Is Time Your Enemy? Conquer Time with an Unschedule!
Time can be your friend or your enemy. For many people who have free time to accomplish long-term projects or writing tasks, it is a merciless tyrant. It is just too easy to allow the slightly harder task to slide, as you fill in your day with the humdrum and the emergencies.
The Enemy You Dont Know CAN Hurt You
In Procrastination: Why You Do It; What to Do About It by Jane Burka and Lenor Yuen, the authors suggest that procrastinators (which Im convinced means most of us) have a strange relationship with time. They engage in wishful thinking: they believe that they can magically pull and stretch time to meet their needs. They act as if time is not finite and limited.
So if time perpetually controls you, it may be because you dont understand it. You think that small tasks will be endless (so you put off doing them,) or you think big tasks will just take an hour or two (so you dont leave enough time for them.)
As a matter of fact, research has shown that most people overestimate how much time they have actually spent on their most important long-term projects.
Another reason...