People who manage to accomplish tons before going to scheduled events, etc…

[Anonymous]

This is the first time I heard of anyone commuting to a dry-cleaner, LOL! To me the dry cleaning happens at whatever place is closest to me, and dropping off or picking up takes 5 minutes or less. If I want to get donuts and coffee, it's a drive-through errand, 10 minutes max. The dentist is 1.5 hours, including driving to and from. Grocery shopping is also within 1-2 miles of my house, and I usually go with the list and I know where everything is, so again, 30 minutes max.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the first time I heard of anyone commuting to a dry-cleaner, LOL! To me the dry cleaning happens at whatever place is closest to me, and dropping off or picking up takes 5 minutes or less. If I want to get donuts and coffee, it's a drive-through errand, 10 minutes max. The dentist is 1.5 hours, including driving to and from. Grocery shopping is also within 1-2 miles of my house, and I usually go with the list and I know where everything is, so again, 30 minutes max.

PP - the nearest dry cleaner is 20 min from me. DD takes at least 20 min the drive-thru. Dentist is more like 2 hours. Grocery store is 10 minutes away, so I'm already over your time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you do it and make it to scheduled events on time?

Example: At a seminar and one of the people at my table had gone to the dry cleaners, grocery shopped, went to the dentist, grabbed donuts and coffee and was able to make a 2pm session.

I don’t know that with any amount of scheduling my day could run so concisely. Even if I start at 6am, I find that I am either cutting into running late or unable to accomplish a list of errands in full before going to something scheduled like that. Traffic also will slow down my day.

Are there just fast people and slow people in the world with time management? Is it the locations and distances? I think I just must move too slowly to get things done. I’ve encountered this before also where people come to a kids party after going to 5,6 places beforehand and can manage without being late.

That all seems like a very reasonable amount of things to do before 2pm.

Dry cleaners take all of 2 minutes
Grocery shopping takes at most an hour (really depends on what they're buying)
Dentist takes 30 minutes
Donuts & coffee takes 5 minutes

In what world?!
Theres always a line at my dry cleaners. A full weeks shopping takes an hour. Dentist takes 45-75 minutes with wait time, cleaning, paying, waiting for the dentist after the hygenist, scheduling the next appointment. Donuts and coffee usually has a line.

Its a reasonable amount of stuff to do but unless all of that is within walking distance, its getting in an out of the car, finding parking, waiting at red lights, traffic during morning rush hour and lunch rush hour. Some of the shopping centers in our area take just 10 minutes to get OUT of.