How I Cleaned House & Simplified My Work Life
By Leo Babauta
Last week, I spent two days doing some productivity housekeeping.
What the heck is that? It’s liberating and wonderful, that’s what.
Imagine your house was messy (hard to picture, I know), because you kept putting off little things like putting away your clothes, washing your dishes, throwing things away, putting things where they belong, sorting through your mail. You’re too busy.
Then imagine you took a day to clean everything, put everything where it belonged. Your house is immaculate, and you’re incredibly relieved, because it was all weighing on you mentally.
That’s what I did for my work tasks. I cleaned house.
I took care of all the little things I’d been putting off because I’d been focused on more important tasks.
Some of the things I cleared off my plate:
Little website maintenance tasks
Emails that had been sitting unanswered (yep, cleared my inbox)
A bunch of papers that I needed to scan
Tax documents that I needed to act on
Things I’d needed to mail
Payments I’d needed to send
A few customers with thorny problems
Decisions I’d been putting off
Installed some plugins on one of my sites and configured them
Hired an executive assistant, created a bunch of procedures for her
Had some things repaired
Fixed a couple things with my bank accounts and credit cards
Wrote a couple articles I’d been putting off
There were more, but you get the idea.
You can’t imagine how amazing it felt to be clear of all these things.
Now,...
Source: Zen Habits - Category: Life Coaches Authors: zenhabits Tags: Productivity & Organization Source Type: blogs