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Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed
with too many things to do, I think

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back to my university days back then I
was enrolled in, I dunno, six or more

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courses per term, but I still managed
to get it all done  without knowing it.

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I was using a strategy to actually
stretch time and get more done

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in less time on today's show.

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I'm going to teach you
this exact strategy.

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I'm a man Ahmed.

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Welcome to be.

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Well, do.

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Today, I'm talking about a simple but
effective time management strategy

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that will actually make it feel like
you can get more done in less time.

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I know big promises to
illustrate this example.

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Let me tell you a quick little.

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I remember a while back, I had
moved into a new house and the pink

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colors that the previous owners
had chosen really weren't my style.

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I want it to have something a bit
neutral in one room, something a

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little bit more lively in another.

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And I want it to paint a
feature wall in the family room.

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Imagine what would happen if you
started to prime in one room and

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then left it and left the paintbrush
and the rollers and the paint to

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go do another room and to do the.

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Then you leave that and you go to
your other room and  start painting

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the feature wall with a color.

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By the time you come back to the
first room, your roller is now dry

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and you have to go and wash it and get
it ready for another coat of paint.

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Then you go back to your second
room and your paintbrush is now dry.

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So you're going to have
to take care of that.

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Then you go back to your third room.

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You get the point.

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If you keep hopping back and forth
between the rooms and you don't

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finish one specific room, it's
going to end up taking a lot less.

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Then you need it too.

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So needless to say, this is
not efficient, but this is what

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we do all day long at work.

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We have good intentions of opening
our email and processing, but then

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we get distracted by an urgent
phone call or a client request.

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Then we come back and we realize that that
we have a meeting that we have to get to.

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So we leave our email half.

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Go to the meeting and then
come back to that email.

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But then we realized we didn't take
great notes during your emails.

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So you have to rewatch your meeting,
recording to figure out what to do next.

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This is what happens every day, all
day, all around the globe, inefficient.

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And it just ends up wasting a lot of time.

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This is where timeboxing comes in.

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You've probably heard the term in many
different ways, but in a nutshell,

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Time boxing is just as it sounds,
you create a box of time and you

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don't do anything, but the task.

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Okay.

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Well, it may not feel like you're
getting a lot done in a day.

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Completing tasks actually has a
really profound, psychological effect.

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You don't have that cognitive overload
sitting on your shoulders and you're

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not thinking about it all the time.

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It also works incredibly well because.

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You're finishing one task,
then moving to the other.

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Some estimates say that we lose up to
50% productivity by switching tasks.

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Now, how would you feel if you could
get more done in the day by simply

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focusing on one task at a time,
what would you actually get done?

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Maybe you'd have more time
to spend with your family.

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Maybe you'd have more time to
actually work on the project that

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keeps getting put on the back of.

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If you're interested in learning
more about timeboxing and a

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software, I use check out the show
notes@bewelldowell.fm slash six.

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Join me tomorrow on a show where I'll
be talking about all things, sushi,

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happiness, and the source of fulfillment.

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I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.