Time Blocking For The Productivity Win

You’re going a million miles per hour and looking back at your day you feel less than accomplished. Enter time blocking for the productivity win.

What would it feel like to look back at your day and feel productive and efficient? You’d feel like you won the day, just saying. One small step that you can do for the productivity win is time blocking.

No worries Friend if you’re not a planner. It’s a life skill that you can improve on I pinky swear, plus I’m guessing that you’ve got a little bit of a planner in you. You’re showing up for your meetings on time, am I right? Please say I’m right. Woo, you have me scared for a bit there.

When Are You In The Zone

What day or time do you feel your productivity superpower coming out? If you’re not sure, start to pay attention and simply jot down a little note of the day and time that you crushed your work.

This would be a good indication that you’re in the zone of productivity.

Let’s make this your first official time block. You’ll want to use this for a creative project that’s going on or one that you have been procrastinating on for a while.

What are things to time block

• Days that you take client meetings
• Days that you take discovery calls
• Days that would be just working
• Days to record your podcast, videos
• Days to write your blogs

Time blocking goes hand in hand with batch creation. When you batch like work it will get you into the flow and keep you in the state of flow verse bouncing from one thing to the other without getting it completed from start to finish.

This can be done in many different ways,  what’s is important is to find when you feel like a productivity rock star.

Often when I ask a new client about time blocking or batch work, most of the time I get a giggle because this isn’t something they are doing at all.

Start Small

If this whole time blocking and batching is new to you start small. Begin with 45 minutes of dedicated time that is scheduled 2-3 times a week and see how it goes.

What is something that you’re getting behind on, that you find you’re doing it at the last minute EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK.

My own example for the past

When client work began to fill my days, the creative work for my business went out of the window.

My blog and social media posts came to a halt. Blah, so all that time I’d spent building it up well y’all that don’t stay without being nurtured. Business lesson learned number 209.

Now my first two hours of my workday are dedicated to creating content in my business. I work in sprints of time, I set the timer for 25 minutes and pour out all the words. Somedays I’ll have it all done, others the struggle is real and I start over a bazillion times.

When I plan my day I know that client work does not begin until 9 am for me. Blocking this time and setting the bounty has also taught me to not say yes to all the thing and projects.

Which with my people pleasing, helpful personality it's important that I do not overbook myself. Business lesson learned number 388.

My time blocks are simple

Every weekday is content focused, while I enjoy my coffee.

Discovery Calls are the afternoons on Mondays and Tuesdays

Client Calls are scheduled only during their scheduled time block Monday – Wednesday. 98% of the time the block is consistently scheduled at the same time every day.

Planning workshops are on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. With the preferred day Wednesday.

Thursday is 100% focused on the work

Friday is blocked for my operations and financial. Financial Friday WooHoo. Client work is kept to a minimum.

This is a typical Wednesday

• 7-9: Content Creation
• 9-10: Client Project
• 10-11: Client Project
• 11-12: Client Project
• 12-1: Client Project
• 1-2: Project Management Work
• 2-3: Daily Work Out/Get Ready/Eat
• 3-4: Wrap Up the Day and Finish Anything Undone

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