How to spend the first hour of the
workday for maximum productivity
Do stuff that
matters, in the first hour itself
Let's divide work into two categories.
There's work, and then there's real work. `Work' is email correspondence, and
group meetings, and other tasks that are necessary, but don't meaningfully
contribute to your professional success. Real work, on the other hand,
encompasses those bigger projects and tasks that help you achieve your goals
and your organisation's. That is according to Laura Vanderkam, the author of
several books on time-management and productivity, including most recently, I
Know How She Does It. Vanderkam recently
shared a practical tip for doing more real work and less `work'. Put simply,
schedule a “power hour“first thing every morning, when you work uninterrupted
on a top-priority project.
This
isn't as easy as it sounds, especially when you arrive at the office to find
your inbox overflowing and your boss on your case about a new assignment.
But
if you don't at least plan to spend the first 60 minutes of your day on
something that matters, you may easily find yourself spending multiple hours
wading through your inbox, attending to things that aren't necessarily
important or urgent. “We have to consciously choose to spend less time on email
and carve out time for the important work that matters to us,“ Vanderkam says.
For
most people, the morning tends to be the best time to work on high-impact
tasks. A `pro-level' version of this strategy, Vanderkam says, is dedicating
all of Monday morning to a bigger task that's more speculative and requires
some deep thought. Vanderkam likens this technique to “paying yourself first“
or putting money .into your savings account before you spend it on anything
else
Source | Economic Times | 2 November
2016
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior
Manager @ Library
Khaitan
& Co
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