so we're going to overview what the Bento methodology is and what it can do for you with
your productivity and especially task management now just a little disclaimer the Bento experience
in methodology is not about reducing your to-do list it's actually about prioritizing the tasks
that are on your to-do list so you can happily use this alongside a task management application
that you already use and even integrate it into your system so we're going to really dive into
three core areas of this Pack Flow and focus as a way of explaining the Bento experience let's dive
into the first area pack so as you can imagine a Bento Box is designed into different parts we've
created it so that you can basically organize it as a large medium and small task launch tasks are
essentially ones that need deep focus 90 minutes plus and are normally quite deliverable orientated
and medium task is more analytical and balanced needing about 45 to 60 minutes and are typically
project orientated helping you to work towards a project and a small tasks are administrative
or well-being related a need amount 15 to 30 minutes and typically quite light and habitual
now each bento box limits you to just those three tasks really narrowing you down into paying more
attention to what are your core focuses so you can pick one of them for example a large task
could be write report medium task could be maybe manage email campaign and a small task might be
15 minutes of yoga so you can also use them to plan weekly monthly and yearly but Bento boxes
are great per day now moving on to the next part of the process flow this is essentially just the
order you do them in and we call this workflow approaches so eat that frog is a great example
of that you can go from large task to medium to small task this is really suitable for morning
people starting with the large task it's like eating that frog a concept by Brian Tracy that
helps you to really jump on the biggest task first the second climb the mountain it's a medium to
large to small so you start off with a balanced approach kicking off with a medium task and then
working on the big thing in the middle of the day and finishing off with something small and finally
the Slow Burn this is perfect for those who take a little bit of time to warm up in the morning and
get all of their energy and focus in the afternoon starting with the small task you can move to the
medium finish with the last one so this is great for those who are maybe a little bit more less
of mourning people in that sense so you can select one of these flows to apply to each of your Mentor
boxes and you can change it every single day but you can balance it based on your energy levels and
finally Focus basically having one task in mind is really key as you're doing each of these so don't
jump between tasks you need to be using deep work a concept by Cal Newport to really avoid contact
switching basically contact switching is moving between different apps and tasks and constantly
evolving that and trying to block distractions at the same time is making sure that notification
aren't pinging and things like that setting timers is a great way to really enhance a focus and using
the recommended timer amounts on large medium and small tasks is a great way to do that and you can
even combine it with methodologies like the Bento method and using it alongside the Pomodoro Timer
so big thanks to sketchnote designer for this one silly Strokes it's been a pleasure working with
her if you want to check out some of her stuff you can find it linked in description below but
that was the Bento methodology Illustrated and visualized so that you can go and apply it and
again we've got a tool for it but you can apply it to any of the different to-do list applications or
even note-taking applications that use on a day-to-day basis and if you want to enhance
your learning on it we do have a fantastic course that will dive just into that so folks
thank you very much and I hope you enjoyed this dive into the Bento methodology [Music]
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