Saying “I need to catch up” can be a recipe for failure. The problem isn’t that you got behind. The issue is that it is impossible to truly catch up. Sleep experts say you can’t catch up on lost sleep, just as much as you can’t get time back. Worse, it gets you into the wrong mentality for future productivity.
You are setting yourself up to always be behind.
Imagine starting your day saying you need to catch up. When you think about it, it means you already believe you are behind. This only ups the pressure to perform, and even if you did “catch up,” it implies that you still wouldn’t have started the work that was supposed to be done today, rather you completed what you felt guilty about missing yesterday.
