In Due Time

Everyone faces deadlines all the time. May it be professional ones or personal ones. But how many do we really meet?

There was a time you can easily refer to me as a workaholic, I was so good at meeting deadlines before it actually become a deadline. Unfortunately superiors weren’t as good at meeting my deadlines, expectations fell seriously short, so instead I became better at extending deadlines, well, because there isn’t any real urgency in mundane office work. Everyone’s ability to complete their tasks is dependable on the next person’s ability to do his, so most part of the working hours are just waiting for someone to react so that you can, in turn, complete your work. If upstream people don’t send something along, downstream really are just sitting ducks till kingdom come.

But let’s not adopt the same practice with our personal deadlines. For one, we aren’t waiting for someone else to react in order to do something for yourself. There’s only you, always will be just you for you. If you initiate something, it will be for you and depends on you to complete. Of course, you can choose to just wait, any consequences is bore by you for yourself too.

Do I have personal deadlines? Sure, I do. And so do you. Get crackin’