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What do you do when you miss a personal deadline?

Beat yourself up?  Have a "pity party" for yourself?  Let it slide indefinitely, move onto another project?  All these thoughts may enter your head. I am in the middle of missing my deadline for getting the manuscript into my publishers as we speak. I say middle, as in theory I have not yet missed my deadline, but I know based on my output being flat out with this recently it will be missed.

Hey I could turn it in JUST to meet the deadline, but that is not the point!  When you miss a personal deadline, what do you do or feel like doing? I hope sharing my resistance with getting my book published you can get some value from it :)

This is what I am doing to deal with this missed deadline:

• Sacrifice quality just to hit the deadline!
• Admit how pissed off I am.
• Respect and review the importance of personal deadlines.
• Taking full responsibility.
• Move from frustration to adaptation to action.
• Did you underestimate the size of the task?
• Learn from this for future related deadlines.
• Contact anyone this may effect (my publishers!).
• Re-align and set a new realistic exact date.
• DON'T move onto something else!
• Plan it out and schedule time.
• USE the current workflow as a guide to what you can actually get done in a day!

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