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Being Productive And Sane
In this new work-from-home reality, where every day is a new day even though it feels the same day, being flexible and following a routine are the two pillars of sustainability while staying sane and productive.
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Intuitive Scheduling
This is a heart-centred way of scheduling your daily activities, where you plan your day according to what brings your joy and peace of mind.
You need to connect with yourself to understand your true needs. The calendar you set for yourself works for you, not against you. Do you feel like resting? Put that on the calendar. Too many meetings? Cancel a few or make space in between for a refreshing break. You don’t have to be hard on yourself.
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Benefits Of Intuitive Scheduling
What we have to learn is to find our freedom, and give ourselves permission to do what we want to do. It makes us human again, as we stop working like machines, against nature and our body clocks.
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The Approach Of Intuitive Scheduling
Listen to your body and your feelings and find out which activities drain you physically and mentally, and which of the activities boost your energy and fill you with joy. It can be the morning exercise session that energizes you the entire day or the afternoon nap that makes you feel great during the remainder of the day.
Energy-giving activities make your other activities a breeze.
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Making Things Flexible
Making things fluid, flexible and natural would instill awareness in you and you will find that your daily activities can, many-a-times, be redundant.
If you feel like constantly finding some distraction whenever you have some free time, you could replace that activity with a healthy brisk walk, or a music jam.
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Unable To Handle The Day
If you are unable to physically, mentally or emotionally handle your day’s hectic schedule, be bold and cancel the entire afternoon and postpone any meetings you may have.
It’s ok to be flexible and pause your life for a few hours. Nothing bad will happen.
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Schedule Flow Time
A good general rule of thumb is blocking out one-to-two-hour chunks of time in your calendar for uninterrupted work.
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Timeboxing
Timeboxing is allocating a pre-determined amount of time to finish a given activity. It encourages you to find more efficient ways to finish tasks.
Know When To Disconnect
Recognize when you need to take a break and continue later on when you can be more effective. Signs that you need to take a break are:
- Struggling to focus continually.
- If you’re making a lot of little mistakes.
- When you’re feeling agitated or stressed.
- If your eyes are hurting.
- When you feel tired.
Regardless of how you’re feeling, you should take a quick break every 90 minutes or two hours.
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Energy-management strategies
Organization has less to do with making lists and putting things in a calendar and more to do with energy levels.
When energy is high, you feel ready to tackle any task. When it's low,...
Close loops in your head
"Open loops" are all those tasks that you've had on your mind for weeks, months or even years that are still not completed. They quietly drain a lot of energy out of you by taking up space in your subconscious.
Take an hour, day, or week to close the loop and do that thing.
Minimize task switching
To preserve your energy, focus on starting one "type" of task and finish it before moving onto the next.
You can even organize your days for various kinds of tasks to keep the different types of energy contained.
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What Deep Work Is
A process of performing “professional activities…in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve ...
Shallow work
The non-cognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted, tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.
Recognizing our limited willpower
...is the first element of deep work.
That means you won’t have the mental discipline to stay concentrated on a single task unless you prepare your mind and environment to it.