Every deadline season it's the same thing: chasing five different people for a bank statement or a signed form they promised weeks ago.
It's not any single chase that costs the time, it's holding the whole outstanding list in your head on top of everything else. And it compounds: paperwork chased once and ignored just gets chased again next week, same effort, nothing to show for it, until deadline pressure makes it all urgent at once.
Keep track of what's outstanding, notice a deadline creeping up, and have the next chase drafted and ready, so you're not the one holding the list in your head.
Imagine deadline season without the mental list of who owes what, paperwork chased steadily through the month instead of all in a panic at the end.
There's an example of this here.
See exactly how tracking and chasing works, step by step.
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