Cal talks about creating a weekly template that holds your default weekly plan for a quarter, in order to help you achieve the plan you set.
- Protect time
- reserve specific times each week (ex. writing in the mornings) for specific work
- Daily themes
- assign a specific type of work or role to a certain day each week (ex. meeting days, teaching days)
- Rules & limits
- Set limits for things that normally encroach on your time (ex. only film 1 podcast per week)
- Autopilot scheduling
- Preschedule recurring tasks and work blocks
Then at the end of each quarter, you reflect on your weekly template:
- What went well? What was effective?
- What frustrated you? What was hard to maintain?
- What do the above say about your preferred work style when it comes to your job? How would you want to adjust your role/job expectations?