Unfortunately, even though we have a new artistic challenge or a project that requires more dedication, the rest of life doesn’t stop for us. Errands don’t stop. Friends and social lives don’t stop. Physical fitness and health don’t stop.
We do have a choice, though. We don’t have to let these tasks take our awareness away from our creative output. Author and professor Cal Newport shares a trick to handle all these administrative tasks, while improving focus on work:
Choose one day a week to do nothing but accomplish small tasks. Your goal should be to finish every obligation for the week that can be accomplished in less than 20 minutes and/or does not require any serious thought. For a college student, these include:
- Laundry
- Phone calls
- Cleaning
- Getting your car washed
- Filling out applications
- Sending long or important e-mails
- Paying bills
- Writing blog posts
- Catching up on your online reading
- Handling any administrative work or planning for extracurricular clubs and related obligations
While spending an entire day on administrative tasks may seem like a waste, it ensures our ability to perform at our peaks the other six days of the week. Taking one small step back on that day means being able to use the six to make a giant leap forward.
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