Bad Habits You Must Break To Be More Productive

Thinking about your schedule in terms of days or 24 hours

Laura Vanderkam, a productivity and time management expert and author of "I Know How She Does It," calls this the "24-hour trap" and suggests that we instead think about the time we have to get things done in terms of 168 hours, or full weeks. "People always say there aren't enough hours in the day, and I totally agree with you — there are not enough hours in the day," Vanderkam told Business Insider. "But fortunately, we don't live our lives in days — we live our lives in weeks." If you look at it this way, this gives you far more time — seven days — to get done everything you want and need to do, which will make you happier and less afraid to start.