This can be really difficult for entrepreneurs, especially for those of us without a team of helpers I know this from experience because I currently wear all the hats in my business. So, I’m working on fixing this by time-blocking my highest-priority tasks.Ĥ Tips for time-blocking your day ❶ solidify your working hours and your time off
If I spend my whole workday bouncing from one thing to the next, and I don’t complete ANY of those things, then I’ve wasted my time, maybe even that whole day, and I’m never making real progress toward anything. In my embarrassing example above, you can see what I mean. What I’ve found is that if left to my own devices, I can 1,000% keep myself busy ALL day, but being busy doesn’t necessarily equate to being “productive.” It’s my business, so why would I implement something like this if I don’t really like it? Because it works. It turns out, I don’t really like having a meticulous schedule of pre-determined tasks, so this concept has been really hard for me to implement & to be perfectly honest, it’s something I’m still working on. 😂 I’m a planner by nature, as an Enneagram 6, for all things EXCEPT my days. This is something I really struggle with because I’m a walking, talking paradox. Schedule a time slot to get them done, –and here’s the most important part: follow your own schedule. Let’s say you know you have 3 tasks that you HAVE to get done TODAY.
Time-blocking is literally filling up blocks of time in your calendar with pre-determined, strategic tasks. Thankfully, this isn’t some complicated rocket science, and it’s pretty self-explanatory.
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If that’s you too, then you (we both) need to learn how to time-block (y)our days.
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Then I realize what I’m doing & put the phone down, remembering my actual goal for the morning: I had paused the blog writing to research something, then go read that article, –which leads to me reading 2 other articles and now I’ve basically wasted a couple hours of my morning and haven’t gotten anything done.Īt any given time, I’m also likely to have 10 or 20 browser tabs open across multiple Chrome windows as a reminder to check, do something, or stay logged into somewhere I think I’m definitely going to work in today, and it’s another super-easy way to stay distracted all the time. When I sit back down, I forgot exactly where I was in the process, then decide to check social media notifications real quick & get distracted by an ad or some videos/Reels. Luna barks while I’m starting the dryer, so I let her back in, grab my breakfast & go back to my office with her. While I’m making breakfast and waiting on my dog, the washing machine finishes up & now laundry needs to be switched before I forget. Now I’m ready to get to work!īut now my dog wants to go outside, so I go let her out & decide to make breakfast so I’ll be able to hear her bark when she wants to come back in. Then I realize my coffee is cold so I go refill my cup & sit back down. I sit down to write a blog, for example, and then hear my inbox ding, then go check that email & respond. You know what I mean does this happen to you too? In my experience, I get the most solid work done in the mornings before lunch, but I have the tendency to wander if I don’t schedule priority tasks for myself. Read more about those stats in this post, here. Studies show our IQ level goes DOWN the more we take on, and we waste precious seconds switching from the thought process required for each task. In particular, multi-tasking absolutely murders our productivity levels, even for those who think they’re really good at it. Especially managers that have never or aren’t capable of doing the employee’s job because they don’t have that skill set. It seems like management always has a different idea than the employees do, of what makes employees productive. Funny how productivity works in different businesses.
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