A Weekly Planning session gives you a broader perspective of what you need to get done. It also gives you more flexibility to get the right things done. It's often more essential than a daily to-do list or a daily action plan.
In this episode, you'll learn about why weekly planning works, and how it creates more clarity, control, focus and flow:
Clarity: Weekly planning reduces overwhelm and makes space for your best work with greater ease. It gives you more direction in how you will move forward on your high-level projects, while taking care of routine tasks and obligations to others.
The Five Projects Rule
The four blocks to plan your days in each week: focus blocks, social blocks, admin blocks and recovery blocks
Control: Weekly planning reduces stress and feelings of defeat because it puts you in control of the next 7 days. It not only gives you more flexibility, but also allows you to be more spontaneous. You have a whole week, not just a day to accomplish key tasks.
The Eisenhower Matrix or Priority Matrix: important and urgent; important and not urgent; urgent and not important; not important and not urgent
Do, defer (schedule), delegate, drop
Focus: Weekly planning gives you more freedom to focus. It makes daily planning easier because you can add, delete, and check tasks off as you move through the week. It puts you in proactive mode instead of just react to what comes up in the day or what’s coming up the next day.
Triage your calendar and task list
Use weekly to-do list instead of a daily one
Flow: Weekly planning produces more flow, which is the optimal experience in which you’re so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter. It's a key ingredient of a meaningful and happy life.
Synch with your natural rhythm
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Cheers,
Dyan Williams
Check out the book: The Incrementalist, A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps
Visit website: www.dyanwilliams.com
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