I will admit that I am a chronic procrastinator, but I thrive under a deadline.  If I have weeks to do something.  I will wait to the last possible moment to get it done.  However, under a deadline.  I kill it.  I come in under most times or nail just as the clock strikes the deadline.

I am, also, a very impatient person.  I know exactly where I get that from, Mom and Dad.  I make the joke that my brother got the best of my parents and I got the worst.  What I hate with working with the public is that they are impatient and must have it now.  So, when I accommodate and hurry right over they are lounging back as if nothing is going on and nothing needs to be done.

This is the same guy who will call my office line at 930 in the evening.  I have learned to ignore my phone over the years and I can go to be not worrying about it.  Really, at 930 at night, there is not a lot that I can do about it anyway.  My wed guys are all doing something else, my underwriters are asleep and I know my processor will kill me if I call that late.

Learning to squelch the “hurry up and wait” monster is hard.  It is not an easy monster to defeat.  I battle it every day.  I learned to make a list, use my calender function on my blackberry and just have that “I don’t care” look on my face.  I know that last one really gets people, but it is fun to watch the look on their face when you roll up with a completed project done right and done way before time is up.

Making it all happen in the required time frame and then some

Dave Woodson