Dissecting Productivity For Today's Knowledge Labour

In every walk of life, we try to constantly strive to do better and become more efficient

The quest for increased experience is to fine-tune our ability to use resources better, understand situations comprehensively and take decisions. While that sounds very 'white collar', it is just the logical flow of the mind for anyone – even for the no so-educated. The more we do things, the better we become at it and to add the lens of monotony to it, is wrong. We don't necessarily become blind to change or less productive with increased years. While age is not a proxy for experience, youth is also no guarantee for innovation. Productivity and how to do things better is a constant peeve and the threads presented here are some of the practical aspects of getting things done better and more efficiently.

The Magic of Calendaring

We all use To Do lists. Typically, it is an immediate laundry list of things to be accomplished. When it is a time schedule and the list, it is OK. The problem comes when the list is longer and the time horizon is wider. The lists then become indications of intent rather than a plan to completion. Freud calls it the pleasure principle. We are constantly pursuing activities that give us gratification. This avocation mentally makes up prioritise easier activities and delays the more difficult and tedious tasks. This also makes us do the easy tasks and not necessarily the important tasks. Calendaring tasks makes it more practical and more visual. Your calendar prop gives you a slot to do something and the likelihood of doing the same increases by quantum.