My Schedule

I followed the steps to get to this weekly schedule (I’ve used Google Calendar for the time being):

I had to shuffle a few things around on the crunch time checklists – I changed one of the finish times by 15 minutes for example.  It has been a good exercise for me to really show what I’m already committed to each week in this way – I tend to say “yes” to everything and assume I’ll have loads of time to do it, which it appears I don’t.  It’s been really good to think about my working hours too – being self-employed I tend to work somehow too hard and simultaneously not enough and I’ve thought for a while that actually setting out my working hours would make me focus a bit better.

My Day 1

Well, this is all a bit of an experiment, but I’m looking forward to giving it a go. There are so many things I need to get done in my life, but it’s taken a while to realise that for a lot of the tedious chores there’s a good way to motivate myself by turning it all into a massive game. And once the dull to-dos are sorted, hopefully I’ll have the time and energy left over to really get on with the important stuff my life’s about. Which is currently my lovely family and my businesses.

So, to the day 1 mission – I generally function pretty well on about six hours’ sleep and I want to be getting up around 6am to get a bit of a head start on the sprogs, so my bedtime is going to be midnight. Meaning lights out at 2345 and screens off at 2330. I managed to hit my evening targets last night, but did the rather stupid thing of deciding I would just lie in bed for a couple of extra minutes when my alarm went off this morning. Luckily, Freddie came in six minutes later, so I didn’t end up too behind. Anyway, after that it was a nice start to the day, with plenty of time to get organised properly, eat breakfast and get all the kids ready in plenty of time for the school run. I even had time to get the house pretty tidy and some laundry on. So far so good…