Have your efforts to manage your time taken up more of your time than your actual work?

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Some days I have lost precious execution time on planning, organising tasks, looking for the perfect tools, creating spreadsheets. Maybe I was not doing something right. Any tips or similar stories?

Alina Ihnatiuk · Accepted Answer

Hey! Yes, unfortunately, getting the time right is sometimes a difficult task.

Archisman Das · Answer

I keep aside 2 hours of my time on Monday mornings to plan the week. I find it is easier to execute if you have granular level clarity on what needs to be done and how. But yes, it is also easy to fall in to the trap of over-indexing on planning.

Rucha Joshi · Answer

@antonovna right! Especially when working in a very fast paced digital maker space. Priorities do change quickly and at some points the time spent optimising tasks and management could have just been spent building.

Have your efforts to manage your time taken up more of your time than your actual work?

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