AI have read this, there is likely to have a cold cup of tea on the Veronica Pullen kitchen counter. Every time you want a cup, Pullen makes two, one more than the other. She drinks the most milk (she loves her lukewarm tea) immediately. It allows the other to sit for 40 minutes before drinking as soon as it reaches the optimum temperature. It is efficiency – albeit small – she was mastered for two years. The author of the 54 -year -old ads and coach, who lives on the island of White with her husband and Chihuwa, says it takes five minutes to boil a boiler, so it saves five minutes with each other cup. More than 24 hours, this adds up to 20 minutes. For two years? She returned back a little more than 10 full days.
Pullen is just one of many people who integrate precise competencies in their daily lives. There are people brushing their teeth in the bathroom. Putting their clothes on the night to save time in the morning; Boil hot water for the first day and keep it in a vial. But is this small streamlines that fly minutes (sometimes, just seconds) of the task is just a pleasure in life? Are they symptoms of a community under the snow? Or does it indicate the obsession of productivity?
Take Poland. In addition to its tea’s transport belt, it also saves the time by extracting decisions when it comes to food. Every day, it has a boiled egg for breakfast and egg omelette for lunch. After that, for dinner, you eat everything that is on its weekly list – on Wednesday, for example, it’s a caravan chicken, and on Saturdays, a segment of a shit. In addition, it has a “gathering” of the same clothes, again removes the need to make a decision; In order, she wears a loose coach so that she can skate and stop them instead of spending time linking and ligament. She does not make her bed: No one will see it, as she says.
If Pullen can simplify something, it will be so. “Getting more simplicity with these habits in my daily life gives me more ability and energy to do the things I want to do,” she says. “I prefer not to have to continue making small options.” It is strange that Pauline’s husband does not follow her efficiency, especially when it comes to food: he often cooks something different from himself. The only time that Pullen has abandoned its accurate efficiency on vacation.
The attractiveness of microscopic competencies is not surprising. After all, many of our subjective value are associated with output and achievement-at work and at home. You just have to look at social media to see this great. ##Lifehack 11 meters on Tiktok and 2.5 meters on Instagram, while Reddit productivity theme is a continuous flow of people who talk about how to increase, adjust and increase to the maximum extent. Elsewhere, like those with productive effects such as Ali Abdul (One million followers on Instagram), Casey pioneer (730,000 followers) and James Claire (1.6 million followers) TED TALK and TED TALK at one time-to self-improvement, are long, whether by waking up early in work or by amplifying rowing rowing “within seconds” using a hair dryer. In particular, Clear’s approach, in his best -selling book of atomic habits, focuses on integrating additional changes that add a greater shift, and feeds on the idea that small things have a major effect. Is it wonder that people are determined not to waste a second task?
Jennifer Babi, 36, from Hampsheer, has gone one step further than the two loose Polan coaches: Six years ago, her usual ligaments were replaced with flexible ones. “Gamechanger was,” she says. Babi, the owner of the work, can save herself a minute every time she puts her shoes. “It helps me get out of the house quickly.”
In addition to getting rid of shoe ligaments, Baby also simplifies breakfast by applying table and caravan tools, so that they are ready when you get home from the gym. She says: “The bowl, spoon, knife and cutting plate if you plan fruit and grains on the table.” “Then, when I get home, I only can get the cooled objects and continue to eat.” Although it admits that this does not necessarily save a lot of time, it liberates the “brain strength” that you may need to use in other functions once at home. “Jenny is always grateful for the small efforts of the past Jenny.”
Because efficiency, of course, is not only related to doing things as quickly as possible, but, instead, spread resources – time, and brain strength – in the most effective way. Jude Smith, based in Birmingham, 45, from She possesses 11 spare pairs of glasses, hides them in places such as her bed table, her car glove box, her handbag, her church, her boyfriend’s house, and even her sister’s house in Germany, so she never has to think about the location of her specifications. “It is very effective for mental energy,” says Smith, who works to protect data and life alone.
Sarah Ingram, the 44 -year -old independent writer from GloucestersHire, keeps a notebook next to her during the working day and writes the names of anyone Yais Abha so that she can respond to them in the evening. Ingram says this method means that it takes five minutes to do, with endless deviations that come with picking a phone, can consume up to 30 minutes of its day.
