A really interesting article on why getting mid-day might be affecting your potrential to do things. Even more interesting, i realised this was definitely my case…
Why the Manager’s Schedule Blows Creative Productivity – Meetings – Lifehacker:
“I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day. A meeting commonly blows at least half a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon. But in addition there’s sometimes a cascading effect. If I know the afternoon is going to be broken up, I’m slightly less likely to start something ambitious in the morning. I know this may sound oversensitive, but if you’re a maker, think of your own case. Don’t your spirits rise at the thought of having an entire day free to work, with no appointments at all? Well, that means your spirits are correspondingly depressed when you don’t. And ambitious projects are by definition close to the limits of your capacity. A small decrease in morale is enough to kill them off.
This resonates with me deeply.”
* after a meeting yesterday i needed to add a couple of hours to perform the task i set, mostly because i needed much more concentration to start the thing and couldn’t properly evaluate the time that would be needed to finnish the modifications – i finnished work round 11pm instead of 8pm.
** a few more interesting link on the topic: Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule (original article) and Why Meetings Kinda Suck.
(Via LifeHacker.)
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