Today, I’m going to show you
how to make a schedule, so you
can have a more organised life
and find time to work on your goals
or even just have some fun
My name is Melissa and this is How to Adult
grab your pen and paper,
and let's get started
The first thing you need to do is write
a list of your reoccurring priorities
I find that the most common daily priorities are:
Work/Study
Homework/Study
Cleaning
Self Care
and also Logistics
Now here is an example of a scheduled day
You can see that there are 2 hours
left over in this day
and you might be really happy with this thinking
"I've got such a carefree lifestyle"
"2 hours is plenty of time to do work"
Well, this is a false illusion
and I'll tell you why
How much time do you spend on your phone?
How easily do you get distracted?
And how often is it that you just can't be bothered?
I know there are plenty of times where I'm like that
Now I'll address how to handle this later on
let's move forward
Now that you've got your priorities sorted out
you can make a schedule
So we will do a weekly one together
put a little star next to your daily tasks
and put little time blocks for those tasks
get yourself a diary page
whether it's from an old diary, or a print off,
or even an Excel spreadsheet, it doesn't matter
just go get the page and do your little blocks of time
I like to colour coordinate mine
because it's easier to see the different tasks
and also it just makes me happy
now your top priorities are things that you
absolutely have to do
I've chosen work, so I have blocked out
8:30am to 5pm
and I only work part time,
so I've only got the 3 days there
If you are studying or have a side job
you need to make this a top priority as well
Basically, anything that's important to your lifestyle
make it a priority
next thing you do is add your logistics
This is things like travel time and cooking etc
so I have put in some time in the morning
to get ready for work
45 minutes to travel to work
an hour to drive back home
because perk hour traffic it
always takes longer for me
and also half an hour or so to cook dinner
Next is the tasks that make your living space
more manageable
this is things like cleaning and maintenance
I have a cleaning schedule so I only do a little
bit of cleaning each day
as opposed to cleaning the whole house
in one day
Screw that!
Then I will do the Self Care tasks
these are things like
meditation, exercise or any health care treatments
that you need to do
so I block out half an hour to exercise
in the mornings and
a bit of time to meditate before I go to bed
and lastly is anything extra you want to add
such as time for reading
time for socialising
whatever's important to you
I'm leaving mine open because I've got a lot of stuff
that I have to do and I'll just have to sort that out later
and you now should have something that looks like this
This is a very basic schedule
and basically you just use it to see where your
time is going
and you may be able to find very quickly
places where you are wasting your time
and try and cut that back
for example, people who are working
from home now
I bet you don't miss that drive into work and back
This will show you where you have some
extra time left over as well, to add in
some more tasks
but it will also show you where you're
putting in too much
You have to be realistic
you need down time
you need time to enjoy your life and
go out and have fun
so make sure you put in time for that
Now that you week is finished
extend this into fortnights
monthly, yearly etc
and don't forget to keep checking it
and updating it
because a schedule is kind of useless
if you don't look at it and use it
So, IF YOU'RE STILL WITH ME!
you should note that this is a basic schedule
basically what's already in your head
the next step is to make a
a fully customised
decked out schedule
with all the upgrades
Think of it as going from a rotary phone
to a smartphone
Now a rotary phone works perfectly
for what its meant to be
but a smartphone tends to make things
a lot easier, doesn't it?
Creating a complete
lifestyle schedule takes time
as there are about 20 different categories
to go through
These include things like: Errands
Long Term Goals, Short Term Goals
and so many more
I'll include a list in the description below
so you can refer to it later
If you wish to create this schedule
for yourself, please
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cause I'll be making videos to cover
all the categories
give yourself a heads start
and begin writing yourself a
list of everything you do and everything you want
to do
and by everything, I mean
EVERYTHING
I recommend an app called Kanbana
and I think it's amazing
It has columns that you can create
and customised, so you can make one for each
category and then put in
little sticky notes for each task
You can change their colours, you can
move them around, you can edit them
all kinds of ways
and it's free!
You can get a subscription
and share it with others
but I don't need a subscription, so it doesn't
cost me a thing
Next week, I'll be making a video called
How to Increase your Productivity
so you can tighten up those
tasks and try and get
some more time out of your day
I'm also happy to answer any questions
that you may have
just put them in the comments below
and I'll try and answer them as soon as I can
I hope you have an AMAZING day
and I'll see you next week
bye!