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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
The time you feel you have will expand or shrink according to your mood
You tend to postpone important tasks that take you out of your comfort zone and do unnecessary tasks instead.
PRINCIPLE 7 If you find yourself wasting time, identify what has demotivated you
Sometimes you find yourself surfing on Facebook, Google or YouTube, wasting your time checking what your old school friends are doing or watching videos on the probability of a Third World War… during these moments be aware that something has demotivated you.
Sometimes the demotivation is a person, sometimes it is something that happened in your company or personal life that is taking you down in the dumps.
It might also be that you are in touch with a demotivating person, find out how to deal with them and, most importantly, learn how to re-energize yourself.
There are several ways to say no without offending another person. You can thank them for asking you, but politely remind them that you have your hands full and won’t be able to take up any more work. If they persist, then you will have to keep to your word and decline the task no matter what.
PRINCIPLE 12 Start the most important projects of your life now: once you start, things will start happening
If they waited for the “right time” - it would never have come.
