hey guys it's Adrienne Finch and in today's video I'm going to show you guys
the easiest most efficient stress-free way to plan out your day using just a
day planner and an electronic calendar of your choice now this will pertain to
you if you are a student or if you are working professional literally if you
are anybody this will help you and this will drastically improve your life
I often post photos on my Instagram story of like my planner because I
always plan my day out the night before every single day and people are
constantly asking me where I got my planner to make a video about how I plan
it and what I write and stuff like that so here it literally is this is the
system that I've been using for a while now and it has eliminated so much of the
stress around dealing scattered and disorganized it has helped me to
actually start doing things rather than always be worrying about what I'm
supposed to do and never actually doing it I just launched a pretty exciting
thing which is that I'm starting an email list where basically if you submit
your email address I will be sending out like random freebies whether they are
like worksheet or kind of checklists for things like this for example I'll make a
cute little infographic with like everything I talked about in this video
so that you have like a little checklist so before bed when you go to like plan
your day out you can just kind of look at your little thing by your wall or
whatever it is those are the types of things I want to be sharing with you
kind of like an exclusive little family where we can like talk to each other and
you can give me feedback and things like that I'm not gonna like spam your emails
or anything like that not gonna share your email address with anyone so I will
leave the link down below if you guys want to sign up for that it would be
really cool another thing would be like that workout PDF I did a few videos back
it would have been a lot easier if I just emailed them to all of you guys
yeah so sign up if you guys want and without further ado let's get started so
there are three things that I like to maintain in order to keep track of all
of my tasks and responsibilities number one is a day planner this is where I
write out hour by hour everything I'm gonna do and need to get done the next
day I got mine for $20 at Target I will try to find the same one or link a
similar one down below and I highly recommend getting one that has a full
page for each day and even maybe one that has those time stamps it's funny I
thought I wanted the time stamps but then it turns out I schedule a lot of my
things on the 15 minute or the 30 minute mark and this one just has hours but
it's whatever your preference is either is great number
- is an ongoing tasks list this is where I keep a list of really important tasks
but that aren't necessarily immediate but things that I need to keep an eye on
and not forget about so like bigger projects there are several ways you can
do this here I just wrote them on a random piece of paper and keep it above
my desk so it's kind of always there you can also use Gmail tasks they have like
a new feature that is a really easy checklist you can also use the Notes app
on your phone whatever works for you it's totally a personal preference thing
and number three is the electronic calendar so this is where I make note of
any appointments meetings travel basically anything where I have to
physically be somewhere and the reason I do this is just adds kind of a security
backup so that I know that I'm being alerted about these things that way in
case I don't bring my planner everywhere I'm not forgetting about like crucial
things I have to go to I personally use the Apple calendar because it just sinks
really easily from my phone to my computer but I know people use gmail
calendar too and probably a lot of other things so again whatever your personal
preferences step one in the most important step of all plan tomorrow
today I've now said this in multiple videos it is so important to plan
tomorrow today so right before bed or whenever you get a chance sit down have
some stress-free time of just thinking out what you need to do the next day
which I'm gonna get into how to do that this will not only allow a way better
night's sleep but it'll also allow you to have a way more relaxed and
stress-free morning because instead of waking up all frantic like oh my god
what am i doing you wake up and you just know already that there's a list over
there even if you've completely forgotten what you put on it you don't
even have to think about it because it's right over there it's gonna guide you
through the day so it just allows for you to start off on the right foot right
away in the morning which will set the precedent for your mood and your feeling
basically the rest of the day step two is that I check my calendar for any
appointments so I don't have any this day which is awesome if I did have
appointments today I would go ahead and write them in the appropriate time slots
in my planner first step 3 is to pick your priorities okay this is really
important ask yourself what can I not end this day without doing what are the
most important tasks or what are the most dreadful annoy
tasks because you want to do those first thing in the morning when you aren't the
most fresh and the most energized and honestly you need to just not
procrastinate and shut it out of the way and you'll feel so much better the whole
day instead of like waiting and dreading it all day long just get it done
step 4 is planning my day out for run to back meaning morning until night listing
out every single thing I have to do by the hour accounting for travel
accounting for eating showering working out anything that you have to do write
it down start with your morning routine I recommend developing a morning routine
it doesn't have to be long but just something where when you first wake up
you don't think about work yet you don't check your email yet whether it's you
make your breakfast and you drink your coffee and you check the news or
whatever it is that you do Beliveau routine it doesn't involve any stress
and put that first then you're gonna write in your priorities that we just
talked about so I recommend when you're first starting out to use a pencil that
way if you need to change things around or if you kind of forgot about something
randomly I need to add it in you can kind of erase and go back that's up to
you I still mess up make sure to next check your ongoing task list to see if
you have any gaps in your current schedule if you can fill them with
anything on there that way you can start kind of chipping away at that little by
little and really make progress on those and then step 5 if you didn't already
fill these in in the appropriate time slots so like this day I decided to
write out my own time slots you're gonna write out your time slots
and I recommend actually starting at the end of the day and working your way back
and also allowing enough cushion time for things I like to actually look up
for example like driving time to one location to another so that I have the
most realistic thought as to how long something may take and always always
always remember that these are just guidelines things always come up
last-minute and you may not follow this at all but what we're doing is we're
just giving you a foundation to work with so if these things move around it's
fine but at least you have a structure that's there in place that you can work
off of instead of completely like out of nowhere being scatterbrained and trying
to stress to figure out what you're supposed to do what's most important you
don't want to forget anything it's that right if you need to switch things
around or if the timing of things change it's okay protip before you even begin
this let go of the idea that this day has to happen like this because it
doesn't it just doesn't so let it go by planning
tomorrow today you're already one step ahead of the world so good for you
so yes ladies and gentlemen that is what I do to plan my day out those are my
strategies and kind of my system let me know if you like this video by giving it
a thumbs up and comment down below if you're gonna start to implement
something like this or what you do to stay organized remember if you want to
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love you so so so so much I mean it okay bye