There are no surprises when you have a Crystal Ball.
They say people cannot predict the future. But that’s not really true. Maybe we can’t predict everything about the future, which is actually good, because if we knew everything that was going to happen, life would be boring – it would be like skipping ahead to the last page of a book.
But we can predict a lot of stuff that’s going to happen. Why? Because it’s planned. It’s scheduled. It’s recurring. So you can put that stuff on your calendar. I recommend planning for the entire year. You can put holidays and birthdays on the calendar. You can put every bill that’s due on the calendar.
Here are a few more items to plug into your crystal ball:
- Vacations
- Concerts
- Sales at stores you don’t want to miss
- Grocery shopping
- Hair cuts
- Car maintenance (including inspections, registration, oil changes, tire rotations, etc.)
- Church – want to go to church more? Put it on your schedule.
When you’re done, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what your future’s going to look like. And if you don’t like what you see, you can take actions to change it.
You can make stuff happen by putting things you want to accomplish on your schedule. This is like calling a home run ahead of time. Or, another example, when a musician puts a new song on their greatest hits album. Aerosmith did this with Big Ones.
When talking about putting everything on the calendar: this is the electronic version of the old tickler file. But it’s searchable (if that’s true).
Double-booked – like Jack Tripper
Manage your life like a doctor – in 10 minute segments.