Energetic Time Block Scheduling
Everyone feels good at different times of the day, and when completing different activities. To help "live in the flow," organize your days to make the most of when you have different types of energy and to build in power ups and grounding moments to help sustain you.
For instance, tackling the toughest items on your to-do list with morning energy. Or making sales call after a creative, restorative morning of coffee. How can you use something energizing, like a power up or proven placebo, to re-fuel you mid-day? Are you using your strengths to get things done, or trying to push through?
Below is a list of questions for you to journal on to help think all this through to get to your day of energetic flow.
What uses my energy but keeps me in flow?
What uses my willpower and takes me out of flow?
What activities replenish my energy? (grounding)
What activities boost my energy? (power up)
Who refreshes me?
What times of day do I feel at my best? My most drained?
How do I use my strengths to work smarter and easier, not harder?
Based on your answers, draft up a mock day or week using "blocks" to denote activities, and start experimenting!
Based on your reflection, what might an ideal day look like? How about a week?
Once you've thought about how an ideal day and week might go energetically, take a step back and look at your calendar of regular weekly and monthly activities, meetings, events, etc and create a sustainable flow.
Take a look at the quarter - what big activities, travel, holidays might be coming up that could act as motivation or provide an energetic challenge?
Add holder "blocks" for all of your key activities -- color coding can be very helpful!
We can be great at scheduling the work stuff — DO NOT FORGET TO SET ASIDE TIME FOR FUN, RELAXATION, ETC!
I like creating a separate Google calendar with my energy schedule that I can overlay my day-to-day over. Make sure to turn on reminders for accountability as needed.
Use color coding to keep key categories in mind so when you go to plan for the week it’s easy to see what’s missing….No purple means no fun planned?
This is not about scheduling and dictating every moment of your day, but rather building awareness of how you spend your time and energy and that which renews it, so that you can live less and less with willpower and more in flow and joy even as you #GSD.
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