Don’t Be Late

You’re approaching a deadline when that nagging feeling creeps in—the work you’ve done, the project, the presentation—it’s not quite good enough yet.

The temptation is strong. Maybe just a few more hours, a bit more tweaking, another day or two to polish it until it shines.

But the deadline is now, so you’ve got a choice to make.

Keep working, trying to perfect it, and risk delivering late. Or just deliver it as it is, on time.

If you choose to chase perfection, no matter how much you refine it, no matter how close to flawless it seems, it will always carry the stain of being late.

And the reality is quality is subjective. What’s “better” in your eyes may go unnoticed by others.

Time, on the other hand, is non-negotiable. A deadline is a deadline.

We often place too much weight on perfection and too little on timeliness.

The world is full of unfinished masterpieces that no one will ever see. Brilliant ideas that were never executed. Concepts refined endlessly until they lost their relevance.

In the long run, the difference between good and great is often invisible to everyone but you.

But the difference between delivering and not delivering?

That’s something everyone sees.