Gary Ryan Blair’s 100 Day Challenge…

A deadline is a time commitment by which your tasks and goals must be achieved. They serve as a powerful strategic weapon which you must use to your advantage.

Here’s a simple yet profound truth, when you set a deadline and expect to get your goals accomplished quickly, they get accomplished quickly.

Any task or goal takes as much time as you allow it to take, and if you set a deadline and don’t allow much time to get the results you expect, it won’t take much time to enjoy victory.

It’s non-negotiable; you will always work best under a self-determined or externally fixed deadline for achieving your goals. By consciously choosing to enforce deadlines and accountability into each action you will begin to fast track your results and rewards.

You will achieve true greatness only after you develop a sense of urgency and importance about what you are doing—urgency to the extent that getting results and achieving your goals is a matter of life or death.

It’s tragically un-hip to procrastinate, to put off for tomorrow what can be done and enjoyed today. A deadline and strong sense of urgency generate energy toward getting results. In short, deadlines challenge you to perform.

Therefore, today and everyday of the challenge, you must purposely put yourself in a position where you have to perform.

One of the biggest mistakes you can make when trying to achieve a goal is to plunge ahead without establishing a high enough sense of urgency in yourself and the situation.

Communicating urgency to yourself and others is one of the true hallmarks of personal and professional leadership.

Understanding the Importance of Deadlines

In an ideal world, behavior shouldn’t depend on deadlines. Behavior should depend on our values, and one of the

values of all high-performing people is a strong sense of urgency.

A clearly understood deadline that is shared, agreed upon, and committed to is the silver bullet of proactive behavior.

There is nothing like a good, old-fashioned, “it’s got to be done by this deadline” requirement that gets you fired up, focused, and into the game.

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