5 Signs You’re Over-Optimizing Your Schedule (And What to Do Instead)

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Sunday, October 19th, 2025

5 Signs You’re Over-Optimizing Your Schedule (And What to Do Instead)

Some professionals turn their calendars into works of art: color codes, 15-minute micro-blocks, automated rules for every edge case. Then 10 a.m. hits, and the day blows up. If you’ve layered so much structure onto your time that real work struggles to breathe, you may be over-optimizing. That’s not a character flaw. It’s a byproduct […]

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