For me, there is an odd inverse rule of deadlines. When I am facing just one deadline, I tend to procrastinate.
But if I have a lot of deadlines at once, it’s just the opposite. When that happens, I go into high gear and become more efficient. Which means, oddly enough, that I can get several things done more quickly than I can do any one of them.
I realize that this is counterintuitive. It seems to violate some sort of conservation law. But it also, strangely enough, happens to be true.