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2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
It is not profitable to do small things separately. After all, every case takes time to build up. It is much more efficient to combine all small regular tasks of the same type into blocks.
Flies.
Small, but so annoying.
You are sitting in a chair. Trying to work. But the winged creatures distract you over and over again.
You wave it off. Trying to work. Wave it off. Trying to work. Wave it off …
GIVE!
You turn on a bright light, take your slippers and … Now you are already looking for them …
This is logical. It is easier to get up once and solve all the minor problems in bulk. Today we will talk about the principle of grouping tasks.
Why group tasks?
It is not profitable to do small things separately. After all, every case takes time to build up. It is much more efficient to combine all small regular tasks of the same type into blocks.
Everyone is doing this anyway. But unconsciously and unsystematically.
Out of milk? Buckwheat? Eggs? We make a list and buy everything at once. This is a primitive grouping.
What other tasks can you group?
1. Checking mail
Why is it obligatory to answer within a minute? Why not check your email only twice a day? In the morning and in the evening. Large blocks.
2. Calls and SMS
Why not mute your phone? All missed calls and SMS can be answered later and immediately in bulk.
Many will say that they cannot afford it. But I did it, I have been living this way for more than a year and have not regretted it yet.
3. Reading articles
We come across some article. We do not have time to look back, as we are already reading it. And then the article on the link. And one more …
What were we doing there? We don't even remember …
Why not use a lazy read service? For example, here is a great article by Alexander Murakhovsky "Can Instapaper replace Pocket?"
You just submit an interesting link to such a service. And then in your free time you read 10–20 articles at once. A convenient way to fill the time when you have a long flight or are queuing at the clinic. In this mode, articles are swallowed quickly and easily.
4. Topics to think about
You will laugh, but I am hoarding questions to ponder. Then I take a dictaphone. I go out on the treadmill. I walk around and ponder a whole list of questions. +10 to creativity!
5. Cooking food
Why not cook food for several days at once? Of course, it's always nice to eat something fresh, but, they say, yesterday's cabbage soup is even tastier))
Moreover, with the advent of microwaves, reheating is not at all a problem!
6. Do it with a margin
- You have been using toilet paper your entire life. Why not stock it up for a year? Just not to think about her anymore!
- Did you visit the dentist with a bad tooth? Cure everything at once!
- Did you go to a car service to change a burnt out light bulb? Change the second one as well as the oil.
7. Any tasks with one context
We have already imperceptibly moved on to serious time management, to David Allen's GTD system. In this system, we assign contexts to tasks: house, car, computer, etc.
Now, while in the machine, we can see all tasks with the context "machine". That is, the tasks for which we need a machine.
Isn't this a grouping?
Total
Group your routine. Sit down right now and think about what tasks you could combine into larger blocks.
What did you do? Write in the comments!
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