It's really not that difficult so long as you allow a bit of flexibility. My team has a general rule that we schedule meetings in the morning, leaving afternoon

It's really not that difficult so long as you allow a bit of flexibility. My team has a general rule that we schedule meetings in the morning, leaving afternoons free for focused work, but obviously if there's something that needs discussing with customers or other teams and the only time available is in the afternoon then we'll adapt to that. I also fairly frequently block out chunks of time to get actual work done - every now and then someone will ping me and ask if there's any flexibility, rather than just assuming I'm completely unavailable for the next week. People aren't robots, they'll get used to it.