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Eliminating Scheduling Conflicts

If you're like me, you live and die by your calendar. Like, you probably won't have time to die if it's not on your schedule...

BUT - that can be really frustrating when the right things aren't on your calendar, or they are on the wrong day or at the wrong time (or in the wrong time zone).

I want to give you not just hacks, but essential tools I use to keep my calendar CLEAN and keep me prepared.

Have a "Master Calendar." The one (JUST ONE) that you look at for all your activities. If you use different calendars for different email addresses, or different business, or maybe you use Google calendar AND ical on your phone.

STOP

Pick one to be the MASTER calendar that is now your standard of truth. Every booking, appointment, date night, everything, is on that calendar.

2.Your calendar link. If you are in the podcast booking service, you have this as a requirement, but if you don't have a booking link that can be published and sent to others, get one. Then

MAKE SURE IT TALKS TO YOUR MASTER CALENDAR

If your calendar link talks to a different calendar, you're going to find yourself frustrated and double-booked.

3. If it matters, BOOK IT. Your date night? It goes on your master calendar. Your lunch break? Same thing. Your kids concerts? On the calendar. Your Dentist appointment?

THE

CALENDAR

If it doesn't end up there, it's not happening. Period.

4. Give yourself Grace. When you have a task with a deadline, book the deadline on your calendar, and then book some time before to get it done. That podcast interview? obviously on the calendar, but then book yourself some time earlier to listen to the podcast. Those emails? Book the deadline on your calendar and the time in advance to get it done.

BOOK

TWICE

This will save you from last minute pushes - and give you the ability to extend your deadline if you need it.

(By the way, if you read this far, post a tinkerbell gif in the comments.)

5. The weekly huddle. For

@Richard Hickman

and I it's Sunday nights at 7. Are we perfect about it? No, but our weeks go so much better when we do this. We sit down with the calendar and look at the upcoming week together so there are no surprises, and then we

LOCK

DOWN

No more appointments can be booked. That extra time always gets filled with surprise urgencies, or maybe you just need a breather between appointments.

Lastly Number 6: The early morning. Listen, I'm not one to tell you a cold plunge every morning is the key to success. I've only done like 5-6 cold plunges in my entire life. That's not the point. The point is, if you get up an hour earlier, Monday-Friday, you will have more than another whole working week every year. (52 hours). This is especially helpful if you live with other people and you can wake up before they do.

Let me know what step was a gold nugget for you.

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