Plan your day more realistically
Planning more than what you can do in a day is setting yourself up for failure, why would anyone do that to themselves, right?
We often underestimate how much we'll be interrupted throughout the day and overestimate how much we can actually do.
The secret to planning is to:
- Underestimate how much you can get done in a day
- Overestimate how long each taks will take
- Overestimate how much you'll get interrupted during the day
You can also try to plan your day backwards so that your day isn't more full than you an handle, or just shorten your task list.
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