It is important to get more done during the holidays as it improves organisational and personal productivity despite the increase in activities.
As the holidays approach, there is an increase in corporate and personal responsibilities making it difficult for both employees and employers to successfully achieve all the necessary goals.
The festive season is a time to relax and have fun but it is accompanied with stress (financial, mental and emotional) if not managed well.
Best Practices To Achieving More During The Holidays
1. Get A Magical Not-To-Do-List:
Normally, a to-do-list should be created and best accompanied with a not-to-do-list.
With an understanding of what a to-do-list contains which is a list of things that need to be done in an order of priority, a corresponding not-to-do-list should be created.
This not-to-do-list will contain things that you do not need to indulge in. Creating this list will save you more time and reduce every element of feeling overwhelmed.
Examples of items on a not-to-do list may include no meetings with no clear agenda, no doomscrolling on social media or no social media, no discussion on sensitive topics like religion or politics, no spreading rumour, no complaining etc.
2. Create A Flexible Schedule Offer
Commuting to and from your workplace can be a daunting task that may or may not always produce favourable outcomes.
You may arrive at your place of work late or early or in good time and your time of arrival at home can’t be determined as well.
For these busy times, you could present a flexible work schedule or plan to your employer. With this schedule, you could have some days to work remotely, thereby saving up the time used for commuting to and from the workplace.
3. Use The Off-Time Routine
Most times, you have both personal tasks and organisational tasks clashing. These clashes may be avoided or not.
With using the off-time routine, majority of these clashes could be avoided.
For instance, it could be dangerous and unprofessional making official calls whilst commuting to and from your workplace. Therefore, if you have a well-communicated and thoughtful off-time routine, you can be excused.
4. Value Time For Focus
Mixing up work with personal life may result in distractions and erroneous jobs.
Placing the right values on your time will improve the amount of focus you have during personal and organisational activities.
5. Go With Being Sticky
With the personal celebrations and work activities, there is an increase in financial costs and responsibilities. This requires a budget – a sticky budget.
Clearly simplify your budget based on needs, wants, miscellaneous spending and adopting methods that discourage extra spending by automating payments or deactivating automated payments. This helps to avoid unnecessary financial stress before, during and after the festive seasons.
For instance, you could avoid saving debit card details on e-commerce sites to discourage spontaneous buying.
Conclusion
Observing holidays and celebrations can disrupt organisational and personal productivity. Having a determined and definite expectations and goals as individuals and organisations towards achieving more tasks, can produce effective and efficient productivity.