It’s 9AM. You have a dentist appointment at 3PM. Six hours. You could pay the electric bill, answer those three emails, start the closet reorganization you’ve been thinking about for two weeks.
Instead you’re on the couch. Not scrolling, not resting, not doing anything. Your brain has fast-forwarded to the waiting room. It’s sitting in that chair, rehearsing what you’ll say, running through how long it’ll take, calculating when you need to leave. Have I confirmed the time. Do I need to bring anything. What if they find something.
The morning dissolves into nothing.
We’ve put together a worksheet this week called Reclaim Hours Lost to Waiting Mode that helps you build a pre-appointment protocol, create task menus sorted by how much time you have, and track your waiting mode patterns. You’ll find it at the end of this newsletter (PDF and digital versions).
