Cal Newport

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The Liz Moody Podcast · How To Work Less This Summer (And Still Get MORE Done) · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Let me move my time around like chess pieces before the day begins and try to build the best possible board as opposed to just rock and rolling and trying to figure out on the fly what's going to make sense.

I do it in the morning.

Yeah.

I call it multi-scale planning.

At the beginning of the week, I'll make a plan for the week.

So I really want to look ahead and say like, oh, Thursday has a lot of free time.

So that's what I'm going to work on this.

Oh, Monday is really, really busy or Friday is really, really busy.

So I better get this thing done on Wednesday.

I like to look at the full week.

And when I look at the full week, I move things around.

So I might realize like, hey, I scheduled this call for Wednesday morning, but that one call is the only thing that's preventing me from being able to spend all morning finishing this book chapter.

Okay, let me move that call now.

You know, I'm looking ahead and seeing like I need three hours free some point and make a weekly plan.

And then each day I make a plan for my time.

So the weekly plan is higher granularity.

It's sort of looking at the calendar and big blocks of time and roughly figuring out when am I going to work on the big things or if there's something urgent, let me get that on the calendar now.

And then each day I'm looking at the smaller grain of here's my schedule for the day.

Here's the free time in the day.

What do I want to do in the free time?

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