When you finally get ready to start working on your deadlines, take your body into consideration. Different people work well at different times of the day. Decide when your best time of the day is and capitalize on that. If you are a morning person, get up a bit earlier, make yourself a pot of coffee, and work to your heart’s content. If you work best in the late evening, turn off the news and get going. Understanding your body is one of the best ways to pace yourself. If you enjoy working late at night, do not try to force yourself to be as productive at five in the morning as you are at ten at night.

Be sure when you start to work on your deadlines that you are completing them correctly the first time. Having to constantly revise your work can be annoying and counterproductive, as it can interfere with other deadlines that have cropped up. Figure out how to meet the deadline correctly the first time, and then do it, even if it means a bit more difficult work on your part. You will be glad to have completed the work well the first time so you do not have to deal with it a second time.

Be sure that you avoid procrastination at all costs. If you simply feel overwhelmed by a task, thinking about how overwhelmed you are will not get you any closer to finishing the task. Try breaking it into bite sized pieces. Work on it for, say, fifteen minutes at a time. Before you know it, you will have completed the task.

Do not forget that task completion calls for a reward session. Offer yourself a treat when you have met your deadlines. You deserve it for all of your hard work.

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