The biggest time wasters
- Meetings: Schedule your work time on your calendar.
- Email: Most people simply spend too much time in their inboxes to accomplish anything of substance.
- Multitasking:
It lowers productivity.
- “Structured Procrastination”: Doing little things that give us the feeling of progress instead of deep work that really makes progress.
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