How to Use Your Finish Calendar : Tip # 1
From January – June 2020, I’ll be sharing 12 ideas on how to use your Finish Calendar.
Idea #1 – Keep your calendar in front of you.
If you want to make the most of your Finish Calendar in 2019, do whatever it takes to keep it in front of you. For me, this means mounting it on foam board to make it portable. I do this for 3 main reasons:
1. I like to take it to meetings to show clients that I’m serious about my time.
2. I like to use it as a prop in videos, and having it on foam is a better solution than walking over to the wall with my phone every time.
3. Having it near my desk makes it easier for me to reference it and to write entries on it. I just know that I’d use it less if it was mounted on the wall.
Are all these reasons going to line up exactly like yours? I doubt it.
Like me, you may also get more out of your calendar by mounting it and making it portable, but plenty of people I’ve talked to prefer putting their calendar on the wall.
When it comes to productivity tools like your Finish Calendar, you have to embrace your weird.
You have to be willing to use your tools in unorthodox ways if that’s what it takes for you to get the most out of them.
Motivation needs to be personal to be maximized.
If you’ve already had some aha! moments about how your Finish Calendar is going to help you get more done, lean into those. Even if they’re a bit weird, you need to embrace them.
On the flip side, if you’re starting to see some ways in which the calendar might not work out like you had hoped, be willing to pivot and try something new.
You can move it from one wall to another or one room to another.
You can mount it on foam board like I do.
You can change up your notations if you think of a better way.
You can use it to schedule work, measure progress, or both!
However you choose to use your Finish Calendar, do so in a way that works best for you. The goal is that the calendar is a useful tool that helps make time real, whether it’s showing you where you are spending your time or helping you plan out where you are going to spend it.
Keep it in front of you, personalize how you use it, and get to finishing!
Grab yours here : www.finishcalendar.com
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3 年This morning I was listening to your fantastic book "soundtracks." (I haven't finished it yet...) While checking out your website, I came across the Finish Calendar. Your reference to the University of Konstanz resonated with me as I am from the Konstanz area ;) Just placed the order... Thank you, Jon!
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5 年I've written out on a notepad ideas of what to add to the calendar but I'm trying to figure out if I should be using this differently than a digital calendar that reminds me of upcoming things.? In other words, should I only be putting explicit goal related items on the calendar?? MAYBE some things that I've identified as important that I want to add on the calendar SHOULD be related to a goal even though they currently aren't? Any advice or wisdom on clarification for what makes the cut of the big calendar? Thanks, Ben