My calendar is a mess. Meetings, pings, “quick chats,” follow-ups. I don’t even know when I’m supposed to do the actual work.
What’s saved your focus in a schedule full of chaos?

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Same. If you find a solution, let me know!

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Yeah, nobody taught this in school right 😅

Here are some things that I do
- Advocating for async communication when it makes sense. Too much time is spent in meetings and quick calls that should have been an email or ping.
- Blocking my calendar for focus time. Context switching cost is real. Some of my work really benefits from having a dedicated block of focus time as opposed to being interrupted x amount of times by pings, emails, etc
- Automating repetitive mundane tasks in my work week to free up time for heads down work
- If someone reaches out to me for a “quick chat”, doesn’t tell me what the chat concerns, and I have high priority work to do, I tell them I’m busy and push the conversation off until I’m free. I do take into consideration the position of the person asking for the quick chat. If they’re higher than me I’m more likely to hop on a call. Too many times quick chats have turned into 30 min long conversations that could have been had async so I feel like I have to push back on the quick chat requests of I’d be quick chats all day

One way I found out, too, is to block the calendar for focus time, which has helped me as well.

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