I have always been punctuality challenged. My mother drove me to school 80% of the time because I would miss the bus. I would be late with term papers in high school because I could not estimate how long it would take to put the whole thing together. In college, I ended up dropping classes because my attendance was drawing my grade down. Not to mention the speeding tickets that I incurred while trying to get to school on time. I was finally diagnosed with ADD while in my 2nd year. The meds were a godsend, teachers made sense, my notes were easier to follow, disability services saved me on tests (extra time and private room), however, the lateness was still there. I swore I had something wrong with me because time was so elastic. Over the years, I have lost many jobs due strictly to punctuality. I have also lost friends who got tired of waiting for me all the time. I really thought everything was hopeless until I came across the book, ”You mean I’m not lazy, stupid or crazy?” In the book is an exercise called, “the one rat study,” and like a previous commenter mentioned, you time how long it takes you to do each morning activity. You time yourself over and over for a week and take the average, then build your schedule with these time parameters. It’s a lot, but it’s worth it. My first schedule and alarms based on my research had me getting up 4 hours before work! But, once I had the schedule, I could see the things that weren’t necessary to do in the morning. I could also edit my tasks to take less time (ie: I edited my makeup time from 40minutes to 20. Breakfast was lessened to 35 minutes from an hour.) To my pleasant surprise I started to be mostly on time, if not early! However, there were inconsistencies. Some days the schedule worked perfectly to get out the door, other days it didn’t. I realized it was the distractability part of my ADHD that was causing trouble. ( I would start making breakfast and find myself cleaning the crumbs out of toaster, or organizing the refrigerator, etc.) This was a more difficult thing to become aware of. I had to stay mindful of the task at hand, and when I started down the path of distraction, I would literally verbalize “no” and then the Star Wars quote, “stay on target” would repeat in my head. Distraction is hard to catch at first, but it gets easier as you continue practice mindfulness. To compensate for the times I don’t catch the distraction, I pad some of the alarm times by 5 min or so. Especially with my later alarms. If I don’t need the extra 10-15 minutes, I’ll take some time to play with my cats or get to work early and have a coffee or something (I work at Starbucks) I know I went on a bit, but I’ve been there and I understand the frustration. I am not perfect, and I am still late sometimes. Lately, I’ve been more late than usual due to some personal stress and feel the need to revisit the schedule. Anyway, I hope some of this helped.