“A balanced life is so much more fulfilling than one chasing an impossible standard of productivity.” You’re spot on. I hadn’t heard this idea articulated so clearly. This is great work man!

Completely agree: energy management > time management The Tim Ferriss + Sam Corcos podcast went over this too: avoid digital task management lists that become infinite inboxes that are hard to triage. Focus on the important, eliminate/delegate the unimportant and surf waves of flow. Rian Doris also talks about 'chronotypes' and assessing the seasonality of your 'time of day flow' Great video - thanks!

Great video. Time blocking never worked from me because as someone who works in a support position, most of my day is unpredictable and my to do list changes all day

Rarely writing a comment but but your videos are just awesome. The first videos I saw were your Obsidian ones which were by far the best ones explaining the matter and making my start easy. But also videos such as this one are very understandable and just well made. 10/10 can and will recommend!

One of my key areas of research is personal energy management and it's a really important discussion. It's really valuable that you're talking about it - but for anyone else that has tried this and failed: it's not as simple as knowing your energy trends. Your 'energy level' isn't purely physical as you may likely feel, so it's really important to manage your emotional/motivational energy and exploit it as well. Chronotypes are a guide, but it really depends on your personal relationship to the work itself as well - eg you feel energised when doing work you enjoy - exploit those trends where you are manipulating your own energy by doing tasks you enjoy!

I love the rant, always necessary to hear these words from people who has systems in place and are above tools

I will stick to time blocking. I use it as a guideline to make sure that i am hitting the areas in my life that i need to on the daily. I adjust and do things and I do allow myself to not do a task on a certain block or to add or switch tasks to a time block if needed to adjust for the day or season of life and energy levels. I know exceptions are okay and we can sometimes not color inside the lines and we can color outside the lines when need be. It is not a schedule.

LET'S ADD IN: Biohacking for women and doing "big work" during our most productive time of our cycle. Our hormones are different than men each week thus creating a different level of productivity output that we can even handle.

I sure block my calendar days and weeks ahead, because it gives me a plan and peace of mind, when every to do and deadline that ever comes around is allocated its time for now and will not be missed. But I also am free to move or delete or add in stuff when the plan doesnt fit anymore. I just dont kill myself over this.

This video made so many things make sense! I’ve always struggled with time blocking, especially because of having to switch off from flow states. And frankly, KZfaq is littered with one-size-fits-all productivity videos that can really mess up with your lifestyle. Optimising activities to energy levels (and not the opposite) makes total sense. Thanks for the insights

Dear Sergio I think your approach towards spending time to create anything (YT videos in your example) is super cool and unique . to give time to tasks as new ideas might come around when you're not doing that specific thing and you have enough time to mention them in the videos . Thank you for sharing this approach.

Love your videos Sergio! Great rant - agree that we need to view ourselves as more than task-completing robots, downtime and gaining value outside of productivity are key!

Epic video! I really resonate with the ideas of being more forgiving for yourself and working with yourself rather than against in typical toxic productivity fashion. And as an Obsidian/digital tool creator myself, it's also interesting to see people ask if I use x tool, but little is asked about whether I still follow the same workflow/philosophy which IMO is more important since tools only facilitate those. As from a content creation standpoint, it's interesting how you packaged all these different ideas into the central video of against time-blocking, do you have any plans of re-arranging these ideas in different ways through a published vault / personal in-depth explanations of your workflows or are you happy with just sharing your thoughts and don't want to necessarily impose/systematize your workflows for other people to allow for their own autonomy?

I legit felt like we were having a conversation. I appreciate this viewpoint. Thank you 😊

4:01 best advice, talking about using focus mode when you’re in your peak hours throughout the day! He knows exactly what his peak hours are every day! 4:30 uses hevy workout app

I use temporal habits for this reason, just cues roughly based around what time it is as to what i ought to be doing, but its flexible. I base day around these habits

Planning is not easy. I guess I'm letting my emotions dictate what to do, but it feels impossible to do certain tasks (like being creative) when I'm not fully up to it

Great video Sergio! I hadn't considered a lot of the points you brought up, and this might honestly make me switch out my entire schedule!

This video is one of the best videos I have seen this year. For me, it's against productivity bullshit. I really needed to hear that 🙏 thanks

An island of sanity in a sea of increasing business. Thank you.

Amazing video man. Finally someone sharing reality instead of productivity porn. If you're into this topic, a video from the School of Life that came to mind is "Why an Ordinary Life can be a good life". Just my two cents though, please carry on :P

Lots of great advice presented in a clear and concise way. Subscribed!

Thanks! This is one of the best videos on time blocking

Your videos are always great ! I like the fact your bring many topics on the table in one video only. Although you could really detailed each one of them more in individual videos. Do as you want, i love them anyway !^^ Continue like that, it works perfectly fine ;)

I agree 100%!

We need more content like this not more of MORE ❤

Great video. Thanks for a different and refreshing perspective 🔥🙏

I never comment on videos but I just had to, this is an amazing video with really great insight and I really enjoyed the rant part keep up the good work!

Ur video quality is amazing. I was wondering what plugins do you use ❤

You can't be in two places at once, and you gotta do what you gotta do. Everything is a maybe.

I'm tired and I'm tired of productivity tips that don't work for me

This was very helpful

your content is pure gold. keep doing what you're doing ;)

thnak bro

What a great video * sigh * 😌 10/10

This is your best video ever. And so important for us ladies running on a monthly cycle. I feel so guilty for the days where I crash. I should just flow with it and choose those days to review movies or finish my Udemy courses in bed.

Thank you so much for this video

just found your channel. Great content... subscribed.

Excellent video.

great video

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dude why was this video so good

great vid

You are missing the point