Today is "Wrapfest," the day each year that I get together with one of my sisters so I can wrap all of her Christmas presents.
Wrapfest is always early in the season so that I can also package all the boxes that need to be mailed and wrap the teacher gifts that need to be given early. And this year, as in many others, she will be finished and wrapped before I have even developed a list or started my shopping.
Author Michael Hyatt writes that "firm boundaries are easier to respect than flexible ones." December 25 is a firm boundary; it may be in a flurry, but the presents will be under the tree by that morning. The trick is to make your own deadline a firm one: to say that everything will be delivered by November 23 as she did.
You have the power to make any of your deadlines firm ones: When you do your holiday preparations. Whether or not you write a blog every day. The date you choose to launch a business or prepare a proposal. The deadline you set to do that item on your bucket list. When you begin a fitness routine.
Decide what is important to you and then firmly set a date to wrap it up.
-- beth triplett
@leadershipdots
beth@leadershipdots.com
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