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Being Humble With Your Calendar

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

The Time-Optimized Newsletter

Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 224)

The Central Idea

A calendar becomes more effective when it is built to absorb disruption instead of pretending disruption will never happen.

Being Humble With Your Calendar

I planned my week confidently. Then it fell apart.

By Monday afternoon, I needed to completely rearrange the schedule.

That experience reminded me of Proverbs 27:1: "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring."

Even well-planned calendars can fail when we underestimate how unpredictable life can be. The more rigid the calendar, the more brittle it becomes.

This week I wrote about why better time management may begin with becoming more HUMBLE in how we plan our time.

How resilient is your approach to time?

Many people assume calendar problems are scheduling problems.

Often they are really planning, focus, organization, or personal care challenges showing up through the calendar.

The Time Management Analysis (TMA) helps identify where your current approach to time is supporting your goals—and where it may be creating unnecessary stress when life inevitably changes your plans.

Take the complimentary TMA summary assessment and discover how your time management habits are shaping your results.

This Week’s Action Step (2 minutes)

Open next week’s calendar and intentionally add one hour of unassigned margin time for unexpected interruptions, recovery, or reprioritization.

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A schedule should support your life, not compete with it.

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