Ryan Dohrn recommends starting with one 25-minute Pomodoro block instead of scheduling your whole day at once. Master that single block for two weeks, then gradually add more over four to five months. Jumping straight to a full schedule usually burns people out.
Friends, about 10 years ago, someone talked with me about creating time blocks to better manage my day. When I first started time blocking my day, I failed miserably. And many of you have tried time blocking, and maybe you have failed as well. Friends, here really is the secret of time blocking. All right, if I need to prospect, say for example, at 11 o'clock every day, I need to prospect at 4 o'clock every day, I need to retain at 11 o'clock, things like that. Start with one time block and do that time block for just 25 minutes. Then what you want to do is you want to use the Pomodoro Technique to drive that 25-minute time block before you move on to something else. Now, if you haven't heard me talk about the Pomodoro Technique, we've talked about it quite a bit here on the show. What that is, is you focus on a task for 25 minutes. Then you take a 5-minute break, and then you focus on another task for 25 minutes, and then you take a 5-minute break. You're gonna do that 4 times. That cycle, do that cycle 4 times, and then you need to take a much bigger break. So the brain work part of this though, friends, is you want to start with one time block, get great at it for about 2 weeks, then add another time block. So over the course of 4 or 5 months, You're going to begin to be structuring your day with those time blocks. Now, you might be an overachiever and try to do all your day time blocked out. Friends, it typically doesn't work out. So if you're trying to fix your brain, so to speak, what you might want to do is try creating time blocks.
