Mentally and emotionally, lateness can affect self-confidence, Morgenstern adds. That guilt and other negative emotions can stop you from enjoying yourself as you otherwise would. It can make you feel out of sync with everybody else and less a part of the group. The good news is that there are things you can do to get better at running on time.
Aim to get places 10 to 15 minutes early, rather than when the event is supposed to start, Morgenstern says. If you tend to get stuck in conversations or last-minute tasks on your way out the door, plan and practice exit strategies, Morgenstern says. Preemptively check in with your boss throughout the day and about an hour before you need to leave, she says.
Use an alarm to remind you when you need to leave the house, when you need to get up from your desk to make it to your meeting on time, when you need to stop working to make your dinner plans, or whatever transitions you struggle with, Morgenstern suggests.
If you struggle with estimating how long things actually take, time yourself. How long does it actually take you to get ready in the morning? How long does it actually take you to finish up a work task you do over and over again? Start with the things that always end up taking longer than you think, Morgenstern suggests. If you find that things are regularly taking longer than you think they should, then evaluate ways to streamline the inefficiencies rather than just blindly hoping those things will take less time than they do.
Mutli-tasking can be depleting , Waldum says. Clocks tell us how much time you have until you need to perform a task, and they might remind you to do something. I need to pick up the dry cleaning by 5 pm. It could be your type. The punctually-challenged often share personality characteristics such as optimism, low levels of self-control, anxiety, or a penchant for thrill-seeking, experts say. Personality differences could also dictate how we experience the passing of time. In , Jeff Conte, a psychology professor at San Diego State University ran a study in which he separated participants into Type A people ambitious, competitive and Type B creative, reflective, explorative.
He asked them to judge, without clocks, how long it took for one minute to elapse. Type A people felt a minute had gone by when roughly 58 seconds had passed.
Type B participants felt a minute had gone by after 77 seconds. A study suggested personality differences could dictate how we experience the passing of time Credit: Getty Images. Of course, there are other reasons for lateness, but many remain self-inflicted. For Joanna, the most distressing example is writing school reports. But the fact that they are late undermines that.
In short, she says, the procrastinator focuses on a fear attached to the event or deadline for which they are running late. DeLonzor started on her path to punctuality by identifying, and adapting the very thing that seemed to always make her late.
Research has shown that people on average underestimate how long a task will take to complete by a significant 40 percent. Another trait, which could very well be linked to the first, is that forever-late-comers are more likely to be multitaskers.
In a study run by Jeff Conte from San Diego State University in the US, found that out of subway operators in New York City, those who preferred multitasking - or polychronicity - were more often late to their job. This is because multitasking makes it harder to have metacognition , or awareness of what you're doing, as Drake Baer reports for Business Insider.
In , Conte also discovered that there's also a personality type that's more likely to be late. While highly strung, achievement oriented Type A individuals are more likely to be punctual, Type B individuals, who are more laid-back, are later.
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