The Gently Mad: Life, Business & Entrepreneurship Without The Bs

“Why do I keep doing this?”, I thought. I would like to think I’ve matured in 15 years, but I’ve been repeating the same all-nighter-before-a-deadline pattern since college. It worked fine then when the stakes weren’t as high. But now I have a family to support and bills to pay and every time I pull an all-nighter to meet a deadline, it wreaks havoc on my schedule, not to mention my health (it takes a lot longer to recover at 35 than it did at 20). Sure, it’s my first product and I vastly underestimated how much time it would take to make, but you would think I would have learned this lesson by now. I’ve plowed through half-a-dozen different careers since I was 20, but this whole deadline thing is the common element that connects them all together. Procrastination is something I’ve never been able to shake. But this time, as I look back over the last 90 days, I see a lot of things I wish I had done differently and hope I can do differently the next time. Here are 10 of them: 1. Spend less time planning.