If you feel like you’re never able to get everything done, the problem might not be the number of hours in a day. Maybe you should brush up on your delegating skills. Trying to do too much is a common problem for high achievers, but when you’re overworked, you’re overwhelmed and the quality of your work suffers.
This is especially a problem for people who are Type A, says Melissa Heisler, author of From Type A to Type Me: How to Stop "Doing" Life and Start Living It: "They struggle with delegation due to a desire to control," she says.