Six strategies can help you to strike that delicate balance: accept reality, ask for a plan, focus on deadlines, pause the nonurgent, limit extra work time, and ask for help.
Many are focused on meeting deadlines and targets for these different areas.
For the many years I scored students' tests, I saw an industry primarily focused on meeting deadlines and completing contracts, with the importance of the correct scores being put on tests coming in second to the rush to get any score put on them.
The test-scoring industry seemed focused on getting deadlines met, projects completed, and scores put on tests, but only then was any thought given to meaningful scores being put on them.
It got me thinking that employers are so focused on meeting deadlines, hustling to meet customer expectations, achieving all the various success metrics to make investors or management happy -- that's it's easy to undermine the significance of the human beings powering all of this work.
Florida's secretary of state, Katherine Harris, focused on the deadline (convenient since Bush was ahead and she had been active in Bush's campaign).
I was focused on a deadline that needed my full attention, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the terrific weather... and a wonderfully robust, rich brown-wrapped cigar.
Therefore, most of them focus on modeling opponents or predict opponents' private information such as reservation price, deadline, or the probabilities of different behaviors.
The survey reveals that 23% of senior executives use holiday time to develop skills designed to make them "recession-proof", half say they do not want to let clients or colleagues down and 27% are focused on meeting project deadlines.
This demonstrates that it's possible to have fun and still be focused on meeting project deadlines.
All too often, I played the part of the distracted bishop, so focused on work and deadlines that I neglected the best thing in my life--Carol.
