Use the Semester Trick to Achieve Your Biggest, Scariest Goals (Even If You’re Long Out of School)
When it comes to productivity advice, daily routines get all the love. The internet is jam-packed with advice on famous people’s morning routines and how to build a productivity-boosting morning routine of your own. But days aren’t the only way we divide up our time.
We mark the passage of our lives in weeks, seasons, and years too. And according to a diverse and intriguing group of experts, our routines should take more account of these slower rhythms.
Spanx founder Sara Blakely, for instance, insists that you need a weekly cadence to your work as well as a daily one. Anthropologists and writers note that human work has traditionally shifted with the seasons, and have suggested our modern work should take account of the ups and downs of the year too. A handful of entrepreneurs (and Europeans) even suggest working a 10-month year, leaving two months free for rest and recuperation.
Our organization of time and work is malleable, in other words, and we shouldn’t be boxed in by traditional boundaries like days or quarters. In fact, journalist Allie Volpe suggested in Vox, you might even want to borrow an approach from your schooldays and divide your work life into semesters.
