How to Benefit from Deadlines Flashcards
What is the deadline benefit?
An upcoming deadline boosts focus temporarily. The pressure of a deadline can be explained as a fear of losing something. Any fear increases focus to address the issue according to general psychology.
Why deadline benefit is not optimal but rather an emergency way out?
Deadlines kill creativity. Although deadlines provide energy, this energy is considerably cheap. A very similar example is cheap calories from processed sugar or saturated fat. Expecting a decent quality of performance, the work must be completed with time reserve, in advance.
What is an optimal way to set deadlines?
Freely chosen actions should create deadlines. Deadlines should not create a schedule. The limbic system makes emotions by actions. Actions build automated flow. A person must arrange the deadline by challenging themselves in completing the work early and fast.
How to deal with procrastination?
The person must embrace the challenge of dealing with negative emotions. Emotions are always feel permanent. Habit breaking cravings feel like they will happen all the time. The recovery from procrastination is gradual. Replace “I can’t” with “Wow, this is so interesting to dive in”!
What is the best honouring of people around?
It is ending work on time.
How deadlines define work?
Work is an ordered, sustained effort until it is complete. Many tasks have no completion point; moreover, are unlimited. Deadlines define the work:
1. by order: prioritise, make steps;
2. by intensity: constancy, boost adrenaline.
Parkinson’s Law: work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion!
Why do we generally need deadlines at work as human beings?
Deadlines limit work for a living. 30% of millennials say they have no friends. Without friends and a clean strategy, people easily overwork. People need time for relationships, rest, deeper enrichment via learning, etc.
Do deadlines increase energy?
Yes! People who respect deadlines very strictly or people who are disciplined by missing out have a higher level of energy during deadlines.
Which particular deadline the brain loves the most?
The brain loves a sleeping deadline. Jumping out of bed cures morning mental haze. Brain prepares people for the alarm if they do not hit snooze and are consistent.
What is the ultimate deadline for everyone?
Death.
