I actually have a digital version that I created as well, that I use at the same time as I do the planner. So now that I’ve explained this whole system to you, let me dive into what I learned from it because I started on February 24.Īnd the thing that it made me do was really track every single minute I was conscious of how long I was spending on everything. Why? Right? It gives you something to actually look into, instead of just letting it all be in your head. And that is very important data I found, which allowed me to iterate and be like, Okay, it’s been a week now and I’ve been procrastinating on this thing. So you get to see the difference between what your plan was for the day, and then how it actually went down. And so you have to be able to adapt and be okay with that. You have curveballs that are thrown at you from left and right. It gives you the freedom to be like, Okay, your plans do evolve and change. So now in my planner instead of freaking out, oh no, I’m not on track with what I was going to do. But I didn’t actually end up doing it one to two because that podcast afterward, we started talking and we actually got off at 145. And then I was like, Okay, I’m going to do admin from one to two. And so let’s say that podcast went according to plan, it was 12 to one. So after you have actually completed the task, you write down when it actually happened. And then the right side is typically like your done side. And you do draw kind of squares around stuff like okay, this was on a holiday, for example, but you draw a square around the length of time that block will take you. But typically, let’s say you’re using a legal pad of some sort, and you draw a line down the middle, one side, the left side is going to be your plan, what is your to do list, you’re thinking of all the things you have to do, you block it out. These four columns are here to allow for more space or give you more iterations if you choose to. But basically, the real way to do it is just split the page in half. And now if I’m, let’s say, like working from nine to five, or 10 to six, you can see, realistically, this is how much time I have to block out, it also forces you to take a look at any task that you have an assignment, a guesstimate of how long it could take you because you do have to guess when you put it down into this block system. And so when you take a task, let’s say I’m like, Okay, I got a podcast with my buddy Bryce, for Human Evolution Project, that podcast block will go maybe, okay, 12 to one. I also like that there is a limit, it’s like 12, lines, 14 lines or whatever to where like, the most useful thing that this allows you to do is to see how much time you actually have available. And then this area is basically structured for you to be able to write 9 am 10 am 11 am 1 2 1 2 3, and so on. So I like to brain dump all of the ideas in one spot first. So basically, if you look inside this planner, there are tasks and ideas, tasks in a dusty, on one side, you’ve got tasks and ideas, which I think is really cool, you just kind of brain dump all of your ideas in a bullet fashion, I found that to be most useful for me, I found if I tried to go straight to time blocking over here, my brain kind of freezes up, I don’t want to waste the space. But then there are things that I use sparingly, it’s stuff that I use, maybe in a season, in a very busy project time period, where I’m like, Okay, let me use this to the heart of the system.īut I’ve really found my own. There are things that I like about this system, there are things that have stuck with me, and that I will probably keep doing. So it’s been about five months, I started this experiment on February 24, 2022. And I personally sometimes prefer using this planner, I like doing it in my normal notebook or journal, because it’s already in line with when I’m writing and free writing and planning and things like that. It’s something that you can do on any old piece of paper, which makes it extremely accessible. And the reason that I love this system is yes, you could get the planner that he has made specifically for this, which I haven’t shared with you, to show you what it looks like. It is something that Cal Newport developed called the time blocking system. And I found one that I actually decided to stick to, it’s actually been working for me. Have you had a tough time sticking with any productivity system or any planner that you find I have to, it’s something that I like to bounce around from thing to thing.
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