{"id":976,"date":"2019-04-24T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2019-04-22T16:18:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:18:49","slug":"deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadlines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How do you deal with a deadline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you panic? Do you completely freak out? Do you shut down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a love\/hate relationship with deadlines. I do my best work under the pressure of a looming deadline, and yet I hate that pressure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you know people who are always prepared well ahead of time for everything? Me too. I hate those people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK, so \u201chate\u201d is too strong a word. I simply don\u2019t understand them. I\u2019ve never been that kind of person. I procrastinate. Constantly. If I were told I must procrastinate, I\u2019d find an excuse to put it off until tomorrow, or next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, as that new date approached, I would be the best procrastinator you ever met. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, at least that\u2019s what I would tell myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I sing in the choir at our church. This is a relatively new experience for me. I was in a choir only once before. I didn\u2019t enjoy the experience and it didn\u2019t last long. This time it is completely different. I love being in this choir. So much so that when we have a week off from rehearsal, I miss it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our director is amazing. She is a highly skilled musician and an excellent teacher. But, what I most appreciate is her steadfast, calm, persistence as we struggle to step up to sing music well beyond our comfort level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year as we were preparing our anthems for Easter, it was clear we were being pushed in our musical ability. Our director is not a procrastinator like me. However, I definitely felt that we should have started learning these pieces much sooner than we did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the deadline of Easter Sunday drew near, it seemed like we would be better off starting over with something easy. But, she persisted. Calmly. Steadily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each week at rehearsal, our director comes in with her notes on specific spots that are particularly problematic in whatever we are currently preparing. Usually, this is a few well-spaced passages in the music. In this case, it was pretty much the whole thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet still, she persisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we went along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slowly, steadily, it got better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easter came. We pulled it off. An Easter miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t perfect. But, it was certainly acceptable. Maybe even good. Perhaps a 6 or 7 on a scale of 1-10. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What deadline do you have looming? Are you in panic mode? Are you feeling like you should just throw out your lofty goal and start over with something easy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hang in there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be like our choir director: steady, calm, persistent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 7 out of 10? Not bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you deal with a deadline? Do you panic? Do you completely freak out? Do you shut down? I have a love\/hate relationship with deadlines. I do my best work under the pressure of a looming deadline, and yet I hate that pressure. Do you know people who are always prepared well ahead of … Continue reading Deadlines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[7,52,5,9,12,8,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}