Protect time each week for work that matters, not just work that is loud

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Protect time each week for work that matters, not just work that is loud

Urgency is a volume setting, not a measure of importance.

The work that compounds is quiet: the thinking, the writing, the building. It never demands attention, so it never gets any.

Book a recurring block, put it in the calendar as busy, and take it as seriously as a meeting with someone you would not cancel on.

Two hours a week is a hundred hours a year, which is enough to change a career.

Protect time each week for work that matters, not just work that is loud, 1
Date it.
Protect time each week for work that matters, not just work that is loud, 2
Do it.
Protect time each week for work that matters, not just work that is loud, 3
Done it.

How to actually do it

  1. 01Choose the two hours and make them recurring.
  2. 02Mark it busy so nobody books over it.
  3. 03Decide the night before exactly what you will do in it.

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