{"id":119,"date":"2025-02-07T13:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T02:07:29","slug":"find-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/find-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Find deadlines."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-luminous-vivid-amber-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cc9af1a7c7b885be0777f9a874b52ee9\"><strong>Lesson: Goals that aren&#8217;t exactly aligned, but close enough, can generate more than their worth by the deadlines they create and the purpose they give. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I can be a bit of a perfectionist. I need deadlines to give me focus and get to good enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many things I need to do, it can be paralyzing and overwhelming trying to juggle it all.  I need an external force to help me prioritize my tasks and focus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Melbourne University Accelerator Program has pushed me to build a pitch deck, a website, record a 90 second video, refine my vision and purpose, and build a financial model. All in about 2 weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I would have done any of those without this deadline, and potential promise of 20K funding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve refined my Pitch Deck every day of the last 2 weeks and its still not done. It won&#8217;t ever be done. But every refinement is making it better.  I started too generic, then too specific, but then in the wrong direction, and now too long. But I&#8217;m putting it out there and I&#8217;m getting feedback and I&#8217;m working on it, and I don&#8217;t think I would have it it weren&#8217;t for MAP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So What Now?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Find deadlines for yourself. Commit to things that might feel optional, but which are aligned with your direction as a way of forcing you to put in effort and learn and move forward, even if it is tangentially. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect I&#8217;ll get into the MAP program, but applying for it has moved me much further forward than i would have otherwise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lesson: Goals that aren&#8217;t exactly aligned, but close enough, can generate more than their worth by the deadlines they create and the purpose they give. I can be a bit of a perfectionist. I need deadlines to give me focus and get to good enough. There are so many things I need to do, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khozouei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}