Imagine if you could double your productivity every day, all day. What would you actually do?
In this episode of Be Well, Do Well, I’ll be sharing a simple and effective tip on how you can do exactly that!
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Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with too many things to do, I think
Speaker:back to my university days back then I was enrolled in, I dunno, six or more
Speaker:courses per term, but I still managed to get it all done without knowing it.
Speaker:I was using a strategy to actually stretch time and get more done
Speaker:in less time on today's show.
Speaker:I'm going to teach you this exact strategy.
Speaker:I'm a man Ahmed.
Speaker:Welcome to be.
Speaker:Well, do.
Speaker:Today, I'm talking about a simple but effective time management strategy
Speaker:that will actually make it feel like you can get more done in less time.
Speaker:I know big promises to illustrate this example.
Speaker:Let me tell you a quick little.
Speaker:I remember a while back, I had moved into a new house and the pink
Speaker:colors that the previous owners had chosen really weren't my style.
Speaker:I want it to have something a bit neutral in one room, something a
Speaker:little bit more lively in another.
Speaker:And I want it to paint a feature wall in the family room.
Speaker:Imagine what would happen if you started to prime in one room and
Speaker:then left it and left the paintbrush and the rollers and the paint to
Speaker:go do another room and to do the.
Speaker:Then you leave that and you go to your other room and start painting
Speaker:the feature wall with a color.
Speaker:By the time you come back to the first room, your roller is now dry
Speaker:and you have to go and wash it and get it ready for another coat of paint.
Speaker:Then you go back to your second room and your paintbrush is now dry.
Speaker:So you're going to have to take care of that.
Speaker:Then you go back to your third room.
Speaker:You get the point.
Speaker:If you keep hopping back and forth between the rooms and you don't
Speaker:finish one specific room, it's going to end up taking a lot less.
Speaker:Then you need it too.
Speaker:So needless to say, this is not efficient, but this is what
Speaker:we do all day long at work.
Speaker:We have good intentions of opening our email and processing, but then
Speaker:we get distracted by an urgent phone call or a client request.
Speaker:Then we come back and we realize that that we have a meeting that we have to get to.
Speaker:So we leave our email half.
Speaker:Go to the meeting and then come back to that email.
Speaker:But then we realized we didn't take great notes during your emails.
Speaker:So you have to rewatch your meeting, recording to figure out what to do next.
Speaker:This is what happens every day, all day, all around the globe, inefficient.
Speaker:And it just ends up wasting a lot of time.
Speaker:This is where timeboxing comes in.
Speaker:You've probably heard the term in many different ways, but in a nutshell,
Speaker:Time boxing is just as it sounds, you create a box of time and you
Speaker:don't do anything, but the task.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Well, it may not feel like you're getting a lot done in a day.
Speaker:Completing tasks actually has a really profound, psychological effect.
Speaker:You don't have that cognitive overload sitting on your shoulders and you're
Speaker:not thinking about it all the time.
Speaker:It also works incredibly well because.
Speaker:You're finishing one task, then moving to the other.
Speaker:Some estimates say that we lose up to 50% productivity by switching tasks.
Speaker:Now, how would you feel if you could get more done in the day by simply
Speaker:focusing on one task at a time, what would you actually get done?
Speaker:Maybe you'd have more time to spend with your family.
Speaker:Maybe you'd have more time to actually work on the project that
Speaker:keeps getting put on the back of.
Speaker:If you're interested in learning more about timeboxing and a
Speaker:software, I use check out the show notes@bewelldowell.fm slash six.
Speaker:Join me tomorrow on a show where I'll be talking about all things, sushi,
Speaker:happiness, and the source of fulfillment.