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Batch Your Weekly Work Ahead of Time

By Jared Dees

The typical writer, blogger, thought leader, entrepreneur, etc. commits to a weekly or daily post. This sets up a nice rhythm in someone’s schedule.

For example, every Monday for the last three years I have posted a new worksheet to my membership website. Usually, I would these worksheets a month or a few weeks ahead of time. A few months ago, however, I spent a few consecutive days creating worksheets three months in advance.

The experience has been really incredible. Instead of breaking each week up into many little, projects I can focus on one type of work and be prepared weeks in advance.

This approach is called “batching” or “time batching” by productivity experts. Batching is the practice of grouping a set of similar activities together and doing them at the same time.

Instead of writing a blog post every week, you would batch the posts together and write your four posts for the next month all at the same time.

As a result, you keep your mind focused on one type of activity and the work is better as a result. You focus your days and weeks so that you have the freedom to work on important projects rather than be chained by the daily or weekly commitment you have.

Other examples:

  • Podcasters spending one day doing interviews one after another, but publishing them over the course of many weeks.
  • YouTube creators filming multiple videos at once, then editing them on a different day, then posting them over the course of many days or weeks.

 

 

December 14, 2017 Filed Under: Author Tips, Meaningful Work, Productivity

About Jared Dees

Jared Dees is passionate about sharing practical resources to teach faith. He is best known for his website The Religion Teacher and is the author of many books including 31 Days to Becoming a Better Religious Educator, To Heal, Proclaim, and Teach, Praying the Angelus, Christ in the Classroom, and Beatitales: 80 Fables about the Beatitudes for Children.

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