The Myth of Time: Improve Your Life One Deadline at a Time by Sandra Lee Schubert
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” ~ Douglas Noel Adams, English humorist, and science fiction novelist It has taken me forty minutes to begin writing this column. I had to find the right music to play. There were the writing books to look through. After all, the experts have all done it before me so I can learn from them. I needed water, chocolate, my hair had to be pinned off my face. I checked outside to see if it was raining. I positioned the fan just right since the air conditioner is still sitting on the floor in front of the window. I have a deadline to keep. I am like a runner before a race, pacing nervously, stretching drinking water, getting ready for the starting shot to set me off to the finish line. Let me tell you right off that I hate deadlines. They make me itch, I get cranky and all my bad behavior and methods of procrastination begin to overtake me. I whine. “ I am an artist I can't create by schedule ” ! It is ...