Parkinson’s Law:
Your work expands to the time available for its completion.
What this means is that if you say you don’t have time and you should work longer because the work takes almost all of my time to finish it, you wouldn’t finish this work faster. If you cut back or decrease the time you spend having fun because your work requires all your time just to get it over with, you wouldn’t complete more work because of that. Giving your work more available time to complete it doesn’t make you finish more work in a lesser time. It only makes you finish your work in that allocated or specified time you set for this amount of work. The only way to get things done faster is to not give time for work, but to do the thing the way you want it to be like regardless of the time it takes. This is why I am not in favor of scheduling tasks that there is no absolute indication for them to take place at a specific hour of a certain day or date. You give a task an open amount of time. No minimum or maximum amount of time for any task. You only take as long as you need until the task is satisfyingly completed. No rush, no hurry, and no longer hours allocated for the task so that you get all the time you want to get the task done without pushing yourself or without subjecting yourself to pressure too much. No time is specified. You are not supposed to finish a task in any particular duration of time. Just get it done perfectly, within as much time as it takes to complete the task with the best quality possible. Then you have fun and regenerate as much as needed, also without specifying how long that should take either. Be results oriented, not time oriented. Notice that you wouldn’t slow down because of the absence of time pressure, because you are hungry for achievement, and you want that reward sooner than later. Working all the time without resting or having fun is a recipe for failure and burnout. Giving more hours to work will not increase the rate of your productivity. Only staying motivated and maintaining a fast mind will. And promises of having ample fun later on are essential for keeping you motivated enough to finish your work faster.