30-day agile results (23): design your week

 

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in ."-Henry David Thoreau

 

Your results:Design your week, spend more time on what you want, spend the least time on what you don't want to do, and increase your free time

 

In30-day agile results: OpeningSpeaking of the following, we will conduct agile results exercises. The previous article learned 22: design your day and design your own day's start and end, today we are going to perform the getting result exercise for the first day: design your week (Day 23-design your week with skill ).

When we can control our calendar for one week and work out how to spend time, this will not only help us succeed. Compared to one day, one week is a big part of our time. Designing a week is a very effective way to improve our lives. It can give us better results. Like every day, every week is a new start. You can use the lessons learned from last week to guide yourself next week.

Why design your week?

Is your week designed or let it go? The key to getting results is to have your own plans. You can drive your calendar or schedule. If you accept things passively, it is very likely that after a week, you will find that you have not done anything, even if you have done it, it is irrelevant. So how can I make myself feel that this week has been filled and successful?

We can assume that every day of the week, we can always do the right thing with the right people to make the right impact; or this week is a new start, we should start to try something we want to do, or assume that the time of this week is filled with efficient time and creative time, and the work and life are balanced; or assume that you have adequate sleep, exercise, and so on this week. Every week is carefully designed. It is not only for the results of a week, but also a step of our persistence results.

3 steps to design your week

1. Baseline your week and find out how you spent your time
   If you don't spend enough time on what you want to do, the first thing you need to do is to fix it. A simple record can help you understand how your time is spent. This is the first step to view your time for "leakage.
2. Set boundaries and limits
   Setting Time boundaries and limits is the best way to design a week. This is the final way of life you choose, whether to be a "workaholic" or a person pursuing balance. For example, you may feel that the weekend or evening is your free time, or the work time cannot exceed 40 hours. When you do not set limits for yourself, you will put yourself in a dangerous state. When you set boundaries, you will execute a healthy mode.
3. Set aside time for important things
   If you want to spend more time on one thing, do it, but it means you need to let go of other things. The most important thing here is to let yourself do things by thinking and choosing, rather than positioning yourself as a victim or forced person.

Here, we need to remind you that no one can stick to your time. Only you are your final architect.

Baseline schedule

Remember how you use your time. The most effective tool for time management is to find the baseline of the calendar. The following is a template:

Here we record the content of each time period every day. Here are some examples:

• Sleep
• Dinner
• Exercise
• Meeting
• Work
• Periodic activities
• Free time

Set boundaries and limits

Use a heat map to set the border:

Monday vision, daily results, and Friday Review

Whether you have designed your week or not, remember that Monday vision, daily outcomes, and Friday reflection are at the core of agile results and can help us start every day and every week again, A simple pattern for weekly work:

The following is a story-driven view of the weekly working mode, which helps us to use the story concept to think about the results. If you are a software developer, you will understand it more easily:

1. Monday vision)
   Determine the three expected results from the three to the Friday period. For example, it takes at least five hours to complete my demo and project plan. Here, we need to pay attention to the results, not the activity itself.
2. Daily result (daily outcomes)
   Determine three results you want to get every day. If you don't want to do anything today, it is very likely that your three results are very simple, such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Of course, ideally you should see how your results are associated with your weekly results.
3. Friday reflection)
   We should stop on Friday and reflect on the results of this week. We can ask ourselves some questions: "How are these three things going? What are the three things required? "This helps us identify which jobs are useful and useless.

5 ways to improve a week

1. Schedule your free time: If you plan it, it will happen, otherwise it will never appear
2. Regular eating, sleep, and exercise: This is the most common success model.
3. Related things: the best way to spend the least time doing things is to put the time slice together and use it as a large time block.
4. Link exhausting: if some activities exhaust you, you can also process them in batches.
5. Add some exciting things: If you need to add more energy to your week, A simple method is to spend more time on things that make you feel very energetic.

Remember that we don't want to be an efficient machine on our own, but spend more time on what we want to do and what kind of people we want to do to drive our way of life.

what to do in this exercise

1. Baseline your calendar
2. Schedule your free time: if you don't have enough free time, the most effective way to increase the free time is to increase the free time on your schedule.

 

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0: Start

1: overall understanding of the agile getting result Method

2: drive your week with three stories

3: drive your day with three stories

4: give up some things

5: Use a heat map to identify important events

6: Review on Friday and find three things that need to be improved.

7. Set the Boundary Value and buffer.

8: Clear the brain and release pressure

9: You must, should, and can determine the priority of daily events.

10: give full play to your advantages

11: High Performance and slow life

12: Efficiency role-are you the starter or the completer?

13: how to put things into action

14: Important

15: Put yourself in peace

16: use metaphor to motivate yourself

17: find efficient time and use it to handle important things

18: Increase the creative time for every week

19: Who are you working?

20: Good questions can produce good results.

21: Positive failures, lessons learned, and improvement results

22: design your day

 

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