How scheduling helps manage your time...
Gretchen Rubin offers the perspective that scheduling can be used to restrict time spent on an activity. It is a way to practice setting a boundary.
One reason that people procrastinate is the perception that the task with take more time than you have…
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Scheduling Habit - Power Hour
Do you have a long list of tasks you just never seem to get around to completing, but you really want to get them done?
Gretchen Rubin offers a strategy that I think can help. She calls it the "Power Hour." Once a…
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Pillars of habits: Scheduling
Yesterday I shared Gretchen Rubin's proposal for "Choice Time." Actually her second-grade daughter was the inspiration for this scheduling strategy about scheduling a time when she could do anything she wanted.
Today's idea is "Quitting Time." Quitting time can be a challenge for individuals who are…
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Scheduling "Choice Time"
Rubin found that her second grade daughter who loves to schedule had a category in her daily plan called "Choice Time." When asked about it, she explained to her mom that it's a time she gives herself each day to do something she really likes to do, something she…
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More about the important pillar of habits - Scheduling
Gretchen Rubin explains that for most people their energy decreases over the course of the day. That means important habits are more effective when scheduled in the morning.
Self-control also wanes as the day wears on. Rubin cites examples of…
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A few more ideas about how scheduling can help create new habits...
Gretchen Rubin suggests that one strategy to create a new habit is to schedule it or tie it to an existing habit. The existing habit becomes the external cue or trigger. She proposes that an existing habit or cue…
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