Nice post, I can relate to the optimism you refer to and I like the action part. The best way I’ve found to get out of the anxiety loop is to take the first step and your system puts a priority to the action steps.

Dan Rondinelli

Brilliant post! I almost always never finish the things on my to do list. I’m definitely a time optimist.
I’ll start implementing action appointments right away.

Best Regards,
George Nieves

Thanks for the awesome article. I found that if I do the same thing, I get better results and see a significant increase in my productivity.

Plus, if you schedule them out as appointments, you can actually see what you really accomplished each day.

I found that once I look and see that I knocked 15 things off the list that those last few I didn’t get to didn’t seem so frustrating. I see all that I actually did get done. Plus, then I also know that I have to block out my time for calls, meetings and such in order to be as efficient as possible.

Great article!.

Ey

Time Optimism can also lead to procrastination – because once you realize how long it will REALLY take to do something – often you don’t want to or can’t do it.

You realize it sounded really good at the time, but to actually execute on it in the time you had allotted in your mind is literally impossible.

I call this “Commitment Remorse” – where you’ve committed to yourself or others that you will do something because you really wanted to do it, but then later realize that you’re aren’t in a position to do the task at hand in the time allotted.

We Time Optimistic people think that just because we want to be able to get it done in an hour means we can!

And granted we usually turn out quadruple the productivity of other people, but even we have concrete limitations as to what can be done in a certain period of time.

But I can say that looking at the time it actually takes to complete something (historical data) goes a long way towards not committing to doing that task in a short period of time again.

-Lisa