Managing My Day...Applying 'High School' Scheduling
Last Update: June 18, 2012
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It is a schedule I used to follow every day (even though that was decades ago.) I was in my Journal a few days ago and came across my 8th grade schedule. I looked it over with an idea that I could use something like this to ensure my most important issues get addressed every day.
This morning began the regimen. No, this isn't the first time I've tried to implement something like this here. In fact, I will be drawing from the older attempts and making my system even better.
As I work things out and am successful with them, I will be writing about it and creating specific New Resources on different variations of the model. Some of my research comes from Mark Joyner and his Simpleology methods.
This new attempt will be replete with plenty of opportunities to move forward with my most important campaigns, draw from the training resources here and in other programs for self-empowerment.
The regimen will even include a menu (dietary) and exercise (my chosen is Pilates, which is something like Yoga. I've balanced my day with the exercise and some periods of manual work.
My main block of agenda is as long as a regular school day, five days a week. Each day has seven periods which, for a change of scenery, alternate in a repeat pattern (six possibilities) rotating morning periods around, fifth period being stationary, and the last two alternating in the afternoons.
Right now I'm in the Creative Writing part of the morning...a special time reserved for whatever writing needs to be done...outside of the regular spans of time.
My system will have a backup plan which I have not yet created. This will ensure 'rainy days' will not foil plans. I am working on a tracking system and each thing will be planned out tentatively just like a teacher plans out his/her curriculum. It's all play-by-ear right now until I can set these things in stone.
The periods are already planned out now and include a "study" slot which can be used for the completion of anything not yet completed for that day. The study time can be used for anything related...such as getting books, etc from the library, reading, writing, doing anything that can make the day go smoother.
Evenings are left unscheduled. There are regular-scheduled things (WABinar for example) This is also the time for socializing, visiting, taking care of regular chores, doing "homework" and more. The idea behind routinization is NOT to make things rigid, but to get things done.
This is a lesson that employers and schools teach us. There is nothing 'dated' about having a routine...and I find it is that much more important for folks who desire to run businesses. This idea should be divorced from one's thinking that, because it's part of old-school systems, it is an old-fashion concept. In spite of what is commonly thought about the super rich...they do have...and insist on routines. They can be boring, but they get the job done.
It is yet another attempt at this...but each time it gets a bit better and more improved. Habits are not always easy to change, but it can be done with just about anything if the doit-power is there.
Hope this helps!
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Shawn Martin
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I do believe most self employed people who fail start without a plan or routine. Sounds like you have it covered, good luck.
Daniel Euergetes
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It's one of those seemingly-insignificant things in life. Most people just don't understand the power of writing things down. At a time in the late 1980s I had racked up a debt of about two- or three-thousand dollars and thought I was buried in debt! Albeit, I got within $100 of completely paying it off...and things began to snowball again (from which I had never recovered.)
Today, I owe enough to buy a small house with...which has been one of the issues that eventually got me here. How I paid that down like that came from creating a crude payment schedule (from a typewriter, of all things.)
What happened? I simply stopped short of my goal back then. The last time I was ever debt-free was 1978. Being over $1000 in debt back then caused me no end of worry. It has been almost solid suffering since.
This is actually my third attempt at fixing this issue with such strategies.
If I even reach being debt-free again, is a huge achievement for me...even if I do wind up on my deathbed broke but not owing anyone. Just owing in consumer debt is enough to incarcerate anyone and get the key thrown away. After this, people seem to accept that this is life and that's normal and most never bother.
Very fortunate for me I learned these lessons early on, though it hasn't been until recent years that all these new opportunities appeared out of nowhere. I will have to be dying from hunger before I would return to employment on a permanent bases again.
Today, I owe enough to buy a small house with...which has been one of the issues that eventually got me here. How I paid that down like that came from creating a crude payment schedule (from a typewriter, of all things.)
What happened? I simply stopped short of my goal back then. The last time I was ever debt-free was 1978. Being over $1000 in debt back then caused me no end of worry. It has been almost solid suffering since.
This is actually my third attempt at fixing this issue with such strategies.
If I even reach being debt-free again, is a huge achievement for me...even if I do wind up on my deathbed broke but not owing anyone. Just owing in consumer debt is enough to incarcerate anyone and get the key thrown away. After this, people seem to accept that this is life and that's normal and most never bother.
Very fortunate for me I learned these lessons early on, though it hasn't been until recent years that all these new opportunities appeared out of nowhere. I will have to be dying from hunger before I would return to employment on a permanent bases again.
Daniel Euergetes
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Being a huge problem in my own life, especially after spending most of my earlier life in semi isolation in the forests of Maine and Massachusetts, I still have many of those attributes with me today. Albeit, my travels have been very unique and unlike that of an average American. I generally do not watch television nor do get any signals. I have had all those years not given to do with the cold-hearted orb.
I use television more for education than entertainment...where my vast music archive comes in. Right now, I'm listening to a song from the late 1920s or early 1930s. When studying, I sometimes have baroque music on softly. In the afternoon, during the time I designate for artwork, can be whatever helps me be more creative. Evening times...constructive entertainment, documentaries, webinars, bible study, socialization, email, special projects and hobbies.
