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Friday, April 4, 2014

Some people hate deadlines, and some people love them. I wouldn?t say I love them, but I would say they help me get things accomplished. That?s why I often claim, ?Deadlines are my friends.?
As a journalist and author, I?ve had to meet deadlines for magazines, newspapers and publishers. I?ve also had to meet deadlines for my clients. In ever case, those deadlines forced me to get the work done?and to do so on time.
I guess you could say the lit a fire under me. Some writers might say the deadline puts the fire right out.
Here?s the thing. When you know you must get something done, or when you have committed to it, inevitably you will. That?s why every goal-setting course or program tells you to specify when you will achieve your goal. You must write down the exact date.
That?s also why accountability partners and coaches are so helpful. You tell your goals and your deadlines. Then you have someone besides yourself who knows if you have kept that commitment.
In the writing world, thousands of writers opt for deadlines each year in November when they join National Novel Writing Month and National Nonfiction Writing Month to complete a book in just 30 days. Right now, bloggers and writers are blogging books in 30 days during National Book Blogging Month. Why? Because the push to complete their project by that deadline makes them get something done in a short period of time, something that normally might take months, if not years, to complete. These writers finish the first draft of a manuscript in just a month.
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