Hello, and good morning! Welcome back to another routine blog here at Classy Classics By Kandis! It is funny that there is so many ways to have a routine, and yet here I am with all of them lol. If you can tell I like to have a good routine and a nice plan in place!
There is something about knowing what should get done, to what needs to be done, but knowing that there is a spot still for my stuff or for extra time.
This system can make you very productive in a day, and can help in so many ways, this is set out to work like you would in school. With a block for everything in your day! It is from Jordan Page!
I will leave a link to the youtube video here for you to watch.
I had seen this one back when I was setting up my routines after life got busy with kids. If you were following along with the other routine blogs, you seen how the morning, afternoon, and evening routines were set up.
Did you see them?
I will link them here, go have a read on how I set up my routines!
A GOOD DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD MORNING ROUTINE!
HOW I KEEP UP WITH THE HOUSE USING ZONE CLEANING!
AFTERNOON ROUTINE.. DON’T FORGET THE COFFEE!
How does the BLOCK SYSTEM work!
The block system is a amazing way to take your routines and place them in the day. This is so you will not over work one place, you won’t lose your day, and you won’t get sucking into a distractive loop at random times of the day.
This is set up works like it sounds in blocks. This is work like school did, lots of ladies will set their alarms for the blocks too.
I don’t have alarms, I have my block system set up well for now anyways in large blocks.
There is a set time in between your blocks, which are set around your ROUTINES!
This will optimize your routine and time! Each block is a task, like a subject in school. The day is broke up into the blocks that you need.
Remember this is your day, and your tasks no one else’s. There will be chunked blocks with set topics to work with, to make each task have a time to work in.
Morning routine, work time, coffee time, pick up kids it all has times. You don’t want to be stuck doing something when you should have been on a meeting call! Got sucked into Facebook and suddenly, all the kids are hungry, and you forgot to pull out the meat.
This will help you in staying productive but being flexible at the same time. This will have as many or as little blocks as you need for your day or schedule.
I have 3 main blocks that in time will get more detailed as other situations get ironed out in my life.
HOW TO SET UP THE BLOCK SYSTEM
When it comes to setting up the block system all you need is a paper, pen and motivation.
It will help in putting together is you have some of your daily routines in place.
Well I found it easier that is. The block system is made to work with you, this is how I set up mine.
Let me know what you think?
Did you set your up different?
How are you setting up your block system?
Take your piece of paper, and make 3 sections in it, morning, noon and evening. Then under those sections write the times that are for that section.
The way I section mine is like this!
My morning is from 6:00 am to 12:00 pm Afternoon is from 12:00 to about 6:00 pm Evening is 6:00pm to 11:00 pm
This is the “work” time I have for the house. When it comes to my block system this is where your life will make things different from anyone’s block system.
I have my block system set up as this because I am a stay at home mom, I work from home, and as of right now for a bit we are also doing the remote learning from the school!
I have 2 kids that are in school and 2 kids that are little. This is a reason that I will always point out that your routine may look much different from mine!
I had to keep in mind that I have a lot that happens in a block with all the kids being home, that I need to remember to not have a hourly timer as it may take me longer to start the task than originally planned and so I might only get 10 minutes vs 30 minutes.
I made my block system this way so that I can find my heavy work times, and I can find the rests easy when planning out my day or week.
This allows me to put my routines in, with some decluttering and deep cleaning, but also have work time and me time.
It will all come together, and you will see where your times are on your own schedule.
MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU!
The great thing about making a block system is that you are making one from a fresh piece of paper. There is no distraction on how “others” may be using it.
So, let’s talk making the most of the system, where, how and when to make it. My block system like I said is needing to be revamped a little, and what better time than after the routines got fixed.
I have not added in the detailed times on my block system and I’m not sure I will this round.
What do I mean?
My block system has big time chunks on it!
With a time, chunk of 6:00 am to 12:00 pm, it’s a bit too much. So instead of making an hourly that I know will not go as detailed as my mind would like it here I have it chunked into 3-hour chunks.
So now my morning time block as 2 blocks! 6:00 am – 9:00 am 9:00 am – 12:00 pm.
The same is for the afternoon and evening times!
This now looks not as crazy as looking at a time frame that as 12 hours in it for only one block!
THAT WOULDN’T MAKE MY ANXIETY GO CRAZY!
So, a 3-hour window is much easier for me to work with! Does that make sense on why I chunk it vs doing an hourly?
Don’t be afraid to make changes, erase some tasks, add some, move them around. Don’t make one section of your day too full, there is lots of hours, lots of chunks in the day!
When I chunk mine, it helps I made my block system this way so that I can find my heavy work times, and I can find the rests easy when planning out my day or week.
This allows me to put my routines in, with some decluttering and deep cleaning, but also have work time and me time. It will all come together, and you will see where your times are on your own schedule.
The great thing about making a block system. Don’t make one section of your day too full, there is lots of hours, lots of chunks in the day! When I chunk mine, it helps calm my mind!
WHERE TO PUT WHAT IN THE BLOCKS!
When it comes to placing your tasks into the blocks, you choose what goes where!
You need to figure out what tasks NEED to be done and when.
Start there!
I know that my first block from 6:00 am – 9:00 am is for my work and getting the kids ready for class! That is all that there is really for there.
So, this section could be placed more on an hourly base to make sure I don’t spend too long in one spot.
My example is:
6:00am- Wake up for me, coffee and me time 6:30am- work on blog
7:00am-7:30am- littles are usually getting up, breakfast and snuggles I will also work in my planner here as I can’t use the computer easily around my toddler haha.
8:00am- get big kids up and moving
8:30am- big kids ready for class
9:00am big kids start online class I will start my morning routine if I have not got a change to start it!
Just like that my first part to my morning block is over and hopefully done. If you see this is why I will use big chunks for my block system as if or when something does not work out for the time frame its ok, there is time and spots to put in the task that could not be done there!
I don’t want to me working on something when I need to be getting the kids ready, or I don’t want to feel bad when I didn’t get the dished washed after breakfast because a kid needed help with the computer!
This is just a good way to prioritize some of the chores and stuff you need to do without running wild for the entire day! It is a great way to add stuff into your day, when you know when your slower times are!
Maybe make that play date in the afternoon when your blocks are not as full, this way you know when you are more free when these things come up, but also you are not rearranging your whole day to make that plan work.
This is a win, win situation!
So that is the block system in a glance!
What do you think?
Give it a try?
Do you already use a block system?
Do you have your routines in it?
How do you set up your block system?
I hope you enjoyed this blog, and hopefully gave you some motivation!
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