In this YouTube short, Catherine Bell explains that missing deadlines is inevitable when pursuing large, ambitious goals—what she calls "playing big." She defines integrity as honoring commitments, but stresses that when a deadline cannot be met, the responsible action is to promptly inform all affected parties, offer a realistic new timeline, and take ownership without self‑criticism. Bell emphasizes the importance of grace, re‑promising, and deliberately scheduling time to complete tasks, framing missed deadlines as a natural part of big‑game play rather than a personal failure.
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Because the reality is if you're achieving all of your goals and all of your timelines and tasks and everything, you're playing way too small of a game. So here's what I know is that when you're playing a really big game and you've got like huge goals to happen and make that happen as you go forward and you've got, there's a lot of things that need to get done to accomplish these goals. The reality is, is that you're, you're, you're you're going to miss deadlines, you're gonna miss like things that you said that you were going to do. And here's, here's how you stay in integrity. Integrity is doing what you said you would do by when you said you would do it. And the minute that you know that you're not going to be able to do it, get in communication with all parties affected, and then make a re-promise of when you can realistically get it done. Because the reality is, if you're achieving all of your goals and all of your— Right. Timelines and tasks and everything, you're playing way too small of a game. So when you're playing big games, this is going to happen. And if this isn't, you don't get to beat up on yourself. You don't get to beat up on anybody else. That's not what this is. This is about grace and like being able to responsibly manage, like, okay, here's all the things and be able to continue to take responsibility, re-promise, and then get it in your calendar to be able to have enough time, hopefully to get it done.
