How To Make Your Commute Productive
January 14th, 2008 Posted in Productivity, WorkHow many times have you thought, “If I just had more hours in a day?” The key is getting things done on your way to and from work. Use these tips so you can start and end each work day on a much more productive note than ever before.
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I’m Nikki Key and you’re watching another Daily Idea.
How many times have you thought, “If I just had more hours in a day?” I know if I had a little more time, I could finally finish that Parenting By Britney book.
Well, what if we told you there is a way you can add anywhere from 20 minutes to over an hour of time to your day and not give up your happy ending massage? The key is getting things done on your way to and from work.
Here’s some tips to make your commute more productive than a room full of horny gerbils.
First up, is Get Organized. If you ride the train or the bus, make a list of your things to do for the day or for the week. If you don’t have a P-D-A, get one and sync it up with your work email. By the time you get to the office, you’ll be ready to work instead of blowing an hour trying to get past the company firewall to see what’s new on BangBus-dot-com.
If you drive to work, put the cell phone on speaker and call your office voice mail. Dictate your things to do, then listen and write it down when you get in.
Learn Something. If you drive to work and haven’t yet discovered books on tape … or CD, this tip will make you 10-thousand times smarter than those foul Ginko pills.
And most of the top books of the day, even business books, are available for free at your local library.
You could even learn a second language.
Just make sure you don’t accidentally mix in any erotica or you’ll need to throw another pair of pants in your briefcase.
Catch Up On Personal Calls
We’re all guilty of it. You get busy and forget people’s birthdays, don’t check in with mom nearly as often as she would like and of course, who hasn’t been drinking when your sister burns her one collect phone call of the week from jail and you don’t accept the charges.
Call your family and friends, even if it’s just to leave a message and check in. If you do, you won’t be distracted by personal to-do lists at work, your mother will feel more appreciated and your sister won’t set your house on fire when she gets out.
Of course, for safety’s sake, we recommend using the speaker phone setting or a hands free device if you’re driving. If you’re on a train or a bus, please avoid the speaker phone. We don’t want to hear your mother’s guilt trips any more than you do.
There you go. Give these tips a shot and you’ll find you start and end each work day on a much more productive note than ever before.
What’s the worst that can happen? You get distracted enough to not let that jack ass who cut you off force you into an F-bomb fit.
And that’s another Daily Idea.
3 Responses to “How To Make Your Commute Productive”
By Dave on Jan 15, 2008
What’s up with all the sexual references… good advice, but geesh - you really need a date (or professional help)!
By Alan Castellucci on Mar 19, 2008
Great post! Great video! Very funny too! By the way, I can share my personal tip for productivity. It’s great to have a PDA, you’re right, but then you need to have the right software to go with it. The one that keeps me organized is Wrike - http://www.wrike.com/ - a planning tool, that integrates with my email, so I can email my to-dos to Wrike, when I’m in a jam or something. There’s also a great service called reQall that lets me call and leave messages that later will be turned to tasks in Wrike. These two tools work great together and they’ve made me at least 2 times more productive!
By Andrew on Jul 21, 2008
If you have a long commute on the bus or train then you can catch up on all the series that you missed on TV because you’re spending so much time commuting - get an iPod Touch or a portable DVD player and watch while you ride (not recommended while driving though!).