Time-blocking segregates your day into various chunks of time that helps us achieve everything we need to. Using this method can help us cut procrastination and waste, make for more efficient work days and also give us back personal time.
Schedule time for play into your days. Put aside time to spend with your loved one, time to spend on your own, time to exercise, and time to do nothing.
When you start a new task, go into it with a clear mind ready to give your all. Dedicate yourself to it until this part is complete.
When switching from one task to another, spend the last few minutes recording where you’re at, problems you faced and breakthroughs you made, and what the next step is.
If you’re settling in for a couple of hours of deep work with a Facebook tab open, your ‘phone ready and willing to accept calls, and your colleagues feeling like they can interrupt you at any moment, you’re setting yourself up for distractions.
You can be more productive at home or work by scheduling in a specific time each day to respond to your e-mails and voicemails. This allows your other blocks of time to be far less interrupted, enabling you to get your best work done.
As you learn more about how you work, and how long each task really takes, your time-block estimations can become more and more accurate, thereby helping you become more productive.
“Time-blocking” is a productivity technique where you block time slots out of your day during which you can focus on completing specific tasks without interruption. It can be used effectively for work, study and life.
The “Getting Things Done” method tells us to write all our tasks down – so you can use your mental space to take action on the tasks rather than try to remember them.
Organise your tasks in order of priority and the amount of time required to accomplish them: things that can be done quickly should be done sooner; aim for most important and fastest to do, combined.