Work With Your Laptop Unplugged

Unplug your laptop from it’s power source. You will work faster and more efficiently, whether you work from an office, your home-office, or a cafe in Chiang Mai.

Watching your battery run down acts similarly to setting a timer as you work. It focuses you to not waste any precious battery-life. Especially as your battery ticks down to 15%… 10%… 5%!… you find yourself using every second efficiently.

Your brain will work faster to save battery time. The benefit, of course, is that in the process of using your better-life more efficiently, you are using your time, your life time, more efficiently too.

Like setting a deadline, or a timer, simply seeing your battery ticking down acts as a focus-forcing system. It works.

Give it a try today, or tomorrow, or some time this week. Unplug your computer and watch the battery crawl down from 100% to 50%, then 25%, then 10% and below… and even if your device runs a bit slower on low-battery, you’ll still get more done.

I’ll bet that if you actually measure your productivity, you’ll find that you get more done during your computer’s final 15% than you used to get done in it’s top 50%.