Once you are using a calendar to write down the important activities in your life, you may quickly discover something interesting:
While every mandatory activity is on your calendar (work, meetings, doctor and dental appointments, times to drive your children to activities) and every social activity is on your calendar (vacations, volunteer work, birthday parties, holidays, and other social engagements), the one activity you most want to get done is not on your calendar!
Day after day it gets skipped, neglected, avoided. “Oh, I don’t have time for that,” you tell yourself. I need to make more time in the day to fit that in.
This is nonsense. You do have time. Just treat this activity like every other important activity in your life and schedule it like it’s a mandatory appointment that absolutely cannot be missed.
That’s right. Schedule an appointment with yourself. Find a spot every day on your calendar for that one thing you always want to do but don’t have time to do.
