The Overcommitment Solution

William Teneyck is a time management and productivity consultant who has spent the past fifteen years helping executives, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals escape the trap of chronic overcommitment. His work emerged from a personal crisis: at twenty-nine, he was running a fast-growing marketing agency, serving on three nonprofit boards, coaching a youth sports team, and attempting to maintain a marriage and two young children—all while averaging less than six hours of sleep per night. The result was predictable but devastating: a stress-related health collapse that forced him to confront the difference between being busy and being effective.

That experience became the foundation for a systematic approach to time management that treats discernment as a skill rather than a personality trait. Teneyck has since worked with clients ranging from Fortune 500 executives to solo founders, helping them build custom systems for prioritization, boundary-setting, and sustainable productivity. His methodology draws on behavioral economics, organizational psychology, and his own trial-and-error experience—but remains relentlessly practical, focused on what actually works in the messy reality of real jobs and real lives.