11 Tell-Tale Signs That Show You’re Throwing Your Life Away
1. Playing phone tag – leave clear messages with distinct action steps.
2. Useless conversations that don’t result in something you need / want.
3. Handling projects / files / papers more than once unnecessarily.
4. Scheduling issues – poor planning, difficult logistics, unclear priorities.
5. Having too many meetings or having them go too long.
6. Interruptions based on other people’s priorities; stopping and starting projects.
7. Crisis management – not planning contingencies so dropping everything at once.
8. Doing too much that you could be delegating to someone else.
9. Having too many goals or over-committing yourself to others.
10. Perfectionism – delaying project actions or completions, over-preparation.
11. Buried in paperwork – losing things, saving too much stuff, stuffed / filled inbox.