Mike
Carruthers:
Don't you hate it when people are always late? Well, don't take
it personally.
Diana DeLonzor:
Most late people I found were late for everything. It didn't'
matter if it was a wedding, a funeral, a job interview - they
tended to be late for everything.
Diana DeLonzor,
author of the book Never
Be Late Again, says chronically late people don't like being
late.
I get emails
from people every day telling me that they've been fired from
their jobs, that all of their friends are angry with them, that
they've lost friendships because of chronic lateness. And I
interviewed managers who overwhelmingly said that they were
less likely to promote someone who's chronically-late - even
though the chronically late person felt that if they stayed
late or worked extra hard they were actually making up for their
lateness.
If you want to
stop being late all the time Diana says…
Never plan to
be on time - and that sounds strange. But one of the things
that I found is that late people tend to try to arrive exactly
at the stroke of when they were supposed to be somewhere. So
try to arrive fifteen minutes early and if you aren't fifteen
minutes early you should consider yourself late.
Chronic lateness
is a tough habit to break and if someone in your life is always
keeping you waiting…
Let's say that
it's somebody that you meet every day for lunch, agree that
if they are more than ten minutes late for lunch they have to
spring for dessert. Make it so that there is something in it
for you and something that penalizes them as well.
You can link
to Diana's website
from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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