Timeblocking on Janusworx

2023-09-28T06:41:16+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:41:16 +0000

#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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2023-09-27T04:42:46+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:42:46 +0000

#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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2023-09-20T04:16:19+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:16:19 +0000

#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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2023-09-15T04:35:33+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:35:33 +0000

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

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111067302005733493

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2023-09-14T02:20:32+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:20:32 +0000

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 :)

#mjbBabbles

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2023-09-13T12:00:04+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:00:04 +0000

#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

#mjbBabbles

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2023-09-12T03:53:20+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 03:53:20 +0000

#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

#mjbBabbles

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2023-09-11T08:51:41+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:51:41 +0000

#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.

#mjbBabbles

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2023-09-09T03:48:58+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 03:48:58 +0000

#TimeBlocking Day 2!

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2023-09-08T15:24:24+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 15:24:24 +0000

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.

#mjbBabbles #TimeBlocking

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2023-09-08T05:09:07+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 05:09:07 +0000

so I need some sort of middle ground of … disciplinary flow, I guess?

also with the old life, all I had to do was show up, and do the work. and that was easy to plan and execute

my current life is very amorphous. I have a lot more responsibilities. I have to take care of family. My body broke in 2018 and it requires daily upkeep to function. And I am trying to pivot careers. All of these generate a lot of work. Not to mention the rest of life throwing things at me.

So I somehow need some approach to taming it. and focus on what I need to do.

I’m good at the long term stuff. I know what I want to do.What I need to try. The paths to get there.

What I currently lack is some way of handling daily life. And what to do when life happens all the time.

Current plan: long term stuff - do with #OrgMode. daily stuff - do with #TimeBlocking

What I *also* need to remember to do is ***review*** mesh what i do on a daily basis and see if it is leading me to where I want to be.

#mjbBabbles

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2023-09-08T03:20:55+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 03:20:55 +0000

#TimeBlocking Log, Day 1 thread.

Will this stuff work? Logging for a few days, to see what I feel as I do this.

P.S. this is what I’m babbling on about: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111023054494146952

#mjbBabbles

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2023-09-07T15:06:15+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:06:15 +0000

so i’m going to try doing #TimeBlocking tomorrow onwards and babble about it

#mjbBabbles

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2023-09-07T10:48:52+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:48:52 +0000

#TimeBlocking

FIN!

That about sums up the advice given in the planner proper
Also all the “I”’s above are Cal. I have just been copy pasting, in case that wasn’t clear.

The planner has a site here: https://www.timeblockplanner.com/

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2023-09-07T10:46:46+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:46:46 +0000

#TimeBlocking

CONCLUDING a bit more:

Build smart weekly plans.
Use this plan to develop effective daily time-block schedules.
Execute those daily schedules with intensity.
When you’re done for the day, shut down completely.
When you get to the weekend, take a break from rigorous scheduling.
Then start the cycle all over again. This is the rhythm of a professional life that’s both extremely productive and sustainable. And it’s exactly what this planner is designed to help you achieve.

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2023-09-07T10:44:33+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:44:33 +0000

#TimeBlocking

CONCLUSION

It’s this combination of high-level weekly plans with detailed daily time block schedules that unlocks the full potential of this productivity system. 2. The weekly/daily approach is what allows you to begin moving obligations around like pieces on a chessboard, and to construct configurations of your schedule that enable you to accomplish head turning amounts of work, all while staying on top of the various small requests and tasks pulling at your time and attention. While your peers react frantically to inputs and deadlines as they arise, often putting in late nights to try to compensate for their haphazard schedules, you’ll approach each day with a justified confidence.

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2023-09-07T10:42:27+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:42:27 +0000

#TimeBlocking

PLAN YOUR WEEK! Contd:

Weekly plans are also important because they allow you to tackle objectives that require more than a day to complete. If you decide at the beginning of the week, for example, to write an article that’ll require around ten to fifteen hours of research and writing, your weekly plan can help you figure out how to spread this work out across the upcoming days. It’s much less likely you’d end up getting all of this required work done if you instead just planned each day as it arrived.

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2023-09-07T10:40:47+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:40:47 +0000

#TimeBlocking

PLAN YOUR WEEK! Contd:

The planning may take time up front, but it will return much greater productivity for the entire week that follows.
It allows you to identify important patterns that can help you get much more accomplished. If you see, for e.g., that Wednesday through Friday are very busy due to a visiting client, then you can compensate by squeezing in more uninterrupted deep work on Monday or Tuesday. Or if you know you’ll be off-site all day Friday, then you can adjust your Thursday schedule to make sure loose ends are tied up before the trip.
Sometimes your weekly planning habit can motivate you to change appointments already on your calendar. After trying and failing to fit in enough hours to finish an important project, for e.g., you might realize that you need to cancel or reschedule a few non-urgent appointments perhaps coffee with a colleague or a meeting for a speculative project to make room for the more urgent work.

