When unexpected events blow up your deadline, acknowledge it, tell people when you'll actually finish, and block time on your calendar. The speaker missed disclosure documents because four networking events popped up, then had to schedule follow-ups on top of the original work.
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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. And just, and here's a perfect example. Yesterday, this whole week, like I was like, okay, we're going to get these disclosure documents done. We're going to get it out. I'd like this whole list. And then all of a sudden, what showed up on our calendar literally were 4 separate networking events that were not on my calendar Monday morning. So now not only am I behind on that time that I'd allocated to get these disclosure documents done, but now I also have a crap ton of follow-up to do with all the connections I made, these networking events. Right.