Set Deadlines - 48/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons

At the start of 2017 I decided to set myself a tight deadline for March, April and June. I decided to set some deadlines, and then I moved them forward a few weeks and increased the things I wanted to achieve- thus putting pressure on myself. So as to push myself to achieve more in a shorter space of time and forcing me to focus on a few things and focus on the tasks of hitting my deadlines.Leveraging Parkinson's law to get things done in a certain space of time. As stated before: your brain will complete the tasks in the allotted time. So if you gave yourself a year to write a book, it'd be done slowly over the course of that year. But if you gave yourself 1 month, you'd complete it a lot faster and efficiently.Leonard Bernstein, the American composure said: “to achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”I have goals and deadlines printed out on pieces of A4 paper and they are stuck to my studio wall, above my computer, so I can see them all the time and this way I am constantly reminded about them.Create a list of 25 things you want to achieve in a year, and then circle 5 of the most important ones and then only focus on them for the year.Those 5 things becomes you top priority tasks to work on this year and that is your to-do list. The other 20 things are your not to-do list. You should not work on these, because they'd be distraction from your top 5.By setting goals and deadlines, you can achieve more in 1 year than what most people achieve in 10 years or even, sometimes, in their life. Such is the power of focus with knowledgeable action.The word Focus, is an anocrym for Follow One Course Until Success. Which is often hard to live by, but an important one.You can use the deadlines for different things in your life. Set different goals you want to achieve, whether in health, wealth and happiness.Question of the day: What kind of deadlines are you setting yourself? What are you doing about them?There are another 100 mistakes that I made here.