The Two-Step Daily Plan That Can Give You Immense Clarity
Prevent second-guessing your plans and make to-do lists more specific.
Do you ever find that tasks take a lot longer than you first imagined? Or do you not finish your to-do lists? If yes, then me too.
I would guess how many things I should do, almost always grossly underestimating how long they would take. This became a problem, as although I knew what I was doing, there was no real structure to my day. I floated my way through the list.
As you get older, you realize the value of planning. Perhaps none more so than your day-to-day life. A to-do list is great, but on its own, it’s not enough. There needs to be another step.
Step 1: Start with a rough time allocation template
Fed up with my lack of guidance, I decided to create a schedule. This would be my template.
I outlined time slots for exercise, writing articles, lunch, emails, and a dog walk. All of which had layby periods of about half an hour, just in case something went on longer than intended.
This was a marked change from before. I’ve experimented with having two days a week purely dedicated to writing articles but always wound up criticizing myself, no…
