Put the Pressure on Yourself

Only about two percent of people can work without supervision, Tracy notes, and those are the ones who rise. They put the pressure on themselves.

Set your own deadlines, ahead of the ones you're given, and treat them as real. Self-imposed pressure builds the momentum that external pressure never quite matches.

Imagine you have to leave town for a month and the task must be done before you go. That urgency is available to you any day you choose it.

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