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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning.
This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to give your weekly planning ritual a rain date.
If you know that your chosen time is at least sometimes taken away from you, figure out when else will work as a backup, so you don't go into the next week not knowing what is going on.
Long-time listeners know that I think that every busy person needs a dedicated weekly planning time.
This is when you think about what is most important over the next 168 hours, what responsibilities you have and any logistics you need to figure out.
By doing this week after week, we can calm the chaos and make time for what matters.
Listeners will also know that I advocate doing this later in the week, looking forward to the next week.
Friday tends to be a good time for many people as it is a slower day.
By the afternoon, many people have limited energy for starting something new.
But you might be willing to think about what future you should be doing.
By turning what might be unproductive time into planning time, you can make these minutes far more useful.
However, I have had a lot of people mention that while sometimes Friday afternoon works, sometimes work has been very busy and Friday afternoon becomes slammed with things that have to happen before everyone leaves for the weekend.
In some cases people truly run out of steam by Friday afternoon.
And as one person put it, sometimes they look at their planner and just think, I don't want to.
If this happens week after week, you need to choose a different time for planning.
Maybe it's something like 7 a.m. on Friday when you are fresh and the emergencies have yet to arise.
Or maybe it's Thursday.
I've started doing my weekly planning on Thursday mornings for this precise reason.
I tend to have more control over this time than sometimes I do on Friday afternoon.
But if your regular time usually works it's just sometimes it doesn't then you need to follow the example of people who plan outdoor events.
Sometimes, if you are invited to an outdoor party, you will see on the invitation that there is a rain date for another time.
The organizers don't know for sure that it is going to rain, but they know that it might.
Rain is not exactly an unforeseen problem in the great outdoors.
So by setting a second backup time for the event, they increase the chances of the event happening, even if not at the time they originally planned.
If your regular weekly planning ritual time sometimes gets taken away from you, then you need to set a rain date for it as well.
Maybe you plan to plan Friday afternoon, but if you see the afternoon is going to be busy, you deliberately do this earlier in the day, Friday or on Thursday because yes, a rain date can be before the original event if you know it is going to rain.
If the rain takes you by surprise, then you might need to do Saturday morning.
This is less ideal.
It's not during business hours.
So it's a little harder to make appointments and reach people if you need to.
And, well, it's your weekend.
I like doing planning during work hours because for the most part, it is work, even if I also plan my personal life simultaneously.
You can always do Sunday afternoon or evening too if you see there's some open time then.
Lots of people already do their weekly planning on Sunday evening.
I think there are some problems with this time, as it doesn't get rid of the Sunday scaries which stem from not knowing what's coming up Monday
But it can work, too.
In any case, planning is important.
I know my weekly planning ritual is how I manage to feel on top of things at least somewhat in my life and how I feel I can keep moving forward toward my goals, even with the complexity that kids and such tend to generate.
Skipping planning for a week would make me feel pretty nervous.
So if time A isn't available, what is time B?
On a recent week, I was running around during my usual Thursday time slot.
But I could see that I had about 30 minutes.
I would be sitting in a coffee shop waiting between meetings.
So I picked that as my rain date planning time.
The planning got done, and the next week went more or less as it should.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
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