How do you do your calender for 2010?
Somebody (a fellow independant coach) asked me this recently and here is my reply:
My partner (ie. Husband) and I plan our vacations first in the calender. The big trips with planes required get booked, the ski touring gets booked and the rest is mapped out for the year.
Technically, this means we pay the booked trips, and put all (the booked and the mapped/tentataive stuff) of this in Outlook, which synchs with my phone so I have the updated version always with me. We also write it on our master calender in the hall (near the fixed phone line) where we both put all our commitments.
Then.... I fill in the inbetween sections with work. Sometimes that means a little juggling happens (a great workshop opportunitiy happens just when we should be hiking) so we find a solution that allows us to do both things.
These work sessions (even the 1 hour coachings and teleconferences) get noted also on the wall calender... (if anybody has found a lovely big calender that goes by month that has big boxes for writing all our commitments in, I would be a taker!).
This way... we live our priorities... First - vacation (after health of course), Second -Work.
We are now trying to make Mondays our "office day" - paying bills, teleconferences, filing, other admin etc.. but that is not working so well yet... might need to go back to the drawing board on that one :-).
Successful Time management is a contant work in progress!
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