Processing My Old Medical Records Will Take a While


It's 5:22 PM Eastern on Wednesday and I have spent the day processing my old medical records. I thought I would be able to get through the entire crate of file folders in one sitting, but it's going to take a lot longer than I had originally estimated. This tendency to misjudge the amount of time required to complete a project is called the planning fallacy. Taking today's lesson into account, I am now giving myself the next seven Wednesdays to complete this phase of my medical records project. Let's see where everything stands on 8 October 2025. I don't expect to tackle anything new on Wednesday mornings or afternoons until I get this crate of paper files fully reviewed, scanned if necessary, and then recycled or shredded.

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