One of the most important things you can do for abundant life is set your priorities. If you don’t decide what’s important to you, the world will decide. So one of the things that can be helpful to do from time to time is set a weekly time block.
Basically what you do, is write out how you spend your time each week to make sure the things that really matter to you are happening. So to start, it’s good to ask yourself a couple of questions:
- Who are the people you want to spend time with? Is your family important, or maybe your friends have become your family.
- What are your Hobbies? How do you have fun? What are the things you enjoy doing, whether for fun or maybe it makes you some money on the side?
- When do you work? Whether or not your like your job, you still have to block out time for it. If you don’t have a consistent work schedule, do some guestimations, the amount of time is probably close to the same each week, even if the exact hours aren’t.
- What are your future goals? Do you want to still be doing the same thing, have progressed, or be livinga totally different life. If you’re not sure what you want to do in 1, 5, or 10 years. Check out the Legacy/Bucket List workbook. You can get this for free by signing up for my newsletter.
- What lets you unwind and recharge? Do you need time with people or time by yourself? Do you like to be easy-going or adventurous. Making a list of things that help you recharge will help you keep from wasting time on deciding when you do have a moment to yourself.
- Who do you want to be in 20 years? What will you have done, learned, or experienced? Self-improvement is a key part of an abundant life. If you want a different result you have to do something different. So what will make you a better version of yourself?
Once you have those lists, it’s time to start plugging in. Now we’re looking at a week view, and some of these priorities maybe once a month. You can either make four weeks, or you can set a block of time that will rotate the priority each week.
I made a free template for you to easily do this. You just have to sign up for my newsletter. The template gives you 17 hours to work with because all of us should be getting around 7 hours of sleep. Start with the highest priorities that you know you have like work, meals, SO, and anything else that is a “have-to” each day/week. Then you can start looking at the rest of your time and how you want to prioritize it.
You may find it gets more difficult as you fill in slots to figure out where to put things that you value but seem to have no time for. It may take you either getting creative with doing things with people or doing things while you travel, or being honest with yourself that something isn’t as important as you think it is.
Another thing to keep in mind is this is a perfect world plan, not reality. But you should try to start moving your calendar closer to what you would like, otherwise your priorities will never be what you want and you’ll never feel in charge of your schedule.
Let me know how it goes in the comments
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