A leader explains how to make deadlines stick by adding five components: clarity, attainability, consequences, milestones, and celebration. Spend five minutes per project during your monthly planning session to make timelines feel real and inevitable, which increases confidence that tasks will actually get done.
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What we don't spend time doing, Chuck, is, is actually creating deadlines. You know, this just made this thing more real and it's going to happen for us. And so I like that. So, um, sustaining movements requires, and I call them sticky deadlines. We just made this deadline sticky. And so that's what helps us with this. And it's a competency, right? You know, you don't, I don't do this for all my deadlines. But the more I do this, the more I'm like, oh, this is— this thing's going to get done, so it's all good. Okay, okay. So my challenge for this week: establish sticky deadlines to your projects this month. Think about like next Sunday when you do your, your, uh, monthly momentum generator. When you get to the deadlines one just spend another 5 minutes on each of the projects, on each of these, you know, components of how do I make this deadline stickier. So, uh, those sticky deadlines, the 5 things: clarity, attainable, consequences, milestones, celebration.