Making time blocking work for you

Overcome common time blocking challenges, and make time for what matters most

[This is Part Three of my guide to making time for the things that matter most, using the practice of time blocking. Here’s where you can catch up with Part One and Part Two.]

How did you get on with your first week of time blocking?

My guess is…not too well 🤣

Don’t worry, that’s completely normal and it’s actually incredibly helpful.

Truly.

As I shared in Part Two, time blocking helps you discover, in real time, what’s not working about how you spend (and think about) your time. Which helps you to change things so that you can get closer to your dream life.

Time blocking helps you discover, in real time, what’s not working about how you spend (and think about) your time.

Most of us are carefully conditioned over many years to see failure as a problem — something to be avoided. So when we try something like time blocking and it doesn’t work very well, we feel uncomfortable and we give up.

Not this time. Because if you want things to change… you need to change.

This time you’re going to embrace the ‘failure’ and use it to make your life completely awesome :)

Pause and reflect

Take a moment now to look over the notes you took in your five-minute, end-of-day reviews.

(Didn’t review some or all of the days? How interesting! What can you learn from that? How could you take that learning into next week?

For now, cast your eye back over last week’s schedule in your diary or calendar, and make some quick notes about what worked and what didn’t. Did one task overflow and knock all the others out? Did something unplanned crop up? What was it? Did you forget to time block for something? Did something take less long that you thought?)

What patterns do you see emerging?

How do those patterns play out in the rest of your life?