How You’re Sabotaging Your Productivity
Time is a ruthless beast that no amount of money can tame or console.
You have the same amount of hours in a day, week, month etc. as the richest and most powerful people on that planet. At least until Elon makes it to Mars and has an additional 40 mins to his ‘day’ but you get the idea.
Let’s lay out a scenario that we’ve all probably ran into: Your boss, teacher,
spouse, kennel-master, or whoever give you a task and one week to complete it.
What follows is probably something like this: you either start on it right away and take the full week polishing and refining it until the deadline.
The other option is feel a twinge of panic and start on it right before the deadline.
You’re not alone. There’s at least one other person I can say with absolute certainty this happens to all the time too, me.
This can be summed up pretty simply by something called Parkinson’s Law
Parkinson’s Law:
Work expands to fill the time available for it’s completion
