How much time do you have for actual work?

If you work for 10 hours today and are in 6 hours of meetings, that leaves 4 hours for your actual work tasks.

But is it really 4 hours?

You also have to check email, Slack, Asana, your CRM, text messages, etc.

So, maybe, more realistically, you have 2 hours for actual tasks.

But then, you have to eat, go to the bathroom, greet your kids when they get home, and make sure your dog gets a quick walk.

So, maybe, more realistically, you have 1 hour for actual tasks.

If you have 1 hour for your ever growing to do list, is it any wonder when, at the end of the week, you realize it's impossible to get everything done.

Two observations from clients:

1. Every person is over meeting-ed and most companies aren't doing a good job at radically rationalizing why they have so many meetings and how to fix it. It's just accepted that, 'That's how it is around here.'
2. If you don't have good tools which are setup well (ie. Asana), you schedule more meetings to compensate for people not getting actual work done.

Most of the meetings are status updates and announcements which you wouldn't need in the first place if you used Asana well.

It's like a meeting vortex:

• We don't have enough time to do the work because we have so many meetings.
• But we add more meetings to try to solve the problem.