5 Productivity Killers That Make You Feel Like You’re Getting Things Done

Which of these time wasters are affecting you?

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Can you tell the difference between feeling productive and actually being productive?

It took me a long time to understand that some things feel like I’m getting important work done but in reality, I’m wasting time.

I’ve come to think of these things as busy work or disguised procrastination.

These are the 5 biggest productivity killers I had to overcome.

1. Overplanning

When you start a project, how detailed do you get with your planning?

I used to spend hours planning every possible part of a project before I started working on anything.

I would mindmap everything I could think of and translate that over into my task manager app (which was constantly changing but we’ll get to that in a minute).

Then I would go through the project and schedule everything out over the coming weeks and even months.

I would set up notes in my note-taking app of choice (also constantly changing!) and set up a folder hierarchy on my Mac to store related files.