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When business partners can't adjust unrealistic timelines

My business partner and I are both burning out but we keep pushing toward this arbitrary deadline we set months ago and neither of us will admit that the timeline was unrealistic because it feels like admitting failure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Rigid temporal commitments have become more important than sustainable pacing, trapping the partnership in unsustainable urgency.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”

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