A book that teaches people who are always busy, frantic, and short on time how to simplify the day and focus on what really matters. Lately every single day feels hectic and like I'm living hard, but when I actually look back on the month, I often think, "What did I even do?"—which is why I came to read this book.
I used a Franklin planner from high school, but writing in it took longer than expected and I rarely went back to look at it, so I felt I needed a results/goal-oriented scheduler. I also tried a check-list, but something felt lacking, and looking at the remaining list felt like a burden on my mind.
Looking at the methods this book talks about, on p61 it is about living a life of choosing your time with the Block Six system.
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Limit your time = 42 blocks (6 blocks * 7 days)
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Look back on the immediately preceding week / separate fixed time and free time / group similar times together / category names
Look back on the most typical recent 1–2 weeks or so
- Set category names; even the same TV-watching, divide it into rest and regret, group it differently according to the meaning it holds for me. Childcare too is called active childcare and passive childcare
Let's reduce the useless and do what we want to do. Time is a choice. You have to choose what to empty out and what to keep by your side. You have to constantly compare priorities and also consider whether it is realistically possible.
p.107 Chapter 3. GOAL: a reflection on goals that hasn't existed until now ㅁ Goal-setting that connects action and vision allows maintaining a taut tension ㅁ Three kinds of goals: small-but-certain-happiness type goals, short-term achievement type goals, grand goals Small-but-certain-happiness type: easily arises and disappears. Sometimes there isn't a big reason for the goal to be created; learning, traveling..
Short-term achievement type 1–2 years. Taking a body profile, launching on crowdfunding, achieving a company goal, etc.. Grand goal; 'to discover' When short-term achievement type goals steadily accumulate in one direction and take root deeply and strongly within me..
p.141 Chapter 4. PLAN. Making plans that raise execution power, STEP 3 for making a weekly plan
- Within the 42 blocks, write down fixed schedules like work, classes, appointments
In the remaining blocks, what you want to do. Exercise, movies, lectures, rest, travel, etc..
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Set core blocks: just one. There's no 'moderately good life' without any trouble. Among the things you have to do this month, this week, today, even if not everything, is there one thing you want to get done properly?
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Bumper blocks (1–2): bonus time so you can accomplish what you planned. If you achieve everything you planned, it's rest time given like a gift
P.177 Chapter 5. DO: 10 strategies that raise execution power
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Use uninterrupted chunks of time: work that requires securing 2+ hours
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Abandon managing scrap time
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Perfectionism: attempts and consistency over perfection
When you can't do it consistently, set a time limit
- Decide on a PLAN B in advance
Very small but moving closer to the goal
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Look at the planner often
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Don't force consistency on everything
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Just do it..!
P. 225 Chapter 6. CHECK CYCLE: the power that makes me grow. Figure out why you couldn't do it, and think of a solution for how to do it. Ask why? five or more times. External factors, physical factors, psychological factors, other factors Gather your emotions: a three-line diary.
Emotions are more powerful than you'd think, and are an organism-like being affected by various external and internal stimuli. Thanks to the habit of writing a three-line diary and periodically gathering it, you can identify the emotional factors that ruin time management. And you try to control or avoid, as much as possible, the actions and situations that bring on those emotions.
4 solutions to try for a better plan after review: trying to change the block order: observe the daily pattern, think about my energy level. Figure out the appropriate amount that goes into a block. Consider 'a realistic amount I can do' Find the block where immersion works best Figure out the energy pattern. Look at a week's worth of life pattern, and if plan execution doesn't go well on a particular day of the week, revise the plan considering the day.
By choosing your time, let's change the day so you can do what you really want to do!
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