Monitor, Control, and Mitigate Your Day
Posted on October 06, 2014 by Donna Ghanney, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.
Monitoring, controlling and mitigating your day can help you to be more productive at reaching your goals.
Self discipline is not easy! However, take the challenge and overcome by creating a schedule and keeping to it. Order reduces chaos! So spend some time to think about what appointments you already have for the month. You can write them down or add them to a calendar such as in Microsoft Outlook or Google. Using electronic calendars is the best idea as you will receive reminders that will help you to keep on track with making sure your goals established.
Following these Three (3) basic steps to schedule your day will help you to achieve your goals.
Monitor Your Day
Keep track of major and minor obstacles that prevent you from staying on track by recording every appointment and task you perform on a regular basis. Keep track of daily, weekly, and monthly task that you normally perform.
Determine if you can make amendments to reduce time when exploring your current state of lifestyle. Once you have documented either in a manual planner or electronic planner, you can begin to work around they dates you have entered to see what time is available for you to make specific and achievable goals.
Control Your Day
Make a schedule and keep to it. Avoid making changes when you can. Schedule appointments that are made for you and that you make.
Be aware of things that make you inconsistent in your scheduling.
Make sound decisions when approached for appointments.
Keep track of your day electronically or manually in an appointment book or calendar.
Even though you have schedule events one month in advance, it does not hurt to look at the recordings at the end of the week to see if updates may be needed. You should also check the calendar at the beginning of each day before starting task so you do not miss anything. This will help you to avoid chaos and running into conflicts within the days you have already scheduled. Avoidance is always the best practice.
Mitigate Your Day
Before scheduling appointments look at your schedule to make sure you are not conflicting with your quality time.
Consider how you can eliminate or manage obstacles that may prevent you from fulfilling the schedule just as you have aligned it to be along the way.
Determine if there are any major or potential risk with times and dates you schedule.
Write each obstacle down and decide how you can overcome them. Don’t delay.
