Just As Well, The Women's Health Podcast - Do This One Thing: Batch Tasks to Maximise Productivity

Episode Date: April 11, 2021

Hello! On Going for Goal next week we’re helping you become more productive. We’ll discuss why you might be struggling to get things done and how to get yourself out of that headspace with some stellar tools and techniques from our expert panel. Ahead of the full thing dropping on Tuesday, here’s one of our guests - entrepreneur Grace Beverley, author of new book Working Hard, Hardly Working: How To Achieve More, Stress Less and Feel Fulfilled - on how she batches tasks to squeeze out procrastination and maximise productivity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, on Going for Goal next week, we're helping you to get more productive because in uncertain, routineless times like these, procrastination has been creeping up thick and fast. We'll discuss why you're struggling to get things done and how to get yourself out of that headspace so you can achieve more and live better with some stellar tools and techniques from our expert panel. Ahead of the full thing dropping on Tuesday, here's one of our guests, entrepreneur Grace Beverly, author of Working Hardly Hardly Working,

on how she batches tasks to squeeze out procrastination. The benefits in the long term of working less was so much better enabled me to step back and kind of say, okay, well, in the short term, I need to do the worst task first, or I need to time block, or I need to kind of what I do is I spit my time, my to-do list up into three sections, into quick ticks, which take under 10 minutes, into tasks which take under half an hour or under 45 minutes,

and into projects which take a lot longer than that. And then I can slot those into different things, and it doesn't necessarily leave space for procrastination. And that taught me really quickly, what works, what doesn't work.