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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.

What To Expect?

In today’s article, 5 things you must not do in life that stops success.

I will explain the preventive measures we need to apply to move our life forward. We should look at all the things we must stop that holds us back. Looking at it as anchors that weigh us down so much that it stops us from succeeding. Only then can you find solutions to move forward.

I hope this article opens your mind to self-awareness and a change you have been searching for.

What Prevents Success?

For me, this is a simple question to answer. The answer is YOU! There’s always obstacles and different challenges we all have to face in different ways. What gets in the way the most is ourselves. Whether it’s doubt, fear or a lack of self-confidence. It’s our own mind that needs to change to be a success.

I think we all deal with this. But the people who do succeed are the one’s who don’t let it control them and find ways to prevent it from surfacing or find ways to push through it.

The human brain will always let you know when it perceives something as being dangerous but you always have the choice to listen to it or ignore it and do it anyway. In some cases this is good but when it comes to overcoming our fears we silence that voice. For example, the brain can only see you jumping out of the plane as danger whereas your human part knows that you are skydiving.

Working together with your brain to understand your life by knowing the difference between danger and progress can help you achieve a lot more success.

To make sure our mind doesn’t hold us back. There are 5 things you must not do in life that stops success that I will discuss below. Once we get out of our own way. Then we can enjoy all the successes we have envisioned.

5 Things You Must Not Do In Life That Stops Success

1. Don’t Live With Regret

One of the most painful things the older generation say is they regret the things they didn’t do or regret not being happier. No one wants to get old and have major regrets. That’s why you have to look at it every day as if this was the last day on earth.

This thinking will unlock a feeling of urgency and purpose. Because when you don’t think like this you can use good old procrastination and say to yourself I will do it tomorrow. This mentality does not understand we only have a short time on Earth.

That’s why you should make it your life purpose to take more risks, to do the things you love to do, spend it with the people you love and travel to the places you have always wanted to visit.

Get out of your own way and make this happen. I promise you, you won’t regret it.

2. Don’t Live With Fear

Fear can affect us all in different ways. It can be great when sensing real danger like spider-sense but it’s not too good at switching off when we need to overcome our fears to progress.

That’s why we can’t always listen to fear, we must rationalise for the world we live in today not the one we lived in thousands of years ago. Living with fear holds people back so much from pursuing their goals and wants in life.

That’s why we need to chase our discomforts because on the other side of fear you experience a whole range of different emotions, like happiness and proudness.

So get out of your own head and do the things you want to do and when fear pops up again let it flow through you and do it anyway.

3. Don’t Live With Too Much Comfort

We live life these days like never before in human history. The kings and queens of the past might even be jealous. But one thing successes hates is comfort because nothing of progress comes from a mindset of comfort. Why? Because you will never push your self into a position where you might fail or make mistakes.

That’s why you should seek and chase discomfort as your life depends on it. Basic comfort needs are great but you need to find ways to condition yourself to not let this become everything you are. Just watch Rocky 4.

Comfort breeds complacency you just have to look at sports stars who let their comforts change them into different people. Whereas what got them to the top was the discomfort. Don’t let comfort suck you in or else you will be trapped and lead an unfulfilled life.

4. Don’t Live With A Mindset Of What Always Was

Living in the past can seriously hold you back if you let it. Just like the anchor analogy. Being anchored to the past stops any progress in the present and future. You have to learn to go to the past for good feelings.

The world changes, people change and the ability to adapt to the changing times is crucial to keeping ahead of the game of life. If you just keep doing what you did in the past then watch your business crumble.

We see it all the time with retail giants having to sell up because they didn’t go online. Instead of having a mindset, this has always been the way you should have what could be a new way.

5. Don’t People Please

Deep down we all know what we want to do with our life. But sometimes our attachment to our family’s wants can hold us back. If we people please too much we will surely affect our mental health and become unhappy with the person we are becoming that’s not who we are. So don’t people please. Look out for you and what you want from your life.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today article, 5 things you must not do in life that stops success

These are my 5 five don’ts. What are yours?

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