Focus on This

#24: How to Set Up Your Monthly Calendar

Jul 11, 2022

Penny Reeve, a writer from Sydney, dives into the art of goal setting and project management. She reveals how a monthly calendar can break the exhausting cycle of feeling behind. Listeners learn why weekly views are flawed and how to keep big commitments visible. Penny shares tips on confidently managing appointments and creating space for priorities amid deadlines. With humor and insight, she emphasizes the power of visual organization in reducing stress, avoiding burnout, and ultimately achieving a balanced, productive life.

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Quick takeaways

Utilizing a monthly calendar helps maintain visibility of significant commitments, preventing last-minute surprises and scheduling conflicts.

Incorporating the Full Focus Wellness Planner enhances self-care by allowing users to track wellness alongside regular planning tasks.

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Introduction of the Full Focus Wellness Planner

The Full Focus Wellness Planner is highlighted as an innovative tool aimed at enhancing self-care and overall wellness. It expands on the features of the traditional Full Focus Planner, allowing users to track essential elements such as sleep, nutrition, hydration, and self-care alongside their regular planning items like daily and weekly goals. The planner includes additional resources like a self-care planner and a heart check tool, designed to encourage users to prioritize their well-being. The excitement among users in the Full Focus Planner community showcases its potential impact on improving personal wellness routines.

Intro

3min

Navigating Deadlines and Time Management

2min

Maximizing Time Management with a Monthly Calendar

2min

Harnessing the Power of Monthly Calendars

9min

Navigating Deadlines and Embracing Community

2min

Mastering Monthly Planning

12min

As a high achiever, you’re dialed in on productivity. You know how to get things done. But there’s a problem. No matter how much you produce, you always feel behind. There always seems to be a looming deadline that somehow got missed. That puts you on the hamster wheel nearly every week, hustling to get caught up. It’s exhausting.

There’s a fix for that. It’s called a Monthly Calendar. Start using this tool to keep track of your Big Rocks, and you’ll escape that feeling of being two steps behind. You’ll have plenty of time for your major commitments and deadlines. Better yet, you’ll have lots more time for the “little rocks” too.

In this episode you will—

Learn why a weekly calendar view will not help you track deadlines.
Find a simple way to keep your big commitments visible at all times.
Discover how to gain complete confidence in accepting or declining appointments.
Find the space to fit in other important priorities around big commitments like travel or project deadlines.
Relax, knowing all your major commitments are under control!

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