A dear friend reminded me yesterday of another of the benefits of being early - the ability to redo. She'd allocated extra time to arrive for a lunch gathering with friends. The designated restaurant was one with a few Houston locations. On auto-pilot, she navigated to a location closer to her, rather than the appointed spot. Because she'd planned to be early, she arrived 15 minutes early to her first stop and only 5 minutes late (practically on-time) to the actual destination. Had she been cutting it close, as many of us often do, she would have been terribly late for a gathering that had little margin for error. This special visit was shoe-horned into a one-hour window between immovable appointments.
Whether it's time with family and friends or the chance to make a positive impression with clients or prospects, it's usually the early bird that gets the time.
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