I moved my rubbish bin (waste paper basket) 1.5 metres closer to me so it sits right beside my desk.
Genius, right?
My room has never been cleaner.
Usually there’s a wasteland of tissues and other grubby rubbish around the base of the bin.
I’m a terrible shot at close distance.
Yer… it doesn’t help that it’s one of those push the lever with your foot and it pops open ones. And my legs ain’t THAT stretchy.
(And let’s just assume the best for my long-distance throwing skills, ok?)
Might seem mighty obvious to make this change.
But when things have been just where they are for a while… it just seems right to leave them there. Or it doesn’t actually occur that they could have a much more useful location.
The moral? Point? Whatever?
Er… here’s one:
Sometimes I — you can make it a “we” if you want — keep on doing the same stuff when a small tweak can just make life simpler.
There you go. (Email mission accomplished 😏)
Buuut…
(Engaging full contradict-himself-mode with one swift “but”…)
Sometimes just doing the less efficient thing can have its benefits
Even making things more enjoyable. And better for the soul.
Take cleaning your house. 🧹
Sure you could pay someone to do it. But it might be the thing that’s giving your brain some downtime away from computers and whatnot.
For me, lately, it’s been doing simple things like transporting the kinds to sports. And having some brain time while driving or watching them.
Sometimes it’s doing the dishes and tidying the kitchen.
And without this “less efficient time” we’d just be stuffing things into our brains. Not giving it the space to be the brain it was born to be.
Namely: coming up with ideas and solving problems.
Fortunately spending a minute tidying up tissues and other gross stuff from around my bin isn’t one of those times.
So I’ll happily make the efficiency tweak with the bin…and live in a fraction less mess.
Now’s the time to slide into a “here’s something to make your business more efficient like mine” spiel. But I’m too tired tonight (and a tad later finishing this than usual).
Sooo… glad that I can finish this email… give it a once-over… flip to the HTML preview… copy it… paste into BerserkerMail… click send…
And I’m done.
Not too bad for efficiency methinks. 😎
Never trust a skinny chef,
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