Create Flow
Flow is when you get in the rhythm of your work so much so that your work becomes more effortless and natural than you previously felt it did. Flow is also referred to as being “in the zone”, which everybody from your favorite athlete to your favorite president loves being in. It’s a good idea to use 20 minutes of your time, before you actually start working, to do things like scheduling and organizing, so that you can get into the flow of your work right before you eat the frog.Once you get in the zone, that’s when you need to eat the frog.
Creating flow makes you more productive because it produces less pressure and more focus, which in combination, can boost your productivity tenfold. Please, please, please, don’t use the 20 minutes right before you get to work doing meaningless things. While that puts you in a zone, it doesn’t put you in THE zone. The type of zone that meaningless tasks puts you in, is somewhere that you do not want to be. It puts you in a zone that is based on reacting to stimuli, rather than creating something new.