Ah Greg. I would love to work with you :) Another aspect of this is that people who are chronically late train you to be late. I definitely only leave for mee

Ah Greg. I would love to work with you :) Another aspect of this is that people who are chronically late train you to be late. I definitely only leave for meetings 10 mins after the meeting start time for some people and I still beat them there. There are a few clients who I will have a specific meeting time for, promise to be there on time, and then something comes up. Invariably, it's the chronically late people who always manage to have stuff come up. So what have I done? Cheaper chronically late clients => Fired them. It's not worth stressing out about this stuff. And I do stress out. Lucrative clients => Increase my rate to a point where I am happy to sit and wait for them as long as required. Now i don't think "they are wasting my time", I think "thanks for paying me for just sitting here :)". Social meetings => Since there isn't a way to incentivize chronically late friends, I just try to aim to be 30 mins late (still not the last one in). Yeah, I'm being part of the problem in this case :(