Hey, this is Anne with Your Coaching on the Go talking about time and tools to track it and play with it. 

I have kept calendars for years on and off. 

Most of the time I haven’t liked to keep a calendar. 

It has made me feel like I’m a prisoner of time instead of playing, but as I’ve gotten to be a highly functioning adult, the right planner or calendar is a great tool.

I keep it in my purse. 

I carry it with me wherever I go. 

Once in a while, when I give myself a day of R&R, that’s in my planner as well. 

I hope you are finding out some interesting information as you track your time. 

It can be sobering. 

It was for me a few weeks ago. 

I track time now. 

It’s something I do.

I do it right in my planner so that I’m constantly aware of how I am interacting with time. 

Questions come up when I talk about time and calendars and how time is used. 

“What tools do you use?”

I used to find the smallest calendar I could, but there wasn’t enough room in there. 

It would end up on a table and I would lose it. 

Sometimes I kept a bigger kind of binder calendar, like a business calendar. 

Now I’m using one at the suggestion of my business coach. 

I’ve been using a planner called The Push Journal by Shalene Johnson. 

It’s my favorite planner because it’s tied to quarterly planning and breaks that down into monthly planning and daily.

Your goals show up every day in the planner to keep you on task. 

There’s an area for putting things that are happening in your day. 

There’s also an area for writing down tasks. 

What I like this for is when I’m going through my day and something comes up in my mind that I want to get done before the end of the day or this week.

I throw it in that task list so that it doesn’t derail me in the moment.

I don’t have to keep track of it in my mind.

I document the thought in the calendar and clear it from my mind. 

Yeah. 

There are also, in some of her journals, areas to document nutrition. 

I can track my intermittent fasting and water intake. 

That’s important to energy and brain function during the day.

I can track how I’m eating as well. 

I like a journal that engages with what is important to me, so it’s almost playing with me. 

I need that. 

I need to have a life where I constantly get to play amidst the rigor. 

If I feel like I am having to be too rigorous I start to get resentful and sometimes I completely let go of my calendar in a moment and lose the day and have to deal with the repercussions of whatever I missed.

That’s a reveal in the deep mind of Coach Anne!

If you have a planner, a calendar ,or even sometimes people just print off a sheet a day, you can track yourself. 

The reason I don’t like using loose paper, is I end up with “sheets” everywhere.

Literally my studio can be full of “sheet”, so I like to keep my time resouce bound together.

I carry it around in my handbag.

I committed to that a few years ago.

My planner is with me wherever I go now.

I’m tracking my time and productivity.

I’m taking the time to look at my calendar the night before my next day. 

It’s also effective if you use it to organize a week before and plot a course for the full month. 

Whatever you’re using, make your experience something joyful and successful.

Take a picture of it and share it on the Facebook page.  

It may help someone.

You can partake of my favorite push journal using the link at the bottom of this post or on my resource page. 

Whatever you do, find a tool you like. 

Get committed to the tool.

For today either share your tool or if you don’t have a tool you like, look, find something, and get it. 

Take action, order it, and get it so you can start engaging with it.

Hope that supports you today.

Yesterday we talked about tracking your time.

Today we are talking about, having a tool that allows you to engage it in the most pleasant way.

It’s got rigor and joy and that combination is powerful, powerful, powerful in this life.

Have a beautiful day and keep working, keep working, and keep connecting. 

Keep doing the work.

Shalene Johnson’s Push Journal

https://www.pushjournal.com/?rfsn=5949006.59b4a05&utm_source=refersion&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=5949006.59b4a05. 

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