Are you keeping yourself busy?
There are days where you've spent the whole day doing stuff, and you come out of it and you wouldn't be able to tell yourself what you just achieved. The most deceptive part of these days is that they feel productive. But they're not.
Recently, I realised I was working five days a week on a project that didn't really need more than two days a week. But sure enough, whenever I gave myself five days to do the work, I'd easily fill up the time.
I was simply keeping myself busy for three of the five days!
Do you make things harder for yourself by chunking out large blocks of time for tasks that could be done in less? Unless you set yourself a goal and an appropriate time limit on getting the task done, you're simply going to fill up the time with inefficiency or procrastination.
Now the hard part is just getting corporations to realise this about their full-time employees.
