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‘Day Batching’ Is a Better Way to Organize Your Work Week
Here’s a step-by-step guide to making it work for you
As the owner of a company that provides mental wellness resources, a content creator on five different platforms and publications, and a mom of a three-year-old, I would lose my marbles if I did not organize my days in a focused way.
The single most useful productivity habit I have found is day batching.
Day batching, as I’ve written about, is a productivity system in which you only work on certain projects on a specific day (or days) in the week. If a non-urgent task comes up that doesn’t relate to that project, it has to wait. The simple idea behind the system comes from Elon Musk, who allocates specific days to each one of his companies (Mondays at SpaceX, Tuesdays at Tesla, etc.). The system has not only helped me organize my life, but has also helped me release some of my anxiety over my perpetually massive to-do list.
While day batching as a concept may seem simple, I have learned a few things since I started using the system about a year ago. Here’s a step-by-step plan for making it work for you.
Getting set up
First things first, you should know what you want to spend your time on. For me, I have three main projects…
