.NBCNewsBETTER: If work is spilling into your free time, you may need to schedule what this PhD student and blogger calls a “productivity cheat day.”
“A productivity cheat day is a day in which you’re allowed to do all the things that you’re not supposed to do when you want to be maximallyMaarten Van Doorn schedules productivity cheat days to reset for the week ahead.Many Americans are exhausted, with work often consuming much of our free time, even on days when we shouldn’t be working.
According to a 2017 study from Enterprise Rent-A-Car that looked at 1,000 Americans, 7 in 10 said they worked at least one weekend per month — putting in the equivalent of a full 9-hour day. When we don’t take breaks from our weekly grinds we never re-energize, and the quality of our work can suffer as a result, says Van Doorn.Van Doorn says the concept of a productivity “cheat day” is similar to,” a philosophy coined by podcaster and author Tim Ferris in which you eat well six days a week and whatever you want on the 7th.
Productivity “cheat days” work the same way, says Van Doorn: “Six days a week I adhere to the routine, and the other day a week I can do whatever I want.”Do not do anything work-related on your cheat day.Van Doorn, 25, is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. When he’s not busy working on his dissertation, he’s
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