Schedule Like a Pro... final part - the evening

There’s an optimal way to handle your schedule after the sun goes down too.

The last thing I want you to add to your schedule:  A relaxing evening… Though successful people do work long – long hours, the greats almost all take the evening off to recharge.  How many of you have trouble shutting the mind off of work needs? Just about all of us do – why?

A couple reasons:

1)     We feel as if we didn’t make enough progress

2)     We have pressing matters that are left unresolved

I propose a few things to add to your evening (work) routine… Here comes the rest of the story.  I want you to block time before you leave for the day – EVERYDAY to:

1)     Write down or mark off your accomplishments if you use an organisational system (there are several good ones out there)

2)     Write down the tasks still needed to be worked on for tomorrow or add them to your calendar (those will become your first morning things to do if they are of a priority level)

3)     Straighten your desk! Why, it helps you mentally put the office to bed like making your bed in the morning make your desk in the evening.  Plus, coming into to an organized office helps you stay focused, on track and not get the immediate over whelmed feeling that will cause you to veer off course.

Now do something for you… All day you have been awesome, staying on task & knocking out the work load.  So reward yourself.  Take a hike, read that book you’ve been looking at for the past month, share a glass of wine or share some light conversation with a friend, pick up a movie and pizza for family night or a board game, lay in the hammock and cloud watch… point is do something everyday that says I love life and am not willing to waste a moment of it!

LASTLY – SLEEP!!!

The bottom line is that sleep loss means valuable mind loss.  Sleep loss cripples thinking, in just about every way you can measure thinking.  Sleep loss hurts attention, executive function, immediate memory, physical negative effects, slows working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning ability, and in general makes you act like a cranky pill.  Your body regenerates best in a sleep state so if you are working hard now so that you can enjoy life do you really want to do it from a wheel chair?  Take care of your body and it will take care of you – you can make excuses for anything but you have to ask yourself if you want to make progress to change things for the better why allow yourself the negativity of an excuse to hold you back?

An excuse is the reason you are giving yourself for not doing things you know you need to do – so… No Excuses! Live Life to its fullest & start now because tomorrow will always be the excuse that holds you back.

ROAR!!