An active high performance life requires you to stay organized, plan your days and weeks and years, and not drop any balls or let people down.
Let me tell you how I do it. I use a planner book. The one I use is the Jim Rohn One Year Success Planner. (You can get one on Amazon.)
I can hear some of you young whipper snappers now – “Paper and pen? OMG. So old school!”
Ok, maybe, but you have to find something that works for you. This works for me – really well. It is also a big part of my liberation from screens.
It’s simple. I can plan my year, my weeks, and my days. I use the boxes at the bottom of each page to write in calls I have to make. If it’s a hard appointment I write it in and draw a rectangle around it. I put stuff to do first thing at the top of a day (column) and afternoon stuff toward the bottom. When I complete something I highlight it with a yellow highlighter. Of course, I use different color ink when I write things in to separate on thing from another with color.
The only downside is if I lose my journal I am in a bit of trouble. But I do not get a constant barrage of notifications and reminders about things I wrote in, and I don’t need or want them because I have the habit of carrying my planner home and back to work all the time and following it. It works for me. I will continue it. I solved this challenge long ago. I love it.
I know there are many ways to stay organized and some have benefits. Which one you choose is not the point. That you have a system that works for you is.
What is your time planning system?
Totally old school. Love it. Have large calendar in our office that has all of our apoointments and reminders on it. My wife and I write everything on it that needs to get done. Easy to see and follow. And wven though retired, same system we used to run the house while i worked.
Great discussion- I use an electronic notebook- ReMarkable- for my daily and weekly task items as well as meeting notes, etc. It’s easy to set up various folders and best of all there is an online electronic backup if it is lost.
It’s about as close to pen and paper as you can get. Appointments and emails are handled by Outlook.
Paper and colored pens for me also. My calendar is in my pocketbook always. There’s something to be said for old school methods. I don’t like to rely on my phone to organize my life.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Happy New Year! I am with you on writing it down. I found a gem in an audiobook called The Power Of Writing It Down by Allison Fallon.
Love this post! Keeping the “pen to paper” alive. I’m new here, but am loving your insights!
Hi, I noticed that Larry Janesky had said he was grateful for me. Thanks Larry! Happy New Year! Dan
Happy New Year!
Using Siri to add Reminders on my iPhone.