321: My 5-Step Weekly Planning Meeting 🗓️ (in action - plan with me!)

It is that time of the year where I drop a new how to plan a week episode.

I like to do a little reminder/refresh of this every year right before our new planners drop because my weekly planning method works seamlessly with how our planners are designed, obviously, right? Anyway, back to weekly prep meetings.

So my weekly prep meetings take me around 15 minutes, and it is the best investment of my time because it winds up saving me so much time and energy throughout the week since I already have a game plan and I'm not winging it every single day.

Now, before I tell you the five steps to plan a peacefully productive week, I think it's important for you to do your weekly prep meeting the same day every week so that it becomes a habit, right? I personally do mine on Thursdays in this season because Thursday is my last work day of the week.

So when I sit down in my office at 10 o'clock in the morning to start my work day, it's the first thing that I do.

I pull out my planner, I pull up my Google Calendar, and I spend 10 to 15 minutes planning the following week.

I also want to remind you, say it with me now, our schedules and routines are tools, not chains, okay? The goal here isn't to expect everything to go perfectly according to your plan, but to be as intentional with your time as possible so that you're proud of how you're showing up.

It is so much easier to pivot from a plan than it is to figure everything out from scratch every single day.

So those are the things that I want you to keep in mind before we kind of go into the five steps.

Also, even though I am gonna be showing you these five steps in my planner, the Peacefully Productive Planner, you don't need a Hustle Saintly planner in order to follow this method, okay? Does it make it easier? Yes, absolutely, because it's all laid out in front of you, but you can still follow these five steps even without a Peacefully Productive Planner.

So don't feel like you have to go and buy one of our planners in order to successfully have a weekly planning meeting.

You don't need one.

It makes it easier, but you don't need one.

So let's get into the five steps that I follow for my weekly prep meetings.

And I thought we would mix it up a bit this year.

Instead of me just sitting here and telling you the five steps, I'm gonna tell you each step and then show you exactly how I do it in my planner, okay? Because I know we love a concrete example.

So let's move over to my desk and get to planning, besties.