Time blocking SUCKS!

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do you know what time blocking is time
blocking is a method where you put in
items in your calendar and you block
your time for that day and it seems
logical to actually start doing things
in specific order but to me and you know
me I like to do things simply it's just
way too complicated and I like my time
the whole point of life is to actually
go and enjoy your time not blocking so I
have to do this I know you become a
robot it's just not it's not needed you
don't need to do it and I'm gonna show
you what I do with my calendar so I'm
gonna open up my calendar to the world
so they can see what's in it or what's
not in it actually so let's go over to
my computer sorry this is todoist this
is my calendar so before I go through
this I had a video said saying that I
had one calendar now I did try that
so one calendar one color and everything
within it
but it looked boring so me liking a
laugh and I took joke around the lot and
want some color in my life I thought you
know what I'm gonna go back to the
different colors and I'm gonna explain
what the different colors are so I
actually have three calendars I have a
personal calendar I have a business
calendar and I have a work calendar now
what's the difference between work and
business work is stuff they actually
need to do for work for client work
business is things that I need to do for
my business so obviously it's work but I
I'll go into the colors in a moment but
everything pertaining to what I need to
do for my business and personal is
obviously self-explanatory now if you
notice there are actually well there are
three colors okay green orange blue but
there is a fourth color and the fourth
color is purple
I could probably change that to a slight
different colors I can see it better but
anyway it's purple now purple is the
appointments that have been that it's
their external appointments so someone
has basically wanted my time externally
so with this for instance I do a masters
group with Paul - every two weeks and
that's obviously an external this one is
an external I have to do a survey for an
app that I'm using I'm doing some beta
testing for them so purple is basically
external appointments orange usually I
write focus you can you notice here the
focus and that's that's a way of me
blocking my time to do specific things
now I don't generally write I have to do
this or that project on it again it's
making things complicated
I just no block out that time so I can
focus on that on something on that
particular task so for instance today if
I go to weekly and today I've put two
things aside that I need the focus
chunks effectively blocked aside because
I needed to do some client work here and
this is when I wanted to do the video
but notice I've got nothing so I started
doing it early this is the beauty of
having your calendar not blocked if you
block your time you block your calendar
you you basically don't you can't you
I'm stuck for words I mean you can't
enjoy your life the whole point of life
is to enjoy it not to work and be told
what to do every single minute of the
day obviously we need to work in our
business and we need to do client work
I'm lucky that's worked in the fact that
the kind of work that I do I don't
actually have to work that many hours
because I've made my decision as to
much work I want to do I need to do to
pay for stuff obviously we all need to
pay for rent and pay for things so I
never block time because if for instance
a client has an issue and they needed
some help there and then well well you
pick the time I have the time when when
would you like to do this that's the
beauty of how I created this system
instead of blocking my times and no one
can get in and sometimes that's a good
thing but that's why I have these focus
blocks but the fact that my calendar is
pretty much open you go back to the
calendar the fact that my calendar is
actually pretty much open and notice
over the weekend to them really write
anything I did some business I deleted
Google Analytics that day it's just a
like a flag for me to say I've done it
that that's when I did it I recorded a
podcast here this is the podcast that I
did so the point of time blocking I
understand again the the reasons of it
but if you really wanna if you value
your own time you don't need to time
block do what you need to do and only
block the times that you actually need
to focus on the work that you want to do
anyway that's all I wanted to show you
today if you like this video comment
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anyway
I got to go it's hot wolf wants a walk
or a swim actually hey wolf
have a good day see you in the next
video and remember keep it simple ciao