{"id":41574,"date":"2022-11-08T06:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41574"},"modified":"2022-11-08T06:45:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:45:20","slug":"prioritorising-time-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41574","title":{"rendered":"Prioritorising Time Allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-41575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Prioritorising_Time_Allocation-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prioritorising Time Allocation\" width=\"718\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Prioritorising_Time_Allocation-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Prioritorising_Time_Allocation-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Prioritorising_Time_Allocation-768x773.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Prioritorising_Time_Allocation-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Prioritorising_Time_Allocation.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>True. Whatever you make the priority will consume your time. There&#8217;s a great line I read decades ago, &#8220;The job will expand to fill the available time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So the tool to handle this is a block timetable where you assign blocks of time in your day and week for the tasks to which you need to or wish to allocate your time.<\/p>\n<p>If you block out time for the necessities and the desirables then you are more at cause over your schedule and life.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are nearly always unforeseens that come up (like the dog peeing or pooping where he shouldn&#8217;t) and need to be handled which is why some slack to handle them is built into a well structured schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True. Whatever you make the priority will consume your time. There&#8217;s a great line I read decades ago, &#8220;The job will expand to fill the available time.&#8221; So the tool to handle this is a block timetable where you assign blocks of time in your day and week for the tasks to which you need &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=41574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prioritorising Time Allocation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41576,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574\/revisions\/41576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}