Over the course of a day, I went from being focused on finishing the read-aloud draft of my book to having a pair of coaching clients I need to respond to first.
I am grateful for the business and look forward to it, but it is also a challenge to my motivation level at the same time. When I started the read-aloud pass for my book, I set myself a deadline to complete each chapter and programmed all of them into Tick Tick at once. Now, with two coaching tasks I estimate to take about a week, I am going to miss all of those writing deadlines. It is a deliberate choice to push them back and prioritize coaching, but the whole point of setting deadlines was to push myself to achieve them. I was leveraging my predisposition toward guilt to get my butt in gear, and I can’t exactly wave that guilt away, either.
As a technical matter, pushing back 6 deadlines at once is also annoying. I should have only set myself one at a time to avoid this problem. Moving forward, I will only set one deadline per project. No more cascading deadlines, unless I can set them up automatically so that deadline 2 equals deadline 1 + 2 days. I don’t think the app can handle that.
For now, though, I just need to get through this review as quickly as possible while staying thorough!