Marc Haine offers time-management coaching on taking control of your calendar. He argues that scheduling planning time and managing meetings prevents you from feeling like a victim of your own schedule.
You know, when I do this more coaching one-on-one, as I mentioned this, I do believe in it and require it. And I've always done this myself, which is you need to put planning time on your calendar and you need to stop and plan. So stop going through your day automatically, you know, and be more thoughtful about what's bothering you, what you're doing, so that you can— the big thing is to feel control. You know, one of the reasons we get stuck is, you know, that we have abdicated control over our lives. And then we use that, all that negative affirmation language, that victimized language, and we've abdicated control. So if you control your calendar, if you control when people talk to you, if you control your meetings, if you put on planning on your calendar— and these are simple things that, that one of the first tools I work with, with individuals.
