“For me, I have a lot of repeatable things that I’d like to do every single week. And I just have a Trello board, which I don’t really love Trello, but I will say for this, it’s really helpful. I might just say like ‘what do I want to accomplish on Mondays that I notice myself doing every single Monday’ and so I take those by day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I’ve created a schedule and there is flexibility; there always is, right? There’s always something the client might be like ‘Hey, can you do this’ and that isn’t in that board.”
Vanessa Kynes is back and joining me for a discussion on building a block schedule. We review a blog post I wrote a few years ago on block scheduling, but it was written in a very different season of life than the one I’m in right now; specifically, didn’t have a kid then.
Vanessa and I approach this conversation differently, so I hope that’s helpful for anyone listening who wants to put some intentionality back into their daily schedule.
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- 7:33 – A and B weeks
- 9:26 – Why A and B weeks might not work for Davey
- 12:02 – Block Scheduling Tools
- 15:10 – Digital vs. Paper
- 17:43 – TeuxDeux
- 19:50 – Tip 1: Grouping tasks
- 27:27 – Tip 2: Making a list of recurring tasks
- 31:45 – Tip 3: How to structure your day
- 38:42 – Tip 4: Assigning tasks to appropriate days of the week and during the day
- 42:08 – Tip 5: Reflect and make changes
Resources
- ClickUp
- Asana
- TeuxDeux
- The Compound Effect
- 5 Tips for Creating a Block Schedule
- Trello
- Deep Work
- When
- Toggl
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