weekly schedule
Ephesians 5:15-16 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Weekly Schedule Audit
- Treat your weekly schedule like a budget.
- First record how you are actually using your time.
- This helps you understand where your time is currently going.
- Then craft an ideal weekly schedule.
- Here's a helpful spreadsheet template and explainer
- This gives you a focus of what each focus should look like.
- Inevitably you will deviate from the weekly schedule and that is okay. This is not a failure. Simply review your weekly schedule to help you identify the issues and get back on course.
- Create a recurring weekly appointment for reviewing your last week and planning the next week (the Weekly Review).
Purpose of a Weekly Schedule
- Why do you need a weekly schedule?
- Scheduling helps you live out your calling by giving you a plan, focus and direction.
- Scheduling helps you to walk wisely
- Scheduling forces you to acknowledge your finitude.
- Scheduling allows you to measure success or failure:
- We redefine a faithful week.
- A faithful week is NOT "Did I accomplish everything I wanted this week."
- A faithful week IS "Did I faithfully follow the plan."
- We redefine a faithful week.
How to create an ideal weekly schedule
- Review your weekly schedule audit
- Make a new schedule from scratch
- Choose a theme for each day of the week
- Fill in big recurring commitments (sleep, meals, church, work etc.)
- Define your 3 key time blocks:
- Psalm 90.12 So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
- Grow Time: This is time to focus on intellectual domain, spiritual domain, and physical domain.
- This is typically your morning routine.
- Goal Time:
- Time dedicated to making progress on your goals.
- Grit Time: Urgent stuff that needs to get done.
- e.g. checking email, mail, chores etc.
- Our intention is to confine this so that it doesn't spread everywhere.
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Weekly Schedule Audit
Purpose of a Weekly Schedule
How to create an ideal weekly schedule