Plan of the day, tasks of the day

When to write a daily plan?

The correct option is in the evening, thinking about the past day and preparing the next day. It’s okay if you do it in the morning, as soon as you wake up. The main thing is that before breakfast you have everything clear.

Even if you made a plan for the day in the evening, in the morning you usually want to redo it and supplement it. It’s okay and right, do it. Re-write a complete to-do list for today.

It is quite possible to do this in Word — it comes out faster this way. However, when writing on paper by hand, the list is born more thoughtfully, and this is preferable for the period of study. If this is not critical for you, write by hand.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The recommended number of points is from 10 to 20. In this range, the size of the points is optimal: they are neither too large nor too fractional.

To be prepared for the future, have your Weekly Plan and Goals for the Year in front of your eyes. On the evening when you usually sum up the results of the week (and on what evening do you sum up the results of the week?), let your plans for the month and for the year be before your eyes. What for? When you have plans for the future in front of your eyes, it is much easier to prioritize.

When you get used to planning the day, you will gradually want to do it more thoughtfully, from a simple to-do list you will begin to move on to a competent composition of the day’s affairs, taking into account the binding of some cases to a specific time and the obligatory accounting of rest.

So, are you ready? Then, first of all, arrange the cases fixed in time. Then arrange the free things that need to be done today, but when exactly is not important. It is more convenient to arrange sequentially from morning to evening. Between them, be sure to insert sections of service and rest.

There are heroic people for whom it is important not only to fulfill the plan of the day, but to do it in the best and most effective way. If this is about you and you like to strain yourself like that, then in the morning you add the planned start and finish time to the important things for you in the morning. And then, in fact, put down the real start and end times and, most importantly, rate yourself for this business. For example, my efficiency was 7 points out of 10.

Important rules when drawing up a plan

1. Be sure to leave time for rest:

• It is convenient to divide an hour into 50 minutes of work, 10 minutes of rest.
• Several times a day, you can take a break more (20-30 minutes).

2. Set aside time for the service:

• Be sure to write breakfast, lunch and dinner in the plan.
• Leave a few blocks of half an hour for simple service tasks: call relatives or on personal matters, make yourself tea, answer mail and more.
• Make several windows for unforeseen cases: you won’t have to rebuild the day’s plan if new introductory ones appear.
• All these cases in the plan can be marked simply “Service”.

What to do if you get out of the plan

If you are way behind schedule, the worst option is to beat yourself up for not meeting your plan. Scolding yourself is the surest way to hit the feelings and ruin the plan completely. The best solution is to rethink the plan. Estimate how much time you have left, choose the most important things and rebuild the plan. If you get out of the plan — 5 minutes to rest, relax, then another 5 minutes — write the plan again, and start from scratch.

End of the plan