previous post I talked about being \u201cin the moment\u201d<\/a> as we do things.\u00a0 As we do our dishes, we can focus our mind on what we are doing.\u00a0 It forces us to do a good job and save us time by not needing to do it again.\u00a0 Yet there can be more to this process, as we focus on the task we\u2019re doing, we can think about whether there is another approach that might move it along more smoothly.<\/p>\nWe\u2019ve probably all seen the commercials that talk about washing the pots and pans last.\u00a0 This makes sense from more than one perspective, not just from dirty water.\u00a0 Those pots and pans are larger and often can rest easily on top of other dishes as the last things to get washed.\u00a0 In loading the dish rack, making it easy just helps the whole process along.\u00a0 There is no need to take time to rearrange things or throw things in haphazardly.<\/p>\n
Each dish rack is different, as are your needs and situation.\u00a0 Making an evaluation of how smoothly things work as you are working in it can be a sort of meditation on the very task.\u00a0 In many ways it becomes systematized, you get into a \u201cflow\u201d and it all happens easily and with little thought, yet it\u2019s done well.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve applied this to mowing the lawn as well.\u00a0 I focus on what I am doing \u2013 mowing the lawn, in this case, and find the rhythm of it.\u00a0 As I follow that rhythm, I consider if there would be a more efficient approach.\u00a0 When we first moved into the house and I started mowing for the first time in my life, my energy was a big factor.\u00a0 I noticed that my energy changed depending on whether I started with the front or back yard, so I made sure to start with the back yard since I had more energy when I was done.\u00a0 These days energy is less of an issue, yet I\u2019m still evaluating if there are ways to be more efficient.\u00a0 Am I backtracking to get at that weird area off to the side?\u00a0 Or when I mow in that direction, cut grass does not cover the sidewalk, so it looks nice and doesn\u2019t take more time.<\/p>\n
This can be applied to any activity you do \u2013 from the routine tasks to those you do infrequently \u2013 and it will help you be in the moment while you\u2019re doing them.\u00a0 You can save yourself time, energy, and increase your productivity!\u00a0 All these tasks, which we all have, can become easier \u2013 and we can all appreciate that.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 It might sound too simplistic, yet each small step we take can help us.<\/p>\n
What can you do with your tasks to simplify them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Life is complicated enough without our many tasks adding to the demands on our time and energy. \u201cSimplify, simplify\u201d as Henry David Thoreau said, and here I talk about one way to help you simplify those tasks and make life a little easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,8,18,5,22,4],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personaldevelopment","tag-behavior","tag-discipline","tag-goals","tag-household","tag-productivity","tag-routines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7p82c-33","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}