I am Always Late

There’s hardly a worse start of a day than waking up after a good and restful sleep, taking a glance at the watch and realizing that you’re going to be late to work again. You start scrambling, hastling, frantically throwing things into your bag, rushing around the house and thinking of leaving the house as soon as possible. Being no properly focused, you forget your car keys or cell phone, that’s why you’re forced to be back home right after leaving it. This goes on and on, your day starts terribly and the whole week goes on in quite a great deal of stresses. Unless a practice of being always late is not something absolutely usual for you.

It is reported that every one of five office workers is always late to work. Specialists analyzed the schedules and routine of more than 8,000 officials and came to the conclusion that 20 per cent of them arrive to the offices late at least once a week, and as much as 12 per cent is reported to be late at least twice a week. At that, traffic problems is named as the most common reason for being late, according to the office workers. 33 per cent blame traffic for their being late, when 24 per cent complain about their lack of sleep and 10 per cent of people blame their children in their being late to work.

However, a lot of office workers exploit their own imagination when it comes to looking for reasons of being late to work. Below, check out 9 most amusing and absurd reasons for not coming to the workplace on time.

1. My husband always hides my car keys to enjoy watching me looking for it in the morning.

2. My son finds it amusing to lock me in my trunk in the morning.

3. In the morning, I found my bike tire bit by a groundhog and flat.

4. The heat in my house was shut off, and I had to stay home and make my aquarium fishes warm.

5. A raccoon attacked me on my way to work, so I had to go to an emergency room in the hospital.

6. When I was going out of my house I got stuck in a spider web so I had to be back home, change my dress and take a shower again.

7. My driveway was completely washed away by yesterday’s rain.

8. My left turn signal in the care went out of order, so I had to turn only to the right to get to work.

9. My husband/son/daughter/mother/father/brother did not wake me up.

Do not try to look ridiculous and instead of looking for more and more amusing reasons to be late to work, just start working on your schedule and learn to be always on time!

Anxiety is one of the basic human emotions which all of us experience quite regularly, to one or another degree, of course. Just like most of other emotions we, humans, experience, anxiety can turn into something that does more harm than good. In particular, excessive excitement and anxiety are considered among the most common reasons for being always late and too distracted. In the most severe forms, anxiety must be understood as a psychological disorder which should be treated and controlled otherwise it can bring to quite hard and harmful consequences.

Those who think that they experience anxiety too often should not leave the problem unattended and check up with a medical specialist to be sure that the problem hasn’t grown into a real anxiety disorder. Below, you can see a list of easy hints on how to figure out whether your anxiety has become a disorder or not.

1. Your anxiety is rather chronic than occasional. Constant or frequent anxiety can be a sign of serious problems, and if you notice that you constantly worry through the day about the things you’re doing or experiencing, it can be the time to see a specialist.

2. Avoidance can be also a sign in increasing anxiety and related problems. Avoiding things, events, places or activities is considered to be a natural reaction on anxiety disorders. For example, it can be related to some certain fears or phobias, which accompany anxiety disorders very often.

3. A lack of proper social life. Undoubtedly, fears and anxiety have a great influence on our social life, but when anxiety grows into something that pushes a person to isolation and breaking down most of the relationships, it is a clear sign of anxiety disorders. If your friendships and other close relationships are in danger due to your constant anxiety, it is a bad warning sign.

4. Poor performance at work. Sometimes anxiety can interfere and influence the things we’re doing in the offices, in schools and in our life. It is obvious that when your anxiety affects your performance and does not allow you be successful in anything, this emotion should be considered causing disorder.

5. Feeling anxiety even in the most usual and non-dangerous situations. This is the most powerful and indicative sign, because usually we experience anxiety in critical situations, often related to danger or very high importance. If you began noticing that your anxiety follows you even in very simple and usual situations, which are not related to danger at all, this can be a clear sign of anxiety disorder.

I must say that being always late is becoming an easier and a more common practice, maybe because the number of excuses for being late is drastically increasing. “Sorry, I lost my limb right on the way here!” “Oh, those kids, you know – they never let you do anything you need on time.” “My apologies, today’s traffic is just horrible, I was waiting there for a half an hour at least before we moved forward!!” “Oh, God, sorry – I just can’t help being late, it’s something genetic and all guys in my family are just like this!”

Be sure, my dear friends, that being always late has nothing to do with your family habits or the problems you usually mention in all those numerous excuses you are used to cover up your behavior with. Being late is linked with such things as thoughtlessness, laziness, a lack of responsibility for your own life and for the life of other people around you, as well as for certain inabilities or fears. In particular, one of the latest trends in the world of reasons why the people are late is believed to be the fear of coming first and waiting for the opposite side to arrive, which can sometimes be linked to many awkward moments and unwanted situations.

For those who are trying to combat their chronic lateness, who are willing to put some efforts into getting rid of this problem and willing to change something in their life, there are interesting tips to think over.

• Believe that your being always late can never be associated with anything good or positive. Making other people waiting is a thing that will always evoke anger and make you look arrogant in the eyes of other people.
• Never think that other things can be more important than your being on time for a stipulated meeting.
• If you see that you’re getting late and will not make it for the scheduled time, call the people you’re going to meet and let them know that you’re late. It will make you look at least responsible for the other people’s time and help the people who would need to wait for you plan their time in a more efficient way.
• Do not think that coming earlier to the meeting or dinner will make you get bored waiting for the other party. In our epoch of the most advanced technologies, it is possible to take the best of some free time you’re going to have while waiting. You can get a lot of other work done: arrange your further schedule and meetings using your smartphone, read and edit a report, read some online newspapers or other documents, and much more.
• Finally, by arriving to a meeting on time, you’ll get the opportunity to enjoy a stress-free course of the day.