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How I Stay Productive During MCO

Hello Grasshoppa,

With the extension after extension of our MCO, it seems that we are getting used to the new normal. In one of the books that read entitled The 4-Hour Work Week, the author Tim Ferris mentioned about the increase of productivity with shorter working hours & working from different locations. Honestly, it sounded impossible to certain individuals especially for me who works a 9-5 sales job.

MCO has forced many companies to enforce their staff to work from home. First 2 weeks was tough for me as I am really not used to just sitting down all day in front of my laptop to work as my daily job involves meeting different customer. I have a hectic sales job. With the MCO, I am able to still sell & perform my daily task. The difference is, my time on the road is alot lesser & my selling is done via phone call instead of face to face which has led to an increase in my productivity.

During the MCO, I have also been occupied with BBM hosting transfer. When I started my blog in 2018, I was using WordPress.com Premium Plan that cost me around RM1500 for the first 2 years. With the renewal due on 28th May, I checked that it cost me almost RM2000 per year to renew my package. Honestly it’s too expensive & not worth it for me to renew so I decided to move my host to another cheaper option. The saving that I am getting is around RM1200 per year. You guys may receive an email on the published of my old post & there was a point where BBM was down for almost 50 hours. It was a frustrating moment & it took me almost 3 weeks to complete the transfer. Hopefully everything is fine now.

Aside from that, I have also launched my e-commerce store called Black Belt Tape where I am selling my own brand of finger tapes. It is a project that I co-started since October 2019 but it was only launched in April 2020. To be honest, it is a tough time to launch it as there won’t be any demand during period like this but since this is a long term business, I am confident that it will do great. My goal is to provide the best quality finger tape with the most reasonable price in the market.

I have mentioned multiple times in my past few post on opportunity to invest. This period also have given me time for me to do some re-balancing for my investment portfolio. We do not know where the market will be heading at the moment. Some people said it will be worst & some may say that it is recovering. Honestly I don’t know & I am not a fortune teller to predict. My focus is to continue to invest but still being cautious with my investment decision.

Aside from increasing some personal work & 9-5 work productivity, my time spent on Netflix is also increasing. LOL. I barely watch Netflix prior MCO as I would only get home around 10.30pm everyday & leave home around 8am. I don’t recall how many series I have completed during the MCO. On top of that, I get to spend more time playing my Nintendo Switch, do some yoga & did a bit of BJJ solo workout. I noticed some improvement in terms of my flexibility however I have lost weight &  muscle mass.

Conclusion :

Personally I think that MCO has proven that working from home or other location is possible. I believed that my productivity has increased in comparison to pre-MCO. It has allowed me to focus better with lesser distractions. The downside of it is, the MCO is not a good thing as this pandemic is affecting the health & financial of many around the world. Many countries are also suffering as it is affecting their economy. I don’t know how soon this will end but it’s definitely very sad to experience this situation.

Hope everyone is staying safe & take care.

OSS!

Thank you!
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