The Real New Year Diet: How To Slim Down Your Schedule in 2024
It doesn’t matter if it’s time blocking, task batching or something else, just try one ‘time diet’ this year.
Are you back at work and full of resolve, gulping green juice, swearing off alcohol and checking out your new yoga app? Guilty as charged. Google Trends shows that searches for “diet” spiked worldwide to its maximum score of 100 in early January, confirming the working assumption that we all like to set ourselves up to fail at the start of a new year.
There’s another diet we all resolve to keep once and for all each January, which matters most at work: the battle of the bulging schedules. Our calendars (or diaries as we Brits say) tend to start the year slim and quickly fatten up. Suffice to say, if hours eaten up were kilos, the scales would rise.