create and stick with a daily schedule

Back on track with this goal – I really do find that keeping the lists that I keep reassures me that all my to-dos are in one place, and that I can allocate my time better when I use it. Of course using it sometimes gets tedious, or can feel like overkill, but generally I like it.

I have gone through so many different ways of scheduling my day, and of breaking out of that schedule, and then losing my way, that it is getting crazy.

The most current way I have that had been working recently was to have a master-list of things to do in Excel, seperated into Work, Home and Mixed. ie. Stuff I can only do in work, only at home, or both.

I would then schedule my day with the amount of time I have spread between urgent tasks, then random tasks from the two relevant lists. I would then track the time I actually spent and add more tasks if able, or remove some that I no longer have time for.

Extremely sad maybe, but hey it worked for me.