Dr. Cal Newport

You're dealing with each of these scales when the time is right.

And so when it finally gets down to it's now 3 o'clock, you're just doing what that block is.

And you figured out that block earlier today when you looked at your weekly plan.

That weekly plan reflected what was in your –

semester plan, which you figured out you spent a whole afternoon working on at the beginning of the semester.

So multi-scale planning, it keeps you focused on what matters.

It prevents you from wandering through your day and how you disperse your energy.

And it gives you control over your time on different scales from like canceling major ongoing obligations to just being more efficient about what you do during a given day.

So I swear by multi-scale planning to try to

Keep this whole lumbering ship that is sort of like Cal Newport aiming towards the right shores.

Keep correcting and keeping it aimed back.

And you can see the deadlines now.

You see them coming, right?

So that's part of what's nice about multi-scale planning is you know the deadlines coming up.

And so when you're doing your semester planning, you start thinking like, okay, for the big deadlines, like when I get to December, I need to be

really started getting after this thing that's going to be due.

Yeah.

I've got a book due.

Yeah.

So then, you know, and so this really helps me book writing because now when I'm planning, it's like, you know, a year in advance, I know this month I need to get like roughly the rough draft of chapter two done.