#TimeBlocking Log Day 8
Spoke too soon yesterday 😂
Laid up in bed today with a fever.
Lesson? Learn to listen to your body better
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#TimeBlocking Log Day 7
Well, it’s not really day 7, it’s been quite a few days. (a week i think)
What I worked on last week was what the logs and the reviews were showing me, telling me. That I had too much on my plate.
cut out a lot of stuff from life. delegated even more. and postponed a few important things. And completed a few of them. There was just no way I was doing them all anyway
What I have learnt, is just showing up daily and doing even haphazard work, leads to getting more done, rather than just wringing my hands over all the things I couldn’t do.
Have quite enjoyed the past couple of days. To boot, my body seems to like this way of working and I have lost weight. Something which I have been struggling to do, since January
#mjbBabbles #mjbFitness #mjbGettingFit
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#timeblocking, #mjbBabbles, #mjbfitness, #mjbgettingfit
#TimeBlocking Log Day 6
Planning the day with coffee and the Cal Newport’s fancy Time Block Planner
(will be going back to plain ole notebooks when this one gets filled)
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Thoughts after a few days of #TimeBlocking
- I can only do about 4 hours of #Focus split across two hour blocks
- The rest of my day is *filled*, which is why I cannot do more
- I get very, *very*, distracted. Very Soon. Progress on stuff is slow, and it’s is not helped with my mind flitting off to do different things or think different things
- I have poor impulse control. I’ve already opened up that social media page and clicking away happily before I catch myself. This is getting better
- The @neilhimself method helps. and is maddeningly, frustratingly easy, yet hard to do. Either do the task. or sit and do nothing. No other option. I come away sweating.
- I have taken on so many things to do, when I have a life that is quite uncertain. I need to make space and have margin. And until my life changes, this is how it has to be. Fewer commitments. Stronger commitments.
Here’s to slow, steady progress
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ok. this suddenly struck me as I was reviewing my day, last eve, as I do all these #TimeBlocking posts.
The reason I don’t much done, even after all these lovely plans, is that I spent most of my day, holding my breath, for something that may or may not come and knock me and my day over.
I don’t know if it’ll come or not. but my body is in near constant flight or fight mode. because to my mind and body, being caught blind sided is far worse.
I need to figure out a way to be calm and collected and to be ok if things fall by the wayside. both; what is coming at me, or my grand plans for the day.
i need to trust my gut, that what I am doing *is* the right thing to do in that moment. If that means that my planned life trajectory will slow down, then I need to clear time and review, and prioritise and have heart to hearts with folks, and / or be ok with life being the way it is.
Just putting these down on paper, seems to have unblocked something in me. Some progress then :)
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#TimeBlocking Log Day 5
Decided to take the day off and do only one thing
Got knocked over by life.
Never mind. Time to get up, dust myself and get going again
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#TimeBlocking Log Day 4
Taking it easy today.
made a plan. for doing nothing. or very little. what matters today is the plan and the intention and the mindfulness of the execution / delegation behind it. Not the actual content.
I know it’s weird but reading the @thephd’s post and it’s somehow heartening to see that I’m not the only one struggling like this
https://elk.zone/pony.social/@thephd/111049360559613330
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#TimeBlocking Day 3 Log
created a plan in the morning.
have just spent all day looking at it. and then browsing the same set of five websites in a circle
mental energy seems to be a real thing after all.
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#TimeBlocking Day 2!
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Ok done for the day. Shutdown complete ✅
Cognition takes a precipitous dive post 6p.
best served for light reading / iterating / noodling
Energy highest in the morn. Tackle hard tasks then.
Doing this makes me a lot more self aware and intentional.
the plan got borked thrice in the day.
At least this time I got to be intentional about what I would do / ditch / delegate / postpone
And everything got captured, so my mind’s empty
It’s not natural doing this. And a bit hard.
So I’ll probably keep doing these, until the process becomes second nature.
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