All Together Now

Take advantage of mental inertia and batch similar tasks.

For example:

• Errands

• Cooking meals

• Writing/responding to emails

• Scheduling appointments

By grouping like tasks together, you can reduce the total “activation energy” required when compared to having to psych yourself up for each task individually.

❦

In your Project Quartz journal, reflect on the past week/month:

• What things do you find yourself doing again and again?

• Brainstorm possible ways to batch some of these tasks. For example:

  • Maybe only do returns on Thursdays because your commute home from yoga takes you by the shops (no need to make another trip another day!)

  • Try batch cooking proteins/entire meals for the week with your family on chill Sunday afternoons

  • For brands: dedicate a single day to create content (i.e. all remaining newsletters for this year or next month’s social media campaign)

• This next week, try out one of your batched tasks and see how much easier it feels to do everything all at once!

---

Source

The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before (2022) by Kendra Adachi