How to do Weekly Planning that Actually Meets Your Goals?

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Every now and then most of us struggle with managing time properly and end up with the loss of time waste. Sometimes our long-term goals seem to be unreachable and we try to focus on different methods without realizing if they will be feasible or not. Here I am sharing some personal tips to manage tasks with efficiency while breaking down our larger goals into small chunks such as weekly and daily goals.

1 – Start with a weekly planner: Start using it if you’re not already using it. Choose a planner template wisely and don’t go for a planner that everybody is using, instead choose a planner that suits your nature of work. One shoe doesn’t fit all. Maybe, the template I am using, might not be suitable for you. My recommendation is to look for some free planner templates and figure out what works best for you.

2 – Keep a monthly calendar by side: By doing so, you will have a glance at upcoming occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, meetings, holidays. That way you can always write down what occasion is coming in that week and the other week. Once you do this, you are aware that how much you are going to engage with certain activities on a particular day and whether you can allocate that time to other activities or not.

3 – Planner must be catching your eyes frequently: Out of sight, out of mind, you must have heard about. So the planner must be visible all the time, at your frequent visiting places like office desk, almirah, home wall, kitchen, etc. It’s so much easier when your planner is open to the current week and schedule things properly.

4 – A notes section is a must: Always use the notes section as a wise idea and use them properly. I would say 3 to 5 tasks in a day are more than enough. Start with the important and harder tasks first and come down to the easiest one, in that case, if you miss the less important tasks, you can allocate them to the next day or week.

5- Fix a Planning time: Your day should start planning for the day that makes it so much easier to keep things organize and not wasting time during the daytime. Do the same thing for weekly planning and prefer to choose weekends. You can even set a reminder on your phone to open your planner every single day once you are in the habit, you will see how productive you are and you will create a routine around it. Do it for your day and for your week.

6 – Keep Your planner simple: This is important though it doesn’t look like, I would recommend keeping your planner simple and to the point, while doing so your focus will on the things that matters to you rather than decorating your planners with flashy stickers and over coloring, that will only distract you from your goals and you will end up looking for other sources.

 Summarise: Select the planner that fits your needs, use the planning sections like to-do-list, notes, reminders effectively. Focus on what’s most important for you not how your planner looks like.