Comments on: How to get More Done in Less Time

By: El Edwards

El Edwards — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:06:36 +0000

The email is a biggie. That alone would mean I get loads and loads more done. But here’s the kick – I talk to one of my best friends via email off and on during the day. But you’ve inspired me to find a solution. Not sure what it is yet but I’m on it. Thanks Srini

By: srinirao

srinirao — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:39:15 +0000

@Mighty: It’s ironic how a time management system could be tedious and time consuming. But the GTD experts are definitely experts for a reason. I think it’s about finding what actually works for you.

By: Mighty

Mighty — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:03:05 +0000

Srini, yours is a simple but pretty effective way of doing more in less time. I’m currently looking into the GTD system by David Allen. So far, i could see that the principles are sound but it looks tedious! thanks for sharing your time management system.

It’s sometimes very difficult to get out of this distraction culture that we now have.
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By: srinirao

srinirao — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:22:20 +0000

@Jen: My whole day is definitely not just that . But most my working schedule is also driven by thing in social media so it kind of helps to have some overlap.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:13:49 +0000

I wish that was my whole day! Throw my full-time job and taking care of a house into that mix, and that’s my daily routine.
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By: srinirao

srinirao — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:58:44 +0000

@Sid: Yeah, I’m amazed at a what time suck email was. Your article on lifehack about email was what forced me to put in filters. I realized I was probably getting about 30 emails a day that really were just sucking at least an hour of time out of the day. Music is one of those things that has different effects for different people. When I’m writing I find techno music gets me into a groove and speeds up my production drastically.

By: Sid Savara

Sid Savara — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:50:13 +0000

Yo Srini,

Spot on man. Processing my email in bursts (combining prioritizing, turning off distractions AND batch processing all on that one task) is one of the single biggest productivity boosters I’ve found. That and just not replying to email on occasion =P

For me music often has the opposite effect – I find that I get so caught up in the music that even though I feel good, my productivity suffers. I tracked my productivity for a while with music on and off, and that’s what my results showed.

Although if I’m feeling unmotivated, I guess I’d rather have music on and feel good and get something done than just lounge around unproductively
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By: srinirao

srinirao — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:34:23 +0000

@Jenny: That email checking thing alone increase my productivity tenfold. I realized that literally about75% of what I get in email is just noise, so it doesn’t require constant attention.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:35:33 +0000

Great, great list Srini. I definitely need to figure out the email checking schedule. And as a fellow “whoa look at that butterfly!” ADD-er, I need to do more of the flow writing you mentioned. It’s a definite solution for us special folk. haha
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By: srinirao

srinirao — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:45:00 +0000

@Sarah: It’s really incredible what we can do when we focus. I also should have mentioned that I use time constraints in everything I do. Once I implement time constraints things seem to go much faster and I never switch from one task to another.