Member-only story
3 Reasons You Suck At Managing Time
Look, most people genuinely suck at managing time. Either you’re always late to things or you’re constantly falling behind in the work that you need to complete, either way, no matter how many alarms or reminders you put in your calendar you’re still screwing up. I’m very often in the exact same boat so I’m not here to paint the picture that I’m perfect, instead I’m here to tell you about a few things that are keeping you (and myself) from managing time appropriately, so let’s check it out!
Your Estimations Suck
Let me know if this sounds familiar. You have a few key task that you plan on completing the following day, you have everything mapped out in your head and you wrote down some important notes in Google Keep, you’re doing great. You wake up on that beautiful Saturday morning to birds chirping and you get excited to get all these task done today. You start the first task of the day and before you know it it’s time for bed and you literally haven’t done anything. Yeah, I get it. The fact is, our perception of time in general just kind of sucks, we’re assuming that writing this article is only going to take us 30 minutes, which you’re probably correct about, but the problem arrives when we don’t sit still and write for 30 minutes straight. Instead your being distracted by everything else (which we’ll get to momentarily). Unless you learned…
