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An executive assistant turned entrepreneur shares insights into prioritizing tasks and managing a calendar efficiently. She details her daily routine, highlighting the importance of structured time blocks for deep work, personal activities, and scheduled breaks. Emphasizing the mantra 'if it’s not in the calendar, it doesn’t happen,' she offers practical tips for maintaining focus and productivity while ensuring a balanced life. Flexibility and saying 'no' to non-essential commitments are key themes.

How I prioritize everything that matters

I really like this article. Given the author’s set of tasks it does seem like a good way to structure your day, but this does not work for everyone.
If you work for a company, I doubt that they would appreciate it if you tell them that you’ll work between 8:30am and 11:30am and that between 2pm and 5:30pm there will be meetings. You might not even have meetings (or have the power to call them).
If you’re a individual contributor (non management) developer at a software company you don’t get to have a say in the moment of the day where meetings are called.

Although I appreciate this article… I still feel like this is not really feasible by a non-ocd super-human. Sometimes you have an off day and you are not feeling like doing that work at the same time your schedule wants you to.
I personally have to wait for my emotional state to match the work that needs to be done.
But I wonder if others feel this way? Or other folks are able to be this structured every day?

Like what I am trying to build… It’s powerful…

I tried similar approach, sometimes it works, sometimes doesn’t. It requires a lot of discipline to work.
Usually my calendar is the „model day” but then the reality kicks in and either other people hijack my time with urgent topics or my schedule was unrealistic and I feel too tired to do 2h of deep work at the planned block.
I think this can work when you have a good skill for realistic time planning, and strong discipline.