Organizing your Calendar
- Danielle Reinhardt
- Feb 6
- 3 min read
These are some of the tips that I am using personally to organize my calendar. These are my take aways and what I am using from an online class with one of my mentors Christina the Channel...
The thing is, you have to try things!!!… follow what is working and what feels good.
If there is resistance, it may not be aligned or there is something there for you… but the key thing is, what lights you up!!!!
Creating beauty, surrounding myself with beauty!!!, shopping and exploring and travelling and finding beauty and finding a way to share this!!
Steps:
1. List everything that needs to happen that week down, get it all out
2. Then circle things and batch similar tasks to avoid task switching
Try having Theme days- podcast, vlog, writing,
Group right brain- creative, flowing, inspired
Left Brain tasks- structured, emails, don’t need to be motivated
Trial and feel how your week flows… your energy flows… see if you need to break things up… schedule more downtime etc.
Trial:
Plan your week and days when your most creative and see what days and times work best.
Try daily or see if it works to break up the day!!- remember you may need to switch things up… but follow what feels good.
What are your priorities?(list them)
It is usually not what you think it is... your priority is what you are working towards.
Some of my priorities are;
to have fun
to feel good
Plan breaks and look and design your week, make sure if you have heavy days balance your days, think like the gym, lighter days and give yourself days off!!! Breaks in your day!!
For every task- break it down into smaller task
just keep breaking them down until they become bite size
Then schedule them and give them a due date- work backwards.
Give yourself time to work on it, work towards it!! By breaking everything down into subtasks, with dates you are slowly working towards what you want.
Break down the overwhelm, going through all the processes and steps, this helps you know how to manage yourself and know how long things take you to do!!!
Weekly- write tasks, assign dates.
Prioritize your tasks
Daily- know what the time 3 things that need to get done today!!!
Those are top of the list. This will help you feel more fulfilled at the end of the day!!!
Helpful Tips:
Morning work uninterrupted, waking up and doing work right away, the sooner you jump in if you are avoidant or a procrastinator the more productive you will feel.
Taking calls only at certain times, put them in your calendar. Try scheduling everything and just see how this feels.
No social texts during your work hours, instagram, remove on computer texts and remove notification banners
Bookmark your days. Have things that you love at the beginning and end to signal to your brain and energy what mode you are in. Try going for a walk, reading a book or coffee at the beginning and then maybe go for a longer walk, a work out or something that lets your body know that it is the end of the day!! This is an important step!
Ways I bookmark my day:
* go for a walk
* smoothie
* have a latte
* work out
* journal
Try having things that require a lot of energy at the beginning of the week, then have free time in the middle and end of week- for overflow.
These are tips, the thing is there is no right or wrong, it is just wat works for you and that can change for you. So it is about trying thing, follow what feels good and what works and pivot and shift as needed.
