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Welcome to the Notion Template “Daily Intentionality”, this has been designed over decades of self productivity, data-mining and many many experiments. What I found is that a lot of tooling focuses on the “scientific” approaches to time management and awareness, getting you to think in seconds and minutes but not really focusing on the “WHAT”. Because of this I developed this useful yet simple tooling to make myself accountable and intentional about where I place my focus and time.

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Approach

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  1. When you set out to do something, “Check-in” with the Check-in Block
  2. When you change your focus and aware of it, create another “Check-in”
  3. Reflect on a regular basis your Intentions and set yourself a soft goal
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Here is a short explainer on how I am using the Daily Intentionality in my day-to-day.

As I am having Notion both on Desktop and Mobile, this enables me to be present no matter where I am. Whenever I set a focus, I will do a “Check-in” and give it a timestamp. The timestamp is surely reflecting the hour block in which I am focusing within.

When I change focus, I do another “Check-In” and log it. This really helps me to be intentional with the focus change and something which becomes an event which informs myself that I am switching focus now and that I am accountable for this. This is a really lean and minimal approach to really help bring you more efficiency and productivity in your day.

On a weekly basis, I do a “Review” where I check-in with my week and ask myself “Am I happy with the distribution across all the categories?” I then set myself a goal, “I want to improve X category in the coming week” and I note down how many times this category was logged in the past week, so that I have a benchmark. Of course this is fluid and is juts like life, it’s always about finding the right balance.

Blocks

The below blocks are sync blocks which you can copy and past on any page in your Notion space. This will make using the “Daily Intentions” much easier and will fit into your rhythm.

Check-In

I prefer to have the check-in to be placed on my main “homepage” of Notion as this is where I frequently visit. This is the main entry point to log intentionality. Give it a try!

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