Manage Your Time with Parkinson’s Law

Manage Your Time with Parkinson’s Law 

We can use Parkinson’s Law to be more efficient and effective in meeting deadlines and reaching our personal goals.

Ever noticed that when you have too much time to complete a task, you procrastinate until the very last minute?

But then you immediately go from lazy-mode to productivity superhero to hit a deadline, without sacrificing the quality of your work at all? 

Articulated by the British historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Parkinson’s Law says: 

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”.

For example, according to Parkinson’s law, if someone is given a week to complete a task should really only take them a day to finish, they will often end up unnecessarily stretching out the task, so that it will take them the whole week to complete it. 

When people decide to work on some project, whether it’s a business idea that they want to develop or a story that they want to write, they will often end up taking significantly longer to get started and to finish those things than they need, especially in situations where they don’t have a concrete deadline for finishing the project.

We can use Parkinson’s Law to be more efficient and effective in meeting deadlines and reaching our personal goals.

Putting a deadline to each task or each goal refocuses our target and energy to what needs to be done as well as enforces our effort to its maximum possibilities.

By applying Parkinson’s Law, you can remove the time fillers that slow you down, set time constraints, and limit the choices you have to make.

In doing so, you can reserve your energy for staying focused, productive, and smarter about how you work and the tools you work with.

Long story short, our efforts are increased when the time allotted is shortened. As time is dragged on, our efforts get drastically decreased.

So, give a strict time frame when goals and task needs to be completed and our energy and resources are focused to complete them.

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Why Life Skills?

Life skills are the abilities and behaviors that help us deal effectively with the events and challenges of everyday life.

Why Life Skills?

Do you know that teaching and learning life skills are incredibly important for empowering young people to achieve success in education, employment and personal goals?

According to National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), teaching and learning life skills are incredibly important for empowering young people to achieve success in education, employment and personal goals. 

In her groundbreaking book, "Mind in the Making," Ellen Galinsky describes life skills as essential skills for success in all aspects of life, including college, relationships, and work. 

Life skills are the abilities and behaviors that help us deal effectively with the events and challenges of everyday life. 

They are the skills that allow us to handle everything from interactions with others to identifying and processing our emotions. 

They assist us to develop self-confidence and successfully deal with significant life struggles and changes. 

Interestingly, only a few universities all over the world have integrated life skills into their education systems; and University of Petroleum and Energy Studies is the part of the proud league. 

Glad to be a member of School For Life team at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies to offer these incredible life skills to its dynamic student community.

It was an honor to teach elements of Indian culture to 28 British youngsters (from various universities in the UK) who came to India for a British Council-supported 14-day-long “Generation UK-India” programme. 

I taught them with the help of inspiring interactions, interesting activities and fun games, in a professional and approachable manner. 

I am very sure and strongly believe that education on Life Skills is set to see a significant increase in demand across the globe.

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