Learn how to manage your calendar not just for maximum efficiency, but also for maximizing your energy levels and ultimately increasing productivity. Eliminate unnecessary decisions and tasks to focus on what truly matters.
The calendar is a powerful tool for ensuring that important activities, such as spending time with family, are prioritized and make it into your busy schedule. Just as you schedule work trips and meetings, scheduling time for your personal life can help make those activities a priority.
Scheduling family time and self-care practices is important to avoid overbooking and prioritize recovery time. It also allows us to hold ourselves accountable for prioritizing those activities.
The speaker explains the importance of evaluating how one spends their time and learning from past mistakes to improve future outcomes, citing the example of the Air Force and their post-mission evaluations.
The key to better time management is to observe and track how we spend our time by marking our calendar hour by hour every day for at least one or two weeks, noting if we feel energized or not after each activity, and identifying patterns to make changes that boost our productivity and wellbeing.