Short YouTube clip in which Andy Neary (with a second speaker) gives a productivity tip: always plan the next day the night before. He emphasizes checking Monday–Thursday nights, adapting plans when priorities change, and 'quitting negotiating with your calendar' so the calendar directs your day.
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Never go to bed without planning tomorrow. Tip number three, plan the night before. I already told you the importance of planning your week and the fact you have to have time on the calendar to plan your week before you wake up on Monday morning.
But even if you've got that plan on the calendar the entire week planned.
Out, you still need to take time the night before to look at tomorrow. Never go to bed without planning tomorrow. Things change throughout the week. Priorities change throughout the week. I can't tell you the number of times I've looked at my week.
It looks perfect.
And all of a sudden, Wednesday night.
I'm looking at Thursday.
I'm like, wait. Things got to adjust.
A new priority popped up. Somebody postponed, canceled. We got a new time slot to fill that we could use for effectively.
This is why planning the night before is so important. And by the way, when you spend time the night before planning, you'll go to bed and your brain is already going to start working to make tomorrow successful. But if you wake up in the morning not sure what your plan is.
At the end of the day, you.
Really have no plan at all and your calendar is going to own you. And this is the final piece of the third tip I want to share, which I have leaned into harder to now than I ever have before. And that is quit negotiating with your calendar. If you take the time to plan your weeks, you make sure all of your priorities show up on your calendar every night before you go to bed. Monday through Thursday night, you look at tomorrow, you plan out the data. Make sure you have it locked in.
When you wake up. You only have one job. Follow the plan. Quit negotiating with your calendar.
Quit putting a priority there on Sunday.
And then get to Thursday and be.
Like, eh, I don't really want to do that. When people ask us how we get so much done here at Complete Game Consulting, I tell them our days are.
Planned from start to finish. And I don't judge or negotiate with the calendar. You just wake up and run the schedule. It actually eliminates a lot of the thinking. It takes away a lot of stress because your calendar is already telling you what you got to do today.
