📅 How do you manage your calendar? Do you schedule work first or leisure activities first?

Question

I read Neil's A. Fiore book: The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play and one of the tools that I found very useful is the Unschedule method. Instead of scheduling in the calendar the things you procrastinate (work - e.g., tasks, projects, etc), you first schedule the fixed commitments (e.g., sleep, meals, showering, etc), guilt-free play (hobbies, reading, recreation, meeting your friends), self-care activities (e.g., exercise, meditation), including at least one hour of play a day and one full day off per week. Before reading his book I was scheduling work only in my calendar, now I experimenting with Neil's method and add the leisure activities first. Was wondering how do you doi it? Do you schedule work first or leisure activities first?

Fabian Maume · Accepted Answer

I'm scheduling longest activities first (independently of it being for leisure of work).
I have special tag in my backlog for tasks taking less than 1 hour, so I can pick from this backlog if I have only few minutes left before a meeting.

Vahid A.Nezhad · Answer

You can regain control over your time by following these most recommended tips for calendar management:

- When you manage and direct time before it is spent, it is much easier to focus on what matters.
- Work in time blocks, It is helpful to understand how much time tasks actually take and only schedule that amount of time to complete them — no more, no less.
- Schedule time with yourself and don't let others interrupt or book a meeting with yourself.
- Let AI do the hard work fir you, AI can determine how much time you spends on repetitive tasks over time and recommend how much time to block off for them.
- Create reminders, they are mini assistants that keep busy people on track and focused on the right things throughout the day.
- Change default reminder time in google calendar, 10 min is not enough.
- Receive daily agenda email in google calendar.
- Use multiple time zones feature in google calendar for remote team cross the world.

Read More Here: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/pplskill/issues/pplskill-6-calendar-tip-700357

morgo port · Answer

Hello. I love to keep a calendar and usually I write down just important dates there so that I don’t forget them. I can also advise you a very good site where there are many good calendars for printing. I always take calendars from here, so I think you will like this site too https://printablecalendar.net/

Vio Vanica · Answer

@vahida9i thank you Vahid for sharing this with me!

Vio Vanica · Answer

@robiul_haque thank you Robiul for sharing with me your planning!

Vio Vanica · Answer

@fabian_maume do you constantly process the backlog list?

📅 How do you manage your calendar? Do you schedule work first or leisure activities first?

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