Once you have a weekly plan, revise it daily, and schedule the work each day so that it gets done.

Let me be clear here – plan for the entire week, not just 1 day.

Once you know what you need to do, make a plan for the coming week.

Don’t let your email inbox control your day (or worse, week or month or year, or life).

You need 1 list of things to do for the day – don’t try to manage personal tasks in a different list to your work tasks.

Urgent and important tasks are easy, not urgent and important tasks are much harder (for most people).

It’s not enough to simply plan each day – you need a longer planning horizon if you want to get the right stuff done.įocus your time on what is important as well as what is urgent.

There are a few key principles that I learnt from the resources above that I still use in my personal productively planning, specifically: The Key Principles I Use for Good Planning

I plan my day to ensure that I “just do it”.

I plan my week to make sure I get the most important things done.

I just focus on what I need to work on now and give myself headspace to not think about everything else.

I don’t get overwhelmed by lots of “noise” from a very long to-do list.The benefits I gain from using this process include: My approach to planning works because it is a combination of process and a tool to support the process (almost). The Benefits I Extract from My Approach to Planning I highly recommend this book (and also the Franklin Planner by the Covey Corporation if you are in to paper based planning tools). I wasn’t always good managing my work effort, at least until I read the book “ The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Live Management” by Hyrum Smith.

This is an off topic post for me (ie not Power BI), but then again – who doesn’t want to be more productive, right? I am a heavily process driven person and I like to organise and plan my days, weeks and months so I can be as productive as I can be. Relationships in Power BI and Power Pivot.Who Needs Power Pivot, Power Query and Power BI Anyway?.The Best Way to Install Power BI Desktop.30 Reasons You Should Be Considering Power BI.Dimensional Modeling (Excel and Power BI).Power BI for the Business Analyst (with live Q&A).

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