Why You Always End Up Rushing Last Minute And How To Fix It
Presented by Understood.org
You keep setting deadlines and somehow everything still ends up happening at the last minute.
You plan ahead. You move things around. You even set earlier deadlines.
And it still compresses into a final push.
This episode explains why that keeps happening and what to change.
We build on Wednesday’s breakdown of time blindness and show why most deadline strategies fail over time, especially the fake ones you don’t really believe.
Then we walk through how to structure work so urgency shows up earlier, not just at the end.
If your projects keep turning into last minute scrambles, this will give you a way to stop repeating that pattern.
What We Cover:
- Why fake deadlines stop working after a while
- How to create real stakes earlier in a project
- What “no more changes” cutoffs actually do
- How meetings and other people make deadlines feel real
If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.
Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
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Presented by Understood.org
You keep setting deadlines and somehow everything still ends up happening at the last minute.
You plan ahead. You move things around. You even set earlier deadlines.
And it still compresses into a final push.
This episode explains why that keeps happening and what to change.
We build on Wednesday’s breakdown of time blindness and show why most deadline strategies fail over time, especially the fake ones you don’t really believe.
Then we walk through how to structure work so urgency shows up earlier, not just at the end.
If your projects keep turning into last minute scrambles, this will give you a way to stop repeating that pattern.
What We Cover:
- Why fake deadlines stop working after a while
- How to create real stakes earlier in a project
- What “no more changes” cutoffs actually do
- How meetings and other people make deadlines feel real
If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.
Listen here: https://lnk.to/everyonegetsajuiceboxPS!adhdskillslab
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram - @unconventionalorganisation
Visit our website - https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/
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