Lisa Woodruff explains a scheduling system that divides days into three types: focus days for three strategic tasks, buffer days for overflow work, and free days for rest. She recommends planning your first hour after your morning routine and building the habit over 90 days.
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Today class is in session and I am going to once and for all help you with your time management and productivity. I do think the change happens in your mind first and then in your physical reality as far as getting physically organized and decluttered, but when we go to productivity and time management, we're at a whole nother level. Now we are visualizing what it will look like and mentally making the— everything is done mentally now. Everything I talk to you about is done mentally. So what I have done is tried to make it physical in some way. I am so excited. My graphic designer made the most amazing printables for you that go along with this podcast, and you can get them by going to organize365.com/plan. Now I want to talk to you about this idea of focus days Buffer days and free days. And this is an idea I'm hearing from Strategic Coach Dan Sullivan. I've been following him for a couple of months and I'm really intrigued with the messages that he has. He's 72 years old. He's been coaching for, I think, over 40 years. And he has this program called Strategic Coach. And I like how he, he fleshes out days. And I have done this, but I haven't worded it the way that he does. So he has focus days, and those are the days when he works on his work, and he does 3 work-related tasks each day. And because he only does 3 work-related tasks each day and he's a master delegator, his 3 strategic tasks he does each day become bigger and bigger and bigger because he's not doing small tasks. I am saying that purposefully because I want you to realize, as you start to change your mindset to the way that I work, And the way that Dan works, at first you are going to be able to check off the 3 things a day that you wanted to accomplish, but they may be 3 very routine or not big rock activities like getting all the dishes done and the house clean, doing the laundry, and I don't know, enrolling your child in piano classes. He'd be like, great, I do that every day. I could have written that down any day, Lisa, and checked off 3 things. Yeah, that is probably true. But as you keep going through this process with me over the years, you'll realize that those 3 tasks that you do each day will get bigger and bigger and bigger. Just like I told you with the morning, afternoon, and evening routines, only pick one thing. If either A, you are really resistant to this, or B, you are so overwhelmed you have no idea how you would do this, I just want you to plan the first hour of your day. So you have your morning routine, your afternoon routine, and your evening routine, right? I want you to plan that next hour after the morning routine. Morning routine ends at 9. What happens from 9 to 10? Maybe what you need to do is observe what happens from 9 to 10 on most days. We need 90 days of actually doing this and implementing these small changes. Oh, this is going to be the game changer. So you guys are starting to ask me about this product. I'm organized now, Lisa. I'm getting organized. You got me organized. Let's work on productivity. Okay, I hear you. We're working on productivity.