No matter how you cut it, I fill my days, but I'm wanting to optimize them and begin making a living from my camper and not having to rely on someone else's routine to run.
My objective is to try to balance my life and everything has a home. I always looked at routinization as a matter of rigid business policies (some are) but when your own interests are routinized, well, a routine takes on a whole new meaning. It goes without saying that changing the personage I was associating with was probably the smartest thing I ever did in life...as I eventually found places like WA.
I use television more for education than entertainment...where my vast music archive comes in. Right now, I'm listening to a song from the late 1920s or early 1930s. When studying, I sometimes have baroque music on softly. In the afternoon, during the time I designate for artwork, can be whatever helps me be more creative. Evening times...constructive entertainment, documentaries, webinars, bible study, socialization, email, special projects and hobbies.
No matter how you cut it, I fill my days, but I'm wanting to optimize them and begin making a living from my camper and not having to rely on someone else's routine to run.
My objective is to try to balance my life and everything has a home. I always looked at routinization as a matter of rigid business policies (some are) but when your own interests are routinized, well, a routine takes on a whole new meaning. It goes without saying that changing the personage I was associating with was probably the smartest thing I ever did in life...as I eventually found places like WA.
Daniel Euergetes
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This is what makes classroom-sized 'periods' gets the best out of you before you do become drained. Many sources indicate that much more than 45 minutes on anything begins to drop off.
This is why I chose an six-hour (seven-period) day for the most important campaigns and other vital things. I left one period each day for exercise and another to break the grid and do some physical labor of some sort to add variety. Note also, that I planned out my day with patterned sequences for each day.
This too, helps cut the monotony. Each of my 45 minute slots are within its own hour. This give time to get up, move around, take care of things needing attention for a few minutes in between.
This extra time can also be used as an extension for the project, if needed. We know how to eat an elephant if we can be patient and take small bites. There is enough of the day to expound on most anything and definitely the opportunity to get at least something done each day on the project.
My system is not rigid. It will ultimately be designed for people who work in day jobs (smaller versions of the system, of course, to work around jobs.)
The items I put here in WA may not directly entail Internet marketing, but does entail indirectly. What you do with your time dictates what you get done in WA and campaigns.
Those who take the time to plan everything out now have a treasure map whilst most others spend their time searching and spinning. I have been working on implementing a system that works for me...and I bring my ideas here.
Use any schedule from a school or college. Though early school was rigid, it needs not be. Always be sure the schedules you set up are perfectly attuned to your life optimized, alter it as needed, but don't make it too "lean" for what you can handle nor make it too cumbersome, but be sure to mete and carry out tasks each day and you will get something done. I have seen this work. Being consistent is the thing.
For the larger projects...create "semesters" if need be, especially for courses. Projects can be things like the 30-30 Article-writing Plan/Challenge. Using the 30-Day Success Club to build campaigns (until you master it) is a great thing to include in your scheduling. Use it on old campaigns to get them in order and updated. I found LOTS of errors in campaigns by running them through that Club!
I also use Simpleology to get ideas into the system. Simpleology is a process for getting things done but it does not include a 'calendar' of sorts. This is where my system comes in. It does interface with Google Calendar...the online day planner.
Scheduling is one thing...keeping that schedule is something else. The first one only requires sensation. The second, discipline. This is where most people shrink.
This is why I chose an six-hour (seven-period) day for the most important campaigns and other vital things. I left one period each day for exercise and another to break the grid and do some physical labor of some sort to add variety. Note also, that I planned out my day with patterned sequences for each day.
This too, helps cut the monotony. Each of my 45 minute slots are within its own hour. This give time to get up, move around, take care of things needing attention for a few minutes in between.
This extra time can also be used as an extension for the project, if needed. We know how to eat an elephant if we can be patient and take small bites. There is enough of the day to expound on most anything and definitely the opportunity to get at least something done each day on the project.
My system is not rigid. It will ultimately be designed for people who work in day jobs (smaller versions of the system, of course, to work around jobs.)
The items I put here in WA may not directly entail Internet marketing, but does entail indirectly. What you do with your time dictates what you get done in WA and campaigns.
Those who take the time to plan everything out now have a treasure map whilst most others spend their time searching and spinning. I have been working on implementing a system that works for me...and I bring my ideas here.
Use any schedule from a school or college. Though early school was rigid, it needs not be. Always be sure the schedules you set up are perfectly attuned to your life optimized, alter it as needed, but don't make it too "lean" for what you can handle nor make it too cumbersome, but be sure to mete and carry out tasks each day and you will get something done. I have seen this work. Being consistent is the thing.
For the larger projects...create "semesters" if need be, especially for courses. Projects can be things like the 30-30 Article-writing Plan/Challenge. Using the 30-Day Success Club to build campaigns (until you master it) is a great thing to include in your scheduling. Use it on old campaigns to get them in order and updated. I found LOTS of errors in campaigns by running them through that Club!
I also use Simpleology to get ideas into the system. Simpleology is a process for getting things done but it does not include a 'calendar' of sorts. This is where my system comes in. It does interface with Google Calendar...the online day planner.
Scheduling is one thing...keeping that schedule is something else. The first one only requires sensation. The second, discipline. This is where most people shrink.
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