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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is about how you can make your deadlines

when you're depending on other people.

Today's question comes from a listener who runs a film festival.

She has deadlines for filmmakers, sponsors, rental providers, and so forth.

In order to meet her deadlines, she reports, she spends a lot of time chasing people to meet theirs.

I do make sure to give buffers for those deadlines, but sometimes people really miss the deadlines despite phone calls, emails, and even

Facebook messages during the week following their missed deadline, she says.

Since I am coordinating so many people and from so many different walks of life,

I know that I cannot expect them all to meet my deadlines,

but that means I don't meet my deadlines.

I have a hard time getting my work done, as it requires their work to be done on time.

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