04/04/2022
Every Sunday Stella (my youngest) and I synchronise our diaries. I'm a bit old school in that regards, I love to flip through the pages and see what I've got on all laid out in black and white, plus the process of writing it all down helps me remember what's on and be accountable to myself.
I sit down to start with and write down all my work commitments, any appointments, events, functions etc I have coming up, when I'm going to train, Stella's commitments, and my daily targets that I want to hit each day to achieve my personal goals.
Then we sit down together and work through her week, what extra curricular activities she has, how she's getting home from school each day and any other special events she has on for the week ahead.
Such a simple process but it makes for a more organised and structured week for the both of us.
Anything that goes in the diary is treated like an appointment, not to be missed.
Planning is such an integral part of achieving anything, even those simple building blocks of health and fitness I mention in my last post.
Did you read that and say "ok I'm going to make sure I get more sleep"... only for it to go out the door the first night because you forgot you had an early appointment?
If you had checked your diary/ schedule/ planner whatever you work with, you would have seen that appointment coming up and you could of planned to be in bed earlier because that's your commitment to yourself at the moment that you are focusing on.
Plan to make it happen, don't just continue to sail on and see.