Running late

Here I am once again running late. Each and every move seems to take me not one step ahead but instead transport me yet further behind. Running seems to appease my concern but only until I arrive again late. So to solve this dilemma I have comprised a brilliant plan. I have gone back to bed.

To be honest this seems like a great solution on many occasions as running late often seems like it just provides for continuing to run late. Striving to catch up appears to be a failing proposition yet what other choice to we have?

I guess we could schedule less, we could sleep less or perhaps become more efficient. The last one is the one we desire the one we hope to choose. But just what does this ethereal more efficient me look like? Does it talk less or type faster perhaps it chooses closer topics of conversation so one seems to transition into another. Seems unlikely.

Becoming more efficient is more about thinking things through. Pondering the way things could be done or even the way people should be approached. Efficiency and thinking ahead go hand in hand planning before acting creating a smother flow of events. This is the very problem when we truly get behind we stop planning and simply run from event to event.

When we are running late the first causality of our schedule is planning. We begin to run from one event to the next striving to re-obtain the schedule we desired. And failing this we strive to at least keep close to the original goal. So long days become longer, hard meetings become even more difficult and tasks that were simple become frustrating.

The answer is simple but is in fact very anti intuitive. Stop. Take a moment to plan. Pause in your running and think out a strategy that does not seek to place you back on schedule but instead places you back on track to the goal you had for the day. What needs to be accomplished and what can be removed or rescheduled. At this point it is easy to cancel eating or time with a friend but be carefully as these two events often encourage some of our best ideas.

Running late is not great but it is not the end of the world it simply meas something we failed to plan for entered our schedule. That is life. So we can either learn to deal with these events well or let them create havoc. Either way they exist, so choose a way of dealing with them that permits you to live long and prosper.

Blessings