As I was reading this weeks assigned reading Moving from Time Management to Engagement Management, I was struck with a really inconvenient fact… My husband, is doing things right!
My husband has a work-life balance approach to projects at home. He believes in working a little, playing a little, working a little more, etc. Whereas I tend to pride myself as a multi-tasking fool.
My husband prefers to work in productivity bursts. He will play a video game while doing laundry so that he pairs something he doesn’t want to do with someone he does.
Whereas I prefer to work endlessly until a job is complete. As I evaluated my engagement management, I realized that I was in fact not managing my time or productivity well.
Permit me to use use house cleaning as an example. I will set out to clean the house and may go to the kitchen cabinet to get a cleaning product, then I may notice that the dishwasher needs to be loaded, so I set the cleaning product down on the counter and proceed to load the dishwasher. After washing my hands I may decide that the hand towel needs to be washed so I’ll go start a load of laundry in the washing machine, finally returning to the cleaning product I retrieved from the kitchen cabinet to go wipe down the bathroom counter, and on and on.
I admittedly get frustrated at his play breaks because in my mind just getting it all done in one fell swoop must be more productive. But now I realize that “finding a balance in these types of energy use and replenishment is the key to […] productivity and performance” (Harapnuik, 2021).
Harapnuik, D. (2021, January 4). Moving from Time Management to Engagement Management. Harapnuik.org. Retrieved April 11, 2022, from https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=8494
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