Why Due Dates Motivate Progress and How to Benefit From Them

Psychology Today | 27.07.2026 04:01
When my son, Aaron, and daughter-in-law, Lizzie, moved back to Massachusetts in August of 2020, they brought with them their furniture, small appliances, clothes, and a stack of T-shirts. Lizzie had been collecting these wearable mementos since kindergarten. She had bags of them. Each shirt told a story. Each one served as a touchpoint for a day, a membership, a passage through childhood.