Is daily planning irritating you to no end? Is there a way to sidestep this exhaustion when planning?
You’ve probably heard it time and time again: plan your day in advance, you’ll save time in execution and you won’t have the struggle of constantly asking “what should I be doing right now?”
That’s all well and good. The problem is we automatically assume it’s simply sitting down and jotting down a list of tasks. We forget that other factors will appear and sap our patience more than the planning itself.
However there are ways to avoid these factors. Planning is still an involved task, but there is no excuse to make it harder than it is.
Let’s dive in to figure out how to remove these issues that make planning a chore.
Do you know the true origin of Chicago’s nickname “The Windy City”?
The immediate answer would be the weather of course. But this isn’t the case. Instead, it has to do with the people of the city!
Journalists in the 19th-century coined the term by referring to the Chicago residents as “windbags” and “full of hot air.”
This ties nicely with what we’re going to cover today which is daily planning. And why we find it so tedious to plan the day. We often think it’s due to the size of the tasks we are tackling or because of something that has to do with the plan itself.
But this is just like the The Windy City story.
We make assumptions and think the name originated from weather. We just take it information as we receive it. These assumptions can wrongly direct us and limit progress. If we assume the process of planning itself is exhausting we won’t investigate how to make it better.
It could be something right on the periphery that has its hand in mucking things up. It’s not the planning itself. It’s about the other factors.
What are these factors?
The three things we’re going to cover on daily planning are:
The time you choose to plan your day.
How much time you spend planning.
And finally, the selection of tasks.