When looking for new and interesting ways to encourage productivity in daily life, it can be difficult to find methods that are quick and easy to implement. Many self-help guides encourage you to spend time meticulously journalling or planning out your days, often resulting in more time spent preparing instead of actually doing. And while planning can create a sense of purpose and motivation, it often doesn’t encompass those small, awkward tasks that slip through the net of productivity. From changing that lightbulb that stopped working months ago to filling out that form you’ve quietly ignored, there is a method of tricking yourself into completing those nuisance tasks.
The power hour method, invented by author Gretchen Rubin, sets aside 60 minutes, once a week, to steadily work through a list of small, mildly unpleasant tasks. Within this window, Gretchen encourages you to focus on jobs that have ‘no deadline, no accountability, no pressure’, as these are often the ones that go unaddressed. To begin, you first create a to-do list of tasks you’ve been putting off. Rather than sitting and directly taking time to write it out, it could be that you add to this list over the course of the week as things crop up. Either way, putting these nuisance tasks on paper is a great way to free up space in your mind.
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