183. Time Management Series #4: How to Schedule your Week (Essentials)
Last week we filled our physical and soft copy calendars for 2022 with specific periodic life items. This week, we look at scheduling our calendars one week at a time. Suggestions: 1. Block off important weekly essentials in your calendar and do that on a monthly basis, i.e. block your January schedules in December prior to the month 2. Some essentials you want to block off is to ensure the important things in your life is blocked off in advance and will not be hi
182. Time Management Series #3: Specific Periodic Items
Last week we filled our physical and soft copy calendars for 2022 with general annual items. This week, we want to continue our calendar filling exercises. Let us fill up the following in the physical calendar for 2022 (actual items in your household): (You may need to take some time to look at your documentation to fill up these items, so take a few days to do this, it’ll be a bit unnatural at first, but it gets better as you practice, and it’ll save you a lot of hassle in t
181. Time Management Series #2: General Items
Last week we would have bought our physical calendars for 2022 already and gotten ready to use the calendar software. Before we begin, I would like to suggest you get different highlighters to make your calendars more colourful, one colour for each major item in your calendar, for e.g.: 1. Red for Public Holidays 2. Yellow for Birthdays 3. Green for Personal Items 4. Blue for Work Items 5. Orange for Family Items 6. Etc This week, we want t
180. Time Management Series #1: Available Tools
Background For the past decade or two, I have been using physical calendars annually to manage my general time schedules. Over the past 15 years or so, I gradually integrated that physical calendar with my office calendar software in order to build a better system in arranging and managing my schedule. Over the past 18 months, I found that this practice of mine became oh so useful. During the Movement Control Orders (MCO) when we have to Work From Home (WFH) and integrate wor
