You Don’t Have A Time Management Problem — You Just Think You Do
Three ways to end the overwhelm.
I’ve got some good news.
You don’t actually have a time management problem — you just think you do.
I’ve learned a lot about time management in the past couple years of writing the For The Interested newsletter including a few discoveries that changed my perception of the problem and helped me figure out how to stop feeling so overwhelmed by all the things I want and need to do.
Here are three key ideas that have helped me overcome the overwhelm…
1. The more effort you put into becoming productive, the less productive you will feel.
This concept is as powerful as it is counterintuitive.
The time you spend striving to increase your productivity may help you better manage your time, but it actually makes you feel less productive and less in control of it.
Studies found the more you think about time management, the more you watch the clock.
And the more you watch the clock, the more anxious you get, which in turn hurts your performance and decreases your happiness.
It turns out one of the best…
