How You Face Deadlines Is the Arrangements of Work Itself
Attitude toward a deadline often appears not as a difference in ability, but as a difference in habits of arrangements. A person who starts early and finishes early, a person whose power develops as the deadline approaches, a person who makes plans but is weak against changes. Those habits do not change greatly even as you age. In a managerial position, you need to think not only about your own habits, but how they affect the arrangements of those around you.
Here, from the qualities of the 12 signs, we organize as general discussion the tendencies in how deadlines are faced.
The Fire Quality — Aries, Leo, Sagittarius
The fire quality is a type whose start of movement is fast. In how deadlines are faced, too, that speed appears.
Aries has a tendency to be fast to begin moving immediately after receiving work. The speed of initial movement is a strength, but there are times when you advance too much in the first half, and time for checking and finishing in the second half becomes insufficient. As arrangements, a form of securing in advance the days for finishing and checking at the beginning fits well. For work right up against a deadline, it is also a type that can proceed calmly, conversely.
Leo has a tendency to be conscious of a deadline as a place for showing results. Power develops toward the deadline, but it can hesitate to show progress in the middle to those around, and a delay can be slow to come to the surface. If you decide in advance a form of sharing progress in the middle regularly, adjustment before a deadline becomes easier.
Sagittarius can face a large deadline strongly, but is a type where consciousness is hard to turn toward small breaks in the middle. The longer the work, the easier it is for checking in the middle to be omitted. A form of putting in days for middle breaks not for yourself, but as a place for checking with related parties, fits well.
The Earth Quality — Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn
The earth quality is a type that makes plans and builds up. It has stability toward deadlines, but habits appear in response to changes.
Taurus has a tendency to advance steadily at its own pace. It keeps deadlines, but if specifications or conditions change in the middle, time is taken to remake the pace. When there is a change, dividing first the part to change from the part not to change is the key point for keeping arrangements. Because it is weak against a sudden bringing forward of a deadline, a form of asking in advance about the possibility of bringing forward is also effective.
Virgo is a type that works out detailed arrangements counting backwards from a deadline. The accuracy of plans is high, but on the other hand, at the finishing stage time is used on fixing details, and submission can become right up against the deadline. Drawing the line is to decide in advance the scope of fixing and the time to submit.
Capricorn has a tendency to receive a deadline as responsibility, and advance with room to spare. The longer the work, the more stable it is. On the other hand, even if other work overlaps, it tries to keep all deadlines, and the amount held can become too much. When things overlap, the judgment to decide early which deadline to prioritize is needed. Not postponing that decision leads to protecting the whole.
The Air Quality — Gemini, Libra, Aquarius
The air quality is a type that advances while gathering information. How deadlines are faced is influenced by how information gathers.
Gemini has a tendency to be good at advancing several pieces of work in parallel. To that extent, concentration on one piece of work is dispersed, and the final tightening can become right before the deadline. A form of accepting parallel work, but not putting other work in just on the finishing day of one piece of work, fits well. Because the stage of gathering information can also drag on, setting a separate deadline for gathering is also effective.
Libra is a type where, because it advances while coordinating with related parties, time can be taken for how the deadline itself is decided. Coordination is careful, but if the time for deciding is delayed, the time for actual work is pressed. A form of placing a provisional deadline and beginning work in parallel with coordination is realistic. Care is also needed for a habit of shifting your own deadline backwards thinking about the circumstances of related parties.
Aquarius has a strong awareness of advancing by its own arrangements, and has a tendency to make original devices in how to advance toward a deadline. That device leads to efficiency, but if how progress looks shifts from those around you, checking work concentrates right before the deadline. The key point is that, even if you entrust how to advance, just reports at milestones should be in a common form.
The Water Quality — Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces
The water quality is a type that advances while reading the situation of those around and the background of work. In how deadlines are faced, too, that reading appears.
Cancer has a tendency to advance its own work while caring about the progress of the team as a whole. While helping another person's delay, its own deadline can be pressed. It is important to decide in advance, before the time comes, the scope of helping and the line for protecting its own deadline. It is also a type where arrangements stabilize for work that has been in charge for a long time.
Scorpio has a tendency for concentration to rise the closer a deadline approaches. Even if there is a period when progress on the surface is hard to see, it has the power to finish at the end. However, that way of proceeding is hard to convey to those around, and can cause anxiety. If you take a form of sharing just progress in the middle briefly, coordination with those around decreases.
Pisces is a type that has the flexibility to change how it proceeds depending on the situation of work. On the other hand, it has a tendency for arrangements toward a deadline to change easily, pulled by the situation at the time. Within arrangements, deciding just one break that will not be changed leads to stability. Care is also needed for a habit of prioritizing the deadlines of work asked of you and putting off your own work.
Using Deadline Habits in Judgments to Stop
Among the judgments needed to keep a deadline, there is one as important as the judgment to start. It is the judgment to stop. Work whose conditions have changed, work whose priority has fallen — when to stop it. If that judgment is delayed, you will not be able to turn your hand to deadlines that should be kept. For example, in monthly report materials, if you are continuing to make an item that is not being read, the decision to stop making that item makes room to protect other deadlines.
If you know the habits of your own arrangements, the reason you hurry before a deadline becomes visible. Strength toward deadlines is decided not by speed, but by how arrangements are decided. If there is a close part, please reflect just one of them in the arrangements for the next piece of work.