Goalden Girls Podcast Episode #69 - Weekly Planning | How to Plan Your Week and Crush Your To-Do List

Anyone who knows me knows that if you give me an opportunity to talk about weekly planning I will take it! So you better believe when my good friend Rachel Harrison invited me onto her wildly successful YouTube show to talk about weekly planning I said heck yes!

One of the reasons I love Rachel is because she's whip smart and incredibly sharp. In my conversation with Rachel she asked me brilliant questions, ones that I knew I had to share with you so we've taken my YouTube Interview with Rachel and turned it into this podcast episode.

Now as I said, I LOVE talking about weekly planning, and in fact, Episode 39 of Golden Girls podcast is all about it. In that episode, I shared why weekly planning is so important and got into the nuts and bolts of how to find a system that works for you - a step-by-step to actually planning your week, and how to block the time. I also talked about some of the common challenges people face, including having a too-busy calendar and the ALL so common one: overestimating what happens in your week.

Rachel didn’t let me off easy just because we’re friends and she asked me some really powerful and important questions, like is it possible to succeed without weekly planning? 

We talked about the most common mistakes people make when approaching the process of weekly planning and the difference between urgent and important tasks, and how to navigate that. You're going to hear a lot of practical tips that you can take away and start implementing to make your weekly planning more successful moving forward. 

Rachel is also a busy Mom and entrepreneur and in this episode we also got real about how our mindset has affected our weekly planning. You’ll hear about the struggles we've faced - especially over the last few years with young children, businesses, a wild world and big dreams - and what it looks like to balance the realities of life and our big dreams - sometimes gracefully and sometimes with a lot of tears.

Here’s my challenge to you – listen to this episode, but also, commit to yourself to trying at least one or two things that we share. You don’t have to do it all, but don’t let this episode just go in one ear and out the other.

The tools we talk about have literally changed our lives. It doesn’t come without work or intention, but it’s all possible and there for you too, my friend. 

Take my invitation: commit to INTEGRATING one or two things – have that in your mind as you listen in as Rachel interviews me about weekly planning. 

By the end of this episode, you’re going to be confidently planning your weeks and executing on your goals and dreams, one week at a time. I don’t have a magic wand that will give you 200 hours a week or a full household staff. but I can promise you that you’ll feel a little less alone in the chaos that sometimes is our life in motherhood and entrepreneurship. And I promise you’ll walk away with some great tips to tweak - or overhaul - your weekly planning to make it work for YOU. 


And when you can do THAT… when you own your weeks, and put time on your calendar for your dreams … anything is possible. 

Enjoy this episode!

Here are the juicy bits you can look forward to:

  • Whether you should plan on a granular level or keep it high-level. (8:00)

  • The biggest mistakes people make when it comes to weekly planning. (11:30)

  • Practical tips for weekly planning. (20:00)

  • How to fit weekly planning into your already jam-packed schedule. (31:15)

  • The importance of zooming out. (34:45)

  • How anyone can make weekly planning work for them. (40:45)

 

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  • Goalden Girls Podcast Episode 39:  The one habit that changed everything: the benefits of weekly planning and how to prepare for, organize, and plan your week so you can crush your to-do list (without losing sleep or your sanity): https://www.lisamichaud.com/podcast/39 

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