How to Overcome It?

  • Give yourself just a little less time than you think you need for every task
  • Fixed Schedule
    • Always demand an artificial deadline 1 for everything you do (with a timer)

Why It works?

Enforcing constraint such as time limits, creates a sense of urgency that helps to concentrate efforts

Related

  • Stuff expands to fill the available space
  • Cost expands to fill the available budget

Footnotes

  1. If failing to do a task by a certain date has serious repercussions, then it should have a “due date (hard deadline)”. Otherwise, it shouldn’t.