5 Steps to Master Your Time: The Power of Time Blocking
How I Unlocked My Productivity and Balance Working in Tech and You Can Too
How I Unlocked My Productivity and Balance Working in Tech and You Can Too
Early in my career, my life was dominated by to-do lists and action items. These to-do lists were sometimes pages long! I remember at times I didn’t even bother adding more stuff, as I knew I wouldn’t get to it.
That led to me working in a reactive way. I’d work on what was most crucial in that moment of time. The stuff that was burning.
This all changed when I started my journey into productivity, read books on the topic, and tested things. At that time, in the early 2000s, I was running my own company, and agile development principles were starting to be a thing. We went from to-do lists on paper to tickets in Jira.
I was still overwhelmed, but it felt like contained chaos. There was a team to do the work, and we had stand-ups and sprints. Life was getting better. However, I still had my own pages of to-do lists.
Then I found time-blocking.
Why Time Blocking is Essential
We had moved th…