253# Missed Deadline - Now What?

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! 10 minute weekly thoughts and updates to get your week cracking with Awaken Your Alpha!