An Organized Person
Knows How To Get Ready

You can always tell an organized person if they are early or on time. The most important part about being on time is knowing how long it takes to get ready or allowing plenty of time if you are not sure. This one tip will save you countless times of being late.

You need to have a sense of how long it takes to do everything you need to do and work backwards from that perspective. This is how an organized person will think.

It takes longer to get ready for other events different than your normal daily routine. You should at least double the time you normally spend to get ready for a special event.

You know how long it takes to get ready for work and how long it takes to get there. If you didn’t you would be late every day. Just take that knowledge and apply it to every other thing you do.

It was so frustrating with my ex-wife and her slowness in getting ready and her constantly saying it didn’t take her long to get ready. It took her a minimum of 3 hours from the time she started until we left to a weekend party or wedding or event like that.

The funny thing was that each time it was something different that made her take that long. I pointed out that it took her at least 3 hours to get ready so that she would know what time to get up so that we would be on time for the event.

I thought I was helping her but she didn’t see it that way. She just stubbornly stayed in bed or wouldn’t start getting ready. This was even after we agreed what time she should get up.

She would argue with me that it didn’t take her 3 hours to get ready because part of the time was spent doing other things like dishes, preparing food, laundry or something else. I would point out that the affect of doing those things at that time made for the 3 hours and until she chose to not do those things at that time then it took her 3 hours and we would be late.

It is just not possible to have a stress free life if the people you are dealing with are chronically late and disorganized. My ex-wife had a lot of good qualities, it’s just that being on time and being an organized person was not one of those.

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