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Left Side Contd:


  1. The metrics box also has a shutdown complete box. **Before you do that though,**
  2. At the end of the day, go through what you’ve done.
  3. Process your time block plan, see what needs moving
  4. Check your tasks and ideas, move them to you digital systems (#OrgMode) if need be
  5. 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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Left Side Contd:


  1. 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!
  2. Use shortforms and stick figures or whatever you like to track what you do
  3. it gives you record of what you do. and it keeps you motivated and accountable.

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Left Side Contd:


  1. if you remember a jbo that needs doing, just capture it in tasks
  2. if there’s an idea that strikes you, a thought that inspires you, capture those in ideas
  3. 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)


  1. Life happens. You run over. Something gets cut short. The plan goes to pot. What now?
  2. 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.
  3. Repeat everytime the schedule gets mangled and out of whack
  4. **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**
  5. **You don’t get a price for accuracy. You get a prize for intention**
  6. You always want there to be a plan for the time that remains

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#TimeBlocking


Aside, contd:



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#timeblocking


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



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  1. You might realise as you plan, there there are lots of tiny miscellaneous tasks you might want to do. for example you can’t write 5 tasks in tiny 30m box
  2. In that case, just give the box a descriptive header (Errands or Social Catchup or Communications or Tasks), and also give it a number.
  3. Then a bit further to the right, write the number down and elaborate what is happening in that block (of time)

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First up: Daily Pages


Have a two page spread.


Right hand side

  1. Date on the top
  2. Left margin, mark hours you will work, down the page at regular intervals
  3. Start making boxes with the work you have to do. e.g. 9-10 report / 10-11 email and so on and so forth

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Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023054494146952

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still with the flu and the sniffles
so i don’t quite know what to do with my day


hmm. watching Cal Newport ideas on #TimeBlocking seems to be a good idea.
I’ll make notes


I need to do this so that I can figure out how to do multiple cognitive tasks, in some sane manner. right now the approach is to just do bursts until i burn myself out.
It might have worked when i was a young scrapper, but it doesn’t work now.


getting sick over and over is also not fun


i have so many things to learn and I need some sort of system to do it all


worth experimenting to find something that works for me


the babbling experiment that i started yesterday seems to be helping with keeping my mind at ease.


need to figure out more approaches/heuristics


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