How To Do Your Planning For The Week When Busy

Just because your plate’s full doesn’t mean you can’t organize your peas and carrots.

Corey Fradin
Ascent Publication
Published in
10 min readJan 8, 2020

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Your plate is full and you have a lot going on. You can barely think straight. The last thing you want to do is your planning for the week. But, counterintuitively, that may be the smartest option you have.

Why?

Because planning out your time, especially when feeling overwhelmed or busy, is an easy way to organize and manage your priorities.

Especially with someone like yourself that is incredibly driven.

Someone like you that wants to get the absolute most out of your time and is relentless in pushing yourself to bigger and better things.

Now, the upside to that drive is that your life will be filled with consistent new adventures and opportunities. The downside though is that if you aren’t careful, your desire to do more will turn your once barely filled appetizer plate into an overflowing buffet platter.

The habit persisted

Back in college, I had this weird habit.

I would sit down, place seven sticky notes (aka Post-It Notes) on my desk, and plan out my day for the week on each one.

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