Calendar mapping

This is one of the topics in Darla DiGrandi-Aguilera's year-long course "Master the Art of Human Connections". In fact, part of her MAHC training on calendar mapping is available as one of her free introductory lessons. She's got three other free lessons...check them out here.

Unfortunately, the 50% off sale of the training ended yesterday, but it's still a great value. I still highly recommend it.

I've written about this subject a couple of times before but after watching Darla's training I thought I'd bring the subject up again.

The most recent post was from last month:

Time-blocking is essentially organizing your day in a series of time slots. Instead of writing a list of tasks that take as long as they take, with a time-blocked approach, each of these time periods is devoted to a task or tasks. It immediately lets you see where you’re being unrealistic about your time and keep yourself focused on what you’re supposed to be doing. 

And this blog post from January of last year suggests replacing your to-do list with a calendar. I use Google Calendar for tracking meetings and tasks instead of using a to-do list but I haven't done calendar mapping to block out specific times to do my tasks.

Millionaires don’t use to do lists. If something truly matters to you, put it on your calendar. You’ll be amazed at how much the likelihood of getting it done increases.

The book "The 12 Week Year" talks about calendar mapping. I wrote about the book here, but I didn't talk about the calendar mapping portion though...I'll have to listen to the book again (or buy the book and read it), so I can write more about that aspect of the book. (PS I didn't make the goal that I wrote about in that post but I'm starting on it again today).

I meet with Darla via Zoom every two weeks and this was the subject we talked about on Friday, so I need to get things set up ASAP so I can show her that I'm taking her training seriously.

Interesting days

June will be Guitars On The Beach, Pride Month, Care For Your Grandparents Month, Audiobook Month, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month, International Mud Month, Candy Month, Great Outdoors Month, Country Cooking Month, Soul Food Month, Iced Tea Month, Dairy Month and Camping Month

Today - Say Something Nice Day, Thank God It’s Monday Day, Go Barefoot Day, World Milk Day, TableTop Day and Love Island Day

Tomorrow - Rocky Road Day, Rotisserie Chicken Day and Leave The Office Earlier Day

Week long celebrations:

May 25 - Jun 5: Italian Beef Week

Next Monday - Best Friends Day, World Oceans Day and Upsy Daisy Day

Week long celebrations:

Jun 8 - Jun 14: Love your Burial Ground Week

July will be Plastic Free July, Bank Account Bonus Month, World Watercolor Month, Sarcoma Awareness Month, Picnic Month, Cell Phone Courtesy Month, Independent Retailer Month, Horseradish Month and Ice Cream Month

July 1 - Joke Day, Gingersnap Day, Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day, International Reggae Day, Postal Worker Day, Zip Code Day, Second Half of the Year Day and Canada Day