Google Calendar

I've been using the phrase polybanderist for a while, and truly, truly both of them require the same skill set.

Good communication and good use of Google Calendar.

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This is fun.

Like anybody who's starting a new fitness journey, anybody really getting or wants to hit a goal is going to feel motivated for X amount of time and then that's going to fade off.

I like to really dive into systems where it's like I identify, for example, a system is like, hey, I use Google Calendar.

Schedule all the workouts and have exact set routine where it's like my morning routine, pre-workout meal.

Then after that, it's like an hour and a half to take my pre-workout drink.

And I say anchor habits because that's something that's, when you pair one habit that you, one thing you're already doing your day, every single day, like brushing your teeth with And then after that, you go do something else, like that's an anchor.

Or if you have dinner, then right after that, you go for a walk, like your dinner's the anchor, right? So once you kind of pair all those anchors, it makes things easier.

And just planning things on Google Calendar, that goes a very long way.

I put Aaron on it, and Aaron, I think you put Hunter on Google Calendar, heard me wrong.

And before having kids, I had a full-time job at BYU teaching English to international students.

I used Google Calendar and It's on my phone, it's on my computer.

It worked great because I was on either one of those all day and I had a lot on my schedule teaching different classes and I could predict what was going on every hour of my life for the most part, you know? And then enter motherhood and COVID at the same time and suddenly I went from a full-time schedule to what do I even do with my life because I stopped working full-time And a baby is a lot of work, but you also have a lot of downtime.

But in weird pockets of time, it's not several hours at once.

And that really helped me to not feel so lost anymore because I love that.

I love planning things out and still.

to this day, like one of my favorite things, even though, yes, things are on my Google calendar.

It's a little more full now that my oldest is five and a half.

The Calendar Conqueror Of course, we can't forget about scheduling.

Google Calendar is a classic for a reason.

It's easy to use, syncs across all your devices, and lets you share your schedule with others.

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You block distracting websites with freedom, ensuring you stay laser-focused on the task at hand.

Evernote captures your brilliant ideas and keeps your notes organized.

Google Calendar reminds you of important deadlines and meetings.

And Habitica gamifies the process, turning your work into a fun and engaging challenge.

So you're gonna put those on your schedule first.

I actually often, I will just go to Claude, I'll take a screenshot of all the girls' softball tournaments and volleyball and all the things, and I'm like, hey, go ahead and put this on my Google Calendar, color code it this, block off the whole day, that needs to be, everything needs to move around that, right.

Or work around that.

So I'm putting my kids stuff on there.

So I did this for a really long time.

I don't do it anymore because I don't need to.

But for a very long time, I scheduled everything down to 15 minutes on Google Calendar.

all of it.

I told myself, "Stop looking for trouble.

Mark has never given you a reason to doubt him." And yet by midweek, I found myself checking his shared Google Calendar when he left his laptop open.

There were blocks of time missing, big empty stretches labeled just Meeting, where until recently he'd scrawled in clients' names and addresses.

I hovered my mouse over one.

I'm, I'm, I'm gonna add that to my Google.

My, my Google Calendar is crazy.

My Google like wants, you know, want to go-tos or whatever.

They will-

But even them, even though they were in the initial stages and they wanted reminders and calendars and so forth, had difficulty.

So say, for example, there was an update either to the app or the phone and the flow changed and suddenly Google Calendar didn't work exactly the same way as it worked yesterday.

That would be a significant challenge because they had to learn new flows.

And of course, another challenge is that the apps are different.