Sometimes people like to get together and meet to discuss the current work. Sometimes this is good and sometimes this is bad. Sometimes its wiser to cancel the meeting and use that time to complete some actual work. This is much better than holding the meeting and saying it will take about an hour to complete this task, and then promise to get it done by the end of the week. Just cancel the meeting and get it done, then recall the meeting and talk about it.
I like to keep floating meetings on my calendar. These are free to move both times and days if need be. If there is no reason to meet today, push it off until next week. If you need another 4 hours to do something, push the meeting out a day.
Obviously this can be abused, but most of us already have too much to do, so why not delay the meeting a tiny bit so that some real work can be done.
Personal experience?
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