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ProductiviTips Amidst the COVID 19 Lockdown

Do you feel like your productivity level is at its all time low these days? Now this home quarantine scheme to prevent the spread of COVID 19, while ideal for public health and for the preservation of humanity, can be very tricky. I, for one, would not know what day it is unless I look at the calendar. These days, it is either just day or night. 

Meantime, I’ve come up for myself a list of productivity hacks and skills to beat the conundrum that is brought before me.

I honestly believe that when something is usually tedious or is rather hard to do, easier said than done, and nearly impossible, but you are able to do it anyway, it is considered a skill.

Here goes the actionable list.

1. Regulate your use of Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and to some, TikTok.

Reflection:

Do you feel that you are investing in yourself by being in Social Media for a considerable amount of time during the entire period of the lockdown? Yes or no?

Sometimes, it just happens. When you are on your phone scrolling through social media, you will find that you’ve already spent unproductive hours lurking and liking, instead of reading or studying. 

What you can do is to track your social media activities and the time you spend on them in a day.

When you see that you are overdoing it, then stop, and do something about it.

Decide how much time in a day you can spend or willing to spend being  on social media. Be true to yourself, and decide wisely.

Stick to a rather limited time and commit to a considerably regulated use of social media.

2. Make a To-Do List for the day/ for the next day (if you prefer to do it at night). 

Be intentional about how you want to spend your day while you’re in the comfort of your own home. Sometimes, I get into into the details by indicating the time that I will be doing my “to-do’s”.

Although I feel that I don’t have to allot a particular time frame to accomplish each item because I have more time now, than ever before, due to the lockdown. One might actually be better off dedicating a specific time for each task “to-do”.

That feeling of accomplishment and pride when you check off items in your to-do list, is worth all the trouble of writing them down in the first place. 

3. Do some memory work while washing your [dirty] hands.

There is no need the emphasize the importance of washing your hands these days.

You know what it is they say.

“Once who comes to court, must have clean hands”.

And of course, to combat COVID 19.

I now wash my hands thoroughly while reciting the Lawyer’s Oath. I’m proud to say I’ve memorized it through spaced repetition.

4. Find something interesting to do or seek a new hobby. 

Explore with a purpose. Yes, that is productive. Make use of your spare time finding something interesting to read and doing something you enjoy. 

For example, my downtime really is playing Wordscape, [believing that it will increase my vocabulary somehow], strumming the guitar, [I love music but the feeling is not mutual, so the struggle is very apparent], learning Spanish [with the use of online tutorials, and I’m still on the basics], reading a book [by Napoleon Hill, currently] and lastly, Netflix and chill, being the real deal.

[Sherlock, Interior Design TV shows, and Forensic Files are on My List. Thankfully, I’m done with ‘Crash Landing On You’. I’m glad it was the first series I watched at the beginning of the lockdown. Now I can brag about watching Sherlock at the moment].

Before we get very personal, with my disclosures so far, the 5th and last tip is:

5. DECLUTTER.

Lucky you, I have a YouTube video on this. You can just sit back, and watch {enough with the reading). 

And lucky me, I’ll be done with the list by simply embedding the video right here:

Muchos Gracias!

Carpe [Every]  Diem.

Pinay Jurist