathe, it's when people say "I have no time". I hate myself when I say it too!
There's always enough time. It's a shame we don't utilise it properly. I'm no genius either. When I was a kid, I used to be so punctual with everything. If I said I would be home at 9.15pm, the doorbell would ring at exactly 9.15pm. I never used a watch when I was a kid. My mental clock was brilliant enough. Punctuality meant so much to me... it still does. It's a shame my mental clock and whatever else it is that's keeping me from being punctual won't get their act together.
I've been to work on time only a handful of times over the last year. Nobody minds because I always stay back late. I'm late for class. I'm late for pretty much every bloody thing. I've never missed an assignment deadline or been late for an exam though, but I'm late with my preparation and always leave things for the last minute.
I guess that's the problem. When I wake up in the morning for work, I have plenty of time to get to work on time... but I always get my mind fixated on the absolute last possible second that I need to leave home to make it to work at 9am sharp. I seem to forget that there are other variables... CityRail being the biggest one. No matter how much I try, I can't get myself to leave earlier than the latest possible time... or in project management terms, latest start time! Sometimes I convince myself so much that I have a lot of time to spare in the morning, that I end up using more of it than I can afford and end up leaving late. No, CityRail is not always at fault.
Maybe it's because of my time as a kid when I always reached wherever I needed to be exactly on time that's affecting me now. No matter how often I'm late, I never believe that I can't make it on time the next day.
Maybe I need to look at the earliest start time. Perhaps that would solve my little problem. I've been thinking about this for quite a few years now and even though I've come up with temporary solutions, I've never been able to put my finger on the cause of the problem... until now :) Who would have thought this post would help me relate "earliest start time" and "latest start time" to my punctuality issue.
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