8 Hacks for Not Missing a Single Deadline!
A look at the word ‘deadline’ is enough to create a mind full of uproars. Either that gets us busy working on the task to be completed, or we find ourselves wasting our time joyfully until right before we are to submit our assignment, does the mind go “I’d told you to finish it earlier”. Sometimes we never do learn from our mistakes. But there are some techniques one must follow to know what to do and when to do, exactly. Or else, like the previous time, we do find ourselves amidst the train wretch.
Here are some points jotted down below that will help you for not letting a single deadline pass by your side:
- Jot down the Headings for Each Task: A widened up task looks huge. The best way to deal with one of them is to highlight on the important points to focus on. Tagging them or labeling off the mains, you can easily visualize the stance of the project.
- Maintain the Order of Importance: Ticketing off the topics doesn’t always help you to accomplish each job at the right time. Knowing and spotting them in the order of their importance is a tight task for itself. This way, you will know which ones to finish first.
- Use of Delegates: Sometimes, it is unnecessary for you to bear all the heeds of the job yourself. Appointing other fellow workers or juniors under you can help accomplish the task on time. Breaking up the assignment and passing a particular job to each, helps to distribute a small amount of pressure on each, giving you to have enough time yourself to finish your part.
- Reminders are like Helpful Friends: Setting reminders by putting up post-its, electronic reminders on phones and laptops are like people poking you with a stick to keep your head on the work.
- Start Each Topic Afresh: Never stress yourself out. A heavy head always learns to mess up things on itself. Thus, know when to stop and start each topic on a fresh might. Let the heavy duties gain full attention, and the petty topics can be completed later.
- Start the Job as soon as possible: Delaying a job is our greatest enemy. Received a task right now? Why not start working on it at this very moment. But, working now? Set a reminder for finish this new work next.
- Breakdown of Large Assignments: Task breakdown is a huge task on itself. But that makes your job smooth and easy to accomplish.
- Mind-Tricks: Try tricking yourself by setting a false deadline ahead of the actual one. This way, you will finish the work faster than you actually plan to.
Thus, certainty about a particular job by finishing it on time by following the above tidbits, it might be very easy for you not to stress yourself out. A calm, clear mind leads to a crisped up to-the-point task.