The Power of Planning Ahead

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Planning and committing time in the calendar a week in advance resulted in finding two and a half more hours to work on goals.
Prioritizing and scheduling tasks in advance can lead to more productive time management.
Thinking about the day and slotting time in the calendar for tasks are helpful, but planning a week ahead is even more effective.
The calendar seven days out is often more open and flexible compared to the current day's schedule.
Scheduling blocks of time for important tasks helps ensure their completion, even amidst a busy schedule.
Operating based on the assumption of finding a free moment is not a practical approach to managing tasks.

Social psychologist Emily Balcetis has devoted her career to understanding how people’s perceptions of the world fuel their motivations and life goals. In this episode she goes in-depth on that wealth of research, what she’s learned from studying some of the world’s most successful people and how they set goals, and how you can get better results in life if you change the way you see the world and where you place your focus. Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University (NYU), focused on how the motivations, emotions, needs, and goals people hold impact the basic ways people perceive, interpret, and ultimately react to information around them. She is also the author of the book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, which was released in 2020. --

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