A speaker shares how he batches work to stay productive: checking email only twice daily instead of 32 times, and recording all his podcast episodes on Wednesdays and Thursdays. He's building a content buffer now because his wife is pregnant and he plans to take time off after the baby arrives.
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And so what can you do to batch what it is that you do? You know, instead of saying, oh, I'm going to do an email here and then 20 minutes later I'm going to check my email here. I think the average person, I saw a study that says they check their email 32 times a day. Holy shit, that's crazy. What if you just checked your email in the morning and you got emails done and then you didn't look at them again until 4 o' clock and then you got emails done from 4 to 5? Like, how can you learn to start batching things that you're doing often? And then what you do is you look at your schedule and you schedule and batch the most important tasks. Every. Every single Wednesday and Thursday I record. And then sometimes Wednesday, today is Friday, three days in a row. Plan, record, plan, record. Because I'm trying to get ahead because if you listen to episode two or three episodes ago, my wife is pregnant, so I'm going to take some time off from recording. So I'm actually trying to get ahead so that I could take some time off for recording once the baby comes.