490-Planning Your ”Ideal” Week

Have you heard of the "ideal" week planning concept? In this episode, I explain how it works and how you can improve your ideal week by including space for Intentional Margins®!  

 

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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in about 2 minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

 

I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and there is this concept of your ideal week.  Lots of people have used and taught this concept, it’s certainly not new and it’s not my idea, but as a curator, I want to bring you these great ideas as it relates to creating harmony and happiness. 

 

I think once we achieve a little more harmony in our busy lives, we can feel happier and isn’t that the goal after all? 

 

The concept of the idea week is that you pull out a blank weekly calendar that has times on the margin from 6 am to 10 pm or something like that.  You can google a free printable off the internet.  

 

Once you put in your weekly recurring non-negotiables, you create a visual to see what time is left in the week.  For example, if you work a traditional 9-5 job, you would block out that time.  For my family, we have a family meeting at 8-8:30am before I start the drive to school drop offs, so that time is blocked on my calendar.  And then the next 45 minutes for driving around town.   

 

Perhaps you have a standing Wednesday night book club or painting class.  If that is a priority that goes on your ideal week.  This also allows you to really think about that book club and ask yourself, is this something that I want to spend my time doing in this season? 

 

Next, I encourage you to add time for what matters.  Perhaps it’s your value of connection with others.  Do you have time on your calendar for connecting with others?  You can time block Thursday nights for “connection” and make plans with different people each week.  Do you need down-time to recharge?  When you look at your calendar of commitments, are you getting enough down-time, do you need to re-calibrate? 

 

I’m curious, what does your Ideal week look like?  Where are you finding you have more or less time than you thought?  Are you going to make any changes?  Send me a message @everydayhappinesswithkatie and I’d be happy to help you work through your ideal week. 

 

 

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