I'm very observant, or self-aware about my work habits. After discovering GTD (Getting Things Done), my internally-focused attention to my "meta" work was justified; explained

How do I spend my time?

• Doing focused things
• Thinking of new things to do
• Organizing existing things to do
• Doing extraneous things

In each moment, I'm either incurring a time-debt by committing to things to do at a later date, or I'm paying down a time-debt by doing work, or organizing it in such a way that the organization constitutes necessary work.

I also realized that I can spend time that neither contributes nor detracts from my time-debt, and that is when I'm spend time doing something that I did not budget for.