Practical guides for knowledge workers who want better days
Step-by-step guides on time blocking, building daily planning habits, protecting deep work time, and improving how you work day after day.
How to Time Block Your Day (Step-by-Step Guide)
Learn how to time block your day in 5 steps: review your calendar, set your outcome, create named blocks, protect them, and review at day's end. With examples.
Read guide →How to Build a Daily Planning Habit That Sticks
Learn how to build a daily planning habit that sticks using triggers, 5-minute rituals, and honest daily review. No complex systems required.
Read guide →How to Protect Deep Work Time in a Meeting-Heavy Schedule
Practical strategies to protect your deep work blocks from meeting requests, Slack interruptions, and reactive demands — even in demanding work environments.
Read guide →How to Eliminate Context Switching and Reclaim Your Focus
Context switching costs you 25–40% of productive output. Learn the structural changes that actually reduce it — not just willpower tips.
Read guide →How to Do a Daily Review (5-Minute Method)
A daily review takes 5 minutes and produces 23% better performance over 10 days (HBS, 2014). Here's exactly how to do one using today's reflection and friction tools.
Read guide →Morning Routine for Deep Work: Design Your First 2 Hours
The first 2 hours of your workday determine its direction. Learn how to design a morning routine that prioritizes your most important work before reactive demands arrive.
Read guide →Evening Shutdown Routine: How to End Your Workday With Intention
An intentional workday close reduces evening work anxiety and improves sleep. Learn the 10-minute shutdown routine that creates a clean break between work and recovery.
Read guide →How to Make Daily Commitments You Actually Keep
Most commitments fail because they're vague, too ambitious, or disconnected from daily planning. Learn how to design commitments that hold — and what to do when they don't.
Read guide →How to Design Your Ideal Workday Around Your Best Hours
Learn how to design a workday that protects your best hours for deep work, batches communication, and creates space for recovery — based on your personal energy patterns.
Read guide →How to Reduce Distractions at Work (Structural Fixes That Actually Work)
Distractions cost knowledge workers 2+ hours per day. Learn the environmental and behavioral changes that actually reduce distractions — no relying on motivation required.
Read guide →How to Use Your Energy Levels for Better Daily Scheduling
Schedule deep work in high-energy windows, admin in low-energy windows, and meetings in mid-range windows. A practical guide to energy-aware daily planning.
Read guide →How to Set Daily Goals That Are Ambitious But Achievable
Effective daily goals are specific, evaluable, and appropriately ambitious. Learn how to set daily goals that create direction without setting you up for daily failure.
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