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2023-09-07T10:37:13+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:37:13 +0000

#TimeBlocking

PLAN YOUR WEEK!

You should work out your weekly plan either first thing Monday morning or over the weekend before the week begins.
When crafting the plan, look over your calendar and whatever system you use to track your obligations, projects, and goals.
Some people like to empty their email inbox as part of this planning process so that they feel as though they restarting the week fresh. For other people, this might be infeasible.
Regardless, creating these plans takes time. For example, I usually spend between thirty and sixty minutes to get up to speed on what’s happening in the upcoming week and decide how to tackle it.
You might feel at first that this time is wasted like you’re throwing away an hour you could dedicate to actually completing concrete tasks. I urge you to resist this reaction.

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2023-09-07T10:33:54+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:33:54 +0000

#TimeBlocking

Right side of a weekend page:

It includes space for you to plan the upcoming week. This area is purposefully left simple. When it comes to weekly planning, I’ve found it’s crucial to embrace flexibility. The style or format of your plan should match the challenges of the specific week ahead.

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2023-09-07T10:32:47+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:32:47 +0000

#TimeBlocking

Left side of a weekend page:

I typically advise people not to time block their weekends: these two days should provide some respite from the rigors of allocating work to every minute of your day.
the planner provides only a single page for organizing your entire weekend. The page is divided into two columns, one for Saturday and one for Sunday. The empty boxes included for each day can be used for jotting down a loose schedule, including reminders of any important appointments (“Dinner at the restaurant at 7:00”) or major things you hope to get done (“Read that novel”).
The lined space below these boxes that’s labeled “Weekend Capture” should be used for capturing ideas or tasks that come up on Saturday or Sunday. I suggest you always process these notes when you create your time-block plan on Monday morning. This will ensure that they’re never forgotten.

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2023-09-07T10:28:33+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:28:33 +0000

#TimeBlocking
WEEKEND PAGES

This is another two page spread that you’d have at the end of a week.

The page on the left is dedicated to organizing Saturday and Sunday, while the page on the right is for capturing your weekly plan, a high-level road map for the week ahead.

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2023-09-07T10:23:18+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:23:18 +0000

#TimeBlocking
THE SHUTDOWN RITUAL Contd:

Once you’ve finished going through your collection columns, you should then briefly review any other potential sources of unresolved work obligations.

For most people, this means taking one last look at your email inbox, to ensure you didn’t miss something urgent, as well as reviewing your calendar and obligation-tracking system.

When done with these checks, look over your weekly plan (below), updating it as needed. The goal here is to convince yourself that there’s nothing being forgotten or missed or being kept track of only in your brain, and that you have a reasonable plan for the days ahead. All of these reassurances are the precondition for enabling your brain to fully shift its attention from work to life outside work.

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2023-09-07T10:21:02+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:21:02 +0000

#TimeBlocking
THE SHUTDOWN RITUAL

One of the most important pieces of my system’s daily scheduling discipline is executing a shutdown ritual that helps your mind shift more completely from work mode to non-work mode. The details of this ritual are straightforward. At the end of each day’s time-block schedule, your final step, if at all possible, is to shut down work. To do so, first make sure your personal metrics have been re-corded. Next, go through the tasks and ideas in your collection columns, deciding for each what you want to do with it. In some cases, you may need to add new tasks into your task system, while in others, you may need to update your calendar or even shoot off a quick message.

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2023-09-07T10:19:04+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:19:04 +0000

#TimeBlocking
ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS Contd:

Tip #4: Use “conditional blocks” to add flexibility to your schedule.

If you’re unsure how long a given activity might take, break it into two blocks.

The first block is dedicated to working on the activity.

The activity for the second block is conditioned on what happens during the first block: If you need more time for the original activity, then the second block is used to finish it. On the other hand, if you’ve finished the original activity, the second block can be used to tackle a backup task. In this way, you can avoid unnecessary schedule fixes when confronting work of ambiguous duration.

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2023-09-07T10:17:48+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:17:48 +0000

#TimeBlocking
ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS Contd:

Tip #3: Capture email and instant messenger communication in
their own blocks.
Many knowledge workers don’t consider checking email or instant messenger channels a standalone activity. They instead think of it as something that’s always done in parallel with primary work.

I highly discourage this mindset: all of these quick checks of communication channels significantly reduce your cognitive capacity due to neural network switching costs. Batch your email or instant messenger time into their own blocks. When you get to one of these communication blocks, do nothing but communicate, and when you’re not in one of these blocks, don’t communicate at all. If your work requires you to check these tools often, then schedule lots of blocks to do so, but refuse to let this behavior be something that occurs informally in the background.

