24, 25, 26 and 27 Oct Plus ending of treatment

24 Oct Friday
Friday I went for Korean Class from my home. I left my house early and reached my class at 10.15am. Surprised that I was the first in class but again the class started late.
Later I went for a meet up with my friend at canteen A. The meet up time was scheduled at 3pm which I reached at 2pm.
Later I had another lecture at 4.30pm. For once, I was early for the class and reached there at 4.30pm sharp.
After that i went off and met my friends whom I asked to meet at 6.30pm. I reached at 6.25pm as my teacher ended class early.

verdict: Success
Points: 4 out of 4 events

25 Oct Saturday

I met up with my friend at 10.30am at Yew tee. The time for meet up was 10.30am but I was almost late as I left my place a little late.
Later I went down to Orchard for project discussion. Initially, the meet up time was supposed to be 12pm but as my meet up with my friend does not allow me to leave earlier, I informed them that I could only reach at 12.30pm. I ended up reaching at 12.10pm
Later I had to meet up with my church friends to buy some presents at 3.30pm. I reached at 3.28pm but they are late. They reached at 3.45pm.
Later I had to meet my other church group mates to pray before going for service at 5.30pm. I reached at 5.30pm but everyone was late.

Verdict: Success
Points: 4 out of 4 events

26 Oct Sunday
I had to meet up my friend again for morning prayers at 10.30am. I reached at 10.25am. He was early and was already waiting for me.
Later, my brother and I had to meet our parents at Marriot Hotel at 6.30pm. We reached there at 6.20pm despite coming out of our house a little later than we had wanted due to some unforeseen circumstances. We had to look for our parents clothes which took some time.

Verdict: Success
Points: 2 out of 2 events

27 Oct Monday
I had to meet up with my friends for breakfast at 8am at plaza Singapura. I reached at 8.20am as I had initially decided not to go but changed my mind later.
Later, I had to meet up with my church friends at the train station at 12.30pm. Due to the prayers taking longer than usual, and adding on to that I wanted to get a cup of tea before I went I almost missed the timing. I reached exactly at 12.30pm but no one was there. The other 2 girls were late for about half an hour

Verdict: Success
Points: 1 out of 2 events

Although I missed one timing, it was due to the reason that I had initially wanted to skip breakfast as I wanted to concentrate on my report. Hence, it cannot be counted against me that I missed the time though I shouldn't say that I deserved the point either.

Discussion:
Finally the end of the treatment has come. The result I must say is satisfying as I have not been late almost for an entire week. The unfortunate thing was that even though i was usually early, others are often late. However, I should not let such a thing put me down. I derive a lot of pleasure from being early and the negative feelings of being late and feeling guilty has been removed (negative reinforcement) and perhaps it is rewarding me for being early. However, I feel that if there is a flaw in this experiment is that the condition that allowed it to work was that I feel guilty about being late. Also, I was quite adamant that I reach on time as it is a good habit. Perhaps if it was administered on a person who does not see the value of being on time, it might not be as effective. I will certainly continue with this treatment even though I would not be blogging about it anymore as I hope that this will translate into a good habit which will reflect well upon others. Also, I'd want to encourage the people around me to do so as well so that they too will benefit from it. Being on time means having more precious meet up time and allows us to be able to complete what we have set out for. Being late could really become a domino effect as you wouldn't be able to meet other timings as well. However, that would only work if everyone makes the effort to be early.