What is Parkinson's Law and how to use it ?

Sometimes to meet a deadline people do crazy things. Those crazy things actually reveal a fundamental truth about human nature. We allocate a lot of buffer time to our activities. Our nature is to be at a state of "non-anxiety" and rest as a default. Hence, we end up allocating a full day to a task which could have been one in 1 hour. If we are not serious about this deadline, the task can actually go unnoticed for the full day or even the next day.

Parkinson's law is actually a pretty good observation about time. Your sense of how much an activity is going to take is fundamentally flawed. Hence, work will get finished in the time that you allocate to it. It will expand to fill up if the time is too large, it will shrink to fit in the time allocated if the work was small anyway. 

Now, many people will say "Does this mean, we can get anything done in a single minute ?" NO .. that is not the point of this. The point is that we should allocate adequate time to our activities in order to be more efficient or productive. And finally, we can use this to our advantage by simply reducing the amount of time you allocate to any activity. This way, if you treat the timeline seriously, you will end up doing a lot more in the time than you would have normally done.

So, use it to your advantage. Use this on your projects, assignments, daily chores. And see the benefits.