{"id":9904,"date":"2014-08-21T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:12:53","slug":"set-your-own-due-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/08\/21\/set-your-own-due-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"Set your own Due Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Watch-Gears-Color\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
<\/h6>\n
Time goes, you say? Ah no!
\nTime stays,
\nwe go.<\/em><\/h6>\n

One of the things we need to do to get anything done is to set a mental due date. It sounds obvious, but a lot of good never gets started because the due date isn’t set, or started but never finished.<\/p>\n

In fact, it can be easy to be addicted to new starts, but knowing how to plow through, how to finish, that can be the challenge.<\/p>\n

Those that do this already probably don’t need the reminder. Maybe a pinch of the opposite. But others may profit from the push.<\/p>\n

Also, note that I said hold yourself<\/em> to it. With others, you may need another discipline: a bit of grace and patience.<\/p>\n

In setting your dates, be realistic. Know how long things take. Set the projected completion date, then work backwards with the steps, scheduling increments of progress. These, then, are mini-due dates.<\/p>\n

Though it makes a slightly different point, I’ve always liked a quote by Henri Matisse: \u201cWhen I found my true path, I took fright, realizing that I could not turn back. So I charged ahead into my work with my head down, following the principle that all my life I had understood by the words, ‘Hurry up?\u201d*<\/p>\n

There was a man who was called<\/em>. In the end he produced thousands of works. I don’t doubt that he was working with self-imposed\u00a0due dates in is mind all the time.<\/p>\n

It matters what we do, and if we don’t schedule it, little happens. \u201cTime,\u201d I once read, \u201cis the chrysalis of eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In eternity there are no due dates.<\/p>\n

But today is another matter.<\/p>\n

______
\n*Matisse, A Retrospective<\/em>, Jack Flam, Wing Books, New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s another in a series of “How to get anything done.” It’s basic, but a lot slips through the cracks because we don’t do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9904"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}