how to minimize your workload
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Are you feeling overwhelmed with your how much work you have to do?
What if I told you there’s easy ways to minimize your workload without minimizing the quality - listen to Season 2 Episode 18 of Her Messy Bun Podcast to learn how to tap into your genius and find clarity on your business goals. Or keep reading.
7 Ways to Minimize Your Workload
With it's increase in popularity over the last several years minimalism has become a topic that either you cringe at, or the thought of it fuels you. If you're rolling your eyes at the thought of minimalism, its probably because of the extremist that have radicalize the idea of getting rid of EVERYTHING you own. Whether you identify as a minimalist or not, the concept is ideal for work life balance. It helps you organize and get clear in your business. It's a guiding system that you can implement in your business and routines in order to minimize your workload and decluttering your mind.
"When my home is cluttered my mind is cluttered" — and the same goes for business
It doesn't have to be all or nothing, and today we're going to give you some ideas and tips to start implementing minimalism into your life and business.
Some things to keep our business lives minimal:
Timeblocking
Routines
Organization
Templates
Journal keeping
Calendar tracking
Notion
Batch creating
Easy tips to start minimizing:
Find a system for braindumping, notion, journal, notes app, etc. Before bed or first thing in the morning ⇢ learn more about morning pages
Finding templates to minimize the amount of initial legwork that you have to do, usually the initial legwork is what keeps us feeling stuck and overwhelmed
Start timeblocking your tasks to actually COMPLETE stuff rather than spin your wheels
Evaluate & condense, then moving forward, ask yourself: can any of the tools I'm already using do this? do you need another platform/service
Minimize your environment, office, studio, desk, desktop, phone
Make simple systems: checklists for packaging orders, client prep work, posting a tiktok, launching — essentially get things out of your brain and onto paper to clear up your mind
Create a time block schedule - if you need help with this: Plug intuitive work schedule
Other episodes to reference:
Episode 204: boundaries & people pleasing
Episode 207: how to stay productive
Episode 214: when you feel stuck in your business
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