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All statements about time-blocking

28 statements about time-blocking in 12 sources, by upload date.

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2021

  • 2021-01-03 · The Most PRODUCTIVE Thing I Do Each Year — recommendation: Ali: One of Ali's favourite ways to stack the deck is time blocking: a recurring calendar event, such as 15 minutes of art practice at 11.45 a.m., makes space for the practice and reminds him to do it. — 00:17:06
  • 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — Ali takes a lot of phone calls these days, and unless he actively blocks out time in his calendar for something, it basically never happens. — 00:03:10
  • 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — Ali: To stack the deck in his favour, Ali will time-block three hours a day for writing only, two in the morning and one in the evening, hoping his fast typing makes 2,000 words in that time doable. (hedged) — 00:05:07
  • 2021-01-06 · My PRODUCTIVE Bucket List (2021) — Ali: Taking action right now, which Ali calls the most useful part of the exercise, he has committed with his writing coach and, while preparing the video, time-blocked three hours of writing every day until 15 February. — 00:05:57
  • 2021-03-24 · My Toxic Relationship With Productivity — recommendation: Ali: Because book writing and YouTube are creative work, Ali has realised he needs a lot of time blocked out to make a video or write. (hedged) — 00:12:09
  • 2021-04-18 · How I Manage My Time - 10 Time Management Tips — Ali does not time-block everything, since the more time he spends managing his productivity system the less he gets done; the one thing he always schedules into his calendar each morning is his daily highlight. — 00:04:09
  • 2021-04-18 · How I Manage My Time - 10 Time Management Tips — recommendation: Ali calls combining the daily highlight with a time block in the calendar incredibly useful: the one important thing always gets done because it is on the schedule by default, and he moves it if something comes up. — 00:04:39
  • 2021-04-18 · How I Manage My Time - 10 Time Management Tips — recommendation: Ali's advice from Parkinson's law is to set artificial deadlines: blocking calendar time to film his optional course means it will get done, while without a deadline or schedule it never would. — 00:06:06
  • 2021-05-05 · How I Organize My Life - The "LAZI" Productivity System — Ali thinks most productivity systems of effective people boil down to using a calendar properly; if you struggle with productivity and do not use a calendar, you are probably doing it wrong. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-05-05 · How I Organize My Life - The "LAZI" Productivity System — Ali time-blocks: anything he wants to do gets a block in his calendar, from filming a video to dinner with friends and phone calls, and he sometimes even blocks relaxation time to remind himself to do it. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-05-05 · How I Organize My Life - The "LAZI" Productivity System — Ali lives his life by calendar invites: when a friend invites him to something, he creates a calendar event and emails them an invite, because what is not in his calendar does not happen. — 00:01:13
  • 2021-05-05 · How I Organize My Life - The "LAZI" Productivity System — recommendation: Ali advises using the calendar to set out protected blocks of time for deep work. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-07-11 · How I ONLY Work 4 Hours a Day - How to Stay Focused — Ali: On days when Ali sets his daily highlight and schedules it in a time block, he gets it done about 80% of the time, and making progress on something meaningful feels really good. — 00:06:22
  • 2021-07-11 · How I ONLY Work 4 Hours a Day - How to Stay Focused — Ali: Rereading the Shortform summary of Deep Work, Ali realised his three-hour morning block is probably not enough, so he is now trying to block out all of Tuesday and all of Friday just for deep work. (hedged) — 00:06:51
  • 2021-07-11 · How I ONLY Work 4 Hours a Day - How to Stay Focused — recommendation: Ali: For people with a job or studies who cannot block out whole days, Ali recommends a recurring ritual: a few hours blocked out every morning, or on certain mornings, for meaningful work such as exam preparation, learning to code, a business or a hobby. — 00:06:51
  • 2021-07-28 · How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time — Ali is working towards time-blocking parts of his own day purely for his own deep work and letting the team fit their schedules around it. — 00:14:58
  • 2021-07-28 · How I Created a $3 Million Business Part Time — recommendation: Ali: Whatever stage you are at, Ali says, it is incredibly powerful to time-block a few hours a few times a week to make progress on your most important project. — 00:15:27
  • 2021-08-11 · How I Work for 15 hours and Not Get Bored — recommendation: Ali completely agrees with Nir Eyal that you should time-block what you actually want to do earlier in the day, so you have a default action and are less likely to pick up the phone. — 00:06:53
  • 2021-08-11 · How I Work for 15 hours and Not Get Bored — recommendation: Ali: The first thing Ali does each morning is set his daily highlight, the one thing he wants to get done that day, and put exactly when he will do it in his calendar, so he knows what to do and is less likely to get distracted. — 00:06:53
  • 2021-09-08 · The Best Productivity Hacks of All Time — recommendation: Ali rates time blocking, blocking out time for a task or project in the calendar, A: an absolutely essential tip. — 00:03:52
  • 2021-09-08 · The Best Productivity Hacks of All Time — Ali says his productivity basically doubled overnight on the day he started using a calendar. — 00:04:21
  • 2021-09-08 · The Best Productivity Hacks of All Time — Ali: An empty gap in Ali's calendar leaves him paralysed by all the things he could do; a calendar slot with a defined task tells him what to do and gives him a default option. — 00:04:21
  • 2021-09-08 · The Best Productivity Hacks of All Time — Ali says Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Cal Newport also use time blocking and have written and talked extensively about it. — 00:04:51
  • 2021-09-08 · The Best Productivity Hacks of All Time — recommendation: Ali recommends trying the techniques in his S and A tiers (systems, the daily highlight, speed listening, enjoying the journey, delegation and time blocking) rather than following all of them. — 00:13:54
  • 2021-09-19 · How to Make Productivity Healthier — recommendation: Unjaded Jade: To make meditation or journaling happen, Jade advises time-blocking: put, say, 10 minutes to write a journal or try a meditation app into your timetable after you wake, which makes you more likely to commit to it. — 00:05:54
  • 2021-09-19 · How to Make Productivity Healthier — Ali: Enjoying work so much, Ali often forgets to take time for himself in the evenings; he will try scheduling a tennis lesson at 5 or 6 p.m. to force himself to leave work, and time for PlayStation or meditation in the evening. (hedged) — 00:06:24
  • 2021-10-29 · 8 Lessons I Learned From Elon Musk — recommendation: Ali: Five-minute chunks are not enough time for Ali, but he stands by scheduling the day and running it from the calendar, deciding in the morning what to do with the time so as not to spend the day wondering what to do next. — 00:08:56

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