Dr. Cal Newport

And then that trickles down to my week where I'm going to make sure I have enough time cleared to like be on track for finishing it.

And then that trickles into my day.

Now I know to like block those mornings to work on it.

So it all works together.

An added bonus of the daily scale is I would say communication should get its own block.

Email, social media, whatever that's like you communicating with the outside world goes into your time block plan.

So if your block doesn't include that, you don't do it.

So it's like this block is writing.

It's not email.

It's not social media.

So the rule is really simple.

I'm not going to use email or social media, but I still need to do email at some point.

So I have to put a block in for it.

And when I'm in my email blocks, I'm doing the email.

If I need to go on social media to see what's going on with like the latest episode or something, I got to give that time.

And then you can monofocus because then it's a psychological hack.

But basically when you particularly – when you schedule communication and distraction –

Now the only thing you have to muster willpower to do is obey the single rule of I'm following my blocks.

If you don't do that, if you're like, I just sometimes do email and social media, sometimes I don't.

Now what you have to do is just constantly be having this debate.