Making time blocking work for you

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

Mia Walker
9 min readApr 16, 2024

[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 🤣

Cartoon showing a beautifully time-blocked plan (‘The Plan’), next to ‘The Reality’, a similar plan showing the plan descending into scribbled chaos.

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.

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Mia Walker

I help people working in high stress careers to survive & thrive when the shit hits the fan. I also draw, terribly (you're welcome). www.changefoundry.org.uk