# So frustrated! I fucked up again! Not enough time to do all remaining tasks by the deadline! **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [May 4, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297 "2019-05-04T05:58:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297/1 "2019-05-04T05:58:33Z")
Grrr I am so frustrated that I fucked up again! My deadline is in less than three hours and I have too many beeminder goals left for today to finish them all before the deadline! I have my 4 30-minute goals, I have to read 2 chapters, 15 min of GTD processing, and 2 24-min meditation goals! I’ll have to do whatever costs me the least money but it’s frustrating. Again I didn’t get everything done today! And I’m tired and wanted to go to bed early! Guys, help me figure out how to do better ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297/2 "2019-05-04T06:17:40Z")
Eek! I know this feeling! Hugs! My long-term suggestion is [deadline waterfalls](http://blog.beeminder.com/waterfalls). In short, go to [beeminder.com/reminders](http://beeminder.com/reminders) and stagger all the deadlines so they happen one at a time. ---
**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297/3 "2019-05-04T08:31:26Z")
Yeah time based goals can (and I suppose will) do that at some point. Welcome to the club 😅 And I shall prioritise the soft deadline automatism I have been working on 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![adba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@adba](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adba)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297/4 "2019-05-09T18:47:55Z")
Honestly, I occasionally weasel deadlines by an hour or so when I run into the situation of “I’m actively working on this thing but will finish it slightly after the deadline.” A couple of times, that’s even been up to three or four hours (and one special case was about 4 days, back when a normal 4-day period over a weekend unexpectedly turned into 8+ workdays…). Don’t tell the Beeminder team, but I’ve found this extremely useful/productive and it gets me the (incredible) benefits I’m looking for from using Beeminder. 😃 If I’m tired and want to go to bed early, I choose to derail instead. Deadline waterfalls sound like a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297/5 "2019-05-09T21:40:16Z")
interesting, I assume you considered moving the deadline on those goals to 4am or 6am, so… why didn’t you? ---
**Author:** ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297/6 "2019-05-09T22:36:31Z")
I think there’s a Beeminder feature that lets you do this officially! I think it’s called snoozing. ---
**Author:** ![adba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@adba](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adba)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297/7 "2019-05-10T21:53:49Z")
> [@phi](#): > > interesting, I assume you considered moving the deadline on those goals to 4am or 6am, so… why didn’t you? If you mean me, I have a very simple answer to this: there are weeks on end when I bring 3-hour goals down to the last 10 minutes and barely complete them by the deadline without wiggling it. If I set them to 4am or 6am, this pattern means that I would utterly trash my sleep schedule, and I’d rather not do that. ---
**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 4:13am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/so-frustrated-i-fucked-up-again-not-enough-time-to-do-all-remaining-tasks-by-the-deadline/5297/8 "2019-05-15T04:13:09Z")
This is also true for me. If I move the deadline later I’ll also start the projects later.