To be more productive, control is not the time and energy
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
Who has not experienced the feeling that in a day is simply not enough hours to catch everything. Case, which should have been enough a few minutes stretched to hours, and during this time to accumulate more and more tasks. Usually, to deal with this, we stop after work or even work on weekends. As a result - fatigue, stress and burnout. But what if you change your approach?
Classic time management does not work
We tend to think that working for eight hours or more, we will increase their productivity, impress colleagues and managers. However, Alex Suchzhon Kim Pang, a psychologist and author of "The Rest: Why we do more when we work less," considersThat recycling does not help us to be more productive and find a creative approach to problem solving.
Alex Suchzhon Kim Pan (Alex Soojung-Kim Pang)Productivity increases if we work only occasionally overtime. If you do it all the time, we are beginning to make more mistakes and all our efforts go down the drain.
Even the traditional working day is not tantamount to high productivity. In 2014, the Latvian IT-company The Draugiem Group conducted a study of the habits of its employees
The secret of the 10% most productive people? Breaking!. It turned out that the most productive workers in the office not to stay up late - they do not even always work eight hours a day. productivity secret lay in the fact that for every 52 minutes of concentrated work they had 17 minutes of rest.Try to rearrange your working day. For example, break it into several 45-minute intervals, and try to be the most productive intervals. In order not to lose the attention and energy, take the time not only to work, but also on breaksSuch as sport and meditation.
Rest during the working day helps to reduce stress levels, and therefore increases productivity.
How to increase your productivity
1. Work without interruption
To do this, you can isolate themselves from everything and immerse themselves in a single task or use the "journalistic" approach, using for any convenient moment during the day. The main thing - to determine how long you can work without losing concentration, and according to this to build your day.
2. Review your approach to do lists
Very detailed lists are ineffective, they only deprive motivation. Most likely, during the day you expect a lot of unexpected, so try not to plan everything to the last minute, and leave in place the schedule for improvisation.
3. Give yourself time to rest
According to Cal Newport, author of the books "Stop dreaming, get busy!"And"In work with head"Idleness - is not self-indulgence, or vice. It is also necessary for our brain, like the body needs vitamin D. Paradoxically, it helps us to work idleness. When the brain switches between the focused and relaxed state, we are working more efficiently.
4. Benefit from recessions energy
In the middle of the morning, just after lunch, and the afternoon is usually reduced productivity. Arrange in such moments break to relax or calm the brain to think.