https://timeblokker.com/tags/planning/Recent content in Planning on Time BlokkerHugoen-usThu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://timeblokker.com/blog/time-blocking-with-adhd-why-visual-planning-works/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://timeblokker.com/blog/time-blocking-with-adhd-why-visual-planning-works/<p>You look at your task list. Six items:</p> <ul> <li>Write the email</li> <li>Finish the proposal</li> <li>Call the dentist</li> <li>Review the PR</li> <li>Fix the bug</li> <li>Pick up groceries.</li> </ul> <p>You&rsquo;ve been here before. The list is fine. The list is always fine.</p> <p>What you can&rsquo;t tell from the list is whether those six things take two hours or eight. The email might be a quick reply or a three-round negotiation. The bug might be a typo or a four-day rabbit hole. The list doesn&rsquo;t say. So you start on the email, and somewhere around 2pm you realize the morning is gone and you&rsquo;ve done one item, and the other five now feel impossible. Not because they are impossible. But because the list never told you what it cost.</p>https://timeblokker.com/blog/why-your-day-plan-breaks-and-how-to-fix-it/Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://timeblokker.com/blog/why-your-day-plan-breaks-and-how-to-fix-it/<p>You <a href="https://timeblokker.com/blog/time-blocking-for-beginners-a-simple-start-guide/">time-blocked</a> the whole day. Ninety minutes for the proposal, a short break, then client work until lunch, then the bug list in the afternoon. You felt good looking at it. Twenty minutes in, a call comes in. &ldquo;Just fifteen minutes,&rdquo; they say.</p> <p>Forty-five minutes later you hang up. The proposal slot is gone. The break is gone. Everything after it is now wrong by forty-five minutes, and every block on the screen is a small accusation. You cross out the timings and redo them by hand. Or you drag each calendar entry down, one by one, until the plan looks honest again.</p>