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Productivity: Try This Weird Trick If You’re Unmotivated

Productivity: Try This Weird Trick If You’re Unmotivated

Do you wish you could increase your productivity? Perhaps you’ve found as I have, that you’re very productive in one area of your life, but not in another.

A friend who owns a hairdressing salon is very productive at work. Most days she works until seven in the evening, and the salon’s open six days. But she says she has a mile of household chores that she can’t face.

I’m productive at work too, but my writing’s fallen off over the past few months. When I get home I’m too tired to do more than cook a quick meal and throw clothes in the washer. Weekends are busy too.

Productivity when you can’t get started

One thing I’ve tried, the “do two minutes” strategy, is similar to the trick suggested this blog post. From The Most Underrated Productivity Technique Is Also the Simplest:

  1. Physically get in your work position.
  2. Do one small thing.

It’s weird, but it works. No matter how exhausted you are, you can do two minutes of a task.

Do two minutes of a task you can’t face

On days when I have a stack of projects (or chores at home) I spend two minutes several. This means that I get to cross them off the day’s task list so that the list doesn’t seem as overwhelming.

Two minutes on work tasks — sometimes you end up doing half an hour

At work, you might have half a dozen projects in the pipeline for which you’re responsible, and several more projects to which you’re contributing.

“Two minutes” means that at least you’re keeping abreast of each project and its deadlines. Sometimes you get into the groove and do half an hour on a project.

Two minutes on home chores breaks your inertia

Are you completely exhausted when you get home from work?

In two minutes, you can:

  • Tidy a room;
  • Fold a load of laundry;
  • Chop veggies to put into a freezer bag to save time when you’re cooking;
  • Load or unload the dishwasher.

Try it, you’ll be amazed at how much better you feel

It may seem as if two minutes is such a short time that it’s not worth starting a task, but it’s surprising how much more you can get done over the course of a week.

Try the trick yourself.

 

Time Travel Regency Romance Trilogy
Tara’s Enchantment – Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 1

Tara’s Enchantment – Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 1

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Author: Penelope Redmont
Series: Time Travel Regency Romance Trilogy, Book 1
Genre: Regency Romance

A Regency time travel romance... What if you could escape across time, and find your soulmate?

Pure evil dispatches gorgeous Tara Ballantine across the centuries, to Regency England. Tara lands on Adam Jervoise, Earl of Hillingworth -- literally -- as he's riding through a bluebell wood.

Hillingworth is handsome, rich, and kind. He's also set to propose to an heiress.

When Tara realizes that she's falling in love with the earl, she fights the feeling.

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Molly’s Magic – Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 2

Molly’s Magic – Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 2

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Author: Penelope Redmont
Series: Time Travel Regency Romance Trilogy, Book 2

At 24, not only is Molly Ballantine stunning, she has two sisters she loves, and a wonderful career. Then her eldest sister Tara vanishes, and her life disintegrates.

Molly's life is about to become even more chaotic. She wakes up in a brothel with a man who's too good-looking for her peace of mind.

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Priscilla’s Destiny: Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 3

Priscilla’s Destiny: Regency Time Travel Romance, Book 3

Author: Penelope Redmont
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22-year-old Priscilla Ballantine wakes up 200 years in the past, naked in the arms of handsome aristocrat, and master spy, Dominick de Roche, Lord Bellemieux. Priscilla's accused of spying, and is in danger of summary execution. She can't help thinking that she wouldn't be in such a mess if Dominick de Roche hadn't mistaken her for one of his contacts...

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