If you’re anything like us, you’re constantly juggling a forever-long list of deadlines. Some of them are are for clients or partners or your boss; some are for key projects; some impact what everyone else around you is doing; and some — well, some are deadlines that you’ve set arbitrarily for yourself.
Establishing timelines and goals for your own projects is critical — it’s the only way you’ll ever prioritize them! But being able to determine which deadlines can move when the week gets to be a lot? That is a sanity-saving skill.
Take, for example, this newsletter.
We normally push send between 6am and 7am on Thursdays. Guess what? We weren’t ready. This week got the best of us, and hitting our deadline would have required us to forego other priorities (namely sleep, which is absolutely a priority in case you need reminding). So we had three options:
1. Push through our stress and sleep deprivation to hit our deadline.
2. Skip it altogether.
3. Send it a little bit late.
And then we remembered: We made up the deadline! It’s entirely self-imposed, which means we have the freedom to move it. Option 3 it is.
Give yourself grace, friends. It’s OK to not get it all done in a day. The list will still be waiting for you tomorrow. We promise.
