The lesson I am offering is fairly simple but quite often overlooked. It's not to relax until the getting ready process has been completed. If there is some spare time before work, a pool party, volunteering at a soup kitchen or whatever, then it's a best to prioritize. Don't let lying face down half naked on your mattress or watching a vampire love story hamper straightening a tie, shaving legs or putting on a smock.
A common mistake is noticing they there is an extra hour before departure and believing that’s sufficient for some quality relaxing. Experience has taught me that relaxing minutes tend to rapidly disappear. They’re not painfully counted like when waiting behind a customer at the deli playing every Lotto combination imaginable. In relaxation mode, before you know it, fun time has vanished but yet you’re still in pajamas and have maple syrup in your hair.
To counteract this, my advice is to substitutive getting ready into the first step. This makes a hell of a lot more sense. I bet on numerous occasions rushing around in frenzy resulted because you got carried away with leisure time. Suddenly, you’re forced to cut corners like supplying only the dominant arm with deodorant, leaving on your socks when putting on sandals or driving recklessly with the hazard lights on.
Also something unexpected can occur during preparation forcing even more time to elapse. Maybe eating pancakes caused fatigue, the vampire movie runs long or the drapes catch on fire. In all honesty, it is none of my business what went wrong nor will I confirm if any of these examples are personal. There is no need to embarrass anyone as the point of this is to help everyone arrive at destinations safe, prepared and timely.
As a final note, if you have avoided my advice and lateness is inevitable, never contact the party to inform them. At first this may seem rude but believe me, it's the lesser of two evils. After a successful call is made requesting bonus minutes, the normal tendency is to slip back into a recreational mode. Thus the cycle spins again and you’re logged onto Facebook commenting on a picture of a friend’s hat, sipping a post pancake mimosa or reading a blog that provides blatantly obvious hindsight information. Showing up tardy is impolite but arriving later than an extension is far worse.
Alright let me wrap this up. Unfortunately, sharing this lesson to the world has exceeded the time allotted. I should be showered, dressed and smelling like a peach for a date by now. Luckily, I am remaining calm since I know that passing on a stop for flowers and not warning her of my delay will save me from her anger. I am positive she will applaud the effort I made to be timely.
In conclusion, be on the lookout for future lessons such as “Untied Shoelaces-Deadly Consequences” and “Check Your Face for Shaving Cream before Leaving Home.” Until then, always be ready.
Hopefully she likes peaches.
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