This Monday was a highly productive day.
I could finish lots of personal as well as professional tasks, and I can feel the load literally off my head.
It is not that I don’t have any pending tasks or deadlines now.
But what changed yesterday?
An analysis is in order.
One, I was hell bent on completing as many tasks as possible and striking them off my to do list.
Two, I devoted extra time.
Reduced 40 minute walk to 20 minutes. I did not compromise on my step count target for the day, but I had precious 20 minutes extra in the morning when I get most of my work done.
Skipped the morning inbox as well as social media time.
Three, I prioritised both personal and professional tasks aggressively, which meant I took up the most important once first and finish them..
Four, I spent 15 minutes in the morning to see if all the tasks I had planned for the day had all their prerequisites completed. There were two tasks where some research was still pending. I rescheduled them right away.
Five, I coaxed cajoled and negotiated with others – kids, husband, house help and clients – to squeeze in my own tasks.
Which also made me realise that I cannot really do this everyday.
No one can.
Lastly, I did the tasks in batches. I had to send 5 emails and three follow-ups for interviews for an article. I created all emails on a Notion page first, complete with email IDs and subject lines, and then it was just a matter of compose –> copy and paste 3 times –> send.
We under estimate how much time we lose in going through different documents to get information for our emails. Alt + tab can save you only so much time!!
I had to take printouts for a couple of personal as well as work-related stuff. I set aside 15 minutes to print all of them together.
QUESTION TIME
Did you have a very productive day recently, which you can remember with decent clarity?
Share your productivity tips with us, whether you finished personal tasks or professional tasks or self-care tasks.
I will collect all the tips and share with others next week.
That’s all for today
Adios and Happy Working!!
