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Is there a "lite" version of Cal Newport's time-blocking techniques? I'm super interested every time I hear him explain it but I get overwhelmed and never end u

• garrickvanburen 4y ago
  I schedule almost everything (eg taking out the trash, commutes, workouts) Maybe start scheduling more of your commitments and obligations in your calendar? Or alternatively, Start by keeping a time diary of how you spend your days and how long tasks take you, then use that to inform your time blocks
• ar_lan 4y ago
  I wouldn’t really say it’s a big implementation. I just use a piece of paper and denote a line to each 30 mins of the work day. So it might look like: 10: meeting 1030: bug fixing 11: bug fixing 1130: bug fixing 12: run 1230: run 1: lunch 130: feature work 2: feature work 230: meeting 3: feature work 330: feature work 4: plan next week The above was my entry from last Friday, where I had a late start to the day. At the start of my day I had kept the 12-2:30 block fairly empty (I knew some form of working out + lunch would show up, and I had wanted to do some feature work that day, but I didn’t know if any other meetings would pop up. They didn’t, so it worked great!) I basically fill in meetings first, then work around them to put in the work I want to focus on for the day. The main caveat is I don’t focus on anything else for this blocks, and unless I’m in incredible flow and the task is definitely important, I always make sure I stop at the end of the block time (the whole “we will fill up whatever time we allot ourselves” theory).