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Time Blocking Explained

Time Blocking Explained

Time blocking is the division of time into specific blocks throughout your day. 

Each block serves as a designated time frame to accomplish a specific goal, project, or task by zooming-in on that single item only.

At the core of this approach lays the dedicated prioritization.

Once a week, create a layout of the items on your to-do list for the week ahead and pencil a rough draft of your time blocks for each day.

With each passing day, review and adjust your weekly time blocks.

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Task Batching

Task Batching

  • Effectively process a batch of similar (usually bite-sized) tasks, in a designated time block.
  • By grouping these items together, you’ll be able to minimize the amount of context-switching

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Day Theming

Day Theming

An advanced version of task batching, for complex projects which usually require a high volume of work.

Day theming allows one to dedicate an entire day per week for such complex initiatives.

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Why Is Time Blocking So Effective?

Why Is Time Blocking So Effective?

  1. It gets you focused
  2. It makes you work
  3. It adds awareness to your day
  4. It keeps perfectionism at bay
  5. It helps you stick to your goals

The best way to stick to it is to maintain this simplicity without over-thinking, so you’re able to dedicate the majo...

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Approaches to Time Blocking

Approaches to Time Blocking

  1. Task Batching
  2. Day Theming
  3. Time boxing

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Time boxing

Time boxing

Often confused with time blocking, timeboxing is actually an imposed limit on how much time you invest on any specific action item.

Such as “create two Facebook ads between 4pm to 6pm”.

Having a limited amount of time to work on a task commands attention to its due date and significan...

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