Time & Perspective Quote by Louis E. Boone

The joke lands because it’s a perfect little trap: the speaker announces a self-improvement plan, then immediately proves they need it. Boone builds the punchline out of a familiar modern ritual, the vow to get organized, and lets it collapse under the smallest amount of real-life pressure. The first half ("definitely") is performative certainty, the kind people use to reassure themselves and others that they’re in control. The second half exposes the lie we politely tell: that chaos is temporary and discipline is a purchase away.

Subtextually, the quote skewers productivity culture’s favorite fantasy: that time management is a skill you can outsource to a class, a book, a system, instead of a set of choices you make under stress. "Take a course" implies credentials, a neat solution, maybe even absolution. But the excuse ("as soon as I can work it into my schedule") is the same scheduling failure the course would supposedly fix. It’s procrastination wearing business casual.

The context is an office-age mindset where busyness functions as both burden and status symbol. The speaker is not lazy; they’re overcommitted, or at least committed to looking overcommitted. That’s why the line feels uncomfortably true: it captures how people turn the idea of improvement into another task to delay, converting guilt into planning. Boone’s wit isn’t just in the irony; it’s in how quickly the mask drops, in a single dependent clause.