tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post7614547916693940059..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: How To Be More PunctualStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-18637073182938694762015-03-13T08:16:39.850-07:002015-03-13T08:16:39.850-07:00All good advice. I'm probably a chronic stragg...All good advice. I'm probably a chronic straggler, and enabled by a life that doesn't need hourly scheduling to survive, but perhaps because of this, I compensate by paying close attention to time when it affects others.<br /><br />But I confess a vice of attentive time management is the better I am at estimating time, the more I feel free to make my margins of error smaller. So I'll feel bad when I'm a few minutes late for unforeseen delays, but not enough to change my ways.<br /><br />I do also tend to bring a book or notebook with me, if I'm early or have to wait somewhere, and it means I don't have to be annoyed of someone else is running behind schedule. Then I get a chance to be magnanimous, and hopefully earn some karma against my own mistakes.<br /><br />A related issue is if someone is chronically late, how do you communicate to them that this affects you, like on the question of manners, how do you "shame" them, without guilt-tripping them?<br /><br />My boss for instance will stop a meeting and greet someone who enters after it starts, so then everyone puts their attention onto the straggler, and while no excuse is required, its not going to be instantly forgotten either.<br /><br />Another example, at my Toastmaster club, after having a problem with starting meetings on time we called for an official 20 minute social period for before the meeting, so some people would come last minute, and some could come "early" without feeling like they'd be alone and bored. So that seemed to help allow for different needs.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com