How to Fit It All in Your Schedule

Last year I surveyed a group of women about the biggest challenge they face in their everyday lives. The response was nearly unanimous: dealing with their schedules. But I don't think it's just women, I think everyone today - men, women, children - is faced with a dazzling array of options and opportunities so numerous that it gets paralyzing. We go, go, go and do, do, do. And at the end of the day when we flop in to bed exhausted, all we can think about is what we didn't get done or we missed out on doing.

How do we handle this? What do we do with the overload in our schedules and the frustration of never feeling caught up and always being tired? I think much of the answer lies in finding balance. And to find balance, we need to regularly visit our priorities and allow them to guide our decisions about our time.

Today I found a post over at Michael Hyatt's blog that offers a very practical tool for taking control of time issues. Being proactive in ways like this can take us a long way toward bringing balance to our daily lives. And balance is one of the keys to contentment with our schedules. Check out Creating an Annual Time Block and see what you think.