EFFICIENCY

I don't recall if I blogged about this before or not, but it has been on my mind repeatedly lately. I am not sure if I was taught to be efficient or if it is a thing that is simply a part of my personality. but I think at least parts of my need to be super efficient is training.

My understanding until now was that being efficient means getting things done with the least amount of time and effort. So if you are cleaning up downstairs and you come across something that needs to go upstairs, you don't put it away, you put it on the stairs and wait until you have enough to make it worth it taking the trip or you are going upstairs anyway. You don't go to the clothes donation box to drop of 2 items. You wait until the bag is full. Or until after you have gone through everybody's clothes. If you need an utensil in the kitchen you washed by hand later in the day, you don't put it away, you keep it out.

I think you see were this is going. The focus is on spending less time and effort on tasks but NOT on getting them done. Never getting anything done will lead to clutter around the house. It will also leave you with a whole list of unfinished projects in the back of your head and believe me. The suck energy out of you like nothing else.

So I have come to the conclusion in order to be more efficient in the sense of getting things done, sometimes you have to be less efficient in the sense of how much time goes into something.