[#193, 195, 199-200, verbatim except that I have trimmed my own #195]

193. Howie Menckel Posted: December 15, 2008 at 09:16 PM (#3029962)
It's funny, on my job, different people are given different 'deadlines'.

Let's say all the work is REALLY due at noon on Friday.
Some might be told noon Wed, some noon Thurs, some 9 pm Thurs, and a few can be told the correct "noon Friday."

The goal being, all the work is submitted on time - or in some cases, seemingly late, but not really.

I don't know why life has to work like that.

Can we institute different 'deadlines' for different voters?

:)

195. Paul Wendt Posted: December 15, 2008 at 10:32 PM (#3030041)
... the tactic is at least an open secret, maybe even public. And yet the tactic works, at least it works a little. [Yes, confirmed by HM]

199. Joe Dimino Posted: December 17, 2008 at 12:19 PM (#3031670)
Regarding 196 Howie, I do much better on a get it done today type deadline, than on a get it done in 3 weeks type deadline, especially if it's only a couple of hours of work that needs to be done over the 3-weeks.

I say this in all seriousness - any tips on how to get better at that? And I don't mean the 'just do it' type of advice, that doesn't really seem to be working so well.

I've got a Franklin planner (even took the one-day class), I understand time management, etc.. Generally I don't miss deadlines, I'm very good about that, but I definitely bump up against them more often than I should. Would like to fix that.
200. rawagman Posted: December 17, 2008 at 12:39 PM (#3031693)
I struggle with that myself. Very hard to eliminate distractions especially when you feel that you have time to be distracted. I've considered incentives-based motivations, but have been unable to enforce it upon myself - how do I become my own judge, jury and executioner?

Some theorists would say that you need to hire or contract with someone else. Maybe a barter arrangement: You execute me; I execute you.

(I suppose this will appear as #202 with my quotation from #193-200 as #201 --not displayed now even after I refresh the page.)

bump

I dunno about you guys, but I need to look at my ballot and try to remember what the hell I was thinking.

bump again