What Gets Scheduled Gets Done

So what I'm going to share today is a system for getting things done.

And it's so simple.

Really, it is so simple, but it's so often overlooked.

And what I've learned is it's not hard at all.

It doesn't require you to buy a single thing.

It really only requires you to have clarity about what it is that you value or what it is that you want to prioritize and some type of calendar, which could be iCal on a Mac.

It could be Google Calendar.

It could be a paper planner, a wall calendar, whatever system you use, but one central calendar system.

And the essence of what we're gonna talk about today is that it's not enough to know what to do.

You really need to know when you're going to do it for it to be effective, okay? So the problem we're trying to solve here, again, is things falling off the radar, things you mean to do, things you want to do.

So the whole process starts, step one, is getting crystal clear about what you want to get done.

And I would encourage you to think about both work things, whatever work looks like for you, your actual job that you get paid to do, tasks involved in running your household, volunteer work, you know, the work that you have to get done, sort of the have to do's.

And then also things you want to do, the fun things, the things that make life, you know, interesting and delightful, I want you to think about a list that would encompass both of those and get very clear about what the things are that you want to create time and space for.

Let's talk about a couple of examples.

One of the things that I schedule is date night, having a regular time on the calendar so that it just doesn't get away from me.

You might schedule girls' nights, times with one group of girlfriends that you're together with all the time, or maybe even different circles.

There could be a book club group or a Bible study group or a group that you volunteer with or a group that you drink wine with, whatever it is.

You might want to schedule one-on-one time.

with each child.

This is one that a lot of women who I coach adopt, that if we have multiple children, it's really easy to do things as a family.

We tend to veer in that direction.

And what is sometimes really powerful is spending one-on-one time with each child, which is harder to do if we don't have a plan for it, right? Another example of something you might want to use the system for would be self-care or health care appointments.

And I do separate those two.

Going to the dentist is at the lowest level of self-care, right? It's health care.

It's mandatory.