Discover the secrets of setting your Weekly Big 3 for effective prioritization. Dive into the balance of urgency versus importance while managing your tasks. Tackle the nightly dinner dilemma with efficient meal preparation tips and clever apps for stress-free cooking. Explore personal anecdotes that highlight the joys and challenges of planning meals for busy families. Plus, learn about the community's role in enhancing productivity through shared experiences and engagement.
The Weekly Big 3 focuses on prioritizing tasks based on importance and feasibility to enhance productivity and prevent overwhelm.
The Full Focus Wellness Planner complements the existing system by promoting self-care through tracking sleep, nutrition, and emotional well-being.
Deep dives
Introduction of the Full Focus Wellness Planner
A new tool, the Full Focus Wellness Planner, has been introduced as a companion to the existing Full Focus Planner. This wellness planner not only helps in tracking important goals and daily tasks but also includes features for tracking sleep, self-care, hydration, nutrition, and emotional well-being. Users have begun receiving their planners and are already sharing enthusiastic reviews within the Full Focus Planner community. This planner aims to enhance overall self-care and is meant to replace the traditional Full Focus Planner.
Setting Weekly Big Three Objectives
The focus on setting weekly objectives, referred to as the 'weekly big three,' is emphasized as crucial for productivity. These objectives should prioritize tasks based on their importance, urgency, and feasibility, preventing the overwhelm often associated with planning. The discussion highlights that while tackling urgent tasks is necessary, it’s essential to maintain focus on the most impactful and significant objectives. By assessing these three considerations, individuals can ensure a productive week that aligns with their long-term goals.
Realistic Planning and Intentionality
The conversation underscores the importance of realistic goal-setting within the weekly big three framework, encouraging individuals to focus on what can actually be accomplished. Achieving a balance between ambitious goals and actionable tasks helps prevent frustration from unmet objectives. This method of planning not only keeps momentum going but also builds confidence by ensuring manageable expectations are set. By refining the planning process with intention, success rates for achieving weekly goals can be dramatically improved.
The Weekly Preview is essential to the Full Focus System and it's one of our users' favorite tools. In order to really dig into who and why it works, we're starting a three-part miniseries all about the Weekly Preview.
First up: Setting your Weekly Big 3. While this actually happens at the end of your Weekly Preview, it is perhaps the most important step in the process. Courtney and Verbs share three considerations that you should use when setting your Weekly Big 3.
Also, Nick and Courtney talk about a potential daily task that can be a pain point for almost everybody: planning and making dinner every night.
To watch this episode on YouTube (and to see Verbs' lovely accent performance), visit: https://youtu.be/myTqE4SIytU
The Cassy Joy Garcia books referenced by Courtney:
To talk with other Full Focus Planner users (and Certified Pros!), then make sure to join the Full Focus Planner Community on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ffpthinktank