What gets on the calendar, more often than not, gets done.
What does your ideal week look like?
Michael Hyatt argues that we should at least have an ideal week in mind. (I also like his idea of themes and focal points for each day.)
For a long time I avoided planning an ideal week because an ideal week never happens. I now realize it was mostly an excuse.
The point of designing an ideal week is so that you have something to shoot for–and so your email inbox or the next “urgent crisis” does not run the show.
Think of your life like a beautiful screenplay for a movie. On the one hand, we know that some of the best parts of movies were never written in the original script. On the other hand, few movies even get to production and distribution without a full script.
Ad lib. Be spontaneous. Carpe diem. But write the script.