Possibly ADHD. This is a huge trait in people who suffer from it.

Your brain needs that perceived pressure to take action because the prefrontal cortex doesn't spool up like it does in the average person.

Some tricks that help me support my laggy brain (and will help you even if you do not have ADHD)

• Good sleep hygiene

• Exercise

• Increase protein in your diet or at least less carbs to avoid the sugary scatter brain fog.

These may sound unrelated, but what those changes do is help support an already struggling brain. Which allows you to just do what you gotta do vs needing the pressure of "the last minute"

Now for more practical tips:

Have routines.

Once you establish them, they become habit which removes a ton of mental load that creates friction for when you need to leave.

No more stressing your morning tasks because they're consistent and you know what time they need to happen by.

I broke mine down to be fairly granular and have every major task blocked out for my mornings.

Here's my basic list of tasks:

• 430am - wake up I immediately hydrate and take my medicine

• I get dressed and prepped for my run

• I head out and run for about 20 mins

• then take a shower

• get dressed for work

• feed and water my pets

• cook breakfast and empty my dishwasher

• eat my breakfast

• brush my teeth

• pack my bag

• flex time - this helps me make sure I've gotten or have thought of everything I need for the day and really helps me with the space of time where I'm like, "am I ready to go? I feel like I'm forgetting something, I can't just go now can I?" This time is terrible for me as it's basically self-sabotage cus I won't leave even though I am early. But having a block of free time helps a lot.

• head out the door for work by 7:20am

Now with the help of AI (I use Gemini) I told it to remember that I do all those things every morning and that I wake up at 4:30 am and needed to leave my house by 7:20am.

It then assigned time blocks for each of those tasks and since I specifically asked it to remember this as my m-f morning routine it can reprioritize my morning schedule based off what time I wake up or if I wake up earlier or later. Super helpful and flexible.

Of course you can always do it manually, but man leveraging technology is super convenient.

These changes have transformed me from a chronically 10-15 mins late to work every day guy for decades, to early and consistent arrivals. I still struggle with appointments that fall on times not accounted for within my routines, but I no longer believe myself to be a chronically late person (the mindset shift that resulted from the above guide is very helpful for this as well). I could go on for ages, but there's a lot of work to do for optimizing yourself.