Do It Today: Overcome Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve More Meaningful Things

Time Blocking: Improve Your
Focus And Get More Meaningful
Work Done
Do you have a list of priorities or goals that you want to
achieve this year? And do you struggle with allocating time
to them?
I’m no different. Life can be messy. Most of us juggle a lot of
different things at the same time. Even though the simple
solution is to stop juggling, it’s not always realistic. Or even
needed.
What if you could do more things without losing your time?
It’s possible. But you must work in an organized way.
Enter: Time Blocking a simple productivity exercise that
many people use. It’s not fancy or revolutionary. The only
thing you need is a calendar, which is something everyone
with a smartphone and computer has.
Time Blocking is simply using your calendar to block time
for your most important priorities. During that time, you
only work on that one thing. And, you let your calendar lead
the way. That way, you don’t have to think, “What should I
do next?”
But Time Blocking is more than just a productivity tool. It’s
about self-awareness.
The road to high productivity starts with awareness.
For instance, one of my priorities this year is to write a book
on pragmatic thinking. However, there’s a problem: I
haven’t been writing.
How did I come to this conclusion? I simply looked at my list
of priorities for 2017, and I then I looked at my calendar.

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I hadn’t scheduled any time for writing in a while. Now, you
might think, “do you really have to look at your calendar to
realize that?”
Yes, I do. I’m not some kind of supercomputer that
remembers everything. I’m a regular human being. I think of
something to do, start working on it, life gets in the way,
and then I FORGET about it.
It happens to all of us. We need self-awareness and tools
that keep us in check. And that’s why I like Time Blocking.