Progress! At least there is something tangible to work with in my strive to create a daily routine and keep things from slipping through the cracks. It certainly isn’t perfect yet, and will undoubtedly transform as it gets used.
I went with a single sheet that will represent the entire week. There are several things that should be done EVERY day, but there are other tasks that just have to be completed within that week. One piece of paper keeps it simple, shows what has been accomplished so far – and what hasn’t.
Let’s take a look:
Bare in mind that this is designed by me for me. So this particular sheet will not work for anyone else – BUT you will be able to get some ideas for formulating your own sheet.
At the top are a series of small circles – let’s call them dots – that each represent a task that should be completed X number of times a day. The first is “Tweets” with purple dots. I would like to tweet 8 times a day, everyday. Each time I tweet I check off a dot. The next set of dots is for “FB Posts” and are also purple. I would like to post on my “I’ll Take Success” Facebook page 4 times a day, six days a week. The next set of dots is in green and is for “Calls.” These are my ten daily calls (five days a week) for my Arbonne business. My goal is 50 calls a week, so if I don’t get all ten done in a day – or some days do more – I can just keep checking off those dots.
So the dots work great for checking off any task that requires a quota per day or week, but doesn’t need any specifics recorded. That is, I don’t need to record what I tweeted, just that it got done.
The next part of the sheet is broken into sections. Each section is for a particular segment. Some sections have more dots – for those tasks that are not necessarily daily, but have more of a weekly quota and are pertinent to segment. For instance, the first section pertains to “I’ll Take Success” and concerns this blog. There are six dots, because I’d like to post six times a week. There is space for me to make notes about ideas for posts and also for my weekly newsletter.
I’m still playing around with the sections. It did occur to me that this layout would be ideal on a large bulletin board or white board. I could easily make notes throughout the week as things came up and needed to be added. But for now I’m sticking with the single sheet of paper as I work out the kinks.
And kinks there are. My sheet doesn’t give me a clear indication of what is most important to get done each day, so I’m going to need a way to prioritize my tasks. I do know that I don’t want to just have a long list of things that need to be done. That’s overwhelming, at least to me.
Next, I will take a look at how I can prioritize my tasks.
This post is Part 3 of a series on Daily Routines. Read more of the series:
- Part 1: Getting One
- Part 2: Goals and Tasks
- Part 3: Anatomy of My Worksheet
- Part 4: Finding Your Rhythm
