"The more you try to do, the less you accomplished."

Have you heard about the Parkinson's law? What about time boxing?
If you don't know what these are, then let's talk about it.

Parkinson's law talks about how a work can expand to fill the time available before its deadline. It simply means that if you have a deadline of one week, then it takes you one week to complete it. It is the same of having deadline of one month which will also take you to complete the work in one month. If you do the work in the last minute, then that work can be completed in a minute but you just chose to procrastinate so it took you a full deadline to complete it.

Now, time boxing is where you set up a schedule or itinerary in advance. You give each task a specific amount of time for you to complete it. You make your own deadline. Time boxing helps us in time management.

When you set up a scheduled in advance with fixed amount of time, make sure to give a leeway for possible distractions and breaks.

If you have a big task to complete, you can also divide it in parts to makes things easier and keeps you out of pressure.

Time boxing was really useful when I was in school.
And it is still helpful even as a busy mom today.