I understand procrastination as much as anyone. I live it, breathe it, and spend a good bit
of my time trying not to do things. Usually
these are chores or other house-related items, but sometimes they spill in to
things that are more professional in nature.
Do I get done what I am supposed to get done? Absolutely.
Am I late in the performance of those tasks? Never.
Do I sometimes have a day where I’m not as busy and could get a head
start on the project due in 6 weeks?
Sure, but I don’t it that do that day.
Or that week. Or, really,
probably the next week. It gets done,
though. I deal with commercial
transactions on a regular basis where attorneys that bill hundreds and hundreds
of dollars an hour work on all sides of the deal. Sometimes there are numerous attorneys on
each side. My estimate on the actual “on-time”
completion rate of these deals is 11%.
Literally. I just looked at the
last nine done and one of them closed on time.
I bet that’s the average over my career.
Why (when you’re making $50,000* to close something) can’t we do it on
time?
*Non-word count related caveat - the attorneys make that, not me. I wish.
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