
The ADHD Skills Lab· Staffel 1· Folge 142
Why You Always End Up Rushing Last Minute And How To Fix It
Freitag, 3. April 2026 · 44 min
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Presented by Understood.org (u.org/4boG8QW)
You keep setting deadlines and somehow everything still ends up happening at the last minute.
You plan ahead. You move things around. You even set earlier deadlines.
And it still compresses into a final push.
This episode explains why that keeps happening and what to change.
We build on Wednesday’s breakdown of time blindness and show why most deadline strategies fail over time, especially the fake ones you don’t really believe.
Then we walk through how to structure work so urgency shows up earlier, not just at the end.
If your projects keep turning into last minute scrambles, this will give you a way to stop repeating that pattern.
What We Cover:
• Why fake deadlines stop working after a while
• How to create real stakes earlier in a project
• What “no more changes” cutoffs actually do
• How meetings and other people make deadlines feel real
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