How To Overcome It?
- Give yourself just a little less time than you think you need for every task
- Fixed Schedule
- Always demand an artificial deadline 1 for everything you do (with a timer)
Why It works?
Enforcing constraint such as time limits, creates a sense of urgency that helps to concentrate efforts
Related
- Stuff expands to fill the available space
- Cost expands to fill the available budget
Footnotes
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If failing to do a task by a certain date has serious repercussions, then it should have a “due date (hard deadline)”. Otherwise, it shouldn’t. ↩
