Will Your Time-Block Planner Have a Spiral Binding?

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00:00:05.000 | Hi Kel, my name is Taimoor. I am a software engineer by profession and I've been following your books for quite a long time now.

00:00:13.000 | My question is regarding your time block planner. I was wondering if you were to update, you are going to update to a new version with a spiral binding

00:00:26.000 | because I read a lot of reviews on Amazon that the spiral binding would make it even more easy to use.

00:00:35.000 | Do you have more updates coming to your time block planner soon? Please keep me updated. Thank you.

00:00:44.000 | Good question, timely question. So we have a collection of changes that we are preparing for the next generation of time block planners.

00:00:56.000 | Full life flat or significantly improved life flat is part of it. There's some changes I'm doing to the actual configuration of the pages inside the planner.

00:01:05.000 | That's going to give us more days worth of planning without having to actually make the planner much thicker.

00:01:11.000 | There's a few other things too that are on this list I've been working with my publisher on to get ready for the next generation of time block planners.

00:01:18.000 | Here is the main thing that stands between us right now and generation two of the time block planners is that we printed a lot of the first generation.

00:01:30.000 | We printed tens of thousands of copies of this planner. Now we've also sold tens of thousands of copies of the planner so it's good.

00:01:37.000 | We're catching up to the supply, but we can't put out a new generation of the planner until we basically have moved through the first generation that we've already printed.

00:01:49.000 | So what I want to try to tell people who are using a time block planner now, this thing will continually be updated.

00:01:56.000 | The slowest update is going to be this first one because the first printing of anything is going to be the biggest.

00:02:01.000 | After this first printing, printings will probably be smaller so we can get changes into the pipeline quicker.

00:02:07.000 | But you are not investing when you buy this planner, when you start doing time block planning,

00:02:12.000 | you're not investing in the exact version of the planner you receive in the mail as being what you will be using from here on out.

00:02:18.000 | Over time, this planner will evolve based on feedback.

00:02:21.000 | So you're investing in a system. You're investing in an approach to managing your time, not just a physical product.

00:02:27.000 | Because once you fill that one planner, you get another one, and then you get another one.

00:02:31.000 | And then the next one might be different because we're going to continue to evolve.

00:02:34.000 | So I do like to tell people that, you know, every three months you're done with one.

00:02:38.000 | Pretty soon the next one you get might be different.

00:02:41.000 | So this seems very self-serving, but it's true.

00:02:45.000 | The best thing you can do to help introduce or accelerate improvements to the planner is actually to keep using the planner.

00:02:55.000 | So if you're using time block planning, and maybe there's some changes you want to see,

00:03:00.000 | keep using time block planning because if everyone bought one more, we get through six months more,

00:03:06.000 | and everyone's bought two more, that's going to get us all the more quicker to the printing selling out

00:03:10.000 | so we can get the new changes into the pipeline.

00:03:12.000 | So again, I know that sounds really self-serving, but this is the bigger point I want to make is

00:03:16.000 | when you buy the time block planner, it's not the one thing you get.

00:03:20.000 | It is an investment in a new philosophy of scheduling.

00:03:23.000 | And if you don't know what we're talking about, we do have that website, timeblockplanner.com,

00:03:28.000 | which explains what time blocking is.

00:03:30.000 | We have a really nice video there that actually shows the planner in action, etc.

00:03:33.000 | So yes, changes are coming.

00:03:35.000 | After those changes, there'll be more, and after those, there will, I'm sure, be more.

00:03:40.000 | This will continue to evolve.

00:03:41.000 | Keep your feedback on this planner coming to me, and together we are going to make the tools we use

00:03:47.000 | for this really effective mode of time management increasingly polished and increasingly useful.

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