Planning is first. I have learned (the hard way) that things go smoother and slower if I have more planned out. Or maybe it is if I have to improvise, I know what I am up against. If you are ever feeling burnt out and ready to give up- wheather it is on a specific project, a job or even laundry. Try letting Monday be the start to your week. Take your Monday as your planning day, set up your week, think ahead, save yourself the pain. Then when you have your week planned, you will be see what is imperitive that it gets done this week, start on that! It's Monday, how great will it feel to already have something big and important scratched off as "DONE!"?
There are many books that push that minutes planning can save you hours working. I am up for that! Or course depending on your personal schedule, you can make any day your planning day- and Sunday evenings also work great. However, if I took Sunday night, I found myself sitting in my office thinking way too long and not getting much done, taking away from my family time & not being able to think clearly of what was coming up that week. So, I am taking my Monday and planning.
How to start your plan: First you must write stuff down, get a planner and a pen - or whatever tools work for you. And I would do a mind dump first, this means writting everything down of your TO DOs that you can think of. Personally, I like seperating that down into categories right away. I used a different piece of paper or seperate notepads, for this. I would then go through and highlight either your MUST dos for the week- and be honest MUST dos, not should would like to dos. :)Then do one of these MUSTs- the one that will make the most impact on your week.
Wow, you already have something done this week, it is Monday & you have everything all planned out for the rest of the week. Doesn't that feel great!
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