Peters' Law says:
All actions, in order to be completed will consume whatever time is available for performing them. This means that if you have a whole afternoon to do one simple task that one simple task will become so complicated as to take all the available time.
That explains why a retired old lady spends three hours sending a postcard and an occupied businessman uses only three minutes in accomplishing the same task. What is that that happens to us, that makes us less efficient in face of more time to perform a task?
I think is our own subconscious, deceiving us. Since we know we have more time we might, for example, do a little web browsing, instead of going straight to work. As Seneca put it It is not that we don't have enough time, is that we waste too much (that is a rough translation of a sign written on a street wall in 73rd and Caracas)
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