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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