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Energy Matters!

Finally, keep in mind factors such as time of day-perhaps earlier in the day is better for hard thinking and later in the day is better for small tasks-and how you’re feeling.

If you’re exhausted, you might want a schedule designed to help you catch up on administrative obligations, whereas if you’re feeling energized, you might want to put aside large blocks of uninterrupted time for intense projects.

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When building your time-block schedule, you should first reference whatever calendar or planner or organisation system you use to make sure that you’re adding time blocks for any meetings or appointments you already have scheduled.

The real decision then becomes what to do with the free time that remains.

To help make these choices, next consult whatever external system you use to track and organize all of the tasks, projects, long-term goals, or other obligations for which you’re currently responsible. You want your schedule to help you make progress on the right activities.

(In my case it’s my calendar and #OrgMode)

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all of the above were Cal Newport ideas that I jotted down from his video on Time Blocking here: https://youtu.be/eff9h1WYxSo

More ideas below from the instructions in the physical planner itself

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10. The metrics box also has a shutdown complete box. **Before you do that though,**
11. At the end of the day, go through what you’ve done.
12. Process your time block plan, see what needs moving
13. Check your tasks and ideas, move them to you digital systems (#OrgMode) if need be
14. Then go mash that box, knowing that your mind is empty and you can go relax and do home / family / leisure stuff

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7. the metrics box is for a Jerry Seinfeld-esque chain (or daily numbers or whatever) important metrics of your life. Did you do your exercise? Did you hit your diet plan? Did you do your Urdu lesson? Did you walk? Did you meditate or pray? Track them all!
8. Use shortforms and stick figures or whatever you like to track what you do
9. it gives you record of what you do. and it keeps you motivated and accountable.

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4. if you remember a jbo that needs doing, just capture it in tasks
5. if there’s an idea that strikes you, a thought that inspires you, capture those in ideas
6. eliminates distraction and lets you focus on you planned work on the right page. no fancy tech required to do this too!

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Now going to the left side of the two page spread

1. Page divided into 3 boxes.
2. A smallish box running across the top of the page. for metrics
3. Rest of the page divided equally into two tall boxes for tasks and ideas

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(Back to the right spread)

7. Life happens. You run over. Something gets cut short. The plan goes to pot. What now?
8. You redraw the item that went long. on the right. and replan your day below it. you might have to remove some things or shorten the time for others. but at least you are intentional. and you realise, c’est la vie.
9. Repeat everytime the schedule gets mangled and out of whack
10. **The idea of timeblocking is not to hit your schedule no matter what. The big idea is to redraw you schedule and intentionally use your time**
11. **You don’t get a price for accuracy. You get a prize for intention**
12. You always want there to be a plan for the time that remains

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Aside, contd:

• you can see how much time you have available. if someone wants to jump on a call, you can see what needs to be done. do you need to shuffle things around in your day? can you fit them in some block? you want to tell them some other day/time?
• folks who time block get twice as much compared to those who don’t.

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Aside: There’s a few advantages to scheduling the day, this way, on paper

• You *intentionally* decide a blocks of time to work daily . (i will work from 7-12 and then from 4-8) and then you *intentionally* decide what you will do with that time
• You get more done. You do better quality work.
• you can fill in gaps of time (like the tasks above)
• you decide what you will do according to the energy you think yiou have at various times of the day
• when you run yoeur day off a plan like this, you know what you’re expected to be doing at any moment. you’ll be less likely to be distracted because you know you’ll fall behind
• you get a real sense of how long work *actually* takes. you might decide the report takes only an hour, but when you are constantly over shooting by 30m every day, you know a block takes 90m on average, and you’ll plan accordingly. you have to face that reality

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