Want to 10x your productivity and impact? Use deadlines.
Nothing sparks action like a looming deadline.
Deadlines are the difference between ideas sitting idle and results happening.
Deadlines act like a superpower.
They are pragmatic.
Celebrate and embed them in your leadership and management style.
They are obvious tools.
They force prioritization.
Deadlines inject intensity and urgency.
They turn pretty good into- shipped.
Deadlines don’t allow for procrastination, perfectionism, or excessive caution.
They demand doing over delaying, action over assessment.
They compel completion.
Deadlines are the forcing function.
Impose deadlines and wield them wisely.
Not every task needs a hard stop.
But for your highest priorities, most important projects – put a stake in the ground.
Then lean into that deadline as your career depends on it.
Because, in many ways, it does.