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How To Protect Your

Time And Organize

Your Calendar

Being productive, working on the right things, and not letting busywork
take over your day often comes down to how you schedule your work.
As productivity expert Cal Newport says, scheduling your week in
advance “allows you to spread out, batch, and prioritize work in a
manner that significantly increases what you accomplish and goes a
long way toward eliminating work pile-ups and late nights.”

Try out these tips for improving the way you schedule your work to
make sure you’re spending your time on what’s most important.

Categorize events

Even if you have a separate calendar for work events, you might have
various types of events on that one calendar. Etsy engineering director
Lara Hogan suggests creating separate event categories and using a
color code to distinguish them on your calendar.

For instance, you might have:

• one-on-one meetings with your team
• meetings with your manager
• team meetings
• office hours
• client meetings

By color-coding your events, you can easily glance at your calendar and

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