Let’s talk for a minute about your schedule.
Maybe you’re a parent trying to also be a homeschool teacher while working from home. Or maybe you live alone and every single one of your activities was canceled last March so you’ve made it through the entirety of the Netflix catalog. You might be working less than normal, trying to make ends meet—or perhaps you’re working more than ever without the boundaries of “home” and “office,” so the two have bled into a mishmashed mess that involves you responding to emails at 9 p.m. (You know, hypothetically…)
If you’re anything like us, the pandemic has done a real number on your calendar. So here’s this week’s challenge: It’s time to take back control of your time.
Work-from-home life is here to stay (for awhile, at any rate) and after a year of pandemic life, I think we can safely say that this is our “normal,” at least for now. So it’s time to own it.
What do you want your day to look like? And what do you need to do to make it happen?
Do you want to wake up early and knock out your big projects? Or do you want to eat breakfast with your kids before they log on to school? When will you go outside? (Sidenote: Go outside every day. It helps.) When are you officially offline? How many meetings can you cancel?
There is an art and a science to a good schedule, but it starts with you controlling it instead of it controlling you.
We’re learning this right along with you—it’s incredibly hard when the projects pile up and people send requests at all hours. But in our new work environment, it’s more important than ever to draw your own boundaries and then actually stick to them.
Sometimes, this requires a heavy dose of accountability and encouragement. So tell us what your calendar goals are—and then tell your team, too!
