Coaching practices for Make Time in a New Job
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve got a big move (or a new job) coming up in a couple of months, and I can feel it’s a rare chance to start fresh
- I know what the one important thing is, but I keep leaving it for "later when I have time," and later never comes
- There’s a job that pays more but eats my evenings, and a longer commute that saves a little cash, and I keep instinctively grabbing the money option
- Every hour of my week is booked back-to-back, so the moment anything runs over the whole day cascades into lateness and panic
- Guarding my focus time makes me feel guilty and a little unreachable, like I’m leaving people stranded
Practices that may help
- Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
The Habit Discontinuity Effect - Make time before the day fills
Block time for the Highlight first, so it isn’t left to leftover scraps of the day.
Make Time, Made Practical - Choose time over money on purpose
When trade-offs arise, weight time more heavily than the extra dollars.
Time Affluence, Made Practical - Protecting unscheduled time
Leave deliberate gaps in the calendar instead of filling every hour.
Slow Living, Made Practical - Offer office hours to concentrate collaboration
Designate one or two open windows per day when collaborators can reach you freely, then protect everything else.
Maker vs Manager Schedule - Default new requests to tomorrow
Unless something is genuinely urgent, new work goes to tomorrow — not today.
Do It Tomorrow, Made Practical - Protect Q2 time with scheduled blocks
Schedule your most important non-urgent work in your calendar before the week begins — treat it as an appointment.
The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation - Schedule dedicated deep work blocks
Reserve specific, protected blocks of time on your calendar for distraction-free focus.
Deep Work, Made Practical - Apply Parkinson’s Law — compress deadlines to compress work
Work expands to fill available time, so deliberately constraining time forces prioritization.
Lifestyle Design, Made Practical - Values-based scheduling
Block time for purpose-aligned activities before reactive obligations fill the calendar.
Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
Related concerns
- Make Time At Work
Block time for the Highlight first, so it isn’t left to leftover scraps of the day.
Make time before the day fills
- Calendar Time Blocking
Time blocking means assigning every hour of your day to a specific task on the calendar, so you decide in advance what attention goes where. The core levers — pre-commitment, protecting deep work from shallow work, and confronting how finite your time really is — are well grounded, though the practice demands honest re-planning when reality diverges from the plan.
- How To Block Time On Calendar
Time blocking means assigning every hour of your day to a specific task on the calendar, so you decide in advance what attention goes where. The core levers — pre-commitment, protecting deep work from shallow work, and confronting how finite your time really is — are well grounded, though the practice demands honest re-planning when reality diverges from the plan.
- Make Time As A Parent
Put it in the calendar, name it, and keep the appointment.
Schedule and protect special time as a non-negotiable
- Make Time During A Big Change
Treat approaching life changes as scheduled opportunities for habit installation — plan before the transition, not after.
Identify and anticipate upcoming transition windows
- Make Time For My Teenager
Put it in the calendar, name it, and keep the appointment.
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