A deadline is a time commitment by which your tasks and goals must be achieved. They serve as a powerful strategic weapon which you must use to your advantage.
Here’s a simple yet profound truth, when you set a deadline and expect to get your goals accomplished quickly, they get accomplished quickly.
Any task or goal takes as much time as you allow it to take, and if you set a deadline and don’t allow much time to get the results you expect, it won’t take much time to enjoy victory.
It’s non-negotiable; you will always work best under a self-determined or externally fixed deadline for achieving your goals. By consciously choosing to enforce deadlines and accountability into each action you will begin to fast track your results and rewards.
You will achieve true greatness only after you develop a sense of urgency and importance about what you are doing—urgency to the extent that getting results and achieving your goals is a matter of life or death.
It’s tragically un-hip to procrastinate, to put off for tomorrow what can be done and enjoyed today. A deadline and strong sense of urgency generate energy toward getting results. In short, deadlines challenge you to perform.
Therefore, today and everyday of the challenge, you must purposely put yourself in a position where you have to perform.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make when trying to achieve a goal is to plunge ahead without establishing a high enough sense of urgency in yourself and the situation.
Communicating urgency to yourself and others is one of the true hallmarks of personal and professional leadership.
Understanding the Importance of Deadlines
In an ideal world, behavior shouldn’t depend on deadlines. Behavior should depend on our values, and one of the
values of all high-performing people is a strong sense of urgency.
A clearly understood deadline that is shared, agreed upon, and committed to is the silver bullet of proactive behavior.
There is nothing like a good, old-fashioned, “it’s got to be done by this deadline” requirement that gets you fired up, focused, and into the game.
I thought you might like to see the cover of the book Peter Sinclair and I collaborated on…Smile Your Way To Success. Peter fed me the idea that some negative words were always trying to get into your head. I came up with this idea to repell them!
When the going gets tough – you can count on me to be busy on some menial task and not available!
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. – Unknown.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. – Phyllis Bottome
Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. – Theodore N. Vail
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn’t fall there. – Unknown.
When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough go shopping for chocolate!
To be fair – When the going gets tough you can rely on me to sort it out. I mean if the batteries are flat in the TV remote I'll pull out all the stops to fix THAT!
I’ve been an cartoon artist for over twenty five years, and I’ve drawn all kinds of comics, posters, postcards etc. I can tell you that they come in very handy when looking to motivate people. I’ve done them for companies that used them to inspire their staff, their sales team and even their colleagues to work harder, faster and better.
You’ll be amazed at how effective they can be. It all goes back to the simple fact that a little humour goes a long way toward helping people to remember things. Also, as it’s done via a visual medium, that helps too. There’s that old saying: “A picture is worth a thousand words”. So, if you get the right images, coupled with your words, you’ll have a winning combination.
I'm down at the moment - but I'll be back!
I can do both postcards and posters, created from a brief that you send me. And don’t worry about time; I don’t have to have it via snail-mail. You just e-mail me an outline of what you need, and I’ll create a rough sketch as a first draft. After that, you review it, make additions, subtractions and/or changes; then I’ll go to work on finalizing all of the artwork.
Once I’ve got things just the way you want them, I’ll send you the approved artwork. You can get them in either full colour or black and white. It all really depends on your budget. After all, colour does cost more, but you might think it’s worth it.
Motivational poster to motivate staff to keep the car's battery on charge while on the BMW production line.
Still, no matter what you need me to create, you’ll have posters and/or postcards that are tailor-made to your company and your message. Believe me, they are a great motivational tool.
I have to include a shameless plug every now and then to try and drum up some future business!
Richard
I came across this piece by Jill Koenig of GoalGuru.com
Before any revolution can occur in the outside world, it must first occur inside you. Your No.1 job in visualization is to believe and be ready to receive.
Every physical manifestation begins with a mental creation. Your ability to take your highest goals and continually hold them in your thoughts with passion, excitement and enthusiasm will cause them to become real.
I was looking around for a cartoon on ‘visualizing your goals’. I knew I’d done something some years ago.
This was one of a series I did for my local Business Link magazine years and years ago.
Visualizing won’t work the first time you use it – but if you keep doing it then things start to happen!
When commissioning cartoons… Pick TWO of the three options!
Good+Fast = Expensive Choose this and I’ll postpone every other project on my drawing board, my round of golf or give up my footy match ticket and work day and night to get your job done. It WILL NOT BE CHEAP though!
Good+Cheap = Slow Choose good and cheap and I’ll still do a great job at a discounted price. But you’ll have to be patient while I fit you in after my higher paying clients, updating my web site, going down the gym, my footy matches, rounds of golf and liquid lunches!
Fast+Cheap = Inferior Choose this option at your peril. It will still be delivered on time but it will be inferior, as many corners as possible will be cut. You know the saying ‘You get what you pay for!’ The least favorable option in my opinion!
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