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2023-09-07T10:15:14+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:15:14 +0000

#TimeBlocking

ADVANCED TIME-BLOCKING TIPS

Tip #1: Embrace schedule fixes.
If circumstances upend your schedule, this isn’t a failure, it’s an expected part of applying this strategy. When you next get a chance, simply fix the schedule for the time that remains in the day so that you remain intentional about where you direct your focus.

Tip #2: At first, schedule more time than you think you need.
Novice time blockers chronically underestimate how long common work activities actually take. If you’re new to time blocking, you can save yourself unnecessary schedule fixes by inflating the time-block sizes you think are reasonable by 20 to 30 percent. After you’ve been time blocking for several months, you’ll begin to develop a more realistic understanding of these durations and can begin building more-accurate blocks without needing this extra padding.

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2023-09-07T10:12:28+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:12:28 +0000

#TimeBlocking

Energy Matters!

Finally, keep in mind factors such as time of day-perhaps earlier in the day is better for hard thinking and later in the day is better for small tasks-and how you’re feeling.

If you’re exhausted, you might want a schedule designed to help you catch up on administrative obligations, whereas if you’re feeling energized, you might want to put aside large blocks of uninterrupted time for intense projects.

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2023-09-07T10:11:04+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:11:04 +0000

#TimeBlocking

When building your time-block schedule, you should first reference whatever calendar or planner or organisation system you use to make sure that you’re adding time blocks for any meetings or appointments you already have scheduled.

The real decision then becomes what to do with the free time that remains.

To help make these choices, next consult whatever external system you use to track and organize all of the tasks, projects, long-term goals, or other obligations for which you’re currently responsible. You want your schedule to help you make progress on the right activities.

(In my case it’s my calendar and #OrgMode)

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2023-09-07T10:07:34+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:07:34 +0000

#TimeBlocking

all of the above were Cal Newport ideas that I jotted down from his video on Time Blocking here: https://youtu.be/eff9h1WYxSo

More ideas below from the instructions in the physical planner itself

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2023-09-07T09:50:12+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:50:12 +0000

#TimeBlocking

Left Side Contd:

The metrics box also has a shutdown complete box. **Before you do that though,**
At the end of the day, go through what you’ve done.
Process your time block plan, see what needs moving
Check your tasks and ideas, move them to you digital systems (#OrgMode) if need be
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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2023-09-07T09:42:57+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:42:57 +0000

#TimeBlocking

Left Side Contd:

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

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2023-09-07T09:40:34+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:40:34 +0000

#TimeBlocking

Left Side Contd:

if you remember a jbo that needs doing, just capture it in tasks
if there’s an idea that strikes you, a thought that inspires you, capture those in ideas
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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2023-09-07T09:38:53+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:38:53 +0000

#TimeBlocking

Now going to the left side of the two page spread

Page divided into 3 boxes.
A smallish box running across the top of the page. for metrics
Rest of the page divided equally into two tall boxes for tasks and ideas

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2023-09-07T09:27:28+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:27:28 +0000

#TimeBlocking

(Back to the right spread)

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

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2023-09-07T09:18:44+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:18:44 +0000

#TimeBlocking

Aside, contd:

you can see how much time you have available. if someone wants to jump on a call, you can see what needs to be done. do you need to shuffle things around in your day? can you fit them in some block? you want to tell them some other day/time?
folks who time block get twice as much compared to those who don’t.

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2023-09-07T09:16:47+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:16:47 +0000

#timeblocking

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

You *intentionally* decide a blocks of time to work daily . (i will work from 7-12 and then from 4-8) and then you *intentionally* decide what you will do with that time
You get more done. You do better quality work.
you can fill in gaps of time (like the tasks above)
you decide what you will do according to the energy you think yiou have at various times of the day
when you run yoeur day off a plan like this, you know what you’re expected to be doing at any moment. you’ll be less likely to be distracted because you know you’ll fall behind
you get a real sense of how long work *actually* takes. you might decide the report takes only an hour, but when you are constantly over shooting by 30m every day, you know a block takes 90m on average, and you’ll plan accordingly. you have to face that reality

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2023-09-07T09:08:41+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:08:41 +0000

#TimeBlocking

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
In that case, just give the box a descriptive header (Errands or Social Catchup or Communications or Tasks), and also give it a number.
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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2023-09-07T09:02:49+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:02:49 +0000

#TimeBlocking

First up: Daily Pages

Have a two page spread.

Right hand side

Date on the top
Left margin, mark hours you will work, down the page at regular intervals
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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2023-09-07T05:02:36+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 05:02:36 +0000

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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