Teacher Caroline Fisher*, 59, of Mercyside, has formulated a special tool from the bamboo pole and a hiding tape to enable it – the anger of her grandchildren – to change the light of her living room from her skewers. This saves her, she says, “Three to four minutes wander around the sofa every day.” Polly Arosmith, 57, reduces marketing and lives with her dog, while she is spending it ready by wearing dresses mostly, claiming that this preserves a few minutes every day. “It makes wearing clothes easy,” she says, because she can get away with her on her head.
Not all exact competencies are welcome. Lydia Berman, 47, who lives in Herfordshire, tells me about the time her father – efficiency enthusiasts Jeffrey Chahalt, 81, who is also holding his phone charger along with his bed for quick access and easy access to modern bathroom standards as a gift to her mother. Berman says: “I installed it in the bathroom under Lino, so that every time you walk to the bathroom, you will say the scales of their weight,” says Berman. “I think it would be practical and save time. I thought it was near the divorce.” In the end, the standards were removed from the Lino and Berman’s mother who did not talk to her father for a week.
Of course, while all the exact competencies, on the surface, serve the same purpose – to provide scraps of time and mental energy – there are many other reasons that make them merge into people’s lives. Poland, for example, suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and says that its penetration helps her to maintain physical energy. “I cut what I call the unnecessary effort,” she says. “The routine is soothing.” Although Shalit – who retires and now lives alone after his wife’s death in 2020 – used accurate efficiency throughout his life, she recently became more useful after diagnosing dementia. They were very useful, in fact, to the extent that the professional therapist who came to assess his needs through a group of his competencies to share it with other patients, such as writing down the expiration dates in each element in the refrigerator (including food residue) on adhesive notes, which are going on a preservative in the kitchen. Fischer admits that she is “bloody lazy” while Arrowsmith simply loves to spend time doing what she is enjoying: visit her local comedy club.
One can only wonder, though, whether our love for efficiency talks about the amount of the store we put according to productivity. Dr. Ritika Sok, who gave major speeches about fatigue, high anxiety, and our cultural obsession with production, believes that our magic with accurate competencies suggests that we have absorbed the idea that every moment to glorify it. “On the surface, it can look like ambition, but it is often a sign of exhaustion crawling,” she says. “These behaviors are less than the choice and more about survival. It can be driven by the belief that the slowdown is unsafe or unbelievable.”
Susie Master, a psychologist based in Manchester who is accustomed to working in the technology sector (including Google, where productivity was a “fixed topic”), believes that the obsession with the efficiency of influence can be on its customers. “I have seen the pursuit of microbiology causing obsessive -compulsive inclinations in clients as well as anxiety and depression. Feelings are not good enough to be common.” She adds, do not help us feel lonely or separate from accurate efficiency, and do not help us feel lonely or separated, and that being a producer is not the same as feeling satisfied.
Babi agrees. “The world is full of a lot of participation in – podcast, television, social media and hobbies – I think some people feel tired of everything they feel they should do.” “I definitely feel that I always need to do something and be a producer.” Smith also believes that our crowded life is responsible, saying: “I do not know whether society is really giving efficiency or if it is just a necessity to help people overcome excessive lives.”
This is true, our life is full. According to a foot report LLOYDS TSB BankUK adults feel only 23 hours of “truly free” per week (out of 112 possible waking hours) – 86 % of those surveyed said they wanted more. With a little time, it is difficult for people to be surprising that people have resorted to elastic ligaments. What, then, can be done?
According to Jabriel Trinor, author of “” Book ” 1 % wellness experience: Small gains to change your life in 10 minutes a dayIt is good to ask yourself why you use these accurate competencies. She admits that when she worked to publish the children’s magazine, she exchanged heels to apartments at work so that she could reach the office faster. “Is it so that you can press more time from your day to get more, or to be more productive? Or is you so that you can get more time for fun, relax, communicate with their loved ones, and take care of your welfare?”
Interestingly, the infiltrators who spoke to them had one common thing, and it was not exhausted. Everyone, without exception, was pleased with the exact competencies they had developed. Although I think these competencies are symptoms of a society that appreciates success and preoccupation, love, happiness, happiness, or stability, there is also an indescribable thing about innovative people who create creatively, calmly, in the way they do things. Something to think, perhaps, while the second cup of tea is cooling.
* These names have been changed
