Plan Your Week Using This Question
Last week I started to tackle the idea of planning your week.
This morning I sat down to do this again and I will share a new insight that I got into the process.
For starters, there are lots of worksheets to help you get your thoughts onto the page on Canva.
I personally use one from the dollar store that let’s me rip the pages off to get a new sheet quickly each week. You can search for weekly planning pad on Amazon to see products like this one for $10.
A good question to ask yourself:
“If I was building a product, what would it be?”
This might strike you as a bit odd if you don’t think of your creative work in terms of a product. Yet for the purposes of simply planning out your week, it’s a powerful question to ask yourself.
So if you are a filmmaker, your product might be the script or storyboard that you’re conceptualizing. And if you have identified this, you can imagine which days of the week you have the chance to work on this script.
Can you imagine what you would like to get done during the week on your script?
The more detail and color you can add to your plans, the better.
The final step is to break up what you’d like to get done into chunks that can be assigned to the blocks of time you identified.
Planning is an aspirational activity. That’s why a lot of people poo poo it. They know that someone or something is going to disrupt that plan.
Yet a creative brain is one that has an imagination. It can at least visualize what an ideal week looks like.
Are you willing to try it for yourself?
To recap above:
Find the times you are even available
Decide what you’d like to get accomplished
Slot action items into your time blocks with a rough draft mindset knowing that things will change throughout the week