I’ll Be There in Five Minutes. Meaning Twenty - How to Stop Being Late, Plan Your Departures Realistically, and Leave Yourself a Time Buffer Without Setting Five Fake Alarms
By Max Paradox
Length7h 6m
About this audiobook
The appointment starts at six. The journey takes twenty minutes. Leaving at five forty should work perfectly - if your shoes attached themselves, the car waited outside the meeting room and your keys had not quietly relocated. You send “leaving now” while still standing beside the charger. Apparently, now has become a flexible concept.
I’ll Be There in Five Minutes. Meaning Twenty is a practical guide for people who intend to arrive on time but keep building plans around the fastest journey they ever managed. Max Paradox looks at the small omissions behind familiar delays and shows how to plan a departure around the actual sequence of getting somewhere.
The book treats preparation as part of the journey. Finishing work, finding your bag, getting downstairs, travelling, parking and reaching the right entrance all take time. You will examine estimates, notice where minutes disappear and give your time buffer a purpose instead of treating it as a reassuring number that can immediately be spent.
The chapters cover alarms you have trained yourself to ignore, the urge to finish one more thing and morning problems that began the previous evening. There are practical approaches to keeping essential objects in predictable places, closing the previous task and building a simple departure routine.
Written with observational humour and recognisable everyday situations, this book offers decisions to try, assumptions to question and a clearer understanding of what actually happens before a departure.
This publication was prepared using tools that support the creative process, including artificial intelligence solutions. The final concept, structure and editing are the responsibility of the author.
Audiobook details
GenreHealth and Wellness, Other
Length7 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRO
2Chapter 1 - The Appointment Time Is Not Your Departure Time
3Chapter 2 - Your Five Minutes Has a Staffing Problem
4Chapter 3 - Stop Setting Alarms You Have No Intention of Obeying
5Chapter 4 - Your Lateness Started Before You Were Late
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6Chapter 5 - Stop Making the Doorway a Scavenger Hunt
7Chapter 6 - You Are Allowed to Arrive Early
8Chapter 7 - Just One More Thing
9Chapter 8 - Stop Planning Around Your Personal Best
10Chapter 9 - Put the Journey on the Calendar Too
11Chapter 10 - Give Your Buffer a Job
12Chapter 11 - Build a Departure Routine You Can Run Half-Asleep
13Chapter 12 - When the Plan Changes, Change the Plan
14Chapter 13 - Tomorrow Morning Starts Tonight
15Chapter 14 - Leaving Together Is a Group Project
16Chapter 15 - When the System Works and You Still End Up Late
17Chapter 16 - Not Every Clock Deserves the Same Amount of Panic
18Chapter 17 - Some Days Refuse to Be Organized
19Chapter 18 - Notice the Slide Before You're Back to Sprinting
20Chapter 19 - Keep the System Small Enough to Keep Using
21Chapter 20 - Let Five Minutes Mean Five Minutes Again
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