My biggest struggle is not losing focus from the distraction of this encroaching backlog of life admin, as you've previously referred to it.

I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions.

I'm Cal Newport and this is a deep questions habit tune-up mini episode.

Now the format here is straightforward. I answer audio questions from

listeners on how to tune up their productivity habits in a period in which our

professional lives are increasingly disrupted.

And before we get started with today's episode, I do have exciting news.

I know the listeners of the tune-up mini episode are like me for the most part productivity

geeks. You know I talk a lot about time blocking as part of my capture configure

control productivity philosophy.

And you have heard me make oblique references to a upcoming time block planner. Well I want to make those oblique references concrete today.

I want to officially announce my time block planner is available on November 10th.

You can buy it anywhere that you buy books online,

Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.

The backstory to this planner is basically I got tired trying to hack together

What I needed for my productivity systems using existing notebooks that I would hand format every day.

And after one of these notebooks, brands changed their paper quality at some point not too long ago to something I didn't like, I finally got fed up and realized, why don't I just design my own planner that delivers me exactly what I need for the

style of time block planning that is at the core of my productivity philosophy and that's the time block planner.

Real quick preview how it works is every day you have a two page spread so there's a

there's a ribbon the marked current day you open it to the ribbon you have a two page spread.

On the right hand side when you're looking at this planner is the time blocking grid.

Already pre-formatted.

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