My Most Productive Days: Time Blocking

Days that have no plan tend to be wasted.

Recently, I had one of my more productive days.

What made this different from my other days of work?

What Is Time Blocking?

Allocating time to a certain task in your calendar.

Sort of like a high school timetable.

(Remember those?)

If you didn't recognise the UI of this article's image, I use Google Calendar to organise my week and time blocking.

Time blocking for me works in two directions: predicting future behaviour and recording past behaviour.

What do I mean?

For that day, after an activity I've done, I'll recorded it on my Google Calendar.

Recording gives me a reference to what I worked on and what actually got done.

That is something I'm wrestling with.

The time I spend on something vs tangible output.

It's not useful spending hours on shallow work with no output to show.

That's why activities like editing and recording get prioritised.

At the end of it, I can measure whether:

So, if you feel like you're unproductive, give time blocking a go.

Days after I had my most productive day a video came across my feed.

After watching Soul Simple's video, it made me go

"Oh! That's what made that day productive."

If you got time, give it a watch.