Calendar Colors to Reach Your Goals
By Tana M. Mann Easton, Lead Efficiency Engineer
Do you have an ambitious goal for the coming year but don’t know where to find time to make progress on it in your already full calendar? The following calendar color coding exercise may be a good place to start.
For the next couple of weeks, do a thorough job of time blocking your calendar for how you spend your time each day – personally and professionally. Block off the time you exercise, commute, do errands, make meals, get ready, attend meetings, everything. Then, at the end of each day, assign a color to each of those time blocks. Green is for activities that energize you and create energy. Yellow is for neutral activities. Red activities leave you drained – physically, emotionally, spiritually, in any way. For any of the red activities, brainstorm ways to remove them. Can it simply stop? Can it be delegated? Can it be transformed? Once you remove the draining activity, use the time saved to start chipping away on your new goal for the year.
Finding time in an already crowded calendar can make setting new goals for our lives seem overwhelming. But hopefully this calendar color coding exercise will be a manageable first step in heading down a more authentic path.
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With Sincere Gratitude,
Tana at Focus to Evolve