In today’s episode, I plan the week on-air! Well, it’s a bit of a reenactment (mostly because I needed a quiet house to record), but I do go through all the steps and there are visual aids – see below!
Steps in my weekly planning process:
- Looking back – reflection & review (including migration/review of any prior undone tasks, plus a look at the monthly list)
- Looking ahead – upcoming calendar integration
- Look around – ensure inboxes are up to date enough & check sneaky sources
- Look within – mood and energy assessment
- Generate weekly task list and record
- Add weekly ops that feel necessary (plus: FUN AUDIT)
- Remember the upcoming weekend – think it through
- Plan for communication
Visuals (though I think I actually added 2 tasks after I took this pic!)
(Plus everyone with a phone gets a photo of it sent via text)
Episode mentioned where I cleared my email on air: here.
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For some reason, my eye caught on the airboat ride field trip, and it made me think that next year you and Laura need to add that to your agenda if she’s never been on one 🙂
to be fair I’ve never been on one either unless you count the fake one at the fort lauderdale museum of science 🙂
I’m curious… do you color code your slotted tasks or is that just a monthly color theme?
I don’t color code my tasks (i do tend to group by color when i’m creating a list of monthly goals, but i generally just write tasks in black pen!)
and yes – on my daily spread i tend to just use one color scheme per month 🙂
I really like this type of podcast – the concreteness of it really helps the methodology gel for me! Thanks for being willing to share!
I’m late to this but just wanted to add that I too loved this episode and the email inbox clearing episode! It is nice to hear your thought process as you go through it and it solidifies some things for me.
that’s so great to hear – I’ve now had requests for the season / day / month so more of these coming your way 🙂