1. Develop a story.
By re-contextualizing your work into a more exciting story, you can increase productivity and focus, especially if you make accomplishing the task a part of the story.
2. Narrate in the third person (internally).
By taking yourself out of the situation (even though you’re doing it), you’ll able to be more relaxed, and keep your focus on the work.
3. Try to figure out a new method.
Break your routine and experiment with other methods to increase your efficiency and effectiveness, by breaking your usual patterns; you’ll approach the task like you were doing it for the first time.
4. Batch tasks.
This eliminates the chance of distracting yourself with other uncompleted tasks, and allows you to focus on what needs to be done. Instead of worrying about what other stuff you can do to waste time, you’ll get it all out of the way so you can put more focus on the essential responsibilities for work.
5. Make a game of it.
By setting up a basic reward structure for performing busywork, you have more incentive to get the work done, occasionally combine it with #1 when stronger motivation is called for.
6. Move around.
Our minds process time differently when we move around – going to another building, another floor, or even another room (or just outside) makes time seem to go faster, If you can, change up where you work; the new scenery will make anything you do there feel like new, and you’ll feel more accomplished once you’ve finished.
7. Un-partition the task. Busywork can seem imposing because there can be several components that need to get done in a large quantity, by condensing the work into its core elements, then batching them (see #4), you’ll be able to move through it quicker and with less stress.
It’s easy to get bogged down with a lot of work that seems frivolous, but this work is often a necessary evil; so try looking at it from a different perspective to keep your spirits up, and you’ll be done before you know it!
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