I am good at time management

So, I'm doing National Novel Writing Month because I have a novel I already thoroughly outlined and like the idea of telling yourself that it's okay to write a crappy first draft so long as you do get a first draft, even if that means telling yourself you have to do it in a month. (Though, for some reason I almost decided to work on another novel idea that is currently without a main character, any minor characters, plot, or really anything except a world. I just really liked that world.) Of course, since the start of November I have started working on a short story that has languished maybe a year in the to-be-finished pile, revised a short story that I meant to do three months ago, and written perhaps a tenth of what I should have on the novel. The lesson: next time I want to finish some projects I should just set a hard deadline to finish something bigger. It reminds me of this essay.