Yesterday, I wrote about how simple daily planning can be. Have you read it? If not, go read it. I can wait. Ok, you’re back. Quick quiz: what is the one tool you need in place to do daily planning? You might have said a daily planner. That’s wrong. Remember, the primary product of daily […]
I’ve said before that planning your day is simple, that it shouldn’t take very long (5-10 minutes), and that the primary product is not a plan, but an ordered mind. But what does this process look like? If a plan is a by product, does it matter how you create it? Or what the byproduct […]
Disrupting your life is often necessary. At first, your routines and patterns bring order to the chaos of your life. Because they are new, you do them very consciously. And that consciousness of what you are doing makes it awkward, then competent, then skilled, then automatic. And over time, your automatic routines and patterns, your […]
What is the product of planning? What are you trying to produce? You probably haven’t thought about it. But if you did, you would likely say it is a plan. You plan something to make a plan. But the primary product, the most important artifact, of planning is not the plan. You could burn the […]
Daily planning is ordering your life, in the spiritual realm. It is looking at the potential that exists and choosing a path. You can order your life in other areas as well – the physical, the mental, the social. But the act of setting things in order is always a spiritual act, and will always […]
At first, it doesn’t matter. Later, it does. When I say that it doesn’t matter at first, I mean it. It really doesn’t. You could do it at night, before you go to bed. You could do it in the morning, right after you wake up. You could do it at lunch, or when you […]
In the mid 2000’s, Getting Things Done was the latest fad when it came to finding ways to organize your life and, well, get things done. In many ways, it was a welcome change from the 90’s fad created by 7 Habits. Now, don’t get me wrong. These fads existed because both books were grounded […]
“Stop thinking about your todos, and let the app remember for you” – WRONG! That’s one of the marketing lines for a fairly popular todo app that you could go use. It’s dead wrong. You should be thinking about your todos. You should be considering them, pondering them, diving deeper into them. You should think […]
You probably hear the words “plan my day” and think it’s something involved, detailed, structured, explicit. You likely think of prioritizing tasks. You know, where you go through and figure out which tasks are most important, which are less important, and which are unimportant. Maybe you use a color system, or high/normal/low, or something else. […]
Planning your day, your week, or your life will fail if it’s just a list of lies you’re telling yourself. And there’s a good chance it is. If you haven’t sorted yourself out, and really taken a good, long look at your life, then you are probably lying to yourself about quite a few things. […]