Life Organisation

It’s easy to take the day-by-day as it comes blow-by-blow but it doesn’t take long for the cracks to show; especially in stressful situations. This is why it’s important to organise your life and make sure you have flows that make sense and help you to keep track of all your different responsibilities. The last thing you want is people to be unable to depend on you.

Here’s my current tools I use to keep track of everything in my life and ways I help myself get the things done I need to. It’s important to remember in all of this that habits are a marathon that take time and energy to build up and hold to. Don’t be discouraged if this all takes time to implement and figure out how to make it suite you, just take it in manageable chunks.

Weekly Routine

The best place to start is to write out your weekly routine. These are the main chunks of your day, the consistent things you do (or need to), and the ways you use your time.

Here is a template that I use for planning my week:

PDF Copy: Time Blocking - Weekly Routine.pdf

You’ll notice that each day is split into 3 main chunks. You should adjust these chunks to suite the natural divide of your day. A work day (especially), naturally has a morning, afternoon, and then evening. These tend to follow energy, meal, and time based patterns. It’s important to reflect on your energy, motivation, and focus during these parts of the days and plan your time accordingly.

For example; in the morning I want to plan as much deep work as possible because it tends to be a very productive part of my day. In the afternoon I might plan simple admin tasks and checking in on projects or rest while my brain is fried. Then at night, occasionally I get a second wind or I completely crash so I tend to plan social things or hobby activities so I can either choose to rest or work on some personal projects.

Grab the template from above and start punching in your routine. Think about what you ARE currently doing, don’t add anything you’d LIKE to be doing yet. Keep it as true-to-life as possible. The time blocks are intentionally at :30, you are just generally sweeping across your week, not getting caught up in the weeds.

Here’s my true-to-life routine:

AFTER completing this version of the routine now it’s time to think about the habits we would LIKE to have and build them into our week. It’s helpful not to go overboard. Be generous to yourself and give yourself a realistic target. This routine is just a plan, you can revise it once you’ve got it down pat and improve further.

2 Important Considerations:

1. If you’ve got a goal in mind and you don’t give it any time in your week, it’s not happening. Park the goal and or give up some time from something else.
2. Each day should have 1 portion that IS NOT busy/work/hard. If you make too many days 3 stacks, you will suffer, it will likely make it unachievable.

This also means be more productive with your weekend to unburden your weekdays.