10 minute Increments:Parkinson's Law

Ikea Green Room. Gotta Love It.

I have been unwittingly been aware of Parkinson's law, though I always thought of it like a law of physics, that gas will fill a whatever space you give it.  Turns out some management theorist made the same case for a task. "Works expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.".
Sometimes that is true, and sometimes it isn't . Working on some online assignments today, I would have loved to complete them in 10 minutes, but that was not going to happen.
Ingvar Kamprad, founder of Ikea, one said, "if you split your day into ten-minute increcments, and tyou tryh to waste as few of those 10 minute increments as possible, you'll be amazed at what you can get done."
Author Josh Kaufman says to try work "counterfactually."  Your project will be done in 1 hour.  What would it take to get it done in that amount of time?