How to Deal With Deadline Panic
Time urgency is the enemy of good work and good health. No matter how out of control you feel, you can tame the beast.
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Time Out of Mind Time urgency can be controlled, once you're aware of it. Here are the key steps to restoring your rational self. |
The race is on, and you and your business are losing, to a foe so ingrained in the way you work you'd never even suspect it. The culprit is the very warp-factor speed so many entrepreneurs think is essential to success--time pressure, an obsession with scarcity of time that researchers call time urgency. It spawns a chronic state of hurry-worry that locks you into a perpetual rush hour, even if there's no reason for it. Constant clock-checking, zero tolerance for waiting longer than a nanosecond, the need to do everything ASAP or it's apocalypse now--these are just some of the telltale behaviors that come with this condition and the chronic impatience it brings.
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