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How To Schedule Your Day For Peak Creative Performance
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“Work, Play, Fit, Push” Framework
1. Set priorities on Sunday.
2. Map out work (limit to top 3), play, fit (plan for at least 30 minutes each day), and push (do something that scares you but helps you grow).
3. Batch your days: in terms of creation, calls & meetings, etc.
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The Experimental Mindset
Instead of following the tips from other people, one should have an experimental mindset to try and build a lifestyle that suits them. And this in itself is a process.
Gustave Flaubert
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
Order and Creativity
We are not very good at multitasking because can truly focus on only one thing at a time.
Discipline leads to creativity. If we are able to bring discipline and order in our daily lives, by decluttering and focusing on the important things, we can be more productive and achieve a lot.
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Take a break
Think about your life. What is really important to you? How would you like to live your life?
Write down the things that are truly important to you, the things that ten years from now...
The things you are doing every day
- Write them down. For example, wake up, eat breakfast, go to work…
- Highlight the tasks that you do daily that are in line with your priorities.
- The highlighted stuff is the important stuff that you do every day. Everything else is urgent.
Cut down on the urgent stuff
- Some “urgent” activities will just need to go. Maybe you can wait until later after all to check your picture on Facebook.
- Some “urgent” activities will need to be delegated. Your assistant, if you have one, could actually pay that bill.
- Some others will be better organized. You could actually make a batch of lunches every Sunday and Wednesday.
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Scheduling styles
- The Overscheduler: Their days are determined from the moment they wake up to their evening routine.
Scheduling your day
A good daily schedule is a blueprint for a successful life.
Knowing what we’re doing and when empowers us with a sense of purpose, meaning, and focus.
Your most important work
The most successful people consistently get their most important work done first.
Build recurring time for your most important work in the morning, before you start anything else. Your energy levels are naturally higher in the morning, but completing a meaningful task first thing has also a domino effect that pushes you through the day.