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In today’s article, setting a deadline can quickly boost productivity in your life. I will be explaining to you the benefits of deadline setting. By showing why you might not be achieving your goals and how you can apply the deadline strategy into your own life.

One Reason Why Your Not Achieving Your Goals Quickly

You have probably guessed the answer already. Of course, it’s not setting a deadline.

When there is no deadline, it’s like your floating in space towards your goal. What a deadline provides is a target to attain. A purpose with a set of easy guideline of when you have to achieve something.

In my own life, when I’m told to do something without a deadline it never gets done in a hurry. There’s just no urgency behind it and it either gets forgotten or until I’m prompted to complete it by a certain date that it gets done.

You can see everywhere in life.

With the covid epidemic just look at how fast vaccines have been discovered in record time. Of course, you can be sceptical but these labs that have created vaccines have been focusing on vaccination for a long time. With a global emergency scientist from all around the world have had the deadline of it needs to be solved immediately and this has led to the creation of the vaccinations we see today.

Look at your own life when you have a deadline and when you haven’t. What’s the difference?

The Carrot And The Stick

A deadline can work two ways. You can either set a deadline for yourself or someone will set one for you. The foremost is more enjoyable because it’s within your control parameters. It’s a great way to boost the productivity level that gives you the push to achieve your goals.

When someone sets a deadline for you. You either crumble under the pressure or you find something inside that powers you through. I have been set deadlines in my life with my job security at stake and I have seen myself produce some of my best work. It has forced me into the best version that has lead to a winning mindset.

It’s all within us to work well towards a deadline. When humans were first roaming the plains of Africa we had a deadline for food, water, shelter, warmth, and safety. These deadlines gave us a purpose to survive. When our life and security are on the line it’s the most powerful deadline we all have to respond to. The saying is the survival of the fitness but it’s also the survival of achieving your deadline too.

What Are The Benefits Of Deadlines

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The benefits of a deadline are that it gives us focus and an urgency to move forward whether that’s survival or achieving our best work. Setting deadlines make us productive and create a habit that allows us to find within us the best version of ourselves. Either your setting deadline or deadline is being set for you but either way, you will find your true potential of what you’re capable of within that given time limit.

How Can You Apply Deadlines To Work For You

When creating your own deadlines. Making the deadline a priority will help you focus your mind on caring for the goal to be achieved.

Once it’s a priority then you must plan and keep track of your progress as this will allow you to know the path you need to take to complete the deadline. Without it, you will be aimless and give up.

When setting a deadline. Make sure it’s doable for your skillset. If you have never been skiing before don’t expect to be a master at it in a week. With this in my mind make sure you set a deadline that is reasonable to complete where it’s doable but challenging. For example, by learning a language you could set yourself a deadline of 3 months to complete.

Overall when setting your own deadline you have to want to do it. No matter how many deadlines you set yourself. If it doesn’t mean anything to you you won’t do it unless it forced upon you.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, setting a deadline can quickly boost productivity in your life.

Deadlines are never a great thing to talk about. But once you understand the power it can have on your life and the productivity you can attain from it. There is no doubt it has to be used to find the best version of yourself.

What deadline are you going to set today to change your life!?

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I’ve spent over 10 years coaching and mentoring people within sport and business. I have many life skills that I have developed and I want to pass these skills on so people can find their best self. I believe it all starts in the mind and I write about valuable tools and strategies to help people grow in this area.

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In today’s article, The Powerful Effect Of Compounding Has On Your Life we will discuss the impact the coined phrase the compound effect in finance can actually have a major impact on your mindset and your overall productivity too.

What Is Compounding?

You probably know the word compounding best within the financial world when it comes to investing in stocks and shares. But what if I told you, you can actually benefit from this with other parts of your life.

Once you get to grasp what compounding is, it can really open your mind to other possibilities which will discuss later.

So compounding is a process of growing where compound interest, is interest earned on money that was previously earned as interest. In what we’re discussing today it’s compound effort earned on results that were previously achieved through effort.

This cycle in finances leads to increasing interest and account balances at an increasing rate, sometimes known as exponential growth. With the same principle you can do the same with the effort you put in day by day will be built into something of substance. For example, 1 driving lesson won’t help you pass your driving test but multiple lessons will.

When You Don’t Know What To Do In Life

A great way we can utilise the compounding principle is when we don’t know what to do in life. Most of us in our teens and ’20s don’t have a clue what to do in life. This can lead to procrastination where nothing get’s achieved or progressed.

When I left school at 16 I had no idea what I wanted to do. When I left university I was still in the same predicament. I had no purpose to fulfil. But when I looked back. The action I took led me to have a degree and better understanding of coaching and psychology as well as a magnitude of other skills I learned along the way. I was really grateful without knowing how the compound principle allowed me to progress as a person to get closer to what I wanted to do.

There are many principles you might have heard of. For example placing 1 perfect brick, taking one step forward, the 1% rule and the snowball effect. When practised these are principles that can change your life if practised.

When you don’t know what to do with your life. The best thing you can do is to take action on something. You won’t get the body you desire unless to start and those with everything in life.

Too many people don’t take any steps or lay that first brick and just procrastinate. Nothing gets done. But what people do who have the life they want. They just took that initial step forward, built the first layer of their business by writing that first blog post or applying to learn a skill that leads to the job you wanted.

When we take action and take the first step we are 1 step closer to finding what we want to do in life.

How To Compound Your Life Forward

Question the consequences of your bad habits on your future
Ask yourself what you can do today that makes you 1% better than yesterday
When creating goals work backwards to find what you can today to compound your life forward
Challenge yourself to take tiny little steps one at a time
Be constant with your daily actions – reading 5 pages a day for a year is 1825 pages whereas reading inconsistently will, of course, be far less
Start early and don’t wait to start
When you don’t feel like it, do it anyway

Over To You

Today’s article, The Powerful Effect Of Compounding Has On Your Life.

It personally helped form the person I am today.

The only difference between you and someone who has what you would love to have. Is the decisions made on a daily basis.

When you procrastinate and say I will to it tomorrow.

Someone else is doing the work and putting in those daily actions to compound their life forward.

Don’t be left behind with regrets about the decisions you have made be one step ahead and take action now!

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