Your task for Day 23 of the 28 Days of Abundant Practice Challenge is to plan your day.
This is a daily task that you do either the day before, or, the morning of the day you’re planning for. Keep reading for insights on how you can better plan your day.
Aside from being good practice for ambitious mothers, there are three main reasons why we drill down from five years to the day we’re planning for. We need to be constantly reminded of the things we:
a) want to do (our dreams, goals and aspirations)
b) should do but might procrastinate over (financial health checks, business plans, going to the gym, etc)
c) need to prepare for, eg birthdays, school holidays, etc
If we’re not constantly reminded of the things we want/should do and need to prepare for, we either don’t work towards or don’t appreciate the good stuff. We procrastinate for longer periods of time. We end up only doing the things we have to do. This is called living a half-life.
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I can’t stress enough how important it is for you to fill your life with things you enjoy doing.
This is where planning fails time and time again. If we’re reminded of the things we really want to do, we’re more likely to do them than say “Oh I’d love to [what ever you’d really like to do] but I just don’t have the time”.
So, with that said, let’s talk about the contents of your daily list and how you plan your day.
- Add your regular work/dental/doctor’s appointments/ to your electronic calendar. Set notifications to remind you of your appointments in a timely fashion
- Any items from your weekly plan that belong on that day need to be added
- Add the tasks you want to tick off as you work through your day to their appropriate time blocks
- Tick as you go along
- Whatever you don’t finish that day is moved to the next day or to the next time block
Here’s an example of a planned day, based on yesterday’s planning task.
- Check through meeting tasks for tomorrow’s meeting
- Investigate online software to see if it will be a suitable tool to use for our staff holidays
- Upload annual leave starting point to software
- Lunch/go for a walk
- Check and respond to emails
- Scheduling
- Collect little one from school
- Cook Mediterranean baked sweet potatoes for dinner
- Help little one with learning the time
I typically wouldn’t add anything more to my list than this, but I tend to work with an iPad and Apple pencil throughout the day so that I can make a note of my progress. So from the above example, I might create a spreadsheet of HR software pros and cons to help me work out which one I liked. I’d also make notes about the one I liked most, while I input the HR information.
Is this how you plan out your day? Do you do this at all? Do you keep your notes in your head? However you manage, put your comments below.
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