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One suggestion: change the way you think of a schedule. Book in those 4 hour blocks, calendar gym, calendar leaving the office etc. People tend to start trying
by slgeorge 8y ago
One suggestion: change the way you think of a schedule. Book in those 4 hour blocks, calendar gym, calendar leaving the office etc.
People tend to start trying to work around the outside of those blocks.
- ericd 8y agoCould you elaborate? I don't quite understand what you're suggesting.
- dredmorbius 8y agoYou have a calendar. Your 4 hour blocks are scheduled. As committments. And cannot be casually preempted.
- pavel_lishin 8y agoI'm not sure if that would work for @oftenwrong - they said that one of their problems isn't external interruptions as much as the fact that they can't force themselves to focus on a schedule, and that their focus just kind of comes and goes. That's the same with me. Having a block of time where I know I won't be interrupted definitely helps, though - and I've been trying to do that more and more at home.
- jgtrosh 8y agoI think that's what pomodoro time management techniques aim to address? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
- mac01021 8y agoWhat if you can't predict when you're going to be able to focus for 4 consecutive hours?
- dredmorbius 8y agoThat's among the elements worth tracking, as well as factors influencing it. But it's far easier to concentrate for 4 hours when you've blocked the time and aren't going to be interrupted. I'll let you work out the rest yourself.