Could you share productivity tips for how you organise your life/get things done?
i feel marvelously underqualified to answer this question right now since i’ve been positively useless since mid-march and at least marginally useless since the new year started but! here are some of my favourite organizational bits:
the absolutely lovely muchelle b has multiple videos about what her sunday resets look like (try here, here, and here) and y’all? these are a gamechanger. i try to do these at some point every weekend, if not every sunday! i’ve been slacking on them a bit lately and this is a great reminder that i need to get back into doing them.
get yourself a trustworthy master list
part of my weekly reset is looking back at my daily lists for the week and crossing anything i got done off of my master to-do list. i have a notebook that is literally just a master to-do list - anything that gets added to my plate gets added to this notebook. it’s the one list i trust explicitly! i know that if i was assigned a task, it’s on that list. this comes up in muchelle b videos, too - you need to trust the spot where you’re writing your to-dos or reminders down or you’re not going to use it. for me, that looks like making sure i have one (1) spot that is a catch-all, and all of my other lists (daily, weekly) get created from the master list.
create an ideal routine & then acknowledge that it’s uhhh going to change
listen, i love a good routine. i love knowing that i meal plan on sunday afternoons and i plan my week on monday mornings and that my ideal morning routine looks a little like “wake up, water, coffee, journals, read, yoga, shower, work.” but initial routines don’t always work - and that’s okay! when i feel a little lost, i like to create an ideal routine and then pay attention to how it goes. do you ignore a certain part of it? are you trying to introduce too many new things at once? let your routines shift and change as needed, just as you shift and change. be open to adjusting for what you need, what you want, and what brings value to your life.
pay attention to your energy budget & your time budget
this one comes from a rowena tsai video i watched a while ago that talks about energy management versus time management. the video is great, but i also just generally find the prompt “manage your energy, not your time” useful for remembering that uhhhh hello! i’m human! i don’t have infinite energy resources! i need to pay attention to where my energy goes, and which tasks bring it back. we love a little self-awareness in this house, etc etc