What gets Scheduled, gets Done.

byOCH3943

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3 years ago

I came across this phrase, "What's gets scheduled, gets done" in early October where I joined a free 4-day life planning blueprint workshop by Joey Yap, who works on the Chinese metaphysics field.

This phrase sinks into me. It is so simple and it is odd (and embarrassing for me) why I never practice this in my self-development while I have been doing this in my corporate life earlier.

Perhaps, most of my time had been spent on work only, exhausted by it, where I used Outlook calendar so often that it is either I schedule a time for meeting with others or someone books a meeting in my calendar. And I have this to-do list on excel as well to keep track of things to do for my work.

But what about my personal life? Zero scheduling on my personal calendar.

So it seems that I have been living on other people's schedules than my own.

But since I have joined WA, and perhaps even more so from early October, coupled with attending courses from different areas listening to various speakers, I have grasped that practically every one of these successful people (including the various member's blogs in WA) are telling me the same message, just in their own styles or ways.

And of course, for the speakers I have listened to, they have to tie back to what they are selling. :p

But I'm so grateful for all this time invested where I felt my mindset is gradually changing for the better. And I know I have still much to change and improve. This takes time.

Write It Down, Break it Down

So what gets scheduled, gets done. Things that we schedule in our calendar and our To-Do list especially, it will be a constant nag that you just want to complete it.

Things that you don't schedule, it will only happen when you feel like it or it will never happen. Because there will always be new things happening or somebody else's things that will grab your attention.

And break down your tasks into smaller daily pieces even. For example, log a daily 30 min on training or log a daily 5-page book reading, or log a daily 15 min on keyword research.

Amortise the effort to smooth it out. You might not do some of them every day, but if you divide it out into smaller daily parts, sometimes it can help you see that they are manageable tasks.

Or if you think you can be committed to set from a daily 15 min keyword research to a weekly 1.45hr a week (7 x 15 mins = 1.45hr), by all means, do so or it may be more efficient to do so just on 1 day.

Be Calm, Disciplined and Consistent

But stay true to yourself, sometimes things slip due to many circumstances, and you might be tempted to find ways to just tick off your To-Do list with some "mental reasoning" to check it off.

I am behind on several daily To-Do but I just let the backlog be so that it nags at me. I used Microsoft To-Do which works for me.

The satisfaction will come when I can finally catch up on my backlogs. (But Buddha bless me, as my daily blog writing target is way off-target because of the other courses I have attended and live zoom webinar that I have conducted...lol)

But as a consolation, I have other daily To-Dos where I am ahead by a month, though these are easier to do things.

So stay calm, be disciplined, and consistently deliver on what you set out to do.

Twist things around and Rethink

So things that I used to do at work, I have now turn it around to apply to my personal and online life. It's always there within my knowledge but somehow never thought about it.

We sometimes need the right masters, mentors, people, or situations that can help unlock our minds at the right time to help us connect the dots.

And having a mentor aside, the community is the next best way to help gain a new perspective, though we need to be careful and selective.

A Balance between Focusing and Casting your Net wide

Sometimes, we need to strike a balance between focusing on what matters and casting your net wide to search for ideas, or find out the "I don't know what I don't know" or "I know what I don't know"

Many people have said the same thing and I think it is good to repeat every so often to help each other to hammer the point across or be a reminder.

And that is to beware of FOMO (Fear of missing out).

But life is fair, we only have 24 hours. We can't know everything. There is a time to gather information and a time to plan, and a time to execute.

So casting your net wide is basically switching your radar on to keep abreast of things, figure out what you need, and if it is interesting enough, log it down first if this is nice to have or essential to have as a next phase of whatever you are doing now.

Switch to execution mode and take consistent actions. Don't go chasing shiny objects and lost your current objectives.

I'm no better so I am also writing to remind myself.

Conclusion

I think the ability to internalise a set of good consistent habits is essential for our success to govern ourselves better. I'm sure many members have already acquired these and I'm blessed to have seen some of them in action here in WA.

I am on my journey to do so so that one day I will be successful too.

I wish you a pleasant day ahead and many more to come.

Regards,
Richard