The first step to deadlines that work is clarity: attach a specific outcome with details about quantity, quality, and timing. A vague deadline like "finish before vacation" won't work. Instead, specify exactly what you're producing, what it should contain, and when it's due.
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I'm going to give you— I wrote down like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 strategies for creating good deadlines. Okay, the first one is very, very easy to identify as clarity. Is your deadline clearly defined? And I look at this in terms of, is the outcome Is there quantity, quality, or time attached to that deadline to give you clarity on the deadline? So, so let's do this. Let's work with an anchor on this. Ooh, let's do this. Let's look at your point of view papers. And let's talk about a deadline. Of having it drafted, a point of view drafted, not complete. You can do a whole bunch of stuff, but you have a point of view drafted. Give me some clarity on the quantity, quality, and the timing of that first point of view paper. And therein lies how deadlines don't actually— aren't deadlines, right? Right. You know, you were just like, I don't know, um, I'll butt it up against the vacation, right? So, so, right. There's no, there's no rationale behind that. Right. Which is, I'm not criticizing you for that. It's like, that's how we make them kind of random out of nowhere. Okay. Um, but we'll keep going on this. So that's the first one, clarity.