From the course: How to Set Boundaries and Protect Your Time
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Common time-wasting activities
From the course: How to Set Boundaries and Protect Your Time
Common time-wasting activities
- We're all guilty of it, getting caught up in a time suck that steals our attention and derails our productivity. FYI, Miriam Webster Dictionary says that, "A time suck is an activity to which one devotes a lot of time that might be better or more productively spent doing other things." Another way to describe it, a time-waster. Are we on the same page? Okay, good. I did an informal poll on LinkedIn to see what the biggest culprits were, and here's what I found. Out of more than 100 people who took the poll, 59% said social media is the biggest time suck. And email came in second at 22%. Television and streaming services made the list too. I'm always posting questions and productivity nuggets like this on my LinkedIn profile. If we're not already connected, I'd love to be. There's a follow me button right here on this page. Now, you could argue that things like commuting and meetings are time-wasters too, and that's…
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