The Secret of Being Productive and Completing All Demanding Tasks

You haven’t taken care of your dry clothes, you still have to turn in your final assignment for school, you have run out of dishes to put your food on since everything is dirty.

What a disaster!

Can you believe that we, as human beings, are so extremely . lazy. We never do everything on time, we make mistakes. That is what makes us humans.

Where does this laziness come from? Were you born with it or raised? There is no definite answer.

However, there is a solution to overcome your procrastination habits and get your work and demanding tasks done on time.

1. Focus on one thing at the time

Multitasking is the worst technique you can do when completing your assignments or ordinary tasks like washing dishes. It makes tasks less enjoyable, seemingly more demanding and the result you produce is worse.

Why?

Based on the fact, our focus scatters on multiple things, we won’t giving our full attention to every activity that we involve.

Just wash the dishes.

Do not watch TV and wash the dishes.

Being present and being single-task oriented can:

• make you enjoy what you are doing at the moment
• get more out of it, producing better results
• higher chances of completing the most demanding tasks

2. Do not do everything at once

We can get easily distracted. Our attention span might be only 1–15 minutes. We cannot focus on doing something for too long.

We can focus deeply and work the most efficiently only for maximum 2 hours a day (Deep Work by Cal Newport). That means we really have to get the right usage for those 2 hours for most demanding activities.

If you are struggling to even take care of your dry clothes, take it easy. Start with baby steps.

3. Step by step

If you cannot bring all the dry clothes at once. Bring just one piece of clothing. Maybe two. But not more than amount of your fingers on your hand. You don’t need much mental and body energy to do that, right?

Do that again after a short time again. It works great if dry clothes are on your way to somewhere else, like to the kitchen or to the toilet.

It doesn’t matter if you cannot finish everything at once. Leave it.

4. Do just one thing

You will be positively surprised if you continue to do one thing at the time, you might by the end of the day:

• take the trash out
• clean your. room
• bring your dry clothes
• finish the assignment for school / work project
• clean all the dirty dishes

Just by taking small steps. Every time you come back to the task do just one thing. Do not take too much time to do it. Just 1 minute. 1 minute now, 1 minute later, 1 minute after 1 hour. Before you know it, you will finish the task.

My experience:

I was lazy to bring the dry clothes in and was another round of clothes, I had to clean the room and organise stuff laying around. How did I manage to do everything in one day?

On my way from the toilet I brought just one or two pieces of clothing in. Put them in a drawer, designated space. Done. Later I maybe organised one corner of the room and left for later.

As I was returning from the kitchen I brought another 1–3 pieces of clothing and put them in the drawer. Looking at the clothing horse, I felt I did something before.

I tried to dedicate 5 more minutes to organise stuff around my room where I left off previously.

Micro habit

As I developed this micro habit of putting just 1–3 pieces of clothing or cleaning the room of just 5 minutes in the course of just one day, I became better at focusing on the. task.

On the 4th run for the clothes, I managed to get 10 pieces of clothing inside. The rest I left it for later. Before you know it, I managed to put all dry clothes aside, wash all the dishes and organise almost entire room. I thought. I wouldn’t have done so much. in just one day, but I did using this simple tricks.

What have we learn?

Do not do everything at once. You have to break your most demanding tasks into chunks.

Never do something more than 5 minutes.

Do just one or maximum 5 things at the time. (Count how many fingers you have on one hand)

Step by step approach bring better results.

Happy life hacking ;)