82 - Schedule

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Link to printable Weekly Planner (daylight hours)

Nir’s Timebox Schedule Maker (full day)

Hey, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. This is your life. This is your chance. Listen.

The word for today is schedule. How strict is your daily schedule? Are there any tasks or responsibilities that seem to slip by or sneak up on you? Nir Eyal is a proponent of scheduling every hour block of the day so that you define your priorities up front. If your priority is scrolling through social media for 30 minutes, that’s fine. Write it down on your schedule. When you know what you want to do, it becomes very apparent when you’re distracted from your priorities. Right now, I find myself blown around by the winds of desire for a large part of the day. That’s why I’ve been working on scheduling each hour. It’s not fun work, but it falls in line with previous topics on this podcast, such as limits, intent, and planning.

Today’s concrete challenge is to create a timebox schedule of your day. Go ahead and fill in each hour of your waking day. You can use your phone’s calendar or download and print the one in our show notes, if you have a typical daylight schedule.

If you want to commit, say the following phrase: “I will try planning every hour of at least one full day.”

I’ll keep the music playing while you get it done, and don’t miss the soundtrack at the end of this episode.

Before you go, repeat the following soundtrack, “I am the kind of person who is able to stick to my plans.”

Let me know if this made a difference in your day by leaving a comment in your podcast app or at concrete.win/today.

Check back tomorrow for a new challenge. Until then.

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