"The Good Guide to Working Better: 16 Pages of Learning to Love What You Do, or Do What You Love" was a fantastic article! Not only was the design humorous & playful, but the content was highly useful. This guide contains:
- encouragement that in order to be more productive, we should actually work less
- tips from experts about productivity
- tips on how to use technology in a way that is useful, without becoming a slave to it
- tips for how to manage your email well
- tips for holding effective and efficient meetings
- advice on how to make time to think, and why this is a strategic thing to do
- a quiz to help you know when you are in a job you should quit
- tidbits of wisdom from effective freelancers
- tips on how to complete a passion project even when you are working a full time job
As someone who loves organization and developing habits that help me manage my time more effectively, I thoroughly enjoyed this article. Many of the tips given by the experts about productivity, I find that I already do. I have developed a system of managing my time that gives me certain times to work on things like homework, other times to complete personal administrative tasks, and other times for things like volunteer work and meeting up with friends. I have found that when I do what I need to do in the times I've been given to do it, I can actually relax and enjoy the other times. This being said, I have also had to plan margins for rest into my schedule. During these times, I don't do or think about work – I allow myself to rest, think, and decompress.
One piece of advice I want to incorporate into my process is to use time in the mornings to do things I love, and then talk about these things with people. When I commit to using time for something I'm passionate about, and then share that with others, that will not only be life-giving for me but encouraging for others, as well.
The idea of managing your time well so that you have time to be working, time to be resting, and time to be playing, fits well with John Cleese's advice for creativity, as discussed in a previous blog post. Times for working should be done in the "closed" state, so that you are focused and goal-oriented. But times to rest and play should be in an "open" state. Having this balance is incredibly important to function as effective humans. And ultimately, it will make us more creative people!
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