Put items on your calendar that have to be done on a specific day and a time - and stick to it! When you put something on your calendar, you’re promising yourself that you’ll work on that thing (or attend that meeting or workout). Stop using your calendar as a task manager - that's not what it’s designed for. Here are some tips to help you use your calendar as a powerful action-taking tool: I only schedule events (not tasks) on my calendar (there's a difference). Whether you embrace GTD as your productivity methodology or not, the following practices are essential to how I get things done and you’ll still pick up some helpful ideas.ġ️⃣ Scheduling: Using the Calendar for Its Intended Purpose Inside this article, you’ll get to see five critical practices, including how I use Evernote to support me in staying focused and productive year-round.Įvery life and business action I take is rooted in my GTD® (Getting Things Done) practice.
If I want to see constant improvement in every area of my life (which I do), I must carve out time between life and business maintenance and take deliberate action toward my quarterly and annual goals. And everything requires planning and execution. Any new initiative I create calls for new processes. Now, growing a business requires tremendous amounts of creation. Let’s, of course, also remember looking after my well-being with social experiences, exercise, grocery shopping, and meal prep.
On any given day, I'm constantly navigating tasks and projects that maintain my business and lifestyle, things like creating training for the weekly live events I host inside The Academy, responding to emails, keeping my assistant on track, and managing my finances. Like you, my work and life are a balancing act. After all, that's the whole point, right? Getting everything done is where I take those quarterly umbrella plans and make them tactical while attending to my daily work and living life. After winding down each quarter with business reflection and planning, I switch gears into action-taking.
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