{"id":1714,"date":"2018-06-08T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2018-09-28T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T04:00:20","slug":"why-should-you-allot-flexible-time-to-your-tasks-in-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/why-should-you-allot-flexible-time-to-your-tasks-in-to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should You Allot Flexible Time To Your Tasks in To-Do List?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research found that being flexible can increase your productivity while if you try to complete a task in a very rigid &amp; very time-bound matter (say in exactly one hour!), mental pressure to do so can affect your focus negatively. In the study, 1 group was allotted <\/span><b>about<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 5 minutes &amp; the another group was allotted <\/span><b>exactly<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 5 minutes to perform certain tasks. The first group accomplished 2.38 tasks while the second group performed 1.86! It shows <\/span><b><i>rigidity<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (\u201c<\/span><b><i>exactly<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 5 minutes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d time here) &amp; constraints actually harm your productivity while <\/span><b><i>flexibility<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (\u201c<\/span><b><i>about<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 5 minutes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d here) can give a boost to your productivity &amp; you can get more stuff done without building up pressure on your mind! So, be flexible!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ned-dymoke\/study-being-busy-can-ruin-your-workday\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big Think<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Photo Thanks: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/checklist-check-list-marker-2077018\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixabay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research found that being flexible can increase your productivity while if you try to complete a task in a very rigid &amp; very time-bound matter (say in exactly one hour!), mental pressure to do so can affect your focus negatively. In the study, 1 group was allotted about 5 minutes &amp; the another group was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,35,4],"tags":[420,202,122,156,218,240,24,450,179,126,535,140,490,239,424,99],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Flexibility-Leads-To-Higher-Productivity-WinfiY-crunch.jpg?fit=640%2C465&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-rE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}