Trident calendar system
concept · in 21 sources (2022–2024)
His time-management system of a sheet and calendar templates around an ideal week.
Sources by year: 2022: 1 · 2023: 9 · 2024: 11
Also known as: Trident method, ideal week
Also named in the threads: Ali works with his CEO coach Eric Partaker (2022)
Often together
What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.
time-blocking (4) · time management (4) · Feel-Good Productivity (book) (6) · experimental mindset (2) · deep work (concept) (2) · feel-good productivity (concept) (2)
What the videos say
The most important statements of each year; all statements.
2024
- 2024-01-31 · How to Change your Life in a Year (3 Simple Ideas) — recommendation: Ali's last follow-up question for a goal is when you will find the time for it, which he calls ridiculously important to get specific on; he manages his time with his Trident method. — 00:13:11
- 2024-02-21 · Stop Wasting Time - 5 Time Management Skills to Master — recommendation: Ali calls the ideal week a third level of time blocking and a really cool time-management tactic. — 00:08:08
- 2024-04-15 · My Top Time Management Strategy 🗓️ — Ali says the ideal week shows you have both more and less time than you realise: someone wanting to do 18 projects on their to-do list finds there are not enough hours in the day, which is okay, because it lets you eliminate what does not matter and focus on what does. — 00:00:00
- Ali calls the ideal week one of the best time-management strategies he has found: create a blank Google Calendar called your ideal week and block out when you would wake, sleep, go to the gym, have date nights and work. — 00:00:00
- Ali says the ideal week is a way to check whether you have a manageable number of things on your plate; once you do, putting them in your actual calendar makes sure you have made time for them. — 00:00:00
- 2024-05-15 · Struggling with Work-Life Balance? Watch This! 👀 — recommendation: Ali suggests the ideal week method for work-life balance: make a new Google Calendar with a template of an ideal week (waking, sleeping, work, commute) that leaves time for exercise, sleep, socialising and other important areas of life. — 00:00:00
- Once the ideal week exists, Ali says to look every week at how the actual week went and how it compared with the ideal week. — 00:00:20
- Ali says to work out how to close the gap between the actual and the ideal week; not every week will be ideal, but having an ideal week gives more intentionality and helps juggle work and life. — 00:00:29
- 2024-06-07 · My honest advice to someone who feels behind in life — recommendation: Ali calls the ideal week exercise unreasonably effective: repeat the ideal day exercise for every day from Monday to Sunday. — 00:07:19
- 2024-07-23 · 3 Easy Habits that Improved My Health — Ali: While researching this video, Ali added a daily walk to his ideal week; he calls the ideal week method one of the time-management techniques that has most impacted his life. — 00:05:11
- 2024-11-29 · How to Build a Business Part-Time — recommendation: Ali advises blocking your non-negotiables, such as sleep, work, commute, chores and family dinners, into an ideal-week calendar to see where your time currently goes and where the spare time is. — 00:04:26
- 2024-12-17 · How to Change Your Life with Deep Work (My System) — recommendation: Ali: Step one of Ali's deep work system is scheduling it: he keeps a separate Google Calendar for his ideal week, blocking out what his ideal ordinary week looks like. — 00:16:55
- …and 1 statement more in 2024 — all statements of 2024
Also named in: Watch This If You're Struggling With Work-Life Balance ⚖️, The Cure for Procrastination 💊
2023
- 2023-04-24 · How I Manage My Time - The Trident Calendar System — Ali presents his Trident method, a three-pronged method for time management. — 00:00:29
- The second part of the Trident method is defining the ideal week, the ideal allocation of the 112 hours; Ali has used it for about eight months, since he started working with his CEO coach Eric Partaker. — 00:03:55
- To plan an ideal week, Ali creates a new, separate calendar in Google Calendar as a fresh slate; it is free for everyone. — 00:04:24
- 2023-06-28 · I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to — recommendation: Ali calls the ideal week, which he has applied for nine months, one of the most game-changing time-management techniques: block out your ideal week so the habits your goals require have time in the calendar. — 00:10:12
- When planning his actual week, Ali looks at his ideal week calendar and asks how his actual time differs from how he would ideally spend it, and why. — 00:12:39
- 2023-07-31 · 8 Simple Habits That Save Me 20+ Hours a Week — recommendation: Ali recommends the ideal week method: create a new Google Calendar called your ideal week and block out what an ideal ordinary week of your life looks like, from work and the gym to friends and family. — 00:02:26
- Someone's ideal week shows their intentions and their actual calendar shows their reality; Ali says managing time effectively is bridging the gap between what we intend to do and what we actually do. — 00:02:55
- Ali's experimental habit: treat a new productivity strategy, such as the ideal week, as an experiment on yourself for a week or two and see how it feels. — 00:13:12
- 2023-08-04 · I Read 107 Productivity Books. Here's What Actually Works. — recommendation: Ali's favourite way to make time for weekly inputs is the ideal week technique: a new Google Calendar called your ideal week with events for waking, sleeping, lunch, work, friends, family and date night. — 00:04:02
- 2023-12-22 · How to Make Next Year The Best Year of Your Life — recommendation: Ali calls the ideal week method one of his most game-changing time-management techniques: open a blank Google Calendar called your ideal week and first block the essentials, such as waking and sleeping times. — 00:13:13
- …and 8 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023
Also named in: My Productive Phone Setup, How to Stop Procrastinating (Forever), How to Be Effortlessly Disciplined: 5 Mindset Shifts
2022
- 2022-12-13 · 15 Incredible Books to Read in 2026 — recommendation: Ali: Since reading The 3 Alarms a few months ago, Ali keeps an ideal week in his calendar, a picture of what he wants his week to look like, which he finds super helpful for being intentional. — 00:04:56