Bit #2 – Weekly Planning Meetings
Hold a weekly planning meeting with yourself each week (preferably early in the week, like Sunday night or Monday morning) to help you plan your time. If you do not plan your time, your time will disappear, and you will not know where the week went.
How to plan…
- Look at your week and first block off the items that are not flexible (e.g., class times, meetings, etc.). You can make these recurring if you have an electronic calendar, so you do not have to think about them each week.
- With the time left, block off at least 20 minutes for writing each day (be specific, do not just say you will write, what are you going to work on – e.g., “finish writing the introduction for the virtual writing manuscript.”
- Block off the other things you need to do (even the fun things). If you often feel guilty about the fun stuff, put it on your calendar, and it becomes part of your plan…no guilt is needed because you made time to do it.
When something is on our calendar, we are more likely to complete the task.
