Daily Routine Makeover: Guide To Focused Action, Productivity Hacks, Stress-Free Performance - Get Things Done In Less Time by Zoe McKey

Daily Routine Makeover: Guide To Focused Action, Productivity Hacks, Stress-Free Performance - Get Things Done In Less Time by Zoe McKey

Author:Zoe McKey [McKey, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kalash Media
Published: 2017-03-05T08:00:00+00:00


Optimize Your Work

Regardless of whether you’re self-employed or a 9-5 worker, you need consistency. This consistency should reflect in your daily habits. And good productivity habits are predictable.

In other words, to minimize your lost time you need to know exactly what you want to do, when do you want to do it, and approximately how much time will it take. This is one way people make the most of their time. They minimize time wasted between tasks.

You may think fifteen minutes is not much time, but if you waste this amount of time eight times a day, that’s two hours. If you sleep eight hours a night, it means you have sixteen active hours. Two hours is too much time to be wasted thinking about what to do next. Imagine how many things you can do in two hours. If you have a clear schedule for each day (including weekends), you instantly gain fourteen hours a week, which is almost another full day’s active time.

Having a clear schedule is helpful for developing a routine. I have a very clear schedule and it helps my life enormously. I have a big picture of what I want to do in the next year (how many books I want to write, how much I want to make, how many books I want to read, which books, how many hours I can coach, etc.). I also have a monthly plan. Every Sunday I place a post-it note on each day of the next week with four tasks for each day. These are work-related tasks only, they do not include chores like cooking and washing the dishes.

But since I mentioned it, work optimization includes minimizing the time wasted on other, non-work-related routines – like household tasks and other obligations. First, decide how much time you are willing to sacrifice for these tasks, then stick to it. But don’t forget the something for something rule. For example, if you don’t want to spend time cooking, you can order food or eat out. The benefit is that you save the cooking and dishwashing time. Usually it is more expensive to eat out, and if the place you choose to eat is busy, you may save only a couple of minutes.

If you don’t mind cooking, but you hate going grocery shopping, there’s a solution for you. There are many fresh food home delivery services that mail you all the ingredients and recipes for 3-5 meals for 2-4 people a week. It doesn’t sound cheep, but the price per meal per person is usually not more than eight to ten dollars. Because all the ingredients are fresh and more special than rice and chicken, I’d say it’s a good deal. You can prepare most meals in about forty minutes and they are delicious.

You can optimize your work by defining your workplace. If you work in an office it’s easier, but even if you work at home or are a “digital nomad” you should be able to establish a place to work.



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