When Do You Write Your Weekly Plan?
Chapters
0:0 Cal's intro0:14 Cal reads a question about his Weekly Plan
0:28 Cal talks about Core Ideas and Time Management
1:0 Cal's process
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00:00:05.640 | All right, second question.
00:00:06.800 | This comes from Jim, the CFO.
00:00:10.200 | A technical question.
00:00:12.640 | Jim asks, "When you develop your weekly plan, do you do your written version first,
00:00:18.200 | or do you update your Trello board first, or do you do both simultaneously/iteratively?"
00:00:25.720 | So this is a great opportunity to plug our core ideas.
00:00:30.440 | We were just talking about this in the opening of the show.
00:00:32.520 | If you're wondering what Jim is talking about with weekly plans and Trellos and updates,
00:00:36.600 | go to the YouTube page, go to the core ideas playlist,
00:00:40.800 | watch the core idea on time management, and you'll know exactly what he's talking about.
00:00:45.000 | All right, so Jim, here's my technical answer.
00:00:48.280 | When I do my weekly plan, writing out the weekly plan is the last step.
00:00:52.920 | So I go through a bunch of things.
00:00:55.240 | I go through my Trello board and do organization there.
00:00:57.480 | I clean things up and move things around and take things off and see what's going on there.
00:01:01.320 | I go through my calendar for the week, and I look through my semester plans,
00:01:06.360 | what other people would call quarterly plans, to remind myself what I'm working on.
00:01:10.560 | As I do this, I take notes.
00:01:12.000 | I take it in a text file on my desktop, workingmemory.txt,
00:01:16.400 | and I'm just taking a bunch of notes.
00:01:18.160 | Oh, here's some tasks as I was organizing my Trello boards.
00:01:21.160 | Here's some tasks that are important this week.
00:01:23.320 | I'm looking at my calendar.
00:01:24.600 | I got to remember these big things.
00:01:26.440 | Very unstructured here.
00:01:27.920 | I'm just taking notes of stuff I want to remember,
00:01:30.240 | and then I use those notes from the workingmemory.txt to write my weekly plan.
00:01:33.920 | So I do all the steps, look through all my systems, review all my stuff,
00:01:37.680 | take notes, use the notes to make the weekly plan.
00:01:39.960 | That is how that works.
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