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Heh, by asking "What happens if we miss this deadline?" you're transform it into a liveline, IMHO.

But what happens if you "miss a deadline" in your personal life? Do you have any personal life deadlines?

you'd better get your costume ready by Oct 31 if you want to have a halloween costume. You can slip your kid's birthday party to another day before you mail out the invitations, but after that you're committed. Christmas only comes on Dec 25, etc.

That I know. It's the "dead" part that bothers me, not the commitment. Who dies on a deadline? The "task"? Or you, little by little? That's my question...

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