I’ve witnessed many goals, dreams and business ambitions fail to come into fruition when people don’t set specific deadlines to making it happen. Imagine going to an airport to catch a commercial flight and it doesn’t have any flight departure nor arrival time to your destination. How will you know the exact time that you’re meant to depart or your arrival time so you can plan your friends to pick you up at the airport? Naturally, that doesn’t happen in real life but why should you allow it happen to you and hinder from getting what you want?

Deadlines give us the ability to plan ahead of time to focus and organise. It will allow us to know whether you are on track to the completion of your tasks. Big organisations use “Gant charts” and other methodologies to help each employees involved in the project know the timelines that they need to spend on each tasks. If an hour is given to complete the task, then the individual must ensure that he focuses in completing it within the given time. Construction and engineering companies are very well aware of this and they always ensure that they have deadlines so they can also plan for any unexpected eventualities! It will save everyone time, effort and money!

Start giving yourself deadlines for everything that you do. Give yourself a realistic timeline to achieve it and take loads of action to keep you on the right track. You’ll get the job done eventually. Remember slow progress is better than no progress!!

All the best!

Ambar.