Have you ever been in a situation where you hear yourself saying, ‘I know I needed to do something today, but I just can’t recall what that is,’ and you sit there rattling your brain trying to remember? I know I have.
Not only do you lose time thinking about it, but you can also lose so much more if what you forget can affect your work — for example, not turning up for an important meeting, forgetting to re-ordering stock, or missing a submission’s due date.
Have you heard the saying “What gets scheduled gets done”?
By scheduling things in your calendar, the likelihood of you completing those items increases.
You can’t always remember everything and why would you need to when you have many tools to do this for you. These days your mobile phone has a calendar. You can set a reminder which can be done in seconds. You can also schedule a task or reminder it in your desktop calendars like Outlook, Google and Icoud.
Some of the reminders will be in the short or long term or recurring.
Be specific when making entries in your calendar, you don’t want to look at an entry you put in your calendar a month ago and not remembering what that meant.
Another tip when scheduling is to COLOUR CODE your entries, so at a glance you can see with ease what you have achieved for the week or month.
An example of colour coding can be:
- Appointments (yellow)
- Administration work (orange)
- Client work (green)
- Calls to make (red)
Scheduling creates order and structure. You will feel a sense of control in your business and will start noticing just how much you can get done in the day.
If you are already scheduling things in your calendar, then that’s great. Maybe see how you can improve on it, for example, add a reminder alert or colour coding.
Embrace SCHEDULING things in and notice how much you GET DONE!
If you are interested in knowing more about managing your workload and increasing productivity, I’d love to hear from you – reach out and get in touch.
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