While there is flexibility to internal deadlines, they help to prevent last-minute panics and signal whether everything is on track — before it's too late to make adjustments.

Learn how to automate alerts and popups in Excel to track deadlines, manage tasks, and improve productivity with this step-by-step guide.

We hear you. Deadlines can be incredibly stressful (even the word sounds ominous: "DEADLINES"). The closer we get to a deadline, tension mounts and we start to feel like we're running out of time ...

As new research findings shed light on the psychology of deadlines, we can learn ways that they can be used to increase focus and boost perseverance.