Goal Planning: Tweaking the Weekly Schedule

Nobody's perfect, and as a person who used to dread the idea of a routine, I'm definitely no master at sticking to a schedule. However, I have learned that the warning was true, "the only thing that is constant is change." That being known, I had to accept that the weekly schedule can always be in a state of change but still be successful.

Knowing when to update your schedule is key. A major life change will definitely throw everything off. Not only that, a new task or emergency will have you questioning a schedule all together. And you indeed one, or something will for sure go undone. So once a wrench is thrown in your tight schedule (like the recent obligation to home school

), time to move things around at that moment to keep account and make sure nothing falls behind.

Sometimes you should be removing a task and not adding. We often don't realize how much we have going on on the given week because we don't have time to breathe, much less think. Before you know it, you have gone too many weeks without a manicure or missed a very important appointment. This is an error of poor planning and can happen to anyone that doesn't take time to analyze their current schedule before adding new tasks.

Throwing new tricks into the way you plan can help a lot. Recently, I realized because I had so much going on my daily schedule, I was have a low total completion rate. So I broke my daily task into different must do days, so if everything isn't done everyday, at least no one thing is neglected for longer than a week. For instance on Monday, I must write and on Tuesday I must workout.

It's very important to understand that your schedule as to work for you or else you will not follow it and it will be pointless. If it has to be adjusted it's OK. The most important thing is that you are focusing on the system which you will yield your best result.