I always have a notebook on the passenger seat of my car. In this notebook, I jot down my commute times to and from work (it helps me to think of it as a race… but a safe race, because I don’t speed), anything interesting I want to remember from a podcast or audio book and to-do lists.
The other day I wrote down 6 items in just 37 minutes (it was a good day!).
I pulled out the page from the spiral-bound book and walked into the building with it clutched in my hand.
My colleague asked about it and I said, “I need a personal assistant. Look at all the stuff I need to get done”
And then I realised that a lot of it could be dealt with in a power hour.
I heard about this concept of the power hour on Gretchen Rubin’s podcast, Happier, and I must say I love it.
A lot of my items – four of the six – could be knocked off with some dedicated online shopping 🙂 – and the other two could be scheduled in my diary or the arrangements could be made in a typical power hour.
The idea is that you don’t put things on your power hour list that you would have to do anyway, but I like the idea of just having the dedicated time to knock off some life admin.
I’ve scheduled my own power hour for Saturday evening.
I like the idea of a power hour! Currently I have none except I count my Saturday morning walks – I always aim to be out of the house before 7am!
That’s certainly a physical power hour but this post is referring to an hour when you knock off tasks that are on your to-do list. Do you have one of those?
I do have the occasional power hour (usually between 10:30 and 11:30am during the week). I should make it a regular (maybe weekly)occurrence.
Schedule and try it. I’d love to know how it works for you!