When I wrote my post on how I manage my calendar, I told you I always take Sundays off, and that I would be posting about this in more detail this month because I think it’s that important. So, here we are. RELATED: Three Steps to Design Your Schedule The benefits for a day of rest are widely-known, even if the actual resting parts are not widely-practiced. Even God rested on the seventh day. From that, I don’t feel I need to pitch the benefits of resting one day a week. By resting, I don’t mean being lazy. It means abstaining from work and chores and all that jazz. It means focusing on things I enjoy.
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Now that it’s December and we already covered task management, we need to decide how to manage our time. Because guess what? If you have the most organized digital storage system and the most awesome task management system and your calendar is a hot mess, well, then nothing else matters.
Over the years, I’ve tried various approaches to calendar management. I’ve used theme days, time blocking, all kinds. Some of these worked, some of them didn’t. For this post, I hit the Internet to find the best tips and advice for calendar management. There’s no shortage of articles out there with suggestions on managing your calendar, but I wanted to know that my system was going to work for me. I’ve covered my digital filing system and task management system before; both draw from various methods and workflows, and both just work. Why? First, they’re easy and don’t require much thought. As such, neither system impacts my work or takes time to keep up with. Second, every item or task, regardless of what it is or what area of my life it falls under, goes through the same flowchart-of-sorts. |