Awareness
The Short-Time Guessing Game: Set the timer for two minutes. Check it when you think it’s been 30 seconds and again at 90 seconds. Repeat that until you can always get fairly close.
The Longer-Time Guessing Game: For your next few activities, write your estimate of how long you think each task will take. For example:
- Drive to work: 45 minutes
- Get ready to begin the first task: 15 minutes
- Answer email: 20 minutes
- Write the first draft of the report: 90 minutes
Now, log how long the tasks actually took. Keep playing that guessing game until your estimates are usually within 10 to 20 percent.
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