Three ways to review your calendar for maximum productivity

“When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they’re relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life".

David Allen

Key Ideas:

• Review calendar tasks 7 days out
• Review calendar next day’s tasks
• Review calendar today’s tasks

The calendar review is one of the most important productivity behaviors you can adopt. Reviewing your calendar and your agenda ground you into the work that you need to complete allowing you to cultivate clarity on what you need to cover during meetings as well as how to complete important deliverables.

Not all ideas come at once
Not all of our best ideas happen at once. Reviewing your calendar regularly allows you to become more acclimated to the work you have coming up but it also allows you to have moments of insight that improve the quality of work. Insight sometimes takes time.

Calendar review types
There are three types of calendar reviews that you should conduct daily. The first is a review of what you have coming up over the…