How you commence your week determines how productive it ends…

Accumulation of productivity for weeks, determines how productive your year would be…

Less productivity would result into longer time before achieving your long term goal…

So let’s solve the problem from the feet upward, and let’s see how we can actually make our week productive.

There is no magic to success, I have read bunch of books on success guide, and many others on Achieving goals, the general theme around those books is planning and timing…

Successful people understand the basis of planning and time management at a very early stage of life.
They don’t just put on a piece of cloth, head out and hope for the best. No!

In contrast, they make plans, and try as much as possible to stick to the plan. You can also master the art. By asking yourself the following questions on Sunday evening, right before you go to bed, or earlier than that.



What’s Imperative?


Ask yourself, what you need to do this week as a matter of importance. It might be more than one, try as much as possible to create a mental picture of what you need to do before the week runs out.

Answers to this question are often a routine activity of what you’ve been doing before.

Take for instance, it’s imperative for a student to go to class during the week, it’s imperative for a working class individual to go to his/her place of work, it’s imperative for business people to make contact and do more marketing as the case may be.

The imperative task is either the end in itself or a means to an end. It’s either a task you do in other to achieve your long term goal, or the sustenance of the goal itself. It’s the core of your weekly activities, so you want to really put in your best effort to the imperative task and get it done as much as possible.

Plan your week around the imperative task.

What Did I Miss Last Week?


It’s very much possible to leave some task undone in the previous week, even the imperative ones. Simply because the world does not just revolve around us alone, unforeseen circumstance might spring up and disrupt your plan.

When this happens, ask yourself what you missed last week, and find a way of fixing it into your plan this week, without interfering with the imperative task.

Take for instance, you missed a proposed visit to a friend or family member, you cancelled a date due to unprecedented circumstances, you missed a lecture because you weren’t feeling too well.

Make plans to catch up on all your misses, and find a way of fixing it into your week. You can get a note to cover up for the missed lecture, call up your friend and see if you can re-fix the date…

What Can I Do Ahead of Time?


There are weeks, when the 24hours of the day seems like 30hours, and there are days when 24hours would be barely enough to complete the proposed task.

But on days when you get lucky with time, probably when a scheduled meeting is cancelled, when a lecture is cancelled, or during a public holiday, make plans on what you can do to get ahead of time.

Take for instance, you can read ahead of class lecture when you have enough time on your side, or better still, you can get a book you’ve always wanted to read and crack it open during the “free hours”

If you don’t have a concrete plan has to what to do with your spare time, you would end up wasting it, simply because it’s not planned for.

What’s my itinerary?


This would not only save some cost, it would save time too.
Take for instance, you work in the commercial part of the town, and you probably live in the sub-urban area, it’s a good practice to make plans as to your proposed route through the course of the week.

You won’t have to ply the same route twice because you forgot to get something along the route. Because once you know you would be passing the route, you would definitely get what you want and save the cost, time and energy
Create a weekly itinerary, and save yourself some headache.

If you live in Lagos or Abuja where traffic is always massive all day, a good plan would save you from numerous headaches at the end of your day.

What’s the long term goal?


One of the greatest pitfalls in life is not having the end in mind before the beginning.
It’s never a good idea to attack life without knowing where you’re going. Every week, review your long term goal and make plans as to how you intend to achieve it.

Ask yourself if your small plans are actually contributing to the completion of your long term goals.

Remember that days would always culminate into weeks, and weeks, into month, then month into years. The way you manage your day determines how productive your year would be.

How do you plan your week?

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