Work Horizontally!
Dear Sir,
Hope Covid-19 hasn’t reached you yet!
We heard that you have a little life balance issue due to working from home current life style, And during this quarantine, We stamped upon a simple productivity trick that we decided to update you with to get you into the action mode and crack open the potential of your mind to stay on track…
But first let me ask you some questions,
-How many times have you switched between uncompleted tasks, scattering your mind between different to dos, scrambling to write an essay each day or check your e-mail constantly?!
-If you will have 3 cucumbers today to prepare for your family on lunch salad. Is it faster to cut each one in separate or to cut them aligning in parallel to each other?!
Try different!
Don’t Work Hard, Work Smart!
You may have tried the Batching Technique in your life in some sort of stuff, but it might not be adapted in most of all your daily activities. Although, it saves your time from the mental delay of decluttering around, switching from doing one type of task to another. And it improves your focus as you work longer on a task, you begin to enter a flow of corresponded ideas falling into a state of work meditation.
Here are some examples of how to make it work broadband
Household chores: No time to prepare proper meals?! A box of laundry forever full?! A pile of unfolded clothes desperately waiting to return their home?!
Set aside a few hours on your weekend to cook quick meals for the week, while some would be in the oven or waiting for the fries to be done or the rice to be steamed, you can finish your laundry within. And that will give you a clear space in your mind for the rest of the week!
Emails: The time it takes to open your laptop or to load your email might not seem like much, but it adds up over time. Determine a suitable time to check and reply to all your emails at once.
Errands/Shopping: Write down your grocery list in separate from the bakery list and have another list for what other stuff you have to go out for. Get them in order according to your road map and finish them at one time.
Phone Calls/Messages: Keep a list of all the people you need to call or send them a message and pick one time of your day to empty it once.
YouTube Videos: Decide on a certain day of your week to shoot all your YouTube videos at once and assign another day to edit them. That is how you will stay consistent on track and make sure that you won’t lose the accountability of your audience.
Cleaning and Organizing: Select one area to start with and don’t move to the other until it’s completed, and while organizing pick up all the stuff that needs to go other rooms, batch things together according to where they belong and begin a single trip around the house to return them back.
It is not What you do that makes you productive, it is How you get it done!