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TIME to wrap it up

It is ironic that this final post on SMART Goals should be the "Time-bound" component.  I make no excuses, except to quote American Author Jean M. Auel, "Life sometimes gets in the way of writing." So, here I sit, time-bound by an upcoming appointment, attempting to devote all my attention to the task at hand, to wrap up this drawn-out and much-dramatized goal-setting instructive narration (I'm being too generous with either or both of those descriptive terms, certainly...) How do we illustrate "Time-bound" most effectively?  **Extra points if you recognize this altered quote: "It is a fact universally acknowledged that a container of ice cream must be in want of a spoon." Time is the object of so many colloquialisms, we can't help but use them to make our point: Colloquialism #1: Time waits for no man. Or woman...If you don't eat that last bit of ice cream that's left in the bottom of the carton, the next time you open i