Five minutes is the difference between arriving and arriving flustered.
Chronic lateness by four minutes is a low-grade stress tax you pay several times a day. Every light is wrong, every slow driver is personal, and you walk in already behind.
Leaving five minutes early changes the same journey completely. You get the parking space, you get to say hello properly, you get to be a person on arrival.
Try it for one week on the trips that matter most and see whether you would go back.
How to actually do it
- 01Pick the one trip you are always slightly late for.
- 02Move the alarm or the reminder back five minutes.
- 03Notice on arrival what is different, and keep it for a week.
You already know if this is the one. Go put a date on it.
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