Scheduling time for spontaneity .

by chris on November 20, 2007

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Since last week, I’ve accepted a lot of relatively challenging demands on my time.    I’ve joined toastmasters.org   I’ve been invited to become a regular contributor to Blown Mortgage.  I’ve committed to a posting schedule here that is gonna be challenging, and I’m committed to getting really serious about tracking my performance next week (weight, money, time spent + new jobs).

The big things:

  • Getting Amazingly Fit (#1 Goal).  (50 minutes of working out/day/minimum)
  • My morning routine.
  • Posting here, on TDT and on Blown Mortgage  (2 hours per/6 hours total)
  • Working on a great book. (4 hours)
  • Do some endurance training (Schedule 2008 Cols. Marathon).
  • Weekly GTD review.
  • Toastmasters (a speech roughly 3x monthly)
  • The accountability project.
  • Marketing for TenDayTeam
  • Finishing projects
    • Ten Day Team Ops manual
    • 2004’s taxes
    • Family Constitution
  • Starting up rightrightnow.com  (both the site and me)
  • Prospecting/running the business. (25/fewer hours/week)
  • A date with Heather
  • Hanging out with my family.
  • Coffee with someone else.
  • 3 books a week (Just so I don’t lose any more ground to Scott)
  • Xenos stuff.

This stuff is important to me.  It’s all stuff I want to do, and it’s all stuff that will enhance my life more than other stuff (stuff like mastering DTD, following the Buckeyes, and everything else.  Some of it needs to happen every day, some of it every week, but having a schedule is important.

I’ve over scheduled  myself in the past–having this fragile, unrealistic schedule that I can’t do; having an insane checklist based schedule that gets you killed.  Basically, if I did: 12 hours of prospecting, 10 hours of marketing,  Mike would be able to do all the loans (since he’s superb at it).

I’ll have a schedule written out later on this afternoon–and find some accountability project for it.

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