In Their Own Words…
I simply put everything on my schedule. That's it. Everything I do on a day-to-day basis gets put on my
schedule. Thirty minutes of social media–on the schedule. Forty-five minutes of email management–on
the schedule. Catching up with my virtual team–on the schedule. Quiet time to contemplate and plan–on
the schedule. Bottom line, if it doesn't get scheduled, it doesn't get done.
–Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and bestselling author as well as a popular
business blogger and podcaster.
Surprisingly, the simple act of scheduling tasks on your calendar—instead of
writing them on a to-do list—will
free your mind, reduce stress, and increase
cognitive performance. Florida State University
Researchers showed that the
Zeigarnik effect—the stressful conscious and unconscious thoughts caused by
unfinished tasks—could be overcome simply by making a
plan to accomplish a
task—you didn’t actually have to complete the task itself.
Research Says…
“A plan increases one’s odds of attaining a goal and simultaneously reduces cognitive activities…”
(Source: Consider It Done!, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011)
There are several key concepts to managing your life using your calendar
instead of a to-do list.
First, schedule a chunk of time for everything that is important to you;
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