Sure, i know they take time, and tey can only so much in a day, but i still think i should be able to cross most of he things off my list. When they have times assigned to them, i have a much more realistic view of how long they're each going to take. All right, so typically i have part of my planner already filled out when i'm planning my day. And this is because there are things that are pretty much the same every day. I don't fill in, things like waking up or going to bed. Although having a plan for when you're going to start getting ready for bed. In't a bad idea. But what i do have are the things where i get going. So on the planner, my day starts when i take my kids to school. And i can fill that out for the entire week, because that doesn't really change. And of course, there are some times when i'm going to have to plan other things that i'm doing in my morning. But this is where i start. What i'm also going to do is look over my calendar and fill in any appointments or events that i've got going on. For example, i can just in the second tuesday of the month at ten a m for the a, d, h, d, re wired live, c and a. I already know that's going to happen, so it's easy to just pop that in there. And it's important to get those kinds of things into your calendar first, because theyare the things that are not moving around. Once i have those kinds of things down, i can build in the rest of my schedule around them. The idea here is to just get all the things that are already planned into your schedule. So maybe you don't have kid set your schedule around, but you might have a time you need to be at work, or a time when you need to be at class, whatever can give you some structure to your day. Once my kids are in school, i can look at what i actually want to accomplish that day. At this point, i'm just looking at about a three hour block between nine a m and noon. Here i'm time blocking. This is my most productive time in the day. And i'm thinking about what tasks are going to take the most significant amount of mental focus in this block. I'm only looking at the one, maybe two things that re going to make most difference. I'm not trying to do a bunch of different things, just the most important ones. One of the places our a d h d can get us in trouble is thinking that we have to do so many things every day. But our problem is that we don't have time to do a dozen important things. We try to squeeze them in, but we can't, and we feel guilty about what we didn't accomplish. So let's skip that feeling guilty part and just plan undoing fewer things. We'll get the same amount done, but we'll feel better about it. Now the reason i'm only looking at a three hour block here is because i also want to be scheduling when i'm having lunch. I used to think that scheduling lunch wasn't necessary because i'd just eat when i was hungry, right? Well, no, i'd put off making anything because i was focused on doing something else. Then by the time i decided i was hungry enough to make something, i was also in a state where i didn't to make something, and would make food choices that wouldn't fuel me for the rest of the day. Sure, it's easy to make a bag of popcorn, but that isn't going to get me to do anything productive in the afternoon. Along with things like lunch, it's also important to schedule any other breaks you want to be taking and transitions. For example, i've got a zoom call i'm going to be on in about an hour, so i haven't my schedule to finish up what i'm doing now about 20 minutes before i start that so i can get myself men aly ready when i go to that meeting. Well, it might feel like we can easily just move from task to task. There are often unseen transitions we aren't thinking about. And additionally, remember that every task is comprised of three parts, set up doing the task and clean up. Don't neglect time in your schedule for both set up and clean up. All right, now i've got the afternoon. This is a shorter block until i've got my kids home. And so instead focusing on mentally taxing stuff, i'm focused on stuff that needs to get done, but isn't going to take quite as much of that focus. Sorting paper work, doing on line courses, reading, replying to emales.