Just because there is a deadline does not mean you have to sacrifice quality. The deadline is there to keep you focused. Work backwards from the deadline and capture all of the little items you have to do to complete your goal on time. Do these little items the best you can and the project will be done with quality and on time. Once you complete an item then you have to decide what is the next most important task to accomplish. The sequence of moves is just as important as the moves themselves. A thought out plan can make a project much easier and make you not feel as stressed.
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noiz viol8ion blog #625 – Deadlines Are Your Friend
It’s not going to happen overnight so stop stressing yourself out. Enjoy the moments and celebrate the small victories. Break down the huge goal in manageable baby steps. Set deadlines for these smaller baby sets by estimating how much time it is going to take to accomplish each task. The deadline is there to help motivate you to accomplish things and stay on task. It is there to push you and prevent procrastination. The act of setting a deadline tells you that this is important for you to accomplish. Deadlines are your friend.
Without a deadline there is no timeframe. You will accomplish something, “Whenever you have time or when you feel inspired.” This day will never come and you will always be waiting. A deadline will force you to make progress and not procrastinate.
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noiz viol8ion blog #340 – Deadlines! Deadlines! Deadlines!
Putting a date on the calendar gives you a target to shoot for.
If you are a procrastinator like me then if something isn’t due then it will not get done. This is due to Parkinson’s Law which states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. People usually take all the time that they are given.
To solve this figure out what needs to be done, estimate how long it is going to take and set a deadline that you can attain.
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Blog #25 – Deadlines, a curse or blessing?
Whether self imposed or put on you by someone else, deadlines are a powerful thing.
I have always been a procrastinator. In school I would work on something right until the moment it was due. If I had a test then I would study the night before. Now that I’m in a real world job, most of what I do is in accordance to meeting deadlines. There is not a big change either. I am still working on something right until the deadline.
Deadlines have the ability to light a fire under people to get things done. Deadlines make people go crazy. Nice people turn into giant balls of stress. All that matters is meeting the deadline.
Even though the stress and craziness that occurs with deadlines. There is a strong power to get work done to meet these dates. They are great motivation.
Once they are passed and you have successfully met the deadline there is a great relief and reason to celebrate.
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