How long should you work on something in one go?
This lesson is a big one. Settle down with a cuppa. If you think you’re likely to be interrupted, skip this one for now and come back to it when you’re can focus a bit longer. The reason is that if you get this bit right it can save you several hours each week.
So now you’re getting on with it and you’re blowing your procrastination habit, how long should you work on things now that you’re starting them?
Other modules look at how long you should work on something in total and what time of day you should try and do things, so it’ time to look at how long your should do things, when you do them.
- Killer question #1: how long do you think you can work for, in a day? For most people, if it’s brain-work, it no more than six hours in total.
- Killer question #2: how long do you think you can work for in one go, on one thing? There’s all kinds of guesses, estimates and assertions on the internet, with most people saying it’s somewhere around the 20 minute mark.
Take a moment to refresh yourself on the idea of the sigmoid productivity curve from a few lessons ago: