{"id":410,"date":"2020-02-18T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.megathe.me\/test2\/vivienne\/?p=314"},"modified":"2020-02-18T01:00:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:00:35","slug":"how-i-chunk-tasks-together-to-improve-my-health-time-and-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/how-i-chunk-tasks-together-to-improve-my-health-time-and-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Chunk Tasks Together to Improve My Health, Time and Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I\u2019m stressed, I become easily distracted. My focus flits erratically like a hummingbird, pulled along by the myriad of daily problems, conversations, and curiosities.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you can relate. I could be working hard on something for half an hour, then impulsively fire up Google to search a problem that\u2019s been bugging me all morning.<\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019m doing that, my email could chime, grabbing my attention. Five minutes later, I\u2019m talking to a colleague about the weekend \u2014 my earlier email, problem, and work all but forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Long bouts of stress trigger longer bouts of mental wandering, until and unless I begin consciously \u2018chunking\u2019 up my day.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a technique developed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/videos\/chunking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">break down huge amounts of information<\/a> into small chunks, then rearrange those chunks into common, topical groups.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if you were entrusted to write a book. How would you start? Most writers would begin breaking down the overarching topic into several points, then forming those points into chapters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I\u2019m stressed, I become easily distracted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,12,13],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","tag-consulting","tag-politics","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heejaw.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}