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Day 28: Parkinson’s Law 📜
Where are you letting tasks fill all your time?
Howdy,
Have you heard of Parkinson’s Law?
It’s the phenomenon that work will expand to fill the time allotted for its completion.
In other words, things become harder to complete when more time is given to complete them as the anticipation of the task becomes stressful and daunting.
In Parkinson's original example, a woman's simple task was to mail a postcard, but with the entire day at her disposal, she ended up spending hours on various aspects, such as finding the right postcard, writing, searching for a stamp, addressing the postcard, and walking to the post office.
In reality, this task would’ve taken just 3 minutes to complete.
This leads me to today’s prompt.
Journal Prompt
Reflect on areas of your life where you may be unconsciously allowing tasks to fill up all available time, even if they don't require that much effort. How can you become more efficient? (For example, by setting shorter deadlines, finding an accountability partner, limiting distractions, etc.).
Happy journaling,
Kelsey
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