Dr. Cal Newport

You see where's the empty space, where there's the busy space.

You also change what's on your plate right here.

You know, if I cancel this thing,

That frees up that whole morning, which means like I could really make progress on this, which I really want to make progress on.

So great, I'm going to cancel that thing on Friday.

So you're looking at the whole week as one unit.

Then every day, you look at your weekly plan.

Like, okay, so I'm going to use this when I make my plan for the day.

And when you do your daily plan, you do time blocking.

Now I'm giving a job every minute on my workday, not my day after work, but every minute of my workday, I'm time blocking.

So I call it time blocking because you're literally drawing blocks around the free time.

Okay, this I'm working on this, this I'm working on this.

So you're making a plan for your day that is informed by the weekly plan.

So in multiscale planning, you have like the big picture things you care about trickle their way all the way down to, okay, what am I going to do during this hour, during the day?

But you don't have to grapple with,

This is what most people do.

Every time I'm figuring out what to do next, I'm not grappling with all these scales at the same time.

What are my objectives?

What's my big plan?

What's going on this week?