Don't Let the Day Happen to You: The Power of Time Block Planning

Time Block Planning is a simple concept of using a calendar view to plan your day's priorities, including both meetings and other work you'll prioritize.  Many people have written about it for a long time, and powerful in its simplicity to force prioritization, so you're not reactively bouncing from email to random thought of something you should work on.

• Cal Newport sells a Time Block Planner, and has a great video (see below) on the concepts
• Nir Eyal writes about Timeboxing
• Michael Hyatt's Full Focus Planner uses many of these concepts

Here's a simple Google Doc template I use, where I print a few out, and use them to plan each day, where a column represents a day.