I’m finding I’m salami slicing some of my goals again (honestly I’ve always done that a bit).
I’d like to try some sort of beeminding of “time blocking”: provisionally planning out your day or week down to a timescale of an hour or two. I’m hoping that will help me do better on that, as well as maybe help me focus more on what I want/need to get done.
Has anybody been there and have any advice?
I see this has come up before but I’m really asking about what people learned about akratic strategy while doing it rather than tools. For example, I don’t know, “I found I weaseled out of it by doing X so now instead I Y”? Or “I found this worked best when I confined this to goals that are Z because …”.
For a period of time in college I time blocked religiously. I had a basic schedule that I’d refer to when I made each day’s plan in the morning. I’d also refer to all outstanding projects when making the day’s plan. I allowed myself to deviate from my plan during the course of the day as long as I edited my plan to show the changes. It was very effective. This was all before I was using beeminder.
I’ve never managed to do it as successfully since. I’ve beeminded making the day plans with mixed success. At one point I tried using tagtime to enforce keeping on plan (modifications still allowed) but a bug with my account prevented me from seeing that experiment through.
The way I ended up fixing the salami slicing issue was defining certain goals in terms of half-hour blocks instead of continuous time. That way one block is due instead of 5 minutes, even if the overall average target is the same.
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I have some pretting rigorous blockers+friction on my devices. Time blocking is the next step. Focusmate works beautifully thank God but there is room for gaps…I want something more thorough to tie my entire days down. Blocking+precommitment seems to be the best overall strategy for tackling challenges with adhd.