We back, once again we will be exploring a self development principle to assist us in how to better engage in a positive life.

I’ve probably talked about planning plenty of times before and I make no apologies for doing so. The reason being, that I’m definitely going to do it again in future. Don’t you just love that kind of content? As a content creator, I sure do.

But let’s get serious now, I bring this up again because this is just so core to achieving anything in life. Like I have mentioned in the past, just because you have a plan and try to act it out, doesn’t always mean things will turn out the way you want. That’s life for you. But it gives us guidelines, or you could think of it as a roadmap, the destination can stay the same but the path changes. In other situations, the destination changes and so must the map directions.

Now that I have got that out of the way, let’s dig into the aspect of this topic that I would like to expand upon today. Planning is crucial because it puts restrictions on us, it may sound weird, but having self imposed chains on your actions is rather quite freeing in a way.

Let’s us use a quote from Zig Ziglar to break this down

“If you don’t plan your time, someone else will help you waste it”

Powerful stuff. Don’t just think that ‘someone’ has to be a person, it could be a technology or some form of media. I always find it funny how people of the modern age always complain they don’t have the time to do things, or that they are always busy. But, they somehow find time to watch the latest TV shows that everyone talks about, or what celebrity said what to who.

I find there has to be some sort of trickery gonna on there. Either, the person is lying about having no time or they chose to spend their time doing these activities and that filled up their schedule.

Regardless of what the answer is, we ourselves need to move away from such practices as it will handicap our ability to grow. The solution is planning, we need to plan our time better. Some people, well experienced in this habit can break their day into 15 minute chunks. I don’t recommend we start there, I think personally that it is best to break the day into three parts at first, then later go to hour by hour, or maybe 2 hour blocks.

To start, the three blocks would be: Morning, Day and Evening. It will be up to you to decide when each of these period begins and ends; I say this because some people work night shifts, so their day is more like everyone else’s evenings. Once we have our three periods and distinct start and end times, we can then move on to filling in that time. This is best done the night before on paper or your phone’s notepad.

You ideally want to fill those blocks with as much productive activities as possible, and to top it off, if you can manage to complete everything before the allotted time has ended. Then why not treat yourself by watching that show or catching up on the celebrity gossip. We can keep that just between you and me.

This journey of improvement can sometimes seem like you need to be operating at 100% all the time. Which in reality is not fully the case, it needs to be about prioritising what’s important and then executing those objectives. The smaller stuff tends to fall into place on its own accord.

Have a think about it, and my Hedites get back to me if you found this useful.

Till next time.