How to use Parkinson’s Law

1. Plan your day the night before. Make a list of your most important tasks for the next day before going to bed.

2. Work during your peak hours. Identify when you're most focused and productive, and schedule your most important work for those times.

The proximity of a deadline can also activate different systems: the closer the deadline, the more your “doing” mindset is activated.

Change your deadlines to get into convergence, the doing mindset.

• Deadlines should be concrete. You are much more likely to abide by concrete deadlines.
• Deadlines should be realistic. When choosing a deadline for a task, you should pick one that gives you a sufficient amount of time to complete the task.
• Deadlines should be...