Did you ever grind away at a project for hours, then look up and ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?” More often than not, the reason was that you lost sight of your original objective was.

The most important question to ask yourself in such a situation is not whether you’re spending too much time on the project at hand, but whether you should be working on it at all.

Perhaps Peter Drucker put it best when he said (and I paraphrase), it’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.