I Worked 10-Hour Days and Still Felt Behind – Until I Made This Shift

Have you ever ended your workday completely drained yet somehow still felt like you got nothing meaningful done?  I’ve been there. For years, I was checking off tasks, responding to endless emails, and attending back-to-back Zoom meetings, but at the end of most days, I couldn’t point to a single high-impact achievement.

It felt like no matter how much I worked, I was always behind. And worst of all? I felt guilty for not doing enough.

But here’s what I eventually realized: the problem wasn’t that I wasn’t working hard – it was that I was working on the wrong things. I wasn’t doing productive remote work because I was too busy doing busy work.