Why You Should Be Time Blocking.

Calendar appointments aren't just for meetings. One way to plan out your tasks and work on your time management is called time blocking. In doing so, you are scheduling when you’ll be working on which task in your calendar. Rather than jumping from task to task without a plan, or jumping mid-task, this allows you to focus on one task for an entire block of time.

When you are a creative business owner its easy to get lost in the overwhelming amount of things you need to take care of. Business tasks, different creative projects that you are working on, even single projects that have tasks at various stages within a project life-cycle. Time blocking can help you stay both on task and focused, which can help with overall productivity and time management.

By making a list of tasks, and prioritizing what is most important, you can then schedule them on your calendar with an estimated amount of time you think they’ll take, or an allotted amount of time you’ll work on moving them forward on a given day.

For creatives, I also find it’s helpful to think about how you like to work. Do you prefer to spend long stretches on one creative task? Or break things up into smaller segment? Is your business or your creative output as such that you can do the same type of task for many projects over one block, or is it better to break things up by project.

It may be worth it to try different approaches, find what sticks and then implement. In my own creative practice, I have truly found that scheduling it into my calendar just as if it’s an appointment or a design presentation holds me accountable to working in the way I know yields the best results.

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