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, 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 block it.
So I have to do this.
No, you become a robot.
It's just not, it's not needed.
You don't need to do it.
And I'm going to show you what I do with my calendar.
So I'm going to 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 to do-est.
This is my calendar.
So before I go through this, I had a video 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 like to joke around a lot and want some color in my life, I thought, you know what?
I'm going to go back to the different colors.
And I'm going to 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'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 slightly different color so I can see it better.
But anyway, it's purple.
Now, purple is the appointments that have been, that have, they're external. appointments.
So someone has basically wanted my time externally.
So with this, for instance, I do a master's group with Paul Miners 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 notice here 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 again it's making things complicated I just know 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 things aside that I need, 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 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 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, touch wood, 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 how 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 would you like to do this?
That's the beauty of how I created this system.
Instead of blocking my time so 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, go back to the calendar, the fact that my calendar is actually pretty much open and notice over the weekend that I didn't really write anything.
I did some business.
I deleted Google Analytics that day.
It's just like a flag for me to say, I've done it, 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 reasons of it.
But if you really want to, 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 below.
How do you do your, if you do time looking or how do you organize your calendar?
Share this video with people you think might benefit from it.
Anyway, I got to go.
It's hot.
Woof!
wants a walk or a swim, actually.
Hey, Woof!.
Have a good day.
See you in next video.
And remember, keep it simple.
Ciao.
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, 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 block it.
So I have to do this.
No, you become a robot.
It's just not, it's not needed.
You don't need to do it.
And I'm going to show you what I do with my calendar.
So I'm going to 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 to do-est.
This is my calendar.
So before I go through this, I had a video 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 like to joke around a lot and want some color in my life, I thought, you know what?
I'm going to go back to the different colors.
And I'm going to 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'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 slightly different color so I can see it better.
But anyway, it's purple.
Now, purple is the appointments that have been, that have, they're external. appointments.
So someone has basically wanted my time externally.
So with this, for instance, I do a master's group with Paul Miners 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 notice here 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 again it's making things complicated I just know 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 things aside that I need, 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 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 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, touch wood, 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 how 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 would you like to do this?
That's the beauty of how I created this system.
Instead of blocking my time so 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, go back to the calendar, the fact that my calendar is actually pretty much open and notice over the weekend that I didn't really write anything.
I did some business.
I deleted Google Analytics that day.
It's just like a flag for me to say, I've done it, 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 reasons of it.
But if you really want to, 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 below.
How do you do your, if you do time looking or how do you organize your calendar?
Share this video with people you think might benefit from it.
Anyway, I got to go.
It's hot.
Woof!
wants a walk or a swim, actually.
Hey, Woof!.
Have a good day.
See you in next video.
And remember, keep it simple.
Ciao.
