Putting work on a calendar instead of a list, and what happens when the day goes sideways.
After four years of increasingly elaborate calendars, the version that finally stuck has two protected blocks and nothing else. Here is what the elaborate versions were actually costing.
Moving tasks onto a calendar forces you to say how long each one takes, and that forced estimate is the whole benefit. It is also why most people quit in the first week.
Standard time blocking assumes your calendar is yours. Eleven years of shift work taught me a version that assumes the opposite, and it is the only one that has ever survived my week.
