![]() These are all activities that suck up your time and effort without much return. Unimportant activities are dangerous because they masquerade as “important.” Think of checking your email when you don’t need to researching a topic “for work” that isn’t really relevant or using an outdated system or workflow that could be done much more quickly and efficiently. Now that you know why time sinks are so damaging to your state of focus, your workload, and even your career, let’s look at a few common culprits of “time robbery.” Unimportant Activities In short, you’re surviving, not thriving. When you’re unable to remain in control of your own work day and schedule, you aren’t able to think outside of the box, innovate, and create productive new systems and strategies. Time sinks aren’t just a waste of your time they waste your reservoirs of creative focus and ability, and ultimately prevent you from reaching your professional potential. Why Time Sinks Prevent You From Big-Picture Success They can even initiate a vicious cycle of increased stress and decreased ability to be productive: Ultimately taking down your work day… and your well-being. Time sinks bring on a “bad” sense of stress by causing you to fall behind in your workload, and lose a sense of control over your own schedule. There are two kinds of stress: The “good kind” that can motivate you to finish your task at hand with diligence, and the “bad kind” that causes you to cut corners, make mistakes, and feel overwhelmed. ![]() And they reframe your sense of purpose at work, leaving you feeling scrambled and disoriented. They cause you to become distracted and stressed. Time sinks interrupt a state of focus that allows you to accomplish excellent work at optimal speeds. Unfortunately, time sinks kill flow in a heartbeat. ![]() Flow is a term coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who discovered that people experience optimal satisfaction when they’re totally immersed in a single activity that requires them to be laser-focused and gives them a sense of fulfillment.įlow is basically where you want to be when you’re seeking to accomplish your best work. But first, let’s talk about why unproductive activity is so damaging: Namely, how it kills that deep state of focus and work called “flow.”Īt Timing, we’ve talked about flow in the past, and with good reason. Why Time Sinks Kill Your “Flow”īelow we’ll examine common time sinks that may be preventing you from doing your best work. If you think you might be on the “better end” of that spectrum, you still may be wasting hours per week that represent lost income and worse: lost energy and lost creativity. The average worker worldwide wastes 17 hours out of 45 hours per week. In this article, we’ll look at those strategies…as well as a big-picture overview of why time sinks are so destructive, and how to reframe your mindset to make you a more focused, productive worker. The good news? You can learn to eliminate time sinks and unfinished projects with just a couple simple strategies on Timing. Unless you can stay on top of the ball, you’ll fall behind in income, future growth, and overall excellence. For freelancers, solopreneurs, and entrepreneurs, this kind of day is pretty much unacceptable. Now you have a list of unfinished projects that make you more stressed. Somewhere along your work day, you got held up, distracted, or pulled into an unproductive activity that wasted your precious time and energy. Not to mention, you’re even more stressed than at the beginning of the day, with an ever-growing list of unfinished tasks. It’s wildly unsatisfying: All that hard work, with none of the dopamine rush you get from meeting goals. ![]() Does this scenario sound familiar? You’ve finished an exhausting day of work, with 10-12 hours under your belt – and you still haven’t finished your projects.
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