This past weekend I had the luxury of leaving the family to have a weekend alone in my own space. The main purpose was to work on my business, work through a number of business projects I’ve been sitting on. These projects keep getting pushed further down the to do list when faced with the demands of day-to-day business and family.
Lately I’ve had the feeling like a duck treading water trying to get upstream. This weekend enabled me to have the space to one prioritise myself and two create a plan and start actioning it.
Gosh it’s bliss to get to choose when you do activities without worrying about the needs of others.
Going away for a weekend to be able to run your life is a luxury it’s not a daily solution. We have daily demands and other to support, be that family, employees, friends.
There are smaller and simpler options. Today I’m sharing the simple but effective action of schedule creation.
Do you currently have a weekly schedule, outside a work calendar?
If you do currently have a weekly schedule, do you schedule time for you, your workouts (movement), catch ups with friends, lunch (it’s easy to forget to eat)? The activities that are important to you.
I know this sounds boring and simple; however, I’ve noticed that when you’re an someone supports others at work or home, you tend to put everyone else’s needs ahead of your own. Your needs are the first to go in a emergency.
Why don’t we all schedule time for ourselves?
My belief is there’s worry that scheduling this time can be selfish, and it creates too much rigidness (there’s no room for flexibility), instead in your head you a know you want to move your body, but you haven’t fully made the commitment.
What do you think is holding you back from scheduling time for yourself?
I ask you the question do you schedule work meetings, dr appointments, hair appointments? What do you do if you need to shift these appointments?
You reschedule without a thought, right?
So how do you schedule time for yourself, so you can take back control of your life.
Getting all these activities and tasks out of your head, written down will give you more headspace for the important things.
Here’s my steps to creating your own individual weekly schedule.
Scheduling time for you is going to be the first step in you starting to run your life, reclaim time for you, it’s never going to be about finding more time but about allocating the time you have for what matters.
Lastly how your schedule looks what medium you use and what you include are all individual, it needs to work for you.
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