Set Your Deadlines
Right, we’re going to make things happen. Umm...what things? When? Well, you have to put a date by all the things you’ve listed that you need to do. Otherwise it may never happen. Does this sound a bit like project management to you? Good, because it is. Getting what you want is a project, and you need to plan for it in the same way.
Deadlines, that’s what you need. Something to work to. You need to decide when things will happen—or at least the latest date by which they will have happened. Suppose you want your sister to host a family party for your brother’s thirtieth birthday. You know there’s loads that needs organizing—food, entertainment, invitations—but you need to get your sister to agree in the first place and probably ...
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