Planning Each Day

An underrated way to have better days is just to plan and schedule them the night before. So in the morning you can just go, just flow. You don’t have to start the day not knowing what you’re going to do.

I have begun to actually schedule the entire day, every day, including weekends, in Google Calendar. This might sound restrictive, but I find that I enjoy my days more when I schedule them. It doesn’t mean I’m forcing myself to live an extremely organized, regimented life. It just means I’m creating a structure that enables me to do what I really want to do. You don’t need the next day planned to the minute. You just need a rough outline, with the understanding that you also need to give yourself some space to improvise.

Without a plan, I sometimes get bogged down in indecision, and sometimes make impulsive, bad choices. With a plan, I take a few minutes to thoughtfully make decisions upfront. Then the next day, I just go. The morning is the time for boldness, decisiveness, and creativity. The morning is the time to create, to throw things against the wall. The evening is a time for reflecting and analyzing and planning. It’s the time step back and calmly evaluate what worked and what didn’t. You gather learnings and work them into the next day’s plan.