6 ways to set stronger boundaries with your time, from a psychologist

As someone who used to divide her time between two countries and three cities, I realized very quickly that my calendar has a life of its own. Even if by Sunday evening, the next week was looking relatively breezy, it’d get filled up in a heartbeat.

When Wharton superstar organisational psychologist Adam Grant studied the relationship between giving and taking, he found that the best and worst performers are givers, whilst takers and matches are mid-level performers. 

If you’ve read Part One of this piece, then I must tell you the reason I broke it into two is because I’ve learnt to take my own advice.

If you’ve ever taken our personal pace indicator, what’s your score? Mine’s 99. It came as no shock to me.

Most people jump in straight to the task at hand. That’s efficiency, that’s not procrastination. That’s good, right? Except, what you are doing is called precrastination. Let me explain.