Timeblock
Time (PDT) | Plan | Reality |
---|---|---|
0000 | SLEEP | |
0030 | SLEEP | |
0100 | SLEEP | |
0130 | SLEEP | |
0200 | SLEEP | |
0230 | SLEEP | |
0300 | SLEEP | |
0330 | SLEEP | |
0400 | SLEEP | |
0430 | SLEEP | |
0500 | Morning routine | |
0530 | Coffee and rumination | Browsing: Internet |
0600 | Coffee and YouTube | |
0630 | Pomodoro: Organization | |
0700 | Pomodoro: Planning | |
0730 | Wake up wife | Getting ready |
0800 | Getting ready | Walk to work |
0830 | Walk to work | Stretching |
0900 | Stretching | Hanging out with peers |
0930 | Start of work routine | |
1000 | Pomodoro: Audit Exploration | Pomdoro: OpsLead |
1030 | Pomodoro: Audit Exploration | Slack |
1100 | Buffer | Pomodoro: Audit Exploration |
1130 | Buffer | Pomodoro: Audit Exploration |
1200 | Lunch | |
1230 | NAP | |
1300 | Meeting: Data Management Sync | |
1330 | Buffer | Pacing |
1400 | Pomodoro: Audit Exploration | Pomodoro: 1/1 prep |
1430 | Pomodoro: 1/1 prep | Ping pong |
1500 | Meeting: 1/1 with Alex | Ping pong |
1530 | Buffer | Pagerduty |
1600 | Walk home | |
1630 | Buffer | Walk home |
1700 | Cooking | Hanging out |
1730 | Cooking | Hanging out |
1800 | Hanging out | |
1830 | Hanging out | Movie: X-men Dark Phoenix |
1900 | Hanging out | Movie: X-men Dark Phoenix |
1930 | Hanging out | Movie: X-men Dark Phoenix |
2000 | Hanging out | Movie: X-men Dark Phoenix |
2030 | Winding down | |
2100 | SLEEP | |
2130 | SLEEP | |
2200 | SLEEP | |
2230 | SLEEP | |
2300 | SLEEP | |
2330 | SLEEP |
Thinking
I have updated my timeblock table. The way I interact with the table has evolved quite a bit since I first made the template some... 2 years 6 months ago? Something like that.
Basically, I used to think I'd make a plan and update the plan throughout the day, so I believed that multiple revisions would happen. But, that's not really how I operate, I plan ahead to get a good idea of how limited my time is in a day, and then I may negotiate the half-hour when I come to it, and also I may end up going off course. So all I really need is a "Plan" column and a "Reality" column. No multiple revisions to the plan. I may in my head have a revised plan, but it's not particularly valuable to write it down. Really, I'm playing off the original plan, and using that as a base of what's reasonable so I don't think I can do more than I can do.
For example, this week I'm opslead, and doing my usual amount of pomodoros isn't really in the cards. The plan helps me realize this. Me getting paged will interupt me, even at home, and so planning for a lot of pomodoros is actually planning for failure, in a sense.
I'm also starting off with all non-planned items up until the planning pomodoro to just be in the reality column. This makes it clearer when I started planning at a glance, and how much is backlogged. I also like having my initial morning "planned", because I'm working towards a consistency there, so that's my "plan" every morning.
Time to wake up the wife.