Toward the end of this reading review, TOA noted that nothing disrupts a day like a planned lunch. I thought this was an important point and wanted to expand on it today from the perspective of an office worker.
From my work experience, I’ve always felt that the most productive thing I could do was to make it possible to keep working if I was getting an unusually high level of work done. The planned lunch becomes a major obstacle if thought about in this context. Consider this, reader – if you are having a very productive morning, is it better to stop working when the lunch bell rings or to continue working until you need a break? It’s different for everyone, I acknowledge, but I encourage those who’ve only tried one approach to experiment with the other.
A similar thought comes to mind when I think about meetings. A worker who happens to be most productive when working in uninterrupted two-hour chunks should try to schedule meetings in one block at either the start or end of the day. Like a planned lunch, a meeting that pops up midday is going to do nothing for you if you are having a burst of high productivity.
