Batching is where you gather all similar tasks and do them all at once. By completing them this way, you can maximize your focus on one type of task over a period of time, and therefore greatly increase your productivity on that particular job.
Top Quotes on Batching
Batch time-consuming tasks: Batching is also the solution to our distracting but necessary time consumers, those repetitive tasks that interrupt the most important.
Tim Ferris – Author – 4-hour workweek / Tools of Titans / Tribe of Mentors
You can spend 1 day researching content, another day creating the posts and then an hour or so setting up scheduling – all for the next week, or even month.
Gundi Gabrielle – Author – Kindle Bestseller Publishing / Passive Income Blueprints
You need time blocks where you can focus and not be interrupted. It’s an absolute must. Block out uninterrupted time, and then make sure that nothing but an absolute emergency interrupts you. Find a way to make it happen.
Sunil Saxena – Author – Massive Action equals Massive Results
Examples
Laundry: You don’t do laundry for every pair of dirty socks. You wait for a certain critical mass of dirty laundry to accumulate, and then you do your laundry. There is a
Grocery Shopping: Instead of going to the shop
Other concepts on Productivity
Eliminate > Automate > Delegate
We get so tied down in mundane day-to-day and other routine activities, that it becomes virtually impossible to find the time to work on our more important strategic and longer-term goals. There is a simple solution – ELIMINATE > AUTOMATE > DELEGATE.
Focus
A flow state (or being in the zone) is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. This leads to a tremendous boost in productivity and enjoyment, in anything that you do.
80:20 Principle
80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs. To increase your productivity and effectiveness, you need to focus on the 20% of high-impact activities, and de-focus on the 80% low-impact activities.
Being Busy
People get so tied down in getting things done, that they often lose sight of what it the real outcome (or value) of all the things that they are doing. Being Busy is often a sign of a person who has not prioritized his/her activities and is working on low-value repetitive tasks, with little to show in terms of results. There is no virtue in being busy. What matters are your results.