For years I ran my business the way most advice suggests: a bit of everything, every day. It felt responsible. It was, in hindsight, one of the most expensive habits in my business, and switching to batching was the single change that returned the most time.
Every switch from one kind of task to a different kind has a cost. For ADHD and autistic brains, that cost is often much higher, and the recovery time after a switch can stretch far longer than people assume.
Batching means grouping similar tasks into a single block, so the switching cost gets paid once instead of five times. I recovered more than fifteen hours a week once I fully committed to it.
If your week feels full but your output doesn’t match the hours, try grouping similar tasks into single blocks instead of spreading them across every day.