For a long time, I was late for work every day.

The distance between home and work is 30 kilometers, and it takes two trips from bus to subway. Normal bus only takes 20 minutes, but if there is traffic jam or rain, the 20-minute journey becomes 4 or 50 minutes, and it takes 55 minutes by subway. The mood of going to work every day is really tantamount to the grief of going to the grave for me. The journey was long and painful.

In the eyes of my colleagues, I am a famous late king, and teasing me for being late every morning has become a pleasure. I know that no one is malicious, so I am ashamed and don't care. Until one day, HR sent me a screenshot of my bad punching record that month, and I felt exposed. For the first time, I think this is a very serious matter. I solemnly told myself in my heart not to be late again tomorrow.

As a result, the tragedy repeated itself, and all the later memories came crashing down at the moment I saw the punching time. I feel very heavy and even angry all morning, and I don't understand how I can't even do this little thing!

I am disappointed, disgusted and resentful of myself. I was trapped in this mood all day and didn't want to work, and I didn't want to work the next day. This time, shame actually prevailed, and I suddenly realized that I was a saved young man. I am determined to face up to the problem of being late, and I want to change!

My best friend CP lives farther than me, but in my impression, she has never been late. It turns out that distance is not a problem at all.

Stop making excuses for yourself!

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I always press the critical point of being late when I go out every day, so if anything goes wrong from taking the bus to getting off the subway, I will be late.

To solve this problem, you must go out early, and getting up early becomes inevitable.

The alarm clock rings three times every morning. I always want to lie down for another five minutes. The reason why young people nowadays are unwilling to get up early is that their work and rest patterns are reversed. The easiest way to overcome this problem is to adjust the normal work and rest, go to bed early and get up early. Go to bed early, get enough sleep and get up early the next day. Don't want to be late, I force myself to go to bed before 10: 30 every night.

The other is to be efficient. I calculated that it took more than an hour from getting up, washing, eating, dressing, defecating, and finally leaving home. The efficiency in the morning is too low. So I spent a week recording, improving efficiency, and finally optimized some links that could save time.

The most time-consuming part is "What to wear today". I basically started thinking about what to wear as soon as I woke up, until I stood in front of the closet 10 minutes, and nothing came of it. The morning time was wasted. I think this may be a problem faced by many girls. My method is to take the time to tidy up the cupboard, separate the upper and lower clothes, and get the clothes and shoes ready the night before, so as not to leave any trouble for tomorrow.

Because I live at home, I am very lucky. I don't have to think about the second biggest question in life, "What to eat today". Dad cooked, and I solved it in five minutes. Washing your face and dressing after a meal is also a time to rest your stomach. I want to thank my dad who works hard every day without complaining, dad, for your hard work! )

I will set an alarm clock for going out, and I will be ready to go out in 3 minutes after the alarm clock rings. In this way, we can control the time and avoid procrastination.

The last step of the reform is to adjust the mode of travel, refuse public transportation and choose bicycles. For this reason, I bought a poncho so that I can ride a bike in rainy days without worrying about the trouble of being stuck in the road. This is the most powerful way to save being late.

Looking back now, the reduction of time in any link is a struggle with yourself, and better self encourages the present self to find ways to do better.

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These carefully arranged links are actually just a summary of objective factors. After getting up early to improve efficiency, I still feel that something is wrong. Although my body can do it mechanically, my relaxed mental state has not improved.

I tried to remember every detail of late at night, the bed I didn't remember, the things I didn't want to do in time, even the few minutes I went out. There must be some connection between these seemingly scattered points.

Finally, I found that the root cause of being late is that I never take the initiative to go out, because I don't like playing mobile phones on the subway, so leaving home means facing a boring journey for more than an hour. The subconscious mind of the brain has sensed the discomfort to be experienced in advance, so it has always resisted going out in action.

Because I didn't want to face it, I tried to put it off for the last time. As a result, I was late. To put it bluntly, going to work and going out is a procrastination. It took me a long time to realize this very secret reason.

Find yourself something to do. If the time on the subway is relaxed and happy, it may give me the desire and motivation to go out. After thinking, I chose the simplest and most direct method-reading.

I started with books with storylines, first I only read them on the subway, and then I read them before going to bed. These fragmented times are all accumulated by me. After reading one book, I can't wait to open the second one. Unexpectedly, a small effort has achieved unexpected results.

I even found that sometimes, because I read wonderful content, I especially want to leave home as soon as possible and get on the subway, so that I can see the plot behind earlier, so that I can have a long time to continue my wonderful book.

With desire and drive, the whole person's state is different. Because there are things to do, time becomes full and tense, and I will begin to want to cherish time.

Moreover, reading is really a very good thing Gone are the days when I was bored on the road and brushed my circle of friends frequently before going to bed. Fortunately, I found this very good way to solve the subjective emotion of not wanting to go out.

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Looking back on this experience, I found that the change of "I'm not allowed to be late" benefited me a lot.

The most direct benefit is that time has become abundant and life has come quite calmly. Because I prepared in advance the night before, I dressed more appropriately the next day. In the morning, I also have extra time to dress myself up, put on exquisite makeup, or put on beautiful scarves and look at myself in the mirror, and my mood becomes sunny all day.

I have developed a good routine of not staying up late, going to bed early and getting up early. When a person is used to getting up early, he will really find that his day is longer than others, he can handle more things and have more energy than others. Compared with ordinary people, many successful people just win the morning time.

Most importantly, when I encounter a problem, I don't turn a blind eye, but want to solve it. I will use all means to overcome difficulties, and this ability to find ways to solve problems when encountering problems has also been exercised.

At the same time, when I form a habit and find that I have the strength to stick to it, this strength invisibly enhances my self-confidence and makes me firmly believe that I have the ability to do more meaningful things.

When you have an upward goal, life will no longer be idle, and everything will become more and more organized and motivated.

Now I haven't been late for a long time, and my colleagues occasionally miss my pleasure of always being late. In my heart, I am grateful for this belated experience, and I am grateful that I have not given up on myself and given me a chance to contact and change. I am glad that I have the opportunity to see myself who can do better.

I have finished reading six books by using my free time in the morning and evening. This is something I have been talking about for nearly three years, but I have never really finished writing it.

And I found that my change has just begun …