If you have ever used a commercial printer, you understand “set-up” charges and lead time.
For example, let’s say you wanted to print 20 T-shirts with 4-color logos. It takes one week and costs $300. How long and how much would it cost to print just 3? One week and $300. It takes the same amount of time to set-up and print 20 as it does to print 3.
The cost– and time-effective solution then, is to wait until you have a larger order. This is called “batching”. Batching is the solution to our distracting, but necessary time consumers, those repetitive tasks that interrupt the most important.
Checking email and text messages are probably the easiest thing to batch. Try to limit yourself to checking 3-4 times a day. When you arrive at your workplace, don’t check email right away. Decide what your highest priority is that day and do it first. After it’s done, then, smile, take a breath, and open those emails.
What else can you batch together? Facebook posts! That’s right. Pick a day and time that works in your schedule to make Facebook posts. Give yourself 15-30 minutes. Create your posts and schedule them to go live later in the week or the next week.
Learn to recognize and fight the interruption impulse. Don’t let someone else’s priority become your priority.
Michelle Aspelin
Entrepreneur and Connector!
Mindshare Marketing & Implementation Services LLC
Located in Victoria MN
Entrepreneur and Connector!
Mindshare Marketing & Implementation Services LLC
Located in Victoria MN
If you’ve ever used a commercial printer, you understand “set-up” charges and lead time. For example, let’s say you wanted to print 20 T-shirts with 4-color logos. It takes one week and costs $300. How long and how much would it cost to print just 3? One week and $300. It takes the same amount of time to set-up and print 20 as it does to print 3. The cost– and time-effective solution then, is to wait until you have a larger order. This is called “batching”. Batching is also the solution to our distracting, but necessary time consumers, those repetitive tasks that interrupt the most important. Checking email and text messages are probably the easiest thing to batch. Try to limit yourself to checking 3-4 times a day. When you arrive at your workplace, don’t check email right away. Decide what your highest priority is that day and do it first. After it’s done, then, smile, take a breath, and open those emails. What else can you batch together? Learn to recognize and fight the interruption impulse. – See more at: http://win-mn.com/march-2011-the-networking-minute/#sthash.KLXB9lXk.dpuf
If you’ve ever used a commercial printer, you understand “set-up” charges and lead time. For example, let’s say you wanted to print 20 T-shirts with 4-color logos. It takes one week and costs $300. How long and how much would it cost to print just 3? One week and $300. It takes the same amount of time to set-up and print 20 as it does to print 3. The cost– and time-effective solution then, is to wait until you have a larger order. This is called “batching”. Batching is also the solution to our distracting, but necessary time consumers, those repetitive tasks that interrupt the most important. Checking email and text messages are probably the easiest thing to batch. Try to limit yourself to checking 3-4 times a day. When you arrive at your workplace, don’t check email right away. Decide what your highest priority is that day and do it first. After it’s done, then, smile, take a breath, and open those emails. What else can you batch together? Learn to recognize and fight the interruption impulse. – See more at: http://win-mn.com/march-2011-the-networking-minute/#sthash.KLXB9lXk.dpuf
Are you the type of person that gets up early to “get a little work done” before everyone else wakes up? Then, once everyone is off to work or school, you work another 6-8 hours from your office or home office location. Break for dinner and maybe some evening plans, then work again “after the kids are in bed” or when you realized you did not accomplish all that you set out to do that day. I call this working 3 shifts, the early am, the mid-day, and the after hours shift. Some days I work all three, but you can’t do that too many days in a row or you go crazy.