Sitting here doing some work and wondering how long things take. We have been checking the websites and our house doesn't show up as for sale yet. Is it done or just not propagated to the various online sources? We need to know. We are in the mode of ready to show people around our house (well, stay out of the way while they look around) and want to get this part over and done with so we can live normally here and relax. We don't want to sit around with the chance that someone might show up. We were told the listing would be up by today but don't see it. Sigh. If you tell someone something it is usually nice to actually do it when you say you would.
At work this comes up all the time. You have to give an estimate of when something is going to be done, quite a bit of what I do can take some time, on the order of weeks or months even sometimes. Usually it is only a day or two but you need to balance it with everything you are doing and give a reasonable estimate. Don't just say what the other person wants to hear, say what is realistic. Once people get used to you meeting or occasionally beating your realistic estimates they will trust you when you tell them ones later on. It isn't a hard concept to get right. Even if something takes longer as long as you let people know how much and why there usually is no problem.
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