The Schedule - initial concepts

The summary of creating an effective scheduling system begins with the following concepts, each of which deserve much more column space on their own (and which shall be forth-coming).

1. What are MY PRIORITIES?
My Roles and Goals (more on these at a later date)
Example, me as: entrepreneur/business person, friend and family member, healthy woman, community member, partner (in the love department), writer.

The extension of this is when you look at your schedule and you see items that don’t support your priorities, ask yourself, why am I doing this? Don’t have a good answer? Communicate to the appropriate persons and disengage.

2. What else should get done to keep my needs met? (my needs mostly include the physical worldly things like having a well stocked fridge and my surroundings being neat and clean)
Example, house cleaning, shopping, bookkeeping, laundry

Next step on this one: Can these be delegated? more effectively arranged?

3. Making entries in your calendar often requires retraining in the Realistic Department. Meaning, in both planning and ‘put-out-fires’ mode, we tend to schedule about 20 hours worth of stuff into a 10 hour day. What percentage of your time do you want apportioned to your Roles and Goals? Look at each individually and be Realistic.