Think about a time when you achieved a great deal in a short amount of time, how did you feel? What was the outcome?
If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved worrying will do you no good.
Shantideva
The last year has been a lot of things that needed to be achieved in an extremely short amount of time and/or with overlapping deadlines since I have been trying to juggle a high demanding work with my studies at the University.
My go-to approach is always to use “Eisenhower’s Urgent/Important Principle” to prioritize my tasks and my life in general. However, I sometimes “suffer” from the procrastination monkey (cc Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator).
If I go past the “procrastination monkey“, the feeling of achieving too much in a very short span of time gives me this super-hero effect that I can achieve anything. The morale boost and the self-gratification is absolutely fantastic feeling.
My personal verdict is that when the “panic monster” shows up and the “rational decision-maker” takes the wheel, the outcome of my assignments are always concise and to the point without the extra fluff that may or may not required per se.