Productivity hack. For when s*** happens! Because we all know it happens all the time to all of us.
How to stop your whole day from being sunk when something goes wrong? A lesson from shipbuilders.
This isn’t a smug post. This is a rescue-your-day post.
We all have things that go wrong. Days that go wrong. Working day equivalents of a bad hair day.
I read this recently on X, and I love it because my days go wrong. Not every day but enough to be annoying.
Ships are compartmentalised so that a hole does sink a ship.
This mental hack is to divide your day into quarters. In your head. Just like a ship.
Then, if something goes south, it’s not the whole day lost or damaged – it’s just that quarter. The other quarters can be good quarters.
This describes how ships are compartmentalised – with improvements in stability as well as reducing the risk of sinking. https://lshipdesign.blogspot.com/2016/11/briefly-exploring-damage-stability-of.html
(This is a post from my LinkedIn profile – feel free to connect with me there at www.LinkedIn.com/in/PeterBotting).
For more productivity hacks:
Productivity Hack #2 to Getting Stuff Done – The Pomodoro Technique – We’ve all seen the memes on social media about how we all have the same number of seconds, minutes and hours daily. We know that. Stop preaching. But how do you become more productive? How to focus. How to ignore the distraction of the seductive phone screen?
Productivity Hack #3 The Time-Blocking System – The Time-Blocking System is a system of productivity that divides your day into time blocks dedicated to specific themes of work or tasks to accomplish. Many people use the system to divide their day into several blocks, each allocating a work task.
Productivity Hack #4 The Myth of Multitasking – Multitasking is a myth. We like to brag that we are good at it. But we’re not. Humans do not have the mental capability to focus on more than one thing.
