Saturday, November 28, 2009
Unclutter Your Workdays to Free Up Your Weekends
Lifehacker: "Weekends are a combination of playing catch up from things not accomplished in the previous 5 days, interjected with bits of free time and family obligations. Unclutter one thing a day to leave your weekends wide open for anything you please."
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My favorite application of this is a sort of smaller version. I like to get more done during the day to have nights free to not think about work. I aim to get more done before dinner so I don't have to give up night/relaxation time to work.
The article provides a great general picture of how you should break down your week so your weekends can be more productive. I find that decluttering over the weekend is the best way for me to have a productive week. If I wait until Monday, I find that I have just wasted part of my day trying to get on track, which could have otherwise been used for more important things. I also find that a Friday list of things to do is the best way to have a productive weekend.
I think its ironic that the author implies you can have an uncluttered work week if you start off by uncluttering your closet on monday. This job is huge, and will cause you to push other work off and therefore from the getgo be behind in work. Trying to do household organizational tasks on the weekends is more time efficient for me, but i also find i sometimes push them off then. So maybe the rest of the tips in this book would help me find a happy medium?
My favorite parts of this article are the advice about uncluttering your closet and the comment made at the bottom about how it is also a good idea to unclutter/eliminate rental storage units. While these are both good pieces of advice, and the latter is definitely cost affective, they both provide a much more literal description of "unclutter" than I thought I would find based on the title of the article. I wonder if the rest of the book gives advice as to how to organize your weekly life, or simply tells you other things that you should clean.
While freeing up your weekends is a nice goal, it is some of the only time where large chunks of time can be devoted to a single task. While it is true that all large tasks should be broken down into smaller tasks, some things just need to be done in a single sitting and time on the weekend is at a premium for work like this.
Also, I often find myself "uncluttering" as a means of procrastination with the justification that working in a clean environment will make the work go faster.
While uncluttering both the physical spaces and the work that must be done is important. It is crucial that it only goes the the point at which it help you complete the work to be done.
I have read every single tactic to fight procrastination, and they all seem like a lot of work. I know that's a ridiculous sentence, but think about it. I'm a serial procrastinator and reading this article just makes me want to go do something else. I can't even find time to stop procrastinating. All the tactics mentioned in this article (The Simple Dollar article, not the lifehacker link) actually sound like more work than the stuff i'm putting off.
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