How to plan your week based on your goals.
Hello people!
This week I’m back, as I promised, to share with you guys how I plan my week based on my goals.
Sometime ago I wondered why people plan their week? For the past me looked a lot more simple to plan daily what I needed to do each day, but a lot time it didn't work. I almost always forgot to plan in the night and needed to plan during the day, sometimes it made me feel overwhelmed and with that constant feeling I was never on control.
So planning the week for me become really important, because even when I have a lot of things to do, I know everything already have a home and a time to make it and I didn’t have that anxiety about future things.
Goals
I started to plan my week because of my goals. Most of the time, when we set goals, they look vague and unachievable, but I went to search and I learn a lot of ways that taught me how to set possible and achievable goals. One of the tips was to break the big goals on smaller fractions of things I could make on my daily life, so everyday I could work towards them.
The formula is simple, but it’ll not work if you don’t put effort do make them happen.
So every year, like everyone I set my goals and resolutions, so I divide it on smaller goals to make it look achievable (If you didn’t set goals for this year, it’s never late, make your list now and start to work towards them).
So I chose the Year goal I’m going to work on, divide into all the other categories.
I gave you guys a really simple exemple, but I use this method for almost every goal I have in my life, for the small one and for the big ones.
Dump everything down
After having all your goals organized and ready to put them into your planner, you can see which task you’re going to do on the week. Here you can put everything down, every little thing you want to make this week, put on a piece of paper or on a note on your phone.
Time
Another thing I do is organize the time. For each task I see how much time I need to accomplish it.
After that I see the time I have to make this tasks on the week, so let’s suppose: You work 8 hours each day, sleep 8 hours (we dream about it too!), let’s put more 2 hours of commuting and 3 hours for personal stuff. Like this you have 3 hours in the day you can use for whatever you want, you can use this time for achieving your goals, you even don’t need all of it, maybe 1 hour is already enough. What I’m saying here is analyse your day to see the chunk of free time you have, sometimes we even don’t know we actually have time because we lost it scrolling through social media or doing things that don’t bring us any good.
But let’s work on another scenario too, let’s suppose you actually don’t have this 3 free hours each day, but you still want to work on your goals every week. Sometimes, make it everyday it’s not possible so it’s time to prioritize.
Prioritize.
Oh here we are, the thing you’ll see on every post about time management and planning. Why it’s so important?
When achieving goals, we always want to do everything in one month, we have 5 goals and work on all of them in one month. BUT, we all know that it’s not always possible.
So one thing you can do is choose a goal to work each month or each week, so you can achieve them without burning out or ruining your mental health.
See what’s more important to you and plan it down.
Sooo, after all of this I hope now you know how to plan your week based on your goals and it make them looks more possible. Of course, never forget that not always we’ll be able to do everything we planned and it’s totally okay! We’re all humans and not some type of productive machine, some days all we want is sleep and watch Netflix, you can plan this too if want.
That’s it for today! I hope you have a simple and organized week! Don’t forget to take care of yourself.
