Productivity Report: A Typical Wednesday

Another day in this week-long productivity tracking experiment. It was a pretty standard work day for me -- clinic, noon rounds, a research meeting, and some radiation planning.



Morning (pre-work) productivity: 0 hours
Slept in until 6:30 am today, so didn't have time to get in anything other than a few email replies before leaving for work.

At work: 12 hours
Contemplated staying late to get a start on my physics assignments, but was getting too hangry!

Evening (post-work) productivity: 2 hours
Upon getting home, priority #1 was making dinner. Then I procrastinated with a bunch of busy work (emails, texts, phone calls, etc.), before sitting down to look up tomorrow's patients and read about their diagnoses.

Overall productivity: mediocre
I'm realizing I spend a lot of my time doing house-keeping tasks (emails, banking, etc.); partly to put off doing harder stuff. Even looking up the next day's patients (and noting down what I can glean from the electronic chart of their medical history, to save time in clinic the next day) is a pretty mindless task. Perhaps I need to get through this sort of easy stuff more efficiently, or not always prioritize it first, in order to stop deferring the more-involved work to another day.