To prioritize the day, think about the decade:
If I want to be on track to achieve that in 10 years, what do I need to do today?
— James Clear https://twitter.com/JamesClear/status/1419710504839307269?s=20
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On Deadlines
How to miss a deadline
But what happens if you can’t avoid it?
Projects are always on the frontier, combining elements and ideas and effort to do something that’s not been done before, not quite the way we’re doing it here and now.
And so, bold projects sometimes fail to make their deadline. Even if we build systems and use buffers, sometimes it doesn’t work.
Some thoughts:
— Seth Godin
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https://seths.blog/2021/05/how-not-to-miss-a-deadline/ https://seths.blog/2021/05/how-to-miss-a-deadline/
On Deadlines
How (not) to miss a deadline
Deadlines are valuable, and deadlines are expensive.
Organized systems and societies need deadlines. It would be impossible to efficiently build a house if the subcontractors could deliver their goods or services whenever it were convenient for them. Movie studios and book publishers schedule their releases months in advance to allow distribution teams to plan their work. Software is dependent on subsystems that have to be in place before the entire program can work.
Along with the value that synchronized deliverables create, there are also real costs. Not simply the organizational cost of a missed deadline, but the significant damage to a reputation or brand that happens when a promise isn’t kept. And there’s a human cost–the stress and strain that comes from working to keep a promise that we might not have personally made, or that might be more difficult because someone else didn’t perform their part of the dance.
In the wide-open race for attention and commitments, the standards of deadlines have been wavering. For forty years, Saturday Night Live has gone on at 11:30. Not, as its creator says, because it’s ready, but because it’s 11:30. That’s the deal.
On Kickstarter, this sort of sacrosanct deadline is rare indeed. “This charger will ship in six weeks!” they say, when actually, it’s been more than a year with no shipment date in sight. Or with venture capitalists and other backers. “We’re going to beat the competition to market by three months.” Sometimes it feels like if the company doesn’t bring wishful thinking to the table, they won’t get funded. Given that choice, it’s no wonder that people get desperate. Wishful thinking might not be called lying, but it is. We should know better.
Earning the reputation as someone (a freelancer, a marketer, a company, a leader) who doesn’t miss a deadline is valuable. And it doesn’t happen simply because you avoid sleeping and work like a dog. That’s the last resort of someone who isn’t good at planning.
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This is very different from “someday.”
Choose any date you like, as far in the future as you like. But a date, circled on the calendar.
By that date, what will you have implemented? What will be in place? Where will you be, what will you be doing?
Way more powerful than someday.
— Seth Godin https://seths.blog/2021/05/date-certain-3/
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Follow the 10% Rule, which says that you should spend, roughly 10% of the total time you anticipate for a project on planning the project. So if you were going to spend 100 hours on a project, you should spend about 10 hours planning it.
— Scott H Young
surprised about the time involved? then you need to go read https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2020/12/07/planning/
jason
