[[Time blocking gives us peace of mind through established priorities]] I feel it's a necessity in the modern age as we have to manage countless responsibilities and interests. ## Benefits - Notifications are reminders - higher order view of time - experience on knowing how long things take - time block consolidates discipline - if you can create time blocked days you follow, you'e unstoppable. you dont need to negotiate for each area of your life, like your business or your fitness. **either you're a time blocker or you're not**. ## Practices - For leisure and end of work onsider sketches instead of timed plans - after all it is supposed to be relaxed hehe ### Clarity in your time blocks - Having a specific objective like "finish outline / write 1000 words for x video" rather than "content creation" or "writing" will help provide clarity and direction in what you are trying to achieve in that time block ### Tracking - I personally track my time so I can look at it at the end of the day using [[Toggl Track]] - See when I am more likely to go off schedule - See how long my focus sessions were - Have small feedback, a small x on if you time blocked or not - With akiflow, it creates a timeblock on my Google Calendar when I finish a task ### Precommitments - Pre-plan commitments so you can practice being more accurate with your time estimates - Preblock important work blocks for one off projects throughout the week - Usually what I do for content creation - I have an extra calendar to represent my ideal default week which I use as frames to put related tasks in - Helps me see a higher-picture attention allocation on my different life areas, seeing if I have good balance - I have an estimate for how long a project will take - have small admin blocks based on project or task type context, batch all the small tasks - Can either do it first thing to clear your mind, or if you can wait, do it after you've used your main focus on the more cognitively demanding tasks - [[Akiflow]] groups together tasks in the same block in a non-compact way - autopilot scheduling is for consistent commitment - add relaxation, gives you more control Just like [[My Resources/My MOCs/Habits]], they give you planned commitments to work on things: ![[My Inputs/My Books/Slow Productivity#^76i1vb]] - so we can leverage routines to do the mundane stuff. my only problem is that when I did have pure time blocks to consistently work on things, yes you did work on them but sometimes it felt forced and went against the ability to also enjoy the journey rather than purely focus on the outcome. I think that is why I haven't been as rigid in my time blocks as of recently out of not solely valuing the outcome. [[Time management apps]]