Recently I had a wonderful opportunity to put my productivity to the test. Due to a storm, we had a power outage of about 24 hours, and not having internet access was the least problem. No power means no lights, no heating, no hot water and a lot more nastiness.
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Nevertheless, I did have to find ways of working, since I have a lot to do, both with the blog, and my other job. So how do you do anything in this day and age without power? Well, you work with what you have. First of all, stock up on candles! Since it’s Winter, it’s dark at about 17:00 - 17:30 and the sun only comes up around 18:30. Candles are surprisingly bright, you will be happily writing away with only one bigger one if you have to, but I recommend at least two-three at once.
You also have no choice but to use pen and paper to do things. You can still write articles if you’re a blogger, you’ll just need to copy them later on. You can come up with ideas, write down goals, manage your stuff, you have the time since you’re sitting in the dark right? If you’re a web designer you could sort of code a page on a piece of paper, either coming up with the design, or actually writing the code.
If you have a load of old photo albums lying around like I do, you can go ahead and organize them finally, writing down some captions and so on. If your desk could use some tidying, this may be the time to do it. Productivity doesn’t get much better does it? Since people thing doing zip in a black out is normal, if you do anything, you are reaching unlimited productivity mathematically speaking!
By the way, phones still work in a power outage, so you can use jott if you like, and you still get SMS reminders from Google Calendar and other services so you aren’t totally cut off. If you feel adventurous try switching to a paper based productivity system for the time the power is off, perhaps you’ll come to love it, many swear that going paper is the best thing that’s ever happened to them.
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