How much time do you waste? It’s probably a lot more than you think.

I’m not talking about lying on the couch watching a movie or relaxing on the patio with a drink. That’s healthy rest, the relaxing leisure many of us sacrifice for more productivity.

The time waste is the active laziness that occurs when you think you’re working. Often it comes in the form of procrastination. Maybe a project isn’t due so you keep fiddling with the little details rather than sending it in and getting a head start on the next.

Sometimes it’s the little distractions while you are working. You can’t quite think of the next step, so you justify a temporary break to let your brain think — only to check your email for the 14th time today and end up down that rabbit hole for 15 minutes.

Whatever form they take, these micro-distractions add up. A few minutes here and there will quickly become an hour over the day—a day over the week.

And with this perception of lost productivity, we end up sacrificing the healthy rest I mentioned earlier.