Typically weekdays are busy with work schedules. Weekends are reserved for personal time. But we can use part of weekend to clear backlog at work also.

I am trying this just now. When I think of some small tasks (some of which are very trivial but not high priority tasks) during weekend, I write them down for the weekend instead of a weekday. This way I managed to put around 15 tasks on my Sunday. Sunday will be backlog clearance day.

Dedicating a couple of hours with list of things to do can be very effective. Trying to fit these backlogs into weekday can be avoided.

I am going to try it out in next couple of weeks and see how it goes.

I recently had another backlog clearance day. I made a task list of around 15 items that were overdue. I blocked my calendar for 3 hours to clear tasks. Tried to avoid interruptions and finally made it.  It was a really productive day.

Try this approach once in a while even if you don’t want to bring too much work home.

You can obviously push only low priority tasks to a backlog day and not high priority tasks.

Reminder from a previous tip:

Do you remember that in one of my tips, I suggested easier ways to backup your data. I do follow weekly backup approach and want to let you know that it saved my day couple of weeks back. My laptop disk crashed and could not be recovered. Fortunately I lost only a few days of documents and everything else was backed up.  Make sure you backup your data regularly. You don’t want to loose your precious documents.