Late Again? Causes
QUICK CHECK ANSWERS:
1.  a) 15% to 20%.  b) Long-term or happening for 
years.
2.  Face embarrassment when others think the per -
son as a problem; are greeted with unfriendly 
glances, rolling eyes, and sarcastic remarks; 
create anxiety thinking up excuses.
3.  Late-comer's excuses and doing all the work 
until the late worker arrives.
4.  a) Tests of Empathy, Self-Esteem, and Self-
Discipline.  
  b) Ability to feel what others are feeling.  
  c) Feelings of positive self worth. 
   d) Ability to control one's thoughts and actions.
5.  a) Tests of Anxiety and Distractibility.  
  b) Feelings of worry, stress, nervousness.  
  c) Attention jumps from topic to topic blocking 
skill of concentration.
6.  Fooling yourself with excuse making for your 
lack of social skills.
7.  Blame events, blame other people, deny the 
problem.
8.  Seeing tardiness as your problem and correcting 
it.
9.  Will power (or power within).
10.  Skill to know what you need to do, and to do it 
whether you feel like it or not.
11.	 a)	Life	is	a	conflict	between	short-term	wants	 and long-term goals.  
  b) Student's example of short-term want and 
long-term goal.
12.  By the actions you take today.
13.  a) Chemical the body produces when faced with 
a stressful situation.  
  b) Fully alive, able to think clearer, super en-
ergy to meet deadlines.  
  c) Harms your health and creates unhealthy 
relationships as others feel your stress.
14.  a) Little jobs such as check messages, feed dog, 
water plants.  	
  b) Rest, gather thoughts, plan, focus. 
15.  a) Failure to judge time correctly.  
  b) Lateness is due to a person's lack of thinking 
skills to judge how long a task will take.  
  c) Lateniks think time goes slower than time 
really does;
  d)  Late.
16.   Do not care about feelings of others; like the 
attention of arriving late; want to prove power 
over others; have narcissistic personalities.  
17.  Think they are better than others.
18.  Student's opinion.
19.  a) Student's opinion.
  b) Reason for opinion.