Make Your Own Weekly Scheduler

Most of us keep up agendas or write things-to-do lists. In many cases it's something useless: we don't keep them, we lose them or on the contrary we hoard them...just to add more chaos to our daily routines. Is there a way out of this senseless behavior? Just read on.

Steps

  1. Get your supplies.
    • a pad of 4 holes-punched light-colored squared paper
    • a ring-binder book to store the weekly files ( 8 days actually )
    • a black or blue ball pen
    • a red and blue crayon
  2. Create a system. This summary of icons has the purpose of giving clear info at first sight. Use these or make your own.
  3. Do things your way; modify features until they suit you; use resources you're familiar with ( initials, acronyms, encoded words, icons, layout. etc )
    • Why light-colored 4 holed-punched sheets?
      • Light colored to spot them easily among your papers and things.
      • With 4 holes so they can be filed in the ring book giving you a load of information about people and things that matter to you.
      • No risk of losing or duplicating your notes because they're securely filed in your ring-book...hence the need for privacy i.e. encoding when necessary.
    • If there's something special on a given day, you can assign it more space; your WS will cover fewer days. No problem, pass this change onto the next WS.
  4. Fold your sheet as shown in the pictures.
  5. ...and now get started !
  6. Place the 4 holes to your left.
  7. Start writing the week days and the dates on top left corner of each rectangle. Have a calendar in front of you to avoid mistakes.
  8. Take care with the starting date so that all the WS you file in the ring book will follow one another.
  9. Write the items for the day and the following ones (8 days span of time) using the notes you may have or the previous WS if you had already started.
  10. Write whatever spans over 8 days in the section 'me' or 'myself' on the other side of the WS, the fixed features (ff) side
  11. With the fixed features (ff), on the other side of your weekdays, you just write one feature or important topic in your home affairs heading a space or even two if the issue at hand deserves it. Make sure that the holes are now on the right, otherwise the ff would be written upside down.
  12. Write these suggested features: 'people', 'places', 'me','PC, etc', 'money', 'moving things (to and fro) and...'lost things' or use your own.
  13. Keep your grip on things by writing them down and later on checking how you're doing.
  14. When your first week is over, plan the following one considering how you well you have done with the previous one. Have your previous WS in front of you. It's like making a new list based on the achievements of the old one. Insist on unfinished or procrastinated items that you do still think are important (head the item with a grid and underline it with the red crayon) to mean you're intent on getting that done), introduce new items according to new developments or give up on something after a thorough analysis, being on your guard not to deceive yourself and start the old procrastinating attitude.
  15. Avoid hoarding little notes. If you do, write them in red. This reminds you that they're urgent; moreover, you won't forget things. Then, immediately integrate them into your WS. Don't have them lying around. Once you have planned a new WS, file the previous one in the ring book.



Tips

  • Write your expenses on the day they occur using one or two letters code for the concept; you can later pass them on to your account book.
  • Don't try to write every thing you do down it will get crazy and annoying.
  • On some occasions, on a very hectic day, for example, you ran the risk of forgetting some issue that's very important to you. To prevent this from happening, just place wherever you think best, an extra alarm clock,one of those you set the alarm in a jiffy, with the buzzer set to remind you of that issue you care so much about.
  • Keep up your WS along with everything you do to have a good grip on your home affairs.
  • A surplus of information won't do you any harm, quite the contrary with the opposite.
  • Fold your WS so that the current day is seen at a glance

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