Scheduling Productivity Tips for Solo Entrepreneurs (and maybe others too)

By M Dorsett

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When someone asks you what you’re doing later, do you immediately whip out your phone to check your calendar? #alsome. I truly live by my calendar, if it’s not on that thing, it likely is not happening or being remembered.

Que joke: “My dependency is so heavy, there are times when I have to check my own calendar just to see what I did earlier the same day.” 😂 Some say that I have a memory problem, some say I’m truly living in the moment.

Regardless of your opinion of my calendars dominion over my day to day activities, if you’re interested in improving your own schedule organization, I’m sharing some rules of thumb that I apply. I hope you find them helpful. I’ve listed them below in no particular order of importance, and gone into detail for each.

1. Schedule only 30 minute meetings
2. Leave 30 minute gaps between meetings
3. Always leave time for food
4. Take all meetings one day of the week
5. Batch repeat tasks per day
6. Stop asking people to put…