Thursday, December 5, 2019
Nigohosian 3: Work Smarter Not Harder
At this time of the year, breaks, holidays, and pretty much anything you could imagine can be distractions in trying to get your schoolwork done. Also during this time, classes get more in-depth and contain more content. Because of this, I find that production levels proceed to go down and completing my classwork may get out of control. To combat this issue, I found a multitude of solutions to become more productive.
First of all, reasonable goals are always a great way to establish a productive work ethic and manage your time. Once you break things down into smaller chunks, they become much more manageable and tend to cause less stress when you focus on completing them. With a lower element of stress, you can have more time to focus on the importance of getting a task done rather than thinking about it. Although you can limit stress, it can not be entirely eliminated. Another way to help reduce this stress is to create a dashboard with important tasks that you have to complete over the course of a week or two. This board will allow you to prioritize your work and become more efficient with the work that has to be completed. Finding your two peak hours of work will also increase your efficiency as well. For many people, their peak hours of work range from 4-7 PM although this number varies from person to person. At this peak time, you would want to complete the most strategic work that you currently have. To further optimize your work ethic, less meaningful work can be done at other times other than your peak hours to save energy and time.
One more final thing to improve your work ethic is to focus on one task at a time. Multitasking will only hurt your efforts to become a more diligent worker. When you multitask, you aren’t doing yourself any favors because you are only skimming the surface for each task that you are completing while wasting energy. This is simply not efficient and will definitely cause more harm than good. Instead, we should work smarter and not harder by sticking to proven methods that will allow you to get more work done in a smaller amount of time. Only then can we become truly productive.
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I totally agree with this. The only way I am able to juggle AP classes and marching band and boy scouts and still have free time left over is by prioritizing and maximizing on efficiency. My strategy is to do as much work as possible at school so that I can play video games, watch TV, and do nothing during the few hours of free time I have at home. This means that lunch, study hall, eagle block, and homeroom are homework time. I also like to keep a to do list on my phone, and use it to complete assignments in the order that they are due. My goal is to get the highest possible grade with the lowest possible effort, so that I still have the energy to do the things I actually want to do.
ReplyDeleteI know that during holidays, especially during Christmas, all I can think about is the long break that I'll be having, and as my mind begins to fall into the mindset that I'm getting a break soon my work ethic and motivation plummets, and I never seem to get any serious work done that matches my potential. People always fall victim to their bad productivity, and it can be difficult to try to find effective ways to solve it. For me, planning out what I should get done and when in an agenda book organizes all my tasks while alleviating the stress of having everything you need to do constantly cluttered together in your mind.
ReplyDeleteI think the most important way to make sure you get things done is to not procrastinate. If you work on a project days before it is due and up until it is due, you'll find that this will reduce stress.
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