Booking in too much work Start overestimating your day
16 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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You probably book too much work each day and underestimate how long things take. Track where your time actually goes for a month. It's boring but it works.

You probably book too much work each day and underestimate how long things take. Track where your time actually goes for a month. It's boring but it works.
If you're not completing enough jobs, you can see that you maybe you're booking too much stuff in, you're keeping yourself too busy. Is the importance of collecting the data on it. It's pretty boring, don't get me wrong, but it's really, really useful once you've done it. One thing I know that I do is that I used to, not so much now, I overestimate what I can do in a day, but I underestimate what I can do in a month.
I think it's, you know, the comment about it's a little bit boring but useful. But I think the important thing is that having the discipline to fill it in and carry it on. Yeah.
You know, you just You just need to make it one of your non-negotiables daily. Yeah, it's one of the promises you need to make to yourself that you're gonna do it.

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