As a result of the worldwide Coronavirus crisis many people who do not normally work full-time from home are having to.
Here’s how to supercharge your work.
You can concentrate your work by taking advantage of the “end effect” which I wrote about extensively in my first book “Get Everything Done”. The way to do this is to work to the “school timetable”. This is two periods of 40 minutes with a 10 minute break between them, followed by a break of 30 minutes, with another two periods of 40 minutes. Then an hour and a half’s break for lunch, followed by the same again. Assuming a 9 o’clock start the working periods are as follows:
0900-0940
0950-1030
Break
1100-1140
1150-1230
Lunch
1400-1440
1450-1530
Break
1600-1640
1650-1730
If you want to finish at 5, then you can reduce the lunch break by half an hour.
It’s very important that, whatever work periods you decide on, you stick to them to the second. This is because a definite start and finish time produces much more concentrated work than just working while you feel like it. A definite end time produces much better work then just carrying on for as long as you feel like it.