When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won't have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.
Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.
For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a manicure, getting a pedicure, getting my workout in, making sure that I ate healthy. Those things can become treacherous to the mind.
When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
I crave deadlines. If I don't have a deadline, I become a total slacker, which is why I always have so much on my plate.
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
When you have to stop and think about things is when they go wrong.