{"id":17953,"date":"2025-08-10T23:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=17953"},"modified":"2025-08-10T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:04:29","slug":"creating-artificial-deadlines-to-prevent-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/creating-artificial-deadlines-to-prevent-procrastination\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Artificial Deadlines To Prevent Procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was rushing to finish multiple projects in one day where usually I can finish one which leads me into the late night and right after I would head to bed.  However, one thing funny was that because I knew I had to finish two items I actually finished the first daily item way faster to the point where I had five extra hours left to do the other.  More than enough to comfortably finish both.  The thing is, this shows if I had that mentality each day I could literally finish the first project way faster.<\/p>\n<p>The main issue is usually in my mind I only have one item to finish and so I go at a slower pace.  Not worrying if I have to check messages as an example or watching a quick news clip that came up.  In the situation where I knew time was of the essence all the other stuff was blocked out as I had to stay on track.  The only other factor of course is that it is a little more stressful, but it makes me think where if you just pretended you have a tight deadline each time you could literally finish it way faster and have a lot of time to spare.<\/p>\n<p>That could open up your time to do other activities or even ventures too.  Heck, maybe having multiple ventures can be a good thing to a certain extent as it will keep you busy and focused from those other distractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was rushing to finish multiple projects in one day where usually I can finish one which leads me into the late night and right after I would head to bed. However, one thing funny was that because I knew I had to finish two items I actually finished the first daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[2847],"class_list":["post-17953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-deadlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/italian-day-vancouver.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4Fz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17954,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions\/17954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}