Is it ever ok to move a deadline?

The Jasmine Star Show · Jun 6, 2023 · 20m · transcript

Have you ever set an unrealistic timeline to hit a goal or complete a project?

Actually, let me rephrase that.

Have you ever started a project and set a deadline by which the project should be done - and then at some point realized that deadline was going to be harder to hit than you thought?

I’ll be honest: this has happened to me.

Multiple times.

In fact, in 2020 our team was working tirelessly to prepare for a big promotion. We had set a deadline and, after a few weeks, I realized that it was going to be hard to meet it.

I was talking this through late one night with JD and he asked me…