Mike
Carruthers:
People who are chronically late. It's a huge problem in this country.
Diana DeLonzor:
It's about 20% of the overall population and that's just the
20% that are late. The other 80% are the people that are driven
crazy by the late people in their lives.
Diana DeLonzor,
author of the book Never
Be Late Again…
It affects the
U.S. economy in that it costs our productivity about three billion
dollars a year.
According to
her research, Diana says, most chronically late people have
been that way all their lives and they know they have a real
problem.
It is an inconsiderate
thing to be chronically-late, however most chronically late
people don't mean to be inconsiderate. They have difficulty
with time management in general. In my research I found that
late people tend to procrastinate more than the average person.
And being late was a surprisingly difficult habit to overcome.
I always tell timely peopl that telling a late person to just
be on time is a little bit like telling a dieter just don't
eat so much.
Late people usually
have trouble grasping how long things take to do.
I've often found
that late people seem to think that in ten minutes they can
pick up the dry cleaning, change the alarm on the smoke detector,
take out the garbage, and drive to work. And they have a very
unrealistic view of time. One woman thought that she could get
ready for work in twenty minutes. In actuality, when I had her
time it, it took an hour.
Tomorrow, what
late people can do to be on time - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's
Something You Should Know.
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