BRX Pro Tip: You vs Your Calendar
Stone Payton : And we’re back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton, Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, I feel like you created this pro tip with a Stone intervention in mind: you versus your calendar.
Lee Kantor: Yeah, I think an interesting exercise for people to do, especially leaders, is to see how well you’re keeping up with your calendar, you know, how honest is your calendar. So a way to do that – a simple way to do that is this exercise, and you can try it this week. Just track the real story. For one week, just keep a simple log next to your calendar and note when things run over or got bumped, or you’ve wandered off tests. This isn’t about embarrassing yourself or making you feel bad. You want to see the truth. You know, you want to see what the actual story is and where the holes are because you need your calendar to be telling you the truth. You need your schedule to be accurate.
Lee Kantor: This was going to help you identify kind of those time thieves, the things that you put in your calendar that you thought would take 30 minutes, but they take 45 minutes or they take an hour. You want to be able to adjust that moving forward. You have to be able to be clear on what is a realistic block of time when you’ve kind of scheduled a task. So what does it really look like? So then, in the future, you can update the calendar so that the blocks are actually closer to reality.
Lee Kantor: You’ve got to remember, your calendar is a tool for you. The more honest you are about your time, the smarter you get at managing it. So you want to be bridging that gap between what the plan is and what reality is, because that means you’re going to be less frustrated, you’re going to be more productive, and then you’re going to get – you’re going to have more time for the things that matter.
Lee Kantor: So don’t be afraid of the truth and adjust the schedule as necessary. Remember that your calendar is working for you, and in order for it to work for you, it has to know the truth.
