Welcome to the community, @Bilal Farooq! Really glad you're here. Drop an intro in the comments or head to this thread :)!

I've been time blocking this year — putting tasks on the calendar, estimating how long things will take, trying to stick to it. When it works, I love it. When it doesn't, I noticed something uncomfortable: I stop looking at the calendar entirely. The task doesn't get done. And part of my brain wants to conclude the whole system is a waste of time. But that's not what's actually happening. What's actually happening is one of two things: my time estimate was wrong, or something more urgent moved in. Neither is a systems failure. They're just information. The plan had a crack in it. The real problem is what comes next: disappearing from the calendar instead of fixing the plan. That's where most time blocking attempts die — not from the disruption, but from the exit after it. When I've stayed with it, the fix is usually simple: - Block more realistic time - Build in buffers before meetings or travel - Move what genuinely can't happen today instead of ignoring it - Set alarms for all my meetings at the start of the day — so I'm not carrying the schedule in my head The real skill isn't perfect planning. It's returning to the plan and making it more honest. 👉 So — what would you need to adjust to make the plan actually work?