The 4 Day Work Week and Getting Things Done (GTD)

Know More: GTD, Lifehacker, Thinking Again 2.0, GTD

Even before blogging about the A-List, I read A List Apart and Lifehacker. The best information is usually found in the comments, and this is certainly the case for ALA's post on the Four-Day Work Week. The comments were so insightful, in fact, that I am going to try a "moderate" short work week myself. I've done this before, but not every week. This time I think I'll give it a 3-month shot.

Part of the services I offer include being available by phone or email 5-6 days a week, so I can't take the whole day off. I can, however, schedule my workload so that I don't start a new project or work on an ongoing one on Fridays. Instead I'll spend the morning cleaning off my desk, doing my weekly GTD review and blogging. Preferably the review and the blogging will be done out of the office - in a coffee shop or something.

Right now I spend 80 hours a week in my little office, seeing only my husband and the UPS gal. Yup - not even lucky enough to have a sexy UPS man.

Some of my blogging can be done ahead of time and scheduled to appear later. Those posts will fall into the four work days. Instead I will concentrate on the blogs that need current responses to events, like this one.

Finally, Friday afternoons I will use to go wine tasting. I'm not a lush (well, OK, I probably am), I'm starting a new blog on Yakima Valley wines and wineries. So, I combine research with relaxation, get face time with actual human beings and still get some work done. What a concept!

Nitpickers will point out I am still working 5 days a week. Yeah, but it feels like only four days and that is probably the best I can do!

Wine tasting. Take me with take me with. We'll both blog about the importance of business relationships while we're sipping. :) Then we'll brainstorm ideas for other blog posts. It will be an effective and fruitful meeting. We'll put the computers away after the first three tastes.

Posted by: Liz Strauss | May 10, 2006 3:35 PM | Permalink to Comment

Fab idea - my blog post ideas are always better after a glass of wine with good company. If you make it out to Washington let me know and we'll make it reality.

Posted by: Diane Ensey | May 10, 2006 4:15 PM | Permalink to Comment

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