In the merit of setting objectives, hold yourself accountable to deadlines as to which they are real. As real as a work deadline, as real as an assignment deadline, as real as any other external task. The only difference is that we can rationalise our own deadlines away, move from this notion, ensure your deadline by treating it with the same ferocity as that of other deadlines and pull out all the stops to hit it. Sometimes you lack deliverance on external deadlines and that can happen on your own deadlines too, let it be from something other than a lack of working and effort for it. Hold yourself to it and see as iron sharpens iron.

Meditate.

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