Time Management
Parkinson's Law and How Shorter Deadlines Get Work Done
You gave yourself the whole afternoon to write a two page report, and somehow it took the whole afternoon.
The expense report has been on your list for nine days. It would take forty minutes, it is not hard, and you still cannot make yourself start it.
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Time Management
You gave yourself the whole afternoon to write a two page report, and somehow it took the whole afternoon.
Productivity
You end the day with a to-do list of 23 items, a vague sense of having been busy, and no idea which of those items actually...
Planning
Your plan for the day looked perfect at 8:30, and by 11:00 it was already wrong.
Lifestyle
Saturday starts with good intentions and ends with you driving to the pharmacy, then the hardware store, then back to the...
Habits
You bought a nice notebook, wrote three thoughtful pages on Monday, half a page on Tuesday, and by Friday it was under a pile...
Focus
You open a 30 page report, read the first paragraph, and realise two minutes later that you have no idea what it said.
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