Andy Neary argues that structured daily routines were the key to his college baseball success and that many talented athletes failed to reach their potential for lack of self-imposed structure. He connects this to current work-from-home challenges, and offers a concrete time-blocking method: each night identify your top three priorities, choose the most important, then schedule three 90-minute blocks the next day with the top priority in the first block so that if the day derails the most important task is done.
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So if you were to ask me what the number one reason was behind my success in college baseball, it was the structure I brought to my day. There were a ton of baseball players with more talent than me, but they never lived up to their potential. And I truly believe it was because they lacked structure. Think about it.
In high school, everything is structured and organized for you.
You get to school at 7:30, you.
Get out at 3, you go right to practice.
From practice, you come home, eat dinner, do your homework, rinse and repeat. In college, there's a lot less structure, right? You have some days you might only.
Have one or two classes. I had Fridays, I didn't even have class on Friday. And those athletes that couldn't bring that.
Structure to their own day, they couldn't organize it for themselves. They never lived up to their potential. It's happening right now as well. In the business world, you're not working from the office like you used to, you're working from home. You lack structure, you lack productivity. You're trying to balance your personal and your business life. And it's hard. So today I want to share with you a tip, a time blocking tip that I think could be so huge for you right now. Here's how it works. Every night I want you to sit.
Down and take 10 minutes and I want you to think about what your three biggest priorities are for the next day. Then I want you to review those three and figure out which one is the most important. And then go to your next day on the calendar. And I want you to time block three 90 minute chunks. And the first number one priority goes in that first time block of the day.
And as long as you get that number one priority done in that first time block, the rest of your day can go to hell. And you've got your most important thing done. Plus it's gonna give you more time to spend with your kids, your family. And I promise you, if you focus on three 90 minute time blocks throughout the day, you will get more done in four and a half hours than you're getting done in eight or nine without structure right now. So I challenge you to put in place tomorrow. And then I want you to come back to this video and I want you to comment it and let me know on how that structure worked for